Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Born1939 (1939)
Denver, Colorado
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBarnard College, Pratt Institute, New York University, University of Colorado
Notable work
  • Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! Proposal for an Exhibition "CARE" (1969)
  • Maintenance Art Tasks (1973)
  • Hartford Wash: Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside (1973)
  • Hartford Wash: Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Inside (1973)
  • Touch Sanitation (1978-80)
MovementFeminist art movement Conceptual Art
SpouseJacob Ukeles
AwardsFrancis J. Greenburger Award, Art Omi, 2019, Public Art Dialogue Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Award

Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939) is a New York City-based artist known for her feminist and service-oriented artworks, which relate the idea of process in conceptual art to domestic and civic "maintenance".[1][2][3][4] Since 1977, she has been the Artist in Residence (unsalaried) of the New York City Department of Sanitation.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Krug was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Liss, Andrea (2009). Feminist art and the maternal ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 43–68. ISBN 978-0816646234. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
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  4. ^ Phillips, Patricia C.; Finkelpearl, Tom; Harris, Larissa; Lippard, Lucy; Raicovich, Laura (2016). Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art. Prestel. ISBN 9783791355382.
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