Faith Wilding is a Paraguayan-born American artist and a central figure in feminist art, known for her role in the 1972 Womanhouse project and her long engagement with painting, performance, and writing. While she first came to prominence through performance works, her paintings form a quieter but equally powerful body of work that explores time, memory, embodiment, and natural cycles.
Her canvases often weave botanical and cellular imagery with visceral, bodily forms—hybrids of plant, flesh, and landscape. Color fields pulse with growth and decay, layering organic structures that suggest both fertility and fragility. In these works, the body is inseparable from the natural world, echoing Wilding’s ecofeminist conviction that systems of domination over women and nature are deeply entwined.
As with her performances and writing, Wilding's paintings are both intimate and political: visual meditations on survival, care, and the entanglement of bodies with ecologies and histories.
Images from Anat Egbi, Ocula, Edel Assanti, and Artsy.
