Mira Schor on Feminism, Modest Painting, and the Power of Slow Art

Mira Schor, who was born in 1950 in New York to a family of artists, enrolled in the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1970s, where she became part of the Feminist Art Program. This experience contributed to the creation of Womanhouse in 1972, a project that explored political and emotional conflicts. In 1986, she collaborated with Susan Bee to establish the journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G. Schor’s artwork merges text and silence to engage various ideas. She has written several books, including Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture and A Decade of Negative Thinking. Her pieces are housed in the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, and the Pinault Collection. Schor promotes 'modest painting' and critiques ongoing sexism and ageism, highlighting art's ethical role in confronting societal issues.