Marylin Zimmerwoman
Marilyn Zimmerwoman, M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Professor Emerita at the Department of Art and Art History and Artist in Residence at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her social documentary work presents feminist views of the post-nuclear family, Detroit’s activist communities, and post-industrial identities. Zimmerwoman is a consummate teacher of social justice, incorporating feminist, gender, racial, class, and economic issues in the service of raising greater consciousness. As an artist, activist, and educator, her life’s work has been dedicated to inspiring cultural transformation.
She has collaborated with Kenneth Josephson on a self-portraiture of feminist identity which includes tactical media disruptions through “cultural jamming.” Incorporating the iconic Marilyn via images within images, the flat image of commodified perfection is subsumed with her own dynamic representations.
Her singular works are collected in the Detroit Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Selected public collections include: Tate Modern, London; Corcoran Museum Library, Washington DC; National Coalition Against Censorship, NY; Institute of Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan; Webster University, Vienna, Austria; Columbia University; and University of Leeds. You can view more details about their latest exhibition here
Photograph taken by Donita Simpson
