Born and raised in London, Katy Hessel studied art history at University College London. She has curated exhibitions at Tate Modern and Victoria Miro and has presented the BBC documentaries Artemisia Gentileschi (2020) and Art on the BBC: Monet (2022), as well as films for the Tate, the Barbican, the Royal Academy of Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, amongst others.
Since 2015, Hessel has been running Great Women Artists – an Instagram account with over 290,000 followers that celebrates women artists – and in 2019, she started an eponymous podcast featuring interviews with art historians, curators, writers, artists and art lovers. 2022 saw the publication of her debut book, The Story of Art without Men – an inspiring, revisionist volume that highlights the multitude of ways women artists’ work has shaped our world over the last 500 years. This exquisite and much over-due volume was crowned the Waterstones Book of the Year 2022.
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