The art world is grounded in the gendered and undervalued work of social reproduction. Thus, the high female presence in the newcomer arts scene is not circumstantial but a common trait of an increasingly gendered art world. 

Drawing from dialectical historical materialist anti-racist Marxist-feminism and existing literature, this research explored the conditions in which newcomer female artists engage with the Toronto art world, and how their experiences are imbricated by the power relations that constitute a gendered society. Through interviews with eight artists, the research presents a description of these women’s experiences and their intersection with gender, racial hierarchies and capitalist social relations embedded in the art world in which they wish to be included.

You can read the thesis HERE. As part of this research I created “The Artist Survival Kit” and this zine.