Constantina Zavitsanos

Constantina Zavitsanos is a conceptual feminist artist.^[1] Her works are organized around themes of planning, contingency, debt, dependency and care.^[2] Zavitsanos is a part of disability community as a care provider and recipient. She lives in New York City and teaches at The New School. She is a recipient of the 2015 Wynn Newhouse Awards presented to disabled artists.^[3] She was a plantiff in a class action lawsuit brought against the New York Police Department for wrongful arrest during the 2004 GOP convention in New York. New York City settled the case in 2015. Zavitsanos has incorporated her settlement into the art work "Sweepstakes" at the New Museum where viewers are given a portion of the settlement on a daily basis.^[4]

Notable works

It was what I wanted now was nearly invisible (2013) is a stack of papers next to a wall. Four- and five-digit-long numbers are printed on the paper tracking Zavitsanos’ projected student loan debt over the next 25 years and the minimum income necessary to make monthly loan payments. Corinna Kirsch of ArtFCity has described the work as a strong statement with limited means. As Kirsch put it, "if a loan officer handed me thousands of pages showing my future indebtedness, I might’ve rethought signing away my future."^[5]

References

Feminist art movement in the United States

Feminist art Feminist art movement Women artists

Precursors	American Association of University Women (1881) National Association of Women Artists (1889) New York School of Applied Design for Women (1892)

Venues or organizations	A.I.R. Gallery Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (Brooklyn Museum of Art) Hera Gallery Lesbian Art Project National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Feminist Art Institute Soho20 Chelsea tArt Artist Collective Woman's Building Women's Art Registry of Minnesota

Exhibitions or installations	Womanhouse (1972) Three Weeks in May (1977) WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007)

Films or documentaries	!Women Art Revolution

Publications	Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992) The Feminist Art Journal (1972–1977)

Groups	subRosa Guerrilla Girls The Waitresses Women's Caucus for Art Where We At (WWA)

List of artists and art historians	List of feminist artists List of women art historians

Feminist movements and ideologies

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