For the past six decades, artist, activist, curator and feminist icon Judy Chicago has built a body of work underpinned by her ongoing determination to address the erasure of female voices in the art world. A prominent figure in furthering the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Chicago has become a pioneer for her contemporaries and future generations alike through her audacious approach to creating works of art.

While some of her most high-profile pieces revolve around large-scale installations such as Womanhouse which transformed a dilapidated LA home into an experimental art space for women or The Dinner Party, a conceptual triangular banquet table set with individual places for overlooked historical female figures, Chicago’s artistic repertoire is extensive and continually surprising. Her upcoming exhibition opening this Spring at London’s Serpentine Galleries marks the visionary artist’s first solo retrospective in the capital, charting the full arc of her career with a specific focus on drawing. Sparked by the publication of Revelations, a book uniting unseen archival pieces alongside newly created artworks, Chicago’s imminent takeover of the Serpentine is one to mark in the calendar.

Revelations opens at Serpentines Galleries on May 23rd, running until September 1st, more info here.