The Story of Art without Men

Katy Hessel is an art historian, curator and broadcaster from London, UK. She is the author of The Story of Art without Men, a Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller, and the winner of Waterstones Book of the Year 2022. She runs @thegreatwomenartists, an Instagram account that has celebrated women artists since 2015, and writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian. Hessel hosts The Great Women Artists Podcast, where she has interviewed 140+ artists and writers, including Marina Abramovic and Tracey Emin. In 2024, she launched Museums Without Men, an audio series highlighting works by women artists in museum collections worldwide. She has presented arts documentaries for the BBC; is a Honorary Fellow at the University of Cambridge; has lectured at the Guggenheim and Royal Academy; has curated exhibitions in Europe and the US, and runs an annual artist residency in Brescia, Italy, for emerging artists.