realism. Her self portraits are doubled, in motion and fragmented, perhaps explorations of a metaphysical state of being and a close tie between the body and the mind. Challenging the patriarchal gaze of an objectified nude female body, Semmel's work dissolves the typically clearly demarcated lines between artist and model, viewer and subject In 2021 the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts held a retrospective entitled Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game. Semmel's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Museum collections Semmel's works are found in museum collections including: the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; the Jewish Museum (Manhattan), New York; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Awards Semmel's awards include the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2013), the Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2007), National Academician of the National Academy Museum, New York (2014) the Richard Florsheim Art Fund Grant (1996), Distinguished Alumnus Award, Cooper Union (1985), Yaddo Residency (1980), Macdowell Colony Residency (1977), and National Endowment for the Arts grants (1980, 1985). References External links Joan Semmel CV on Feminist Art Base Joan Semmel, National Museum of Women in the Arts “You Have to Get Past the Fear”: Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body, Hyperallergic Magazine September 9, 2016 American women painters 1932 births Living people American feminists American erotic artists Artists from New York City Feminist artists 20th-century American women artists Rutgers University faculty 21st-century American women artists American women academics Jewish painters