The lowest collections of art by women are at the Detroit Institute of Arts (7.4%), Metropolitan Museum of Art (7.3%), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (8.2%). Museums with the highest percentage of women artists include MOCA (24.9%), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (18.1%), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (22.1%). The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles had the lowest (78.2%). The researchers found the institutions among this grouping with the highest percentage of white artists are the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (97.4%) and Detroit Institute of Arts (94.7%). Some museum collections are more diverse than others, the study shows. However, this study affirms, “ While previous work has investigated the demographic diversity of museum staffs and visitors, the diversity of artists in their collections has remained unreported.” Mellon’s landmark Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey in 2015. This examination follows recent studies meant to encourage diversity in the cultural sector, including the Andrew W. The study found that 85.4% of the works in the collections of all major US museums belong to white artists, and 87.4% are by men. African American artists have the lowest share with just 1.2% of the works Asian artists total at 9% and Hispanic and Latino artists constitute only 2.8% of the artists. The study’s results - with all statistical caveats considered - paint a somber picture of the lack of parity in museum collections. Its findings came from a rigorous dive into the public online catalogues of these museums, deploying a sample of 10,000 artist records comprising over 9,000 unique artists to crowdsourcing, and analyzing 45,000 responses, to infer artist genders, ethnicities, geographic origins, and birth decades. The researchers surveyed the collections of 18 major US museums to quantify the gender, ethnic, and racial composition of the artists represented in their collections.
Murphy, senior curator of American and European Art at Williams College Museum of Art, and Steven Nelson, professor of African and African American Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. Topaz, Bernhard Klingenberg, Daniel Turek, Brianna Heggeseth, Pamela E. The study was conducted by a group of mathematicians, statisticians, and art historians at Williams College (Chad M.
However, a recent study shows that American museums still have a long way to go in diversifying their collections, as they remain overwhelmingly white and male. In recent years, museums in the United States have been moving toward diversifying their permanent collections to remediate the historical underrepresentation of non-male and non-white artists. Mona Chalabi, Who are You Here to See? (2019) (all images courtesy the artist)
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