Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Born1939 (1939)
Denver, Colorado
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBarnard College, Pratt Institute, New York University, University of Colorado
Notable work
  • Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! Proposal for an Exhibition "CARE" (1969)
  • Maintenance Art Tasks (1973)
  • Hartford Wash: Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside (1973)
  • Hartford Wash: Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Inside (1973)
  • Touch Sanitation (1978-80)
MovementFeminist art movement Conceptual Art
SpouseJacob Ukeles
AwardsFrancis J. Greenburger Award, Art Omi, 2019, Public Art Dialogue Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Award

Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939) is a New York City-based artist known for her feminist and service-oriented artworks, which relate the idea of process in conceptual art to domestic and civic "maintenance". Since 1977, she has been the Artist in Residence (unsalaried) of the New York City Department of Sanitation.

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