List of Swiss women artists

This is a list of women artists who were born in Switzerland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

A

• Anna Maria Barbara Abesch (1706–1773), reverse glass painter
• Eva Aeppli (1925–2015), painter, sculptor
• Albertine (born 1967), illustrator, mainly of children's books

B

• Alice Bailly (1872–1938), Cubist painter
• Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954), contemporary artist
• Maria Cecilia Adelaide Bass (1897–1948), painter
• Ursula Biemann (born 1955), video artist
• Hélène Binet (born 1959), architectural photographer
• Alice Boner (1889–1981), painter, sculptor, historian
• Sonam Dolma Brauen (born 1953), Tibetan-Swiss contemporary painter and sculptor
• Louise Catherine Breslau (1856–1927), German-born Swiss painter, pastelist and printmaker
• Mauren Brodbeck (born 1974), photographer
• Henriette Brossin de Polanska (1878–1954), painter
• Heidi Bucher (1926–1993), sculptor
• Karin Karinna Bühler (born 1974), contemporary visual artist
• Jenny Burckhardt (1849–1935), painter
• Martha Burkhardt (1874–1956), painter and photographer

C

• Miriam Cahn (born 1949), painter
• Claudia Christen (born 1973), designer and photographer
• Aloïse Corbaz (1886–1964), outsider artist
• Louise de Corcelles (1726–1796), amateur artist
• Corinne Cuéllar-Nathan (born 1958), landscape painter
• Martha Cunz (1876–1961), printmaker, lithographer
• Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza (born 1957), member of the artist collective RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), contextual artist

D

• Adèle d'Affry (1836–1879), artist and sculptor
• Helen Dahm (1878–1968), expressionist artist
• Silvie Defraoui (born 1935), visual artist
• Dr. Gindi (born 1965), sculptor

E

• Ulla Engeberg Killias (1945–1995), Swedish-born Swiss painter
• Trudy Egender-Wintsch (1902–1985]], painter, illustrator

F

• Janika Fabrikant (born 1934), French-born Swiss Surrealist industrial painter
• Valérie Favre (born 1959), painter
• Marie Ferrier-Perregaux (1777–1838), painter
• Sylvie Fleury (born 1961), pop artist
• Annemie Fontana (1925–2002), sculptor, painter
• Pia Fries (born 1955), painter
• Anna Füssli (1749–1772), painter

G

• Babeli Giezendanner (1831–1905), painter
• Alwina Gossauer (1841–1926), photographer
• Henriette Grindat (1923–1986), photographer
• Françoise Grossen (born 1943), textile artist
• Maria Gugelberg von Moos (1836–1918), botanist and floral artist
• Alis Guggenheim (1896–1958), painter, sculptor

H

• Andrea Hasler (born 1975), contemporary artist
• Christine Hiebert (born 1960), artist known for her drawing
• Beatrice Helg (born 1956), photographer
• Maria Herrmann-Kaufmann (1921–2008), painter
• Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (born 1944), scientific painter and illustrator
• Olivia Heussler (born 1957), photographer
• Susette Hirzel (1769–1858), painter
• Britta Huttenlocher (born 1962)
• Heidrun Huwyler (born 1942), German-Swiss Impressionist painter

K

• Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), Neoclassical painter
• Elisabetta Keller (1891–1969), painter and pastelist
• Emma Kunz (1892–1963), visual artist

L

• Rosa Lachenmeier (born 1959), contemporary artist
• Warja Lavater (1913–2007), designer, illustrator
• Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud (1824–1885), painter active in France
• Catherine Leutenegger (born 1983), visual artist
• Henriette L'Hardy (1766–1808), painter
• Verena Loewensberg (1912–1986), painter, graphic designer
• Jeanne Lombard (1865–1945), painter
• Ingeborg Lüscher (born 1936), artist, working with painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video

M

• Ella Maillart (1903–1997), adventurer, travel writer and photographer
• Brigitta Malche (born 1938), painter and installation artist
• Maria Marshall (born 1966), visual artist
• Annemarie von Matt (1905–1967), painter, graphic artist and writer
• Caroline Mezger (1787–1843), Swiss painter, printmaker, and teacher
• Elvezia Michel-Baldini (1887–1963), painter and illustrator
• Pierrette Micheloud (1915–2007), writer and painter
• Mascha Mioni (born 1941), painter and textile artist
• Alina Mnatsakanian (born 1958), visual artist
• Milo Moiré (born 1983), conceptual artist
• Franziska Möllinger (1817–1880), pioneering German-born Swiss photographer
• Karin Muller (born 1965), writer, filmmaker and photographer

N

• Caro Niederer (born 1963), contemporary artist
• Marguerite Naville (1852–1930), painter, illustrator and photographer

O

• Méret Oppenheim (1913–1985), German-born Swiss Surrealist artist
• Armande Oswald (born 1940), painter, scenographer

P

• Leta Peer (1964–2012), painter and photographer
• Sibylle Pasche (born 1976), sculptor
• Valentine Pasche (born 1979), comics artist
• Mai-Thu Perret (born 1976), Swiss artist of Franco-Vietnamese origin
• Anita Porchet (born 1961), Swiss watch enameller

R

• Marthe Rakine (1904–1996), Canadian-Swiss painter
• Clara von Rappard (1857–1912), painter
• Henriette Rath (1772–1856) Portrait artist
• Pipilotti Rist (born 1962), visual artist
• Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937), German-Swiss painter
• Pamela Rosenkranz (born 1979), contemporary artist
• Annina Ruest (fl. 2000–), contemporary artist, academic

S

• Jeanne-Pernette Schenker-Massot (1761–1828), miniaturist, pastelist and engraver
• Julieta Schildknecht (born 1960), Swiss-Brazilian photographer and journalist
• Erna Schillig (1900–1993), textile artist, mosaic and plaster muralist
• Anka Schmid (born 1961), film director and video artist
• Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (1883–1959), photographer, diarist
• Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–1942), writer, photographer and traveller
• Christine Sefolosha (born 1955), painter
• Sonia Sekula (1918–1963), expressionist artist
• Caroline Sophie Sordet-Boissonnas (1859–1943), painter
• Anita Spinelli (1908–2010), painter, drawer
• Annie Stebler-Hopf (1861–1918), painter
• Monika Steiner (born 1972), Swiss-born American artist and sculptor
• Martha Stettler (1870–1945), painter, engraver
• Marianne Straub (1909–1994), textile designer

T

• Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), painter, sculptor, textile designer
• Elisabeth Terroux (1759–1822), painter
• Myriam Thyes (born 1963), Luxembourg-born Swiss media artist
• Miriam Tinguely (born 1950), painter and engraver
• Anna Maria Tobler (1882–1935), painter
• Anne Marie Trechslin (1927–2007), Italian-born Swiss painter, engraver and illustrator
• Natasha Tsakos (fl. 2000–), performance artist
• Lill Tschudi (1911–2004), linocut printmaker

V

• Annie Vallotton (1915–2013), Bible illustrator
• Denise Voïta (1928–2008), painter, lithographer and tapestry designer

W

• Isabelle Waldberg (1911–1990), sculptor
• Anna Waser (1678–1714), painter
• Charlotte Weiss (1870–1961), painter
• Lisa Wenger (1858–1941), painter and children's writer
• Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938), Russian-Swiss Expressionist painter

Z

• Albertine Zullo (born 1967), children's book illustrator