Judy Fox

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Judy Fox is an American sculptor born in 1955 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, who lives in New York City. She studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1976), earned a BA from Yale University (1978), studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1979), and received an MFA from New York University (1983). In 2006 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Fox teaches at the New York Academy of Art.

She is best known for life-size fired clay sculptures of nude women and children, painted with casein. Her child figures address gender roles, while her adult nudes explore feminist themes. A notable work is Courtesan (1995), a life-size terracotta of a small child, in the Honolulu Museum of Art.

Her works are in several public collections, including the Essl Museum in Austria, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, and the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna. In 2020 her work was shown in Intersect Chicago. In 2022 she received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York.