Judith Godwin (b. 1930, Suffolk, Virginia, d. 2021) studied at Mary Baldwin College, Virginia; College of William and Mary, Virginia; Art Students League, NY; and the Hans Hofmann School, NY. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, and an Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Mary Baldwin College, VA. Godwin is currently included in Hyphen American: Intersections of Identity, Sheldon Museum of Art, NE, and Abstract Expressionists: The Women, travelled from Wichita Art Museum, KS, to Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary, VA; and later to Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grinnell College Museum of Art, IA; and Mobile Museum of Art, AL. In 2024 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presented Expressions of Life, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe. Other recent exhibitions include Berry Campbell, NY (2023; 2026); The Arts Club, London (2025); Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld; travelled to Foundation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, andWhitechapel Gallery, London (2022-23); McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2022); Art Students League, NY (2019); and Denver Art Museum, CO (2016). Godwin has also had solo exhibitions at Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; The Delaware Contemporary, DE; Albany Museum of Art, NY; and the Amarillo Museum of Art, TX. Collections include the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; and the Amarillo Museum of Art, TX, amongst others.