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

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
 * 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

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