Born in France, (1930-2002) was raised in New York and began making art at age 23, pursuing a revelatory vision informed both by the monumental works of Antonin Gaudí and the Facteur Cheval, and by aspects of her own life. In addition to her ("shooting paintings") and and her celebrated large-scale projects--including the at the Centre Pompidou, in Jerusalem and the in Tuscany--Saint Phalle produced writing and works on paper that delve into her own biography: childhood and her break with her family, marriage to Harry Mathews, motherhood, a long collaborative relationship with Jean Tinguely, numerous health crises and her late, productive years in Southern California. Saint Phalle has most recently been the subject of retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2015, and at MoMA P.S.1, in 2021. is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature and comics has been published in the , the and elsewhere. She was managing editor of the for nearly a decade. She is the editor, most recently, of a new edition of Gary Panter's legendary comic (New York Review Comics, 2021).