Shigeko Kubota (*1937 in Niigata / Japan, †2015 in New York) belongs to the first generation of female video artists. Alongside Alison Knowles, Charlotte Moorman, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, and Mieko Shiomi, she was one of the female members of the New York Fluxus movement. She became known primarily for her multimedia installations and her performance Vagina Painting (1965), a feminist response to Abstract Expressionism, and specifically Jackson Pollock’s “drip paintings.”