Micol Hebron (born July 23, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and associate professor at Chapman University, located in Southern California. Hebron critically examines and employs modes of feminist activism in art.[1][2]
In 2013 Hebron launched Gallery Tally, a collaborative art project in which people around the world were tracking women's representation in art galleries and creating posters for exhibition.[4][5] In 2014, the (en)Gendered (in)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project discovered that in Los Angeles and New York galleries, roughly 70% of gallery representation was of male artists.[4]
In order to protest the Instagram social network's nipple policy and social media sexism, in 2014 Hebron created an "Acceptable Male Nipple Template".[6][7] The template consisted of the visual image of a male nipple that could be photoshopped on to an image of a woman's breast or elsewhere, reminiscent of a pastie.[8][9] As a result of her nipple project, the template went viral[9] and Hebron has been suspended from Facebook multiple times.[10]
In October 2019, Instagram held a closed meeting to discuss censorship, art, and nudity on their software platform, a few artists joined the meeting including Micol Hebron, Marilyn Minter, Joanne Leah, Siddhant Talwar and Betty Tompkins (via written statement).[11] After this meeting, Hebron's Instagram account was immediately shut down because she attempted to post a topless selfie from outside the meeting location.[12]