本研究藉由台灣當代女性藝術，包括傳統藝術（雕刻、油畫、版畫、素描）與影像藝術（電影為主）等主題，探討台灣當代女性藝術創作者如何以創作展現自我的性別意識。 台灣當代女性藝術在七○年代的婦女解放運動與女性主義思潮中醞釀而生；女性藝術家經過性別覺醒、解放歷程，開始積極參與個展／聯展等活動，試圖展現藝術創作，並企圖批判長期由男性霸權操控的藝術環境。 本研究運用文本分析與深度訪談法，探究台灣當代女性藝術創作中的性別意識，同時援引婦女解放運動、女性主義理論為基本觀點，分析當代女性透過藝術創作所展現的性別意涵。 研究發現，台灣當代女性藝術創作者，歷經婦女解放運動的賦權與性別意識覺醒的過程，開始藉由身體展演、扮裝等方式，企圖製造一種性別流動與非二元對立的觀看位置；同時也以肯定自我生命經驗的創作方式，透過「女性意象」來表達女性的情感、經驗與情慾。此外，更積極地，她們勇敢挑戰傳統藝術史對女性的漠視，試圖透過藝術創作，為女性的生命經驗書寫與編篡歷史。

This paper is an attempt to discover how female Taiwanese artists present their own gender consciousness through their works. The research pays close attention to the contemporary women’s visual art in Taiwan, including carving, canvas, print, sketch, and film. The women’s liberation movement and feminism in the 1970s gave birth to contemporary women’s art in Taiwan; women artists began to hold the exhibitions progressively after going through the process of realizing and liberating their femininity. They tried to criticize the artistic field, which had been manipulated by men or under the influence of patriarchal hegemony. To get the better understanding of gender consciousness and its implications for these artists and their works, the researcher goes firstly by reviewing the literature of feminism and the critics of women’s liberation movement, and then uses the documentary analysis and in-depth interview as the method. The result showed that through three major forms, these artists tried to bring about a peculiar way of feminist seeing. The first form is the displaying their bodies as a way to subvert series of binary oppositions set up by the patriarchal unconsciousness. Meanwhile, recognizing their own life experiences, they used “female images” to express female emotions, experiences and desires. Furthermore, they have challenged the absence of women’s artists in canonical art history with their works, writing and constructing their own art history.