中文摘要
本研究以台灣當代(八O年代至九O年代)女性視覺藝術，即傳統視覺藝術(雕刻、油畫、版畫、素描與彩畫)、影像視覺藝術(電影為主)及數位視覺藝術(動畫、虛擬互動、空間裝置)等多元面向為主題，深入探究她們透過美術館、影展與藝術空間所再現的符號、象徵意義及性別意識之意涵。並且，研究試圖關注台灣女性藝術創作者於藝術環境中所受到的性別歧視、她們的創作呈現何種性別意識？
台灣女性藝術在八O年代至九O年代，除了積極批判藝術體制中對女性的歧視與忽略之外，也開始透過不同藝術創作策略，而傳達自己的性別意識。女藝術家藉由自己的身體再現、展演、扮裝與操演的方式，自戀式的、個人性的描繪女人經驗，企圖製造一種性別流動與非二元對立性的觀看位置，以對男性的觀看，進行反凝視與顛覆。同時，她們也以一種自我生命經驗肯定的創作方式，透過「女性意象」的方式，來表達屬於女性的情感、經驗與情慾。此外，她們更將「性別」的討論範圍，延伸至關注社會、政治、種族、新移民族群、大自然與社區等議題，進而採取一種批判、解構的政治性實踐之行動方式，建立女性主體的社會認同。更積極的，她們還以一種主動的女性意識態度，勇敢挑戰傳統藝術歷史對女性的漠視，試圖透過藝術創作為女性的生命經驗書寫。
因此，將台灣當代女性藝術視為一種傳播的過程，八O年代至九O年代的女性藝術，乃完成了從性別自覺到文化自覺、從潛意識場景到歷史性場景、從菁英意識到底層意識、從差異性苦惱到差異性的維護，及從藝術主題的女性自覺到藝術語言的女性自覺之傳播過程，致使女性地位有了提昇的機會。
英文摘要
This research is on Taiwan’s women contemporary visual arts, that is to say the traditional visual art such as carve, canvas, print, sketch and oil painting, the image visual art such as films, and the digital visual art such as animation, virtual interaction, installation art, intending to probe into the symbol representation, meaning and gender consciousness that reproduced through the art museum, film show, and artistic space.
With the rise of Taiwan women’s liberation consciousness in 1980s and 1990s, Taiwan’s women artists launched a succession of movements, criticizing gender discrimination and neglect of women in the artistic system, and expressed one’s own gender consciousness through the tactics of different artistic creations. The women artists intended to produce a flowing gender movement instead of traditional dual opposite gaze, overthrowing the way of seeing from male chauvinism. Besides, they created an experience of “I create, so I am” and a way of “the images of women”, expressing the emotion, experience and lust which belong to women. In addition, they extended the discussion range of the “sex” to pay close attention to topics such as society, politic, race, new immigrant ’s ethnicity, nature and community, etc., and then took a tactic of critical, deconstructive political practices, constructing a social identity of women’s subject consciousness. They, furthermore, took a positive attitude with women consciousness toward traditional history of ignoring women, attempting to write for women ’s life experience through the artistic creation.