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Julia Acker (1898–1942) was a Jewish–Polish figurative artist. Since many records from the World War II period and the German occupation of Poland are missing, the year of her birth in Lemberg and death in the Lviv Ghetto are listed in the "Exhibition Catalogue from the Collections of the Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv Museum of History," section relating to "Biographies of Artists."

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BerriBlue is a female street artist, painter and fashion designer based in Porto, Portugal.

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Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. A representative of Realism, she spent much of her artistic life in Paris.

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Olga Boznańska was a Polish painter of the turn of the 20th century. She was a notable female painter in Poland and Europe, and was stylistically associated with the French impressionism.

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Kasia Domanska is a Polish painter.

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Maria Dulębianka was a Polish artist and activist. Born into a family of landed gentry, she attended finishing school in Kraków and then studied art in Warsaw, Vienna and Paris. Her work was recognized in the 1900 Paris Exposition and her Studium dziewczyny was purchased by the National Museum in Kraków. After 1889, the majority of her paintings were of her companion Maria Konopnicka.

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Ewa Gargulinska is a Polish painter. She is known for her Romantic Expressionist work. Gargulinska was a visiting lecturer at The School of Visual Arts in New York, US, from 1982 to 1983 and Central Saint Martins, London, England, from 1984 to 2011. Gargulinska currently lives and works in London, England.

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Maria Gażycz, née Maria Nowina-Chrzanowska was a Belarusian-born Polish figure painter, art restorer, and nun in the order of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.

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Bronisława Janowska or Bronisława Anna Waleria Rychter-Janowska was a Polish realist painter and publisher associated with the Kraków-based Young Poland movement. An exceptionally prolific artist, her work is on display in many private and state collections, including the Historical Museum of Kraków, the National Museum of Poland, and the Vatican Museums.

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Maria Jarema was a Polish painter, sculptor, scenographer and actress.

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Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau.

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Katarzyna Karpowicz is a Polish contemporary painter.

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Augusta Kochanowska was a Polish artist, known for painting and illustrations.

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Chana (Anna) Kowalska Winogora (1899–c.1942) was a Polish painter and journalist whose artworks reflect her rural origins. While in Paris during the German occupation, she was active in Jewish Communist organizations and wrote about art in local journals. Active in the French Resistance, she was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz in July 1942.

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Miriam Laufer was an American artist. Laufer is best known for her paintings of women, as well as her paintings in abstract expressionist, geometric abstraction, and pop art styles. In addition, she was an early participant in the feminist art movement starting in the 1960s. She also worked as a calligrapher, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher.

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Tamara Łempicka, better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.

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Lewitska Sopfia (Sonia) was a Polish-born French woman painter and printmaker.

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Barbara Massalska was a Polish artist and teacher at the State High School of Plastic Arts (SHSPA), Gdańsk.

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Mela Muter is the pseudonym used by Maria Melania Mutermilch, the first professional Jewish painter in Poland. She lived most of her life in France. Muter's painting career began to flourish after she moved to Paris from Poland in 1901 at the age of twenty-five. Before World War I, Muter's painting practice aligned itself with the Naturalism movement; her signature works containing vivid hues and strong brush strokes. Muter gained swift popularity in Paris and within five years of her residency in the city, had already begun showing her works. Muter received French citizenship in 1927. After the breakout of WWII Muter fled to Avignon for safety during the Nazi occupation. After the war, Muter returned to Paris where she worked and resided until her death in 1967.

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Aniela Pająkówna was a Polish painter; mostly of portraits. Her daughter was the dramatist, Stanisława Przybyszewska.

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Anna Rajecka, was a Polish portrait painter and pastellist. She was also known as Madame Gault de Saint-Germain.

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Erna Rosenstein was a surrealist painter and poet.

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Irena Stankiewicz is a Polish graphic artist.

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Zofia Stryjeńska – was a Polish painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer, a representative of art deco. Along with Olga Boznańska and Tamara de Lempicka, she was one of the best-known Polish women artists of the interwar period. In the 1930s she was nominated for the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature, but declined the offer.

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Sofia Ludvika Cecila Constancia Sheptytska, was a Polish countess, poet, painter. The mother of Andrey Sheptytsky, O.S.B.M., the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1900–1944), and of the Blessed Hieromartyr Klymentiy Sheptytsky, MSU, an archimandrite of the Order of Studite monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

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Franciszka Themerson was a Polish, later British, painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.

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Helena Unierzyska née Matejko, was a Polish painter and sculptor, daughter of Poland's national painter Jan Matejko and his wife Teodora Giebułtowska who often posed for his paintings. His daughter Helena is best remembered as the live model for a series of her father's symbolic portraits of girls, and less as an aspiring artist.