National Museum of Women in The Arts - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Beginning in 1987 with American Women Artists, 1830–1930, NMWA has presented more than 200 exhibitions, including:

  • Louise Dahl-Wolfe: A Retrospective Exhibition (Sept. 22, 1987-Nov. 23, 1987)
  • Camille Claudel: 1864–1943 (April 25, 1988–May 31, 1988)
  • Women Artists of the New Deal Era: A Selection of Prints and Drawings (Oct. 18, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989)
  • Bourke-White: A Retrospective (June 25, 1989-Aug. 25, 1989)
  • Constance Stuart Larrabee: WWII Photo Journal (Sept. 19, 1989-Nov. 26, 1989)
  • Rosa Bonheur: Selected Works from American Collections (Dec. 12, 1989-March 11, 1990)
  • Lilla Cabot Perry: An American Impressionist (Sept. 28, 1990-Jan. 20, 1991)
  • Lola Alvarez Bravo: Portraits of Frida Kahlo (Nov. 25, 1991-March 15, 1992)
  • Kathe Kollwitz: A Self-Portrait (May 3, 1992-Aug. 16, 1992)
  • FOREFRONT: Pat Oleszko (Oct. 11, 1992-Jan. 18, 1993)
  • Carrie Mae Weems (Jan. 7, 1993-March 21, 1993)
  • ULTRAMODERN: The Art of Contemporary Brazil (April 2, 1993-Aug. 1, 1993)
  • FOREFRONT: HOLLIS SIGLER-Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmothers (Sept. 2, 1993-Nov. 14, 1993)
  • The First Generation: Women and Video, 1970-75 (Nov. 20, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994)
  • Judith Leyster: “Leading Star” (Dec. 20, 1993-April 3, 1994)
  • Forces of Change: Artists of the Arab World (Feb. 7, 1994-May 15, 1994)
  • Esther Mahlangu, South African Muralist: The BMW Art Car and Related Works (Sept. 15, 1994-Nov. 13, 1994)
  • Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years (Oct. 13, 1994-Jan. 16, 1995)
  • Sofonisba Anguissola: A Renaissance Woman (April 7, 1995–June 15, 1995)
  • Artful Advocacy: Cartoons from the Woman Suffrage Movement (Aug. 25, 1995-Jan. 7, 1996)
  • Latin American Women Artists, 1915–1995 (Feb. 8, 1996-April 29, 1996)
  • A History of Women Photographers (Feb. 13, 1997-May 4, 1997)
  • The Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women (Oct. 9, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998)
  • Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian (Nov. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998)
  • Eulabee Dix (1878–1961) (Dec. 9, 1997-Aug. 23, 1998)
  • Lavinia Fontana of Bologna (1552–1614) (Feb. 5, 1998-June 7, 1998)
  • Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York, 1935-39 (Oct. 22, 1998-Jan. 19, 1999)
  • The Narrative Thread: Women’s Embroidery from Rural India (Feb. 4, 1999-May 9, 1999)
  • Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century (Oct. 7, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000)
  • The Magic of Remedios Varo (Feb. 10, 2000-May 29, 2000)
  • Julie Taymor: Playing With Fire (Nov. 16, 2000–Feb. 4, 2001)
  • Grandma Moses in the 21st Century (March 15, 2001–June 10, 2001)
  • Places of Their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Frida Kahlo (Feb. 8, 2002–May 12, 2002)
  • Judy Chicago (Oct. 11, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003)
  • An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (Feb. 14, 2003–June 18, 2003)
  • Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey (July 11, 2003-Sept. 14, 2003)
  • Passionate Observer: Photographs by Eudora Welty (Oct. 27, 2003-Feb. 29, 2004)
  • Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers (Apr. 23, 2004–Sept. 12, 2004)
  • Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle (Jan. 14, 2005–May 8, 2005)
  • Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues (June 10, 2005-Sept. 11, 2005)
  • Mónica Castillo: The Painter and the Body (Oct. 5, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006)
  • Alice Neel’s Women (Oct. 28, 2005–Jan. 15, 2006)
  • The Water Remembers: Paintings and Works on Paper by May Stevens 1990–2005 (Oct. 28, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006)
  • Divine and Human: Women in Ancient Mexico and Peru (March 3, 2006–May 28, 2006)
  • Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women (June 30, 2006–Sept. 24, 2006)
  • The Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Oct. 27, 2006-Feb. 4, 2007)
  • Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (March 16, 2007–July 15, 2007)
  • Frida Kahlo: Public Image, Private Life. A Selection of Photographs and Letters (July 6, 2007–October 14, 2007)
  • WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (September 21, 2007–December 16, 2007)
  • Paula Rego (February 1, 2008–May 25, 2008)
  • Louise Nevelson: Dawn’s Wedding Feast (Feb. 22, 2008-May 18, 2008)
  • Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography (October 17, 2008–January 25, 2009)
  • Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family (November 21, 2008–January 25, 2009)
  • Picturing Progress: Hungarian Women Photographers 1900–1945 (March 20, 2009–August 23, 2009)
  • Mary McFadden: Goddesses (March 20, 2009–August 30, 2009)
  • New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Niki de Saint Phalle (opened April 28, 2010)

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