Exhibitions
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Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish WomenMarch 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024American Art Museum
Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.
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Simone LeighNovember 3, 2023 – March 3, 2024Hirshhorn
The first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Simone Leigh, among the most respected artists of her generation.
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Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking BackSeptember 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024American Art Museum
This focused exhibition pairs two projects by Carrie Mae Weems that explore the relationship of memory to history and of memory as it is mediated through performance, photography, or video.
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Composing Color: Paintings by Alma ThomasSeptember 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024American Art Museum
This exhibition provides an intimate view of Thomas’ evolving artistic practices during her most prolific period from 1959 to her death in 1978.
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A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy LiebesJuly 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024Cooper Hewitt
This exhibition explores the full scope of Dorothy Liebes' contributions as a designer, collaborator, mentor, public figure, and tireless promoter of American modernism.
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Shelley Niro: 500 Year ItchMay 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024American Indian Museum New York
Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.
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To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.May 19, 2023 – January 7, 2024Anacostia Community Museum
Explore how women of color draw on a long history of activism and advance environmental justice efforts.
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Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn CollectionAugust 2, 2022 – September 4, 2023Hirshhorn
Put It This Way is devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection.
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#IfThenSheCan - The ExhibitMarch 5, 2022 – March 27, 2022Smithsonian Gardens
#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit is he largest collection of statues of women ever assembled together, to be installed on and around the National Mall.
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Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern MuseumFebruary 4, 2022 – October 23, 2022Cooper Hewitt
This exhibition—through archival photography and documents, personal drawings and correspondence, news clippings and ephemera—chronicles the colorful lives and contributions of the dynamic sisters.
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Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from NatureFebruary 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022Cooper Hewitt
From the 1890s to the 1920s, Sophia Crownfield designed prints for some of the most prominent silk and wallpaper manufacturers in the United States.
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Orchids: Hidden Stories of Groundbreaking WomenJanuary 29, 2022 – April 24, 2022Smithsonian Gardens
Orchids: Hidden Stories of Groundbreaking Women unearths stories of women who have enriched our understanding and appreciation of orchids.
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Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing TheoryNovember 19, 2021 – April 3, 2022Hirshhorn
The exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic drawings that chronicle a myth conceived by the artist.
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Laurie Anderson: The WeatherSeptember 24, 2021 – August 7, 2022Hirshhorn
Laurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson.
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Escaramuza DressSeptember 17, 2021 – January 4, 2022American History Museum
An escaramuza charra dress worn by Veronica Davila is on view, representing the only female event in the Mexican charrería.
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Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore, 1975-1980July 16, 2021 – January 23, 2022American Art Museum
Of the more than seventy projects funded by the NEA, the East Baltimore Survey was unique for having been conceived, led, and carried out by women photographers.
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Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion BrandJune 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022Cooper Hewitt
The exhibition features more than 35 original watercolor and gouache design drawings by Zuzek to reveal Zuzek’s artistic contribution to the iconic Pulitzer style.
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Girlhood (It's Complicated)October 9, 2020 – January 2, 2023American History Museum
Through its rich collections and new acquisitions, the museum explores how girls have been on the front lines of social and cultural change.
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Creating Icons: How We Remember Women's SuffrageMarch 6, 2020 – January 2, 2022American History Museum
This exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment recognizing women’s right to vote.
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Contemporary Muslim FashionsFebruary 28, 2020 – July 11, 2021Cooper Hewitt
Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this is the first major museum exhibition to explore the complex and diverse nature of Muslim dress codes worldwide.
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