Exhibitions

Learn how the featured artists mastered and subverted the everyday materials of cotton, felt, and wool to create deeply personal artworks.

The first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Simone Leigh, among the most respected artists of her generation.

Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.

Explore how women of color draw on a long history of activism and advance environmental justice efforts.

Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.

Put It This Way is devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection.

#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit is he largest collection of statues of women ever assembled together, to be installed on and around the National Mall.

Orchids: Hidden Stories of Groundbreaking Women unearths stories of women who have enriched our understanding and appreciation of orchids.

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.

Laurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. 

An escaramuza charra dress worn by Veronica Davila is on view, representing the only female event in the Mexican charrería.

This exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment recognizing women’s right to vote. 

The exhibit shows the early and notable editions of the novel in the library’s collection, as well as its interesting publishing history.

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is the first major thematic exhibition to explore the artistic achievements of Native women.

On view are more than 75 vibrant and varied personal statements from artists from 1976 and now that elucidate the contours of feminist art.

This project brings into being the missing legacy of female paleontologists to overcome societal stereotypes concerning gender and professional roles.

The Hirshhorn hosts the largest site-specific exhibition to date by the acclaimed abstract painter Pat Steir.

The Emily Howland photography album containing a previously unknown portrait of abolitionist and Underground Railroad-conductor Harriet Tubman is on view.

Break rooms across America hold signs that read: “Your mother doesn’t work here.” All Work and No Pay examines the implied expectation that women will take care of the housework.