Exhibitions
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Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women
March 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024American Art MuseumExplore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.
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Simone Leigh
November 3, 2023 – March 3, 2024HirshhornThe 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 Back
September 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024American Art MuseumThis 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 Thomas
September 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024American Art MuseumThis 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 Liebes
July 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024Cooper HewittThis 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 Itch
May 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024American Indian Museum New YorkShelley 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 MuseumExplore 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 Collection
August 2, 2022 – September 4, 2023HirshhornPut 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 Exhibit
March 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 Museum
February 4, 2022 – October 23, 2022Cooper HewittThis 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 Nature
February 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022Cooper HewittFrom 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 Women
January 29, 2022 – April 24, 2022Smithsonian GardensOrchids: 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 Theory
November 19, 2021 – April 3, 2022HirshhornThe 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 Weather
September 24, 2021 – August 7, 2022HirshhornLaurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson.
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Escaramuza Dress
September 17, 2021 – January 4, 2022American History MuseumAn 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, 1975-1980
July 16, 2021 – January 23, 2022American Art MuseumOf 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 Brand
June 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022Cooper HewittThe 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 MuseumThrough 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 Suffrage
March 6, 2020 – January 2, 2022American History MuseumThis exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment recognizing women’s right to vote.
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Contemporary Muslim Fashions
February 28, 2020 – July 11, 2021Cooper HewittOrganized 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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