Shows by women artists and curators we think are worth the trip, picked by our editors and updated every two weeks. Looking for our reviews and interviews? They’re under Exhibitions.
Gagosian, Chelsea, New York Through Oct. 24, 2026
“Deana Lawson”
Lawson’s first show with Gagosian debuts “Edge Control,” a series that reworks the surveillance photos beauty supply stores tape to their windows, alongside mirror-framed photographs and holograms.
Image courtesy of Gagosian
Ryan Lee, Chelsea, New York Through Oct. 24, 2026
“Bathers”
Amos painted Black swimmers and sunbathers, mostly women, in every decade of her career. Paintings and prints from 1966 to 2009, including aquatints shown together for the first time.
Image courtesy of Ryan Lee
Pace, Chelsea, New York Through Oct. 24, 2026
“Knotting, Tying, Folding”
Fifty years of Benglis bending materials to her will, from glazed ceramic and bronze to pleated paper, plus glass sculptures from 1985 that are rarely shown.
Image courtesy of Pace
Gordon Robichaux, Union Square, New York Through Nov. 1, 2026
“Proserpina / Devil Chaser”
Two friends from the feminist art scene of the 1970s, together for the first time: Mayer’s drawings and Morton’s “Signs of Love” paintings and “Beaux” sculptures. Morton’s first New York showing in a decade.
Image courtesy of Gordon Robichaux
Craig F. Starr Gallery, Upper East Side, New York Through Jan. 16, 2027
“Germinal”
A close look at Bourgeois in the 1960s, when plaster, latex and bronze turned into the segmented, totem-like forms that shaped the rest of her work. Sculpture on one floor, drawings on the other.
Image courtesy of Craig F. Starr Gallery
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Through March 14, 2027
“Father Country I Do Love You”
Simon fills the Rotunda with 42 “chapters” of photographs, text, video and sculpture that follow the life of one unnamed federal agent. You choose your own way up the ramp.
Image courtesy of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles Through Oct. 24, 2026
“Control X”
New paintings and her longest animation yet, in which Madani’s characters and rooms come apart and put themselves back together.
Image courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery
LACMA, Los Angeles Through Jan. 3, 2027
“Between Panic and Paradise”
Fifty years of photographs and video by the Los Angeles artist, borrowing from cinema and literature to stage scenes of romance, rivalry and everyday life that blur fact and fiction.
Image courtesy of LACMA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Through Feb. 28, 2027
“A Life in a Few Lines”
“Lebanese by birth, French by marriage, and American by choice,” Caland spent her last decades in Venice, California. A survey of work about bodies, humor, language and aging.
Image courtesy of Hammer Museum
Frost Art Museum, Miami Through Jan. 17, 2027
“Dawn to Dusk”
More than 50 works across Nevelson’s career, from early figurative paintings to the wood constructions she’s known for, plus collages and her handmade jewelry.
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Image courtesy of Frost Art Museum
The Bass, Miami Beach Through May 30, 2027
“Unviolated Imperfection”
The Tokyo artist’s first U.S. museum show: three galleries of kinetic installations run by gravity, light, time and chance, with sound in the mix.
Image courtesy of The Bass
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami Oct. 1, 2026, to Aug. 1, 2027
“The Sacred Mangrove”
Major weaves clay the way Bahamian palm-leaf plaiting is woven. Towers, bottle trees and a path of crushed conch shells. Artist talk on Oct. 15.
Anina Major, “Water Tower,” 2024. Glazed stoneware, melted sea glass and sand, 45 × 11 × 11 inches. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by PAMM’s Collectors Council. © Anina Major. Courtesy the artist and Tern Gallery. Photo: Andrew White.
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga. Through Jan. 3, 2027
“Said in Stone”
Lewis moved to Rome in 1866 and carved her way past every barrier of race and gender. Her marble portraits of abolitionists and reformers, and her mythological and religious subjects, in one place.
Image courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Through Jan. 3, 2027
“After Impressionism”
For the centennial of her death, Cassatt’s work after the last Impressionist show in 1886, built around her lost 1893 World’s Fair mural, “Modern Woman.”
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Image courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago
Tate Modern, London Through Jan. 3, 2027
“Frida: The Making of an Icon”
More than 30 Kahlo works with her clothes and photographs, then a room of “Fridamania”: over 200 objects that turned her face into merchandise.
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Frida Kahlo, “Untitled [Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird],” 1940. Oil on canvas mounted to board. Nickolas Muray Collection of Mexican Art, 66.6. Harry Ransom Center.
Tate Modern, London Through Jan. 17, 2027
“Ana Mendieta”
The first big U.K. look at Mendieta in more than ten years, with the “Silueta Series,” newly remastered films, early paintings and late sculpture.
Ana Mendieta, “Imágen de Yágul,” 1973. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, 2026. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery and Alison Jacques, London.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris Oct. 20, 2026, to Feb. 21, 2027
“J’ai vu”
Holzer takes over the whole museum with words from the Orsay’s archives: projections on the façade over the Seine, stone engravings and her gold-leaf redaction paintings.
Image courtesy of Musée d’Orsay
