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
Hauser & Wirth, Chelsea, New York Through Oct. 24, 2026
“The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun”
Lee Bul’s first show with the gallery centers on a huge zeppelin made of PET film, alongside new mother-of-pearl works on silk velvet.
Lee Bul, “Untitled (Willing To Be Vulnerable—Velvet #29),” 2026. © Lee Bul. Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
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
Hauser & Wirth, Chelsea, New York Through Oct. 31, 2026
“ANNA—And the Infinite Line”
Sixty years of Maiolino in three chapters, from prints of the 1960s to photography to sculpture. It opens with “ANNA,” her 1967 woodcut self-portrait in which the letters of her name stand in for her face.
Anna Maria Maiolino, “ANNA,” 1967 (detail). © Anna Maria Maiolino. Photo: Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
Uffner & Liu, Lower East Side, New York Through Oct. 31, 2026
“The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You”
Owls, moons, moths and trees in a world with no people in it: 12 oil paintings, titled after a Frank Stanford poem, in Nye’s first solo show at the gallery.
Installation view, “Laurie Nye: The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You.” Courtesy Uffner & Liu.
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
Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Parsons, Greenwich Village, New York Through Nov. 1, 2026
“¿História Natural?”, curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira
All 18 folios of Paulino’s 2016 artist book, which layers colonial-era images of enslaved Black women and stitches them with red thread. She won the 2025–27 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice.
Design by Polymode, using details of Rosana Paulino’s 2016 artist book “¿História Natural?” Courtesy the artist.
Fredericks & Freiser, Chelsea, New York Through Nov. 7, 2026
“A Rosy Fingered Dawn”
Hobbie makes about four paintings a year, so new ones don’t come along often. These take on the nude for the first time, with owls, butterflies and gold leaf.
Jocelyn Hobbie, “Rosy Fingered Dawn,” 2026. Courtesy Fredericks & Freiser.
Rosenberg & Co., Upper East Side, New York Through Nov. 14, 2026
“An Unbound Creativity”
Paintings, collages, textiles and sculpture by a founding member of American Abstract Artists, who also wrote “Caps for Sale.”
Esphyr Slobodkina, “Looking Backwards,” 1982. Courtesy Rosenberg & Co.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, New York Through Nov. 15, 2026
“Modernity and Opulence”, curated by Kristina Parsons
More than 200 objects by about 30 Jewish women who designed ceramics, textiles, fashion and more in early 20th-century Vienna, with Vally Wieselthier and Felice Rix-Ueno at the center.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Through Dec. 6, 2026
“Sculpting the Senses”
More than 140 couture pieces by the Dutch designer, shown next to the coral, fossils and skeletons that shape them. Timed tickets required.
Iris van Herpen, “Hydrozoa Dress,” from the Sensory Seas collection, 2020. Collaborator: Shelee Carruthers. Model: Cynthia Arrebola. Photo: David Ụzọchukwu.
Jane Lombard Gallery, Tribeca, New York Oct. 30 to Dec. 17, 2026
“In Fragments”
Blanchard, who worked for years as a textile designer, builds sculptures from fabric scraps, old clothing and Mylar balloons. Three series, “Trees,” “Mending Joy” and “Vessels,” are on view.
Elodie Blanchard, “Corne d’abondance,” 2026. Courtesy Jane Lombard Gallery.
Jane Lombard Gallery, Tribeca, New York Oct. 30 to Dec. 17, 2026
“Hidden Peril”
Anderson paints poisonous plants and mushrooms from direct observation, returning to each specimen over several sessions. The new oil paintings treat the garden’s shadow side as a subject of beauty and a little menace.
Rachael Catharine Anderson, “Omphalotus illudens” (detail), 2026. Courtesy Jane Lombard Gallery.
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
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, New York Through Feb. 21, 2027
“Rooms by the Sea”
Chen’s first museum solo brings nearly 40 paintings of Cape Cod, made outdoors in Truro, Eastham and Provincetown, to the house where Hopper grew up. They hang in conversation with Jo Hopper’s maps and watercolors.
Susan Chen, “Rooms by the Sea,” 2026. Photo: JSP Art Photography. Courtesy Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center.
American Folk Art Museum, Upper West Side, New York Through Feb. 28, 2027
“Place and Identity in Early American ‘Schoolgirl’ Art”
About 100 needlework pictures and other works by American girls of the 18th and 19th centuries, making the case that they were picturing landscapes before the Hudson River School did. Free admission.
Mary King, “Needlework Picture (Tree of Life),” Philadelphia, 1754. Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont.
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
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, New York Through April 1, 2027
“BLEED”
A site-specific commission that reworks the quilt pattern “flying geese” in black, blue and crimson. The colors come from natural dyes, including indigo and pokeberry, and shift as they fade.
Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEED (installation view), 2026. Photo: Kris Graves
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Through April 3, 2027
“Feel the Flow(ers)”
Ninagawa’s first immersive installation in the U.S. covers a gallery in flowers, and for once you’re allowed to touch the photographs.
Mika Ninagawa, “Eternity in a Moment,” 2025. © mika ninagawa. Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, New York Through May 9, 2027
“Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop”, curated by Alyce Perry Englund
The furniture workshop Eleanor Roosevelt founded in 1926 with Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman and Caroline O’Day, 100 years on. Desks, tables and chairs from Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home sit next to the early American pieces in the American Wing that inspired them.
“Side Chair,” American, 1660–90. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951. Public domain.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Through June 27, 2027
“Blessings for a Balanced World”, curated by Colleen Lucero, Nancy B. Rosoff and Dare Turner
The first show to look at the Hopi kachina doll tradition from the side of the girls and women who receive the dolls, with new work by Hopi women potters, basket weavers and jewelers.
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“Palhikwmana Tihu (Water Maiden Kachina Doll),” late 19th century. Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Brooklyn 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 Feb. 28, 2027
“Against a State of Malevolence”
Two woven environments, “Blue in the Hands of Prospect” (2025) and “A Famine of Hearing” (2019), shown together for the first time. Zapata works in weaving, tufting and sewing, and you walk through the results.
Image courtesy of The Bass
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 Through 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
Driehaus Museum, Chicago Through April 18, 2027
“Carving Out History”
The 19th-century American sculptor who made the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, and who in 1863 became the first woman to win a public sculpture commission from New York City. Her marble and bronze work from her years in Rome is on view.
Hauser & Wirth, London Through Dec. 23, 2026
“Cindy Sherman”
The debut of “Fabric Matrons,” new photographs in which draped fabric, much of it from Chanel’s archives, looks at how women handle being seen as they age.
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Cindy Sherman, “Untitled #710,” 2026. © 2026 Cindy Sherman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
Hauser & Wirth, London Through Dec. 23, 2026
“Previous & Ongoing”
Simpson’s first U.K. show in eight years: new paintings, collages and sculpture built on news-archive photographs, many of them from Ebony.
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Lorna Simpson, “Vista,” 2026 (detail). © Lorna Simpson. Photo: James Wang. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
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.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao Through Jan. 17, 2027
“Ever Is Over All”
One work, one classic: Rist’s 1997 video of a smiling woman in a blue dress who smashes car windows with a flower.
Pipilotti Rist, “Ever Is Over All,” 1997 (video still). © Pipilotti Rist, VEGAP, Bilbao 2025. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine.
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
