Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection

Pacita Abad, Etel Adnan, Olga de Amaral, Emma Amos, Jennifer Bartlett, Freedom Quilting Bee, Lynda Benglis, Carol Bove, Andrea Bowers, Cecily Brown, Firelei Báez, Rosemarie Castoro, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Judy Chicago, Melissa Cody, Mary Corse, Aria Dean, Simone Fattall, Sonia Gomes, Françoise Grossen, Trude Guermonprez, Harmony Hammond, Dyani White Hawk, Mary Heilmann, Charline von Heyl, Sheila Hicks, Sheree Hovsepian, Jacqueline Humphries, Suzanne Jackson, Virginia Jaramillo, Barbara Kasten, Maria Lassnig, Simone Leigh, Tau Lewis, Julie Mehretu, Joan Mitchell, Elizabeth Murray, Wangechi Mutu, Senga Nengudi, Magdalene Odundo, Laura Owens, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Helen Pashgian, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Pinaree Sanpitak, Judith Scott, Joyce J. Scott, Kay Sekimachi, Tschabalala Self, Joan Semmel, Amy Sillman, Lorna Simpson, Rose B. Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Janet Sobel, Pat Steir, Sarah Sze, Toshiko Takaezu, Elizabeth Talford-Scott, Lenore Tawney, Rosemarie Trockel, Uman, Kay WalkingStick, Mary Weatherford, Haegue Yang, Zarina, Portia Zvavahera

Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks from the Shah Garg Collection, which is committed to amplifying the voices and visions of women artists. The exhibition, which premiered in New York in 2023, is the first public presentation of this important collection. Making Their Mark juxtaposes contemporary practices with pathbreaking historical works to illuminate transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among artists from the postwar era to the present. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks spanning almost eight decades, the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art making, embracing craft techniques, uncommon supports, and alternative materials. Accompanied by a major publication produced in advance of the exhibition, Making Their Mark assembles significant examples by artists whose works go beyond prescribed definitions of art making established within a historically patriarchal field.

The BAMPFA presentation of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection is curated by Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, New York, and Margot Norton, BAMPFA Chief Curator, with Tausif Noor, BAMPFA Curatorial Associate.

Lead support for Marking Their Mark is provided by the Shah Garg Women Artists Research Fund, a multiyear initiative to advance scholarship on women artists through exhibitions, publications, and public programs at BAMPFA.