The exhibition "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection" will be on view from February 27 to July 26, 2026, featuring approximately 80 works by nearly 70 influential women artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. Artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Cecily Brown, Sheila Hicks, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Joan Mitchell, Faith Ringgold, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sillman, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pat Steir, Sarah Sze, Kara Walker, and Zarina. The show is organized into seven thematic sections—Gestural Abstraction, Luminous Abstraction, Pixelated Abstraction, Disobedient Bodies, Of Selves and Spirits, The Power of Form, and Craft is Art—juxtaposing emerging artists with their predecessors to highlight intergenerational connections and subversions of traditional art hierarchies.
This exhibition matters because it directly challenges the historical underrepresentation of women in art museums and collections, presenting a revisionist art history that centers female perspectives and elevates craft techniques often marginalized in a patriarchal field. Organized by the Making Their Mark Foundation, which supports scholarship and public engagement around women artists, the show aims to rectify gender imbalances in public collections and art narratives. By assembling works that blur distinctions between art and craft and emphasize diverse voices, the exhibition offers a model for how institutions can reshape art historical canons to be more inclusive and interconnected.