Buy tickets now to see New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 featuring works by 28 women artists from all across the globe.

Visionary artists reimagine the past, present alternate realities, and inspire audiences to create different futures. During the past few years, our world has been transformed by a global pandemic, advocacy for social reform, and political division. How have these extraordinary times inspired artists? Works by the artists featured in New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 explore these ideas from perspectives that shift across geographies, cultural viewpoints, and time.

Women to Watch is a dynamic partnership with the museum’s national and international committees, who strive to champion emerging or underrepresented artists from their areas. New Worlds features works by Irina Kirchuk (Argentina), Saskia Jordá (Arizona), Aimée Papazian (Arkansas), Nicki Green (Northern California), April Banks (Southern California), Meryl McMaster (Canada), Francisca Rojas Pohlhammer (Chile), Ana María Hernando (Colorado), Randa Maroufi (France), Marianna Dixon Williams (Georgia), Sophia Pompéry (Germany), Mona Cliff (Greater Kansas City Area), Rajyashri Goody (India), Hannan Abu-Hussein (Israel), Irene Fenara (Italy), Ai Hasegawa (Japan), Daniela Rivera (Massachusetts), SHAN Wallace (Mid-Atlantic Region), Alexis McGrigg (Mississippi), Eliza Naranjo Morse (New Mexico), Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (New York), Migiwa Orimo (Ohio), Graciela Arias (Peru), Marina Vargas (Spain), Arely Morales (Texas), Noémie Goudal (U.K.), Molly Vaughan (Washington), and Sarah Ortegon (Wyoming).

Works on View

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New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 is organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and sponsored by participating committees in Argentina, Arizona, Arkansas, Northern California, Southern California, Canada, Chile, Colorado, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Greater Kansas City Area, Massachusetts, the Mid-Atlantic Region, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Peru, Spain, Texas, the United Kingdom, Washington and Wyoming.

The exhibition is made possible by the Clara M. Lovett Emerging Artists Fund and the Sue J. Henry and Carter G. Phillips Exhibition Fund, with major support provided by Share Fund, the Pennsylvania Committee of NMWA, and Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Additional funding is provided by Robyn D. Collins, Noriko Kashiwagi, Linda Mann, The Honorable Mary V. Mochary and Ayako Weissman. Further support comes from Daiwa Securities Group Inc.; MUFG UFJ Financial Group; S&R Evermay; SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.; Shiseido Company, Limited; Sony Group Corporation; Suntory Holdings Limited; Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, Inc.; and The Tokyo Club.

The museum extends appreciation to the Embassy of Italy with the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington and the British Embassy Washington.

Advertising credits, from left to right: Irina Kirchuk, Tetris II (detail), 2020; Iron, plastic, and foam, 59 x 72 x 1 ⅛ in.; Courtesy of Teller Collection, Buenos Aires;© Irina Kirchuk; Photo by Gian Paolo Minelli | Mona Cliff/HanukGahNé (Spotted Cloud), Past/Presence/Future (detail), 2020; Gas mask, seed beads, smoked brain-tanned hide, acrylic paint, Oklahoma red dirt, and matte medium; 41 x 10 x 5 in.; Great Plains Art Collection, Museum purchase through the generosity of Lincoln Community Foundation and BNSF Railway Foundation; Photo by Bill Ganzel, Ganzel Group Communications | Noémie Goudal, Below the Deep South (detail), 2021; Video 11 min.; Courtesy of the artist | Graciela Arias Salazar, Creación del Amazonas (Creation of the Amazon) (detail), 2023; Polyptych of 10 machetes and acrylic on wood, each 3 ⅛ x 27 ½ in.; Courtesy of the artist; Photo by Adrián Portugal | Meryl McMaster, Lead Me to Places I Could Never Find on My Own I (detail), from the series “As Immense as the Sky,” 2019; Digital C-print, 40 x 60 in.; Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery, and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain; © Meryl McMaster | Alexis McGrigg, The Waiting Room (detail), 2022; Procion dye and acrylic on canvas, 68 x 158 in.; Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery; Photo by Austin Robinson, ASVP Photos | Irene Fenara, Three Thousand Tigers (detail), 2020; Tapestry, wool, and silk; 118 ⅛ x 78 ¾ in.; Collection Museo del Novecento, Donation Premio Rotary Club Milano Brera