Featured Publications
Collection Highlights
The museum’s new collection highlights catalogue (2023) explores the breadth of NMWA’s holdings, drawing connections among more than 180 works and sharing new essays by more than forty artists and scholars.
Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750
Accompanying the landmark exhibition at NMWA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (Belgium), this catalogue highlights more than 40 female artists from the 17th-century Low Countries, challenging their historical obscurity and showcasing their diverse contributions to art.
Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter
Mattai’s mixed-media works are presented in full-color images alongside an essay by critic Aruna D’Souza and an interview with the artist that illuminates how her practice challenges colonialist narratives.
New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024
Featuring full-color images and statements from the exhibition’s 28 artists, this catalogue presents works that reflect our extraordinary times, exploring themes of displacement, belonging, and ecological crisis.
The Sky’s the Limit
NMWA’s inaugural reopening exhibition features large-scale contemporary sculpture and immersive installations. Giving primacy to artists’ voices, the publication shares artists’ essays and poetry on the inspirations behind their work.
Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020
This fully illustrated catalogue features personal statements by the exhibition’s twenty-two featured artists, who turn paper into innovative, complex works of art.
Judy Chicago: New Views
The first major monograph on Chicago in twenty years, New Views provides fresh perspectives and features key bodies of work from her career.
Marguerite Gérard: 1761–1837
Sponsored by NMWA’s Suzanne & James Mellor Prize, this book by scholar Carole Blumenfeld brings to light the work of French painter Marguerite Gérard.
Heavy Metal—Women to Watch 2018
The Heavy Metal exhibition catalogue showcases contemporary artists working in metal through full-color imagery and artist statements.