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Current Exhibitions

Close-up detail of an abstract painting with very thick and gestural brushstrokes of mostly orange paint.

Featured Current Exhibition

Apr 12 to Sep 28, 2025
The dynamic artist collective known as the Guerrilla Girls (est. 1985), who declared themselves “the conscience of the art world,” mark their fortieth anniversary in 2025. Drawn from NMWA’s extensive holdings of work by the Guerrilla Girls, this exhibition presents an enthralling visual timeline of the group’s progress and ever-expanding subject matter, including gender disparity in the arts as well as politics, the environment, and pop culture. 
View Exhibition: Guerrilla Girls: Making Trouble
A print with black text on a white background reads, “Guerrilla Girls’ Pop Quiz. Q. If February is Black History Month and March is Women’s History Month, what happens the rest of the year? A. Discrimination.”
Guerrilla Girls, Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz, from the series "Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: The First Five Years, 1985-1990," 1987; Photolithograph on paper, 17 x 22 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore, in honor of Wilhelmina Cole Holladay; © Guerrilla Girls, Courtesy of www.guerrillagirls.com; Photo by Lee Stalsworth

All Current Exhibitions

  • A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making

    Apr 25 to Sep 28, 2025
    A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making examines the organization’s rich history as a proponent of book arts for marginalized communities in the US, where documentation and critical analysis in the field are still largely devoted to white male artists. Through artists’ books, zines, printed materials, ephemera, and archival materials, the exhibition shows how Women’s Studio Workshop’s policies, programming, and operations have evolved over the last fifty years, creating a space where the conditions of art-making and institutional support help to build a sustainable and more equitable art ecosystem.
    Wooden blocks with vintage photos and text are arranged on an unfolded book or map. Some blocks form a partially completed puzzle. The surrounding surface contains faded images and text panels.

    Golnar Adili, She Feels Your Absence Deeply, 2021; Puzzle book with inkjet, lithography, silkscreen, and foil stamping, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center; © Golnar Adili; Courtesy of Women’s Studio Workshop

  • Niki de Saint Phalle In Print

    May 9 to Nov 30, 2025
    Twenty never-before-exhibited prints from the museum’s collection reveal Saint Phalle’s unique vision of the powers at work in our universe. Her brightly colored and ebulliently drawn images and texts centered on love, the mysteries of the Tarot, and urgent social issues illuminate her impassioned engagement with the world.
    A female figure, dragon, snake, sun, star, flowers, and musical notes arranged among curving lines of text. 

    Niki de Saint Phalle, You Are My Love Forever and Ever and Ever, 1968; Serigraph, 15 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of the Niki Charitable Art Foundation; © 2024 NIKI CHARITABLE ART FOUNDATION, All rights reserved

  • Remix: The Collection

    Oct 21, 2023, to Oct 25, 2026
    Remix showcases familiar collection favorites as well as never-before-exhibited recent acquisitions. Artworks are grouped around themes, in some cases anchored by a medium and in others by an idea, that resonate among global artists across time, including photography, fiber works, the colors red and purple, nature, domesticity, and more.
    A horizontal canvas combines collaged paper, such as a scrap of a U.S. map, comic strip, and pictographs; cloth swatches; scrawled and dripped paint; and phrases like “It takes hard work to keep racism alive” and “Oh! Zone.” The work’s title appears in red paint right of center.

    Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Indian, Indio, Indigenous, 1992; Oil and collage on canvas, 60 x 100 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Museum purchase: Members' Acquisition Fund; Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York