Judy Chicago: Herstory

Opening October 12, 2023, the New Museum presents the most comprehensive New York museum survey to date of legendary feminist artist Judy Chicago, encompassing sixty years of the artist’s career and including an exhibition-within-the-exhibition spotlighting women essential to the history of art and Chicago’s own practice. “Judy Chicago: Herstory” is accompanied by “Nothing New,” the first New York museum solo exhibition of conceptual and performance artist Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and “Screen Series: EcoRove,” continuing the New Museum’s platform for video work by international emerging artists.

Judy Chicago: Herstory
October 12, 2023–January 14, 2024
New Museum Floors 2, 3, 4, 7
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“Herstory” spans Judy Chicago's sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist's contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking, tracing her earliest experiments in Minimalism from the 1960s through to her ongoing call-and-response project What If Women Ruled the World? (2022). Eschewing the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, Herstory places Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women and gender non-confirming artists essential to the history of art and Chicago's own practice. Entitled The City of Ladies, this exhibition-within-the-exhibition features artworks and archival materials by more than eighty women artists, writers, and thinkers. Contextualizing Chicago's feminist methodology within the many art movements in which she has participated—and from whose histories she has frequently been erased—Herstory showcases Chicago’s tremendous impact on American art and highlights her critical role as a cultural historian claiming space for women artists often omitted from various canons. 

Featured in The City of Ladies: Hilma af Klint, Eileen Agar, Anni Albers, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Anna Atkins, Alice Austen, Djuna Barnes, Simone de Beauvoir, Otti Berger, Annie Besant, Hildegard von Bingen, Rosa Bonheur, Marianne Brandt, Nannie Burroughs, Claude Cahun, Julia Margaret Cameron, Leonora Carrington, Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione, Elizabeth Catlett, Pop Chalee, Elizabeth S. Clarke, Ithell Colquhoun, Imogen Cunningham, Sonia Delaunay, Maya Deren, Emily Dickinson, Sophie Drinker, Suzanne Duchamp, Leonor Fini, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Artemisia Gentileschi, Gluck, Emma Goldman, Natalia Goncharova, Martha Graham, Alice Guy-Blaché, Florence Henri, Barbara Hepworth, Hannah Höch, Kati Horna, Georgiana Houghton, Zora Neale Hurston, Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Käsebier, Käthe Kollwitz, Emma Kunz, Dorothea Lange, Edmonia Lewis, Mina Loy, Dora Maar, Jeanne Mammen, Maria Martinez, Maria Martins, Mary Louise McLaughlin, Maria Sibylla Merian, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Louise Nevelson, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, Anaïs Nin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Méret Oppenheim, Agnes Pelton, Mary Richardson, Margaret Sanger, Augusta Savage, Ethel Smyth, Gertrude Stein, Varvara Stepanova, Florine Stettheimer, Dorothea Tanning, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Toyen, Sojourner Truth, Remedios Varo, Pablita Velarde, Beatrice Wood, Virginia Woolf, and Unica Zürn.

Judy Chicago: Herstory is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, Margot Norton, former Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum and current Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Madeline Weisburg, Assistant Curator, assisted by Ian Wallace, Curatorial Assistant. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published by Phaidon and the New Museum, featuring texts by Glenn Adamson, Connie Butler, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Ann Goldstein, Jennifer Higgie, Candice Hopkins, Amelia Jones, Quinn Latimer, Margot Norton, Kymberly Pinder, Madeline Weisburg, and Carmen Winant; and an interview between the artist and Massimiliano Gioni.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New
October 12, 2023–January 14, 2024
New Museum Lobby Gallery
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For her first New York museum solo exhibition, Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, widely known as Puppies Puppies, transforms the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery into a mise-en-scène for her daily activities, with a portion of the space functioning as a duplicate of the artist’s actual bedroom. Using a fogging glass mechanism, Puppies Puppies will alternately obscure and reveal her activities in the gallery to visitors, foregrounding themes of visibility, representation, and cultural consumption. By allowing a spectacularized view into her daily existence, Kuriki-Olivo celebrates the nuanced layers of her own identity, eliding tokenization and reductive narratives of racial and trans identities.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New is curated by Vivian Crockett, Curator, with Ian Wallace, Curatorial Assistant.

Screen Series: EcoRove (Jumanah Abbas, Iyad Abou Gaida, and Em Joseph)
October 12–December 31, 2023
New Museum Lower Level
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Continuing the New Museum’s Screens Series, a platform for the presentation of new video works by emerging contemporary artists, Where Can We Be Found? (2023) is a research project and film that focuses on the state of Lebanese Cedar trees (Cedrus libani). Shown in two parts and accompanied by a pair of animated drawings, the film distinguishes the Lebanese Cedar as an autonomous being from the various ways in which it has been used as a national, cultural, and ecological symbol.

Screens Series: EcoRove is curated by Ian Wallace, Curatorial Assistant.