Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection

Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks from the Shah Garg Collection, which is committed to amplifying the voices and visions of women artists. The exhibition, which premiered in New York in 2023, is the first public presentation of this important collection. Making Their Mark juxtaposes contemporary practices with pathbreaking historical works to illuminate transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among artists from the postwar era to the present. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks spanning almost eight decades, the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art making, embracing craft techniques, uncommon supports, and alternative materials. Accompanied by a major publication produced in advance of the exhibition, Making Their Mark assembles significant examples by artists whose works go beyond prescribed definitions of art making established within a historically patriarchal field.

Artists:

Janet Sobel
Lenore Tawney
Trude Guermonprez
Elizabeth Talford-Scott
Maria Lassnig
Toshiko Takaezu
Etel Adnan
Joan Mitchell
Kay Sekimachi
Faith Ringgold
Freedom Quilting Bee
Olga de Amaral
Joan Semmel
Sheila Hicks
Helen Pashgian
Kay WalkingStick
Barbara Kasten
Emma Amos
Zarina
Rosemarie Castoro
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Judy Chicago
Virginia Jaramillo
Mary Heilmann
Elizabeth Murray
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Pat Steir
Jennifer Bartlett
Lynda Benglis
Simone Fattall
Mary Lovelace O'Neal
Françoise Grossen
Senga Nengudi
Howardena Pindell
Judith Scott
Harmony Hammond
Suzanne Jackson
Mary Corse
Pacita Abad
Sonia Gomes
Joyce J. Scott
Magdalene Odundo
Rosemarie Trockel
Amy Sillman
Charline von Heyl
Jacqueline Humphries
Lorna Simpson
Pinaree Sanpitak
Mary Weatherford
Andrea Bowers
Simone Leigh
Cecily Brown
Sarah Sze
Julie Mehretu
Laura Owens
Carol Bove
Haegue Yang
Wangechi Mutu
Sheree Hovsepian
Dyani White Hawk
Uman
Firelei Báez
Melissa Cody
Rose B. Simpson
Portia Zvavahera
Tschabalala Self
Aria Dean
Tau Lewis


Image Credit: Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024-April 20, 2025