Huldisch said, noting that now the artist is excited to be presented under the feminist umbrella. “She had expressed that she felt out of step with American second-wave feminism in the 1970s,” Ms. For her former institution, the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Mass., she has organized the largest show to date of Dorothy Iannone, an idiosyncratic artist from Boston who emigrated to Europe in the 1960s. Of course, not all art by women is automatically feminist, Ms. Louis Shahzia Sikander at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence Deana Lawson at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and Diana Al-Hadid at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle (which is dedicating its entire gallery footprint for the second half of this year to shows conceived under the Feminist Art Coalition banner). Lorraine O’Grady at the Brooklyn Museum Hannah Wilke at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Major monographic exhibitions of work by women will be offered at wide-ranging institutions - Alison Saar presented jointly at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
By contrast, the Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes creates more abstract, process-based work but it is in response to overlooked histories of women in the fields of design and architecture. Work by Teresa Margolles, who makes visible gendered, racial and economic violence in Mexico, may look overtly feminist. Ellegood is organizing in partnership with Cornelia Butler at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, focuses on how feminism is taken up in different ways by 15 midcareer artists around the world. ( San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery will present a show entirely of nonbinary artists working across media.) “It’s not a women-only initiative,” she added. DiQuinzio, who has included 75 artists identifying across the gender spectrum such as Wu Tsang, Louise Bourgeois, Zanele Muholi, Jordan Casteel, Kalup Linzy and Mickalene Thomas. “We’ve put it in the plural to suggest that there are many different types of feminisms,” said Ms.
DiQuinzio’s large intergenerational and international survey of recent feminist art practices going on view at her Berkeley institution. At least 20 exhibitions, though, were conceived directly in response to the Feminist Art Coalition, including “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century,” Ms. Many curators had projects they considered feminist already in the works, and they sometimes shifted scheduling to align with the initiative’s fall timing.