Upcoming New York exhibition on women artists will present Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg’s collection to the public for the first time

Artwork collectors Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg will current their assortment publicly for the primary time, with a serious exhibition by a number of the most important ladies artists from the previous eight many years, by means of their Shah Garg Basis.

Making Their Mark will showcase works by greater than 70 ladies artists, together with Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, Etel Adnan, Joan Mitchell, Jenny Holzer and Simone Leigh. The present will likely be free and open to the general public at 548 West twenty second Road in New York (the previous dwelling of Dia Chelsea), from 2 November 2023 by means of 27 January 2024. From there, it is going to journey to California’s Berkeley Artwork Museum and Pacific Movie Archive in September 2024, then to the Kemper Artwork Museum in St. Louis in September 2025.

“Ladies are nonetheless considerably underrepresented in museum collections and on exhibition rosters, and many ladies of unimaginable achievement haven’t been given the scholarly and public consideration they so richly deserve,” Shah mentioned in a press release, including that the exhibition goals to make “a visually compelling case for a rigorous growth of the artwork canon by showcasing works by sensible and prodigious artists who occur to be ladies”.

The exhibition will likely be curated by Cecilia Alemani, director and chief curator of Excessive Line Artwork, who additionally curated the 2022 Venice Biennale.

“Some of the putting features of the Shah Garg Assortment is that it captures a interval in time by means of core artists which can be defining this second, but in addition traces a community of influences and inspiration,” Alemani mentioned in a press release. The exhibition options work by up to date ladies alongside their predecessors who, in some ways, “anticipated the present discussions round illustration, identification and energy” within the artwork world right this moment, she provides.

A local of Ahmedabad, India, Shah moved to California in 1991 to check pc science and labored for greater than a decade within the govt suites of main tech corporations like Oracle, Netscape and Yahoo. After leaving Silicon Valley in 2008, she started growing an artwork assortment with Garg, her husband and a tech entrepreneur. They landed on a imaginative and prescient for the gathering’s emphasis on ladies artists in 2014. Since 2011, Shah and Garg have amassed a groundbreaking assortment of almost 300 items that they routinely lend to museums—together with Jaune Fast-to-See Smith’s portray Escarpment (1987), which was included on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork this yr throughout the artist’s retrospective. Marking Their Mark follows the Could 2023 publication of a guide by the identical identify that explores the artists and works included within the Shah Garg Assortment.

Shah will communicate on a panel throughout dwell programming at this month’s Armory Present in New York. She’s going to talk about the significance of constructing a aware physique of labor with a constructive influence with fellow collectors like Sarah Arison and George Wells.