Judy Chicago: Herstory is the first comprehensive New York museum survey spanning the artist’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of her contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking.

Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition places six decades of Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique installation entitled “The City of Ladies.” This exhibition-within-the-exhibition features art and archival materials from over eighty artists, writers, and thinkers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Hildegard of Bingen, Artemisia Gentileschi, Zora Neale Hurston, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, and Virginia Woolf, among many others.

Herstory traces the entirety of Chicago’s practice from her 1960s experiments in Minimalism and her revolutionary feminist art of the 1970s to her narrative series of the 1980s and 1990s in which she expanded her focus to confront environmental disaster, birth and creation, masculinity, and mortality. Contextualizing her feminist methodology within the many art movements in which she has participated—and from whose histories she has frequently been erased—Herstory will showcase Chicago’s tremendous impact on American art and highlight her critical role as a cultural historian claiming space for women artists previously omitted from the canon.

This tour will be conducted by an educator at New Museum (NY) and will be followed immediately with a chance for the audience to ask questions about the exhibit.

Judy Chicago: Herstory is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and Margot Norton, Chief Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (former Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum), with Madeline Weisburg, Curatorial Assistant.