SF/Arts Curator Insight

Highlighting the voices and visions of women artists, BAMPFA’s Shah Garg Collection is having its own must-see showing this fall. The exhibition, which will follow its 2023 New York debut, is the first public presentation of this vital collection. Featuring 70 works from the Shah Garg Collection, Making Their Mark flows seamlessly from the postwar era to the present to illuminate the prevalence of transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among women artists. Spanning almost eight decades, the
exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art making and alternative materials. The work will be accompanied by a major publication discussing the historical significance and power of the collection artists invested in alternative methods of making outside of patriarchal structures.