'Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection' featuring Olga de Amaral at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, USA

2 September 2025

From 12 September 2025 – 5 January 2026, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum presents ‘Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection’ featuring Olga de Amaral.

The exhibition brings together over eighty works by an intergenerational and international group of women artists represented in the San Francisco Bay Area–based Shah Garg Collection. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks—including painting, sculpture, installation, textile, beadwork, and ceramics from the past eight decades—the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art-making, embracing craft techniques, new technologies, conceptual inquiries, inventive methods, and uncommon materials.

The exhibition is organized into six sections that illustrate key thematic threads: Gestural Abstraction, Painting and Technology, Craft Is Art, Of Selves and Spirits, Disobedient Bodies, and Luminous Abstraction. Each section juxtaposes works by emerging artists with the pathbreaking contributions of their predecessors, demonstrating how earlier generations anticipated current discussions around abstraction and representation, identity and power, and hybridity and performativity.

Find out more via the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Image: Olga de Amaral, Alquimia plata 6 (B), 1995, Linen, gesso, silver and gold leaf and acrylic, 110 x 180 cm © Olga de Amaral. Courtesy Lisson Gallery, photo by RD Rearick.