"Making Their Mark" 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. Artists in the exhibition include Andrea Bowers, Suzanne Jackson, Julie Mehretu, Howardina Pindell, Joan Mitchell, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Sarah Sze, Kay WalkingStick, and Mary Weatherford, among many others.

“Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection” will open Friday, Sept. 12, with a panel discussion featuring Komal Shah, founder of the Shah Garg Foundation; Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director and Chief Curator for High Line Art in New York; and Sabine Eckmann, the museum’s William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator. The talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in WashU's Steinberg Auditorium. A public reception will immediately follow at 6:30 p.m. in the Kemper Art Museum. The exhibition remains on view through Jan. 5, 2026.