Echoes of her century: A global celebration of women's artistic voices

Credit: Ti Gong

Long Museum West Bund is presenting "Echoes of Her Century: A Global Exhibition of Women's Art" between March 10 and May 31.

The upcoming exhibition, hosted a decade after the "International Women Artists Exhibition," which was dedicated to women artists and held by the museum in 2016, will bring together works by nearly 200 women artists from more than 20 countries and regions, spanning over a century from the early 20th century to the present.

Through the comprehensive presentation of their practices, the exhibition, seeking to trace and articulate a hundred-year art history shaped and written by women artists, hopes to invite every visitor to encounter these artists, to sense their presence, to understand their work – and ultimately, to support them.

Credit: Ti Gong

Caption: 《93C》,1993,by Atsuko Tanaka (Japan,1932-2005)

As early as the 1920s, women artists had already begun to emerge within the art world. Traveling across continents in pursuit of the foundations of Western painting, they produced a remarkable body of work and carried forward a radiant spirit of independence.

By the mid to late 20th century, amid the rise of pluralism and critical discourse, women artists developed artistic languages and creative practices of unprecedented diversity.

Through painting, sculpture, installation, video, and other media, they engaged deeply with lived experience and pressing social concerns.

Challenging entrenched and rigid conventions, they actively participated in the formation of new artistic and conceptual frameworks. Sincere, emancipated, independent, and self-aware, these women artists articulate distinct voices of their own.

While extending the spirit of the 2016 "International Women Artists Exhibition," the exhibition resonates as an echo of pioneering women artists' lifelong pursuit of artistic truth.