Art News of the Week
A new week in the art world brings new exhibitions, new conversations, and, thankfully, plenty of reasons to keep looking at what women artists are making, building, and bringing into the wider art conversation. From a virtual exhibition celebrating the many things women create to major exhibitions opening across the world, here are five art news worth knowing this week.
01. Love, Life & Everything She Creates Is Now Live
The Women in Arts Network’s newest virtual exhibition, Love, Life & Everything She Creates, is officially live, bringing together an international group of women artists responding to the broad and wonderfully open ideas of life, love, and creativity.
Rather than asking artists to interpret one narrowly defined subject, the exhibition leaves plenty of room for personal experience. The selected works move through relationships, memory, identity, nature, imagined spaces, everyday life, and the many things that become part of an artist’s creative practice.
There is something particularly fitting about the exhibition’s title. For many artists, making does not sit neatly in a separate corner of life. It grows alongside everything else: the people we love, the places we remember, the experiences we carry, and even the ordinary moments that somehow stay with us.
The exhibition also includes optional artist interviews, giving viewers the opportunity to move beyond the work itself and hear directly from the women who made it.
02. Women on the Edge of Time Brings Eight South Asian Women Artists Together in Delhi
At Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, Women on the Edge of Time is bringing together the work of eight South Asian women artists across generations and geographies, and the exhibition is asking some big questions about what women inherit, what they resist, and what they leave behind.
Curated by Linsey Young, the exhibition looks at power, autonomy, memory, labour, ecology, identity, and belonging rather than presenting one fixed definition of feminist art. Artists including Sheba Chhachhi, Jai Chuhan and others consider how experiences of womanhood and the structures surrounding them have shifted—or stubbornly remained the same—across generations.
The timing feels particularly interesting because the exhibition is not simply looking backwards. It considers inheritance as something active: what artists receive from those before them, what they question, and what they might pass forward.
For a region with such layered histories, putting generations of women artists into conversation with one another creates space for exactly that kind of exchange.
Women on the Edge of Time is currently on view at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi.
03. The Things We Feel Is Now Open for Submissions
There is a new opportunity for artists who make work from the things that are sometimes difficult to explain.
The Women in Arts Network has opened submissions for The Things We Feel, an international virtual exhibition exploring emotions, memories, experiences, sensations, and the inner worlds that find their way into creative practice.
The theme is intentionally broad. A work does not have to literally depict an emotion. A colour palette might carry nostalgia. A photograph might hold onto a moment of connection. A textile work might carry memories of home. An abstract piece might communicate something that words cannot quite reach.
The open call welcomes women and non-binary artists aged 18 and above internationally, across painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, illustration, digital art, collage, textiles, mixed media, video, installation, and other contemporary practices. Artists can submit up to three works.
The exhibition fee is $15 USD, with an optional Artist Interview Feature available for an additional $19. Most importantly, the deadline is October 5, 2026.
For artists who already have a work sitting in their studio that carries a little more feeling than they know how to explain, this might be a good one to look at.
Deadline: October 5, 2026
04. Juana González Puts Hands at the Centre of Her New Paintings
Spanish artist Juana González has found an unusual subject to obsess over: hands.
Her new exhibition, Manos de hacer, opens September 10 at Arma Gallery in Madrid, bringing together more than a dozen recent paintings in which hands become the central visual and emotional force.
González has long used hands in her figurative paintings to communicate emotion and tension, but she says she did not fully notice their importance in her work until other artists pointed it out to her. Now, she is making them impossible to ignore.
The paintings are colourful, dramatic and distinctly physical. In Apoyo en chico ultramar (2026), four red, muscular hands grip the shoulders of a young man. In Pelo (2022), enormous hands move through a young woman’s hair.
It is a simple reminder of something artists know particularly well: sometimes the element we barely notice while making a work turns out to be the thing that gives it its entire personality.
González studied fine arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, and her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Cervantes Institute in Munich, Centro de Arte Alcobendas and the Museum of the University of Alicante. Her latest exhibition opens September 10 and runs through October 10.
05. Voices in Print Celebrates Black Women Printmakers in New Jersey
A new exhibition at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton, New Jersey, is turning the spotlight toward the work of Black women printmakers with connections to the state.
Voices in Print: New Jersey Black Women Printmakers Shaping the American Narrative opened September 4 and runs through February 28, 2027. The exhibition features artists including Emma Amos, Camille Billops, Vivian E. Browne, Nanette Carter, Mickalene Thomas, Sondra Perry, Nell Painter, Janet Taylor Pickett and Bisa Washington, among others.
Curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Rhinold L. Ponder, the exhibition is part of Princeton’s wider Re-Visioning America: 1776–2026 initiative, which is marking America’s 250th anniversary through exhibitions and programmes focused on more diverse stories of American history.
There is a particularly meaningful history behind the exhibition. Princeton’s first exhibition of work by Black artists in 1976 included only one woman artist. Voices in Print responds to that history by bringing together a much broader group of Black women artists and foregrounding the perspectives that have too often been left outside the cultural mainstream.
And printmaking itself adds another layer to the story. Because prints can exist in multiple editions, the artists’ ideas can travel beyond a single gallery wall and reach much wider audiences. In this exhibition, that becomes part of the point: art can multiply, circulate, and carry stories with it.
That’s a Wrap on This Week’s Art News
From exhibitions opening their doors to artists reclaiming their stories, and from new opportunities for artists to voices being brought into conversations that have historically left them out, this week has given us plenty to look at.
What makes these stories worth following is not simply that they feature women artists. It is the variety in what they show us about being an artist today. There are artists exploring memory and emotion, artists questioning histories, artists finding new ways to work with familiar mediums, and organisations creating spaces where more women can share their work with wider audiences.
The art world is always moving, and there is always another exhibition opening, another artist making something unexpected, and another story that deserves to be noticed. These are just a few of the conversations happening right now.
That’s our roundup for this week. We’ll be back next week with more women artists, exhibitions, opportunities, and stories from across the art world.
