The exhibition was the iconic feminist artist’s most comprehensive New York museum survey to date. LUMA Arles will host the exhibition in the Summer 2024, in Arles, as a reconceived and expanded exhibition, building on the success of the New Museum show. Spanning more than sixty years of the artist’s career for the most expansive exhibition of her work in Europe to date, Herstory traces Chicago’s practice from her early experiments in Minimalism in the 1960s and her revolutionary feminist art of the 1970s to her series of the 1980s and 1990s—such as the Birth Project, PowerPlay, Resolutions: A Stitch in Time (1994–2000), and The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction (2012–18)—which expand the purview of her Second Wave Feminist agenda to confront environmental disaster, genocide, social inequity, birth and creation, mortality, and the construct of masculinity. Contextualizing Chicago’s feminist methodology within the many art movements in which she participated—and from whose histories she has frequently been erased—Herstory showcases Chicago’s tremendous impact over many decades.

New to the LUMA Arles incarnation will be a revival of Chicago’s early ground-breaking Feather Room, which will be at the center of the exhibition and An Homage to Arles, a newly commissioned Smoke Sculpture™ which will be a highlight of the opening events.

Judy Chicago: Herstory is organized by LUMA Arles in partnership with the New Museum, with the support of Christian Dior Parfums.
Judy Chicago: Herstory originated at the New Museum, New York.
Lead sponsorship is provided by Dior. Major support is provided by Jordan Schnitzer/The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation.
Additional support is provided by Sabrina Buell and Yves Behar, Jay Franke and David Herro,The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Grażyna Kulczyk Collection, Hill Art Foundation, Kathleen O’Grady / The O’Grady Foundation, Debbie and Mitchell Rechler, Judy Rechler, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Margherita Stabiumi, Lisa Watson and Mike Krupka.
The exhibition was originally curated by Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Gary Carrion-Murayari, New Museum Kraus Family Senior Curator, Margot Norton, former New Museum Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator and current Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Chief Curator, and Madeline Weisburg, New Museum Assistant Curator, with Ian Wallace, New Museum Curatorial Assistant.
The exhibition at LUMA Arles is curated by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Director of Exhibitions and Programs.