Exhibitions
Girlfriend Fund champions artists and ideas that expand how we see, feel, and connect. From museum galleries to public parks, each collaboration reflects a shared belief that art shapes culture—and that generosity fuels creativity. Explore exhibitions by institution, year, or theme, and discover the stories, materials, and voices behind each project.
Jennie Jieun Lee | Luteal Elements and Grooves
Jennie Jieun Lee treats clay like something alive, cracked, glazed, and caught mid-motion. Luteal Elements and Grooves fills The Aldrich with fragmented masks and vessels where color pools, drips, and splits along the surface. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, it turns the fragility of ceramic into a language for the body and its cycles.
Pat Oleszko — Fool Disclosure
Pat Oleszko has spent decades turning costume, inflatables, and outright silliness into sharp cultural critique. Fool Disclosure lets the puns loose at SculptureCenter, where humor is the delivery system for something pointed. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, it proves the fool has always been the one telling the truth.
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
Fifty-two voices, five decades, one throughline: power. This exhibition looks at where feminist art has been—and where it’s still boldly going.
Billie Zangewa — Thread for a Web Begun
A show that’s all about connection—threads, textures, hands. Intimate works that expand the idea of weaving into something tender and radical.
B. Ingrid Olson — History Mother and Little Sister
B. Ingrid Olson bends architecture and the body until both start to shimmer. With History Mother and Little Sister, the Carpenter Center becomes a stage for mirrored limbs, carved reliefs, and architectural riffs that press photography and sculpture into playful, feminist conversation. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, these twin exhibitions are as sly as they are structural.