Chitra Ganesh | Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years | Grey Art Museum, New York University

Chitra Ganesh is included in Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years at Grey Art Museum, New York University, through 19 July 2025.
 
In 1996, artist and philanthropist Susan Unterberg founded the Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) award, making a simple, yet radical commitment to redress the lack of institutional support for women visual artists over the age of 40. She sought to provide mid-career artists with the means to procure workspace, art supplies, childcare, or whatever else they needed to further their artistic careers. For the past two and a half decades, AWAW has provided unrestricted grants of $25,000 to ten or more artists each year.
 
Showcasing work by a selection of awardees from AWAW's first 25 years (1996 through 2020), this exhibition explores several themes surrounding anonymity and, ultimately, celebrates the transformative impact women artists have made on contemporary art since the award's founding. The range of artists featured in the exhibition demonstrates the demographic and aesthetic diversity of past awardees. Curated by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenović, the exhibition will be accompanied by a landmark illustrated publication featuring new essays from notable scholars and curators, as well as a roundtable conversation with Unterberg, Princenthal, and Sretenović, moderated by Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Museum at NYU. In addition, the book will include illustrations and biographies for all 251 AWAW recipients from 1996 to 2020.
 
 
April 1, 2025