Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection presented artworks by 44 artists that defy conventional museum display and collecting frameworks, featuring works that have routinely been seen as “out of place” in major museums—because of the artist’s identity or their unorthodox approach to materials and subjects—with more than half on view for the first time. 

It was co-curated by Carmen Hermo and Catherine Morris (Sackler Senior Curator, Brooklyn Museum).

Artists: Anni Albers, Mary Bauermeister, Hannelore Baron, Louise Bourgeois, Beverly Buchanan, Judy Chicago, Chryssa, Petah Coyne, Thornton Dial, Kaleta Doolin, Mary Frank, Helen Frankenthaler, Lourdes Grobet, Bessie Harvey, Mary Heilmann, Gloria Hoppins, Sargent Claude Johnson, Tonnie Jones, Maria Martinez, Dindga McCannon, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Lucy T. Pettway, Ann Parker, Howardena Pindell, Gala Porras-Kim, Dorothea Rockburne, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Judith Scott, Mary T. Smith, Sable Elyse Smith, Joan Snyder, James “Son Ford” Thomas, Stella Waitzkin, Emmi Whitehorse, Anna Williams, May Wilson, Nancy Youdelman, and unknown artists.