Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout

Anonymous Was a Woman:
Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout

On view at The Kreeger Museum October 15 - December 31, 2025

The Kreeger Museum is pleased to announce our fall exhibition.

Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout, opening in October, dovetails with the recent group exhibition, Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years organized by and presented at the New York University’s Grey Art Museum, April 1- July 19, 2025, and co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenović.

The Grey exhibition celebrated the first quarter-century of the Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) grant program, established in 1996 by visionary philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg. The program is dedicated to supporting mid-career women artists living and working in the United States. Its name refers to a phrase in Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, which underscores the challenges that creative women have historically faced in a male-dominated society.

The Grey exhibition included 41 works by 25 artists-awardees of the 251 artists who received the award between 1996 and 2020, hence shedding light on the conceptual and visual development of art made by women artists during those 25 years.

The Kreeger Museum’s exhibition, curated by Vesela Sretenović, focuses exclusively on four AWAW recipients who reside and work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: Jae Ko (AWAW 2012), linn meyers (AWAW 2023), Joyce J. Scott (AWAW 1997), and Renée Stout (AWAW 1999). While the Grey exhibition featured works created around the time of each artist’s award, The Kreeger Museum’s presentation spotlights the most recent work of its participating artists, picking up where the Grey show left off in 2020. Moreover, whereas the Grey offered a broader overview of artistic production by women-artists in the first 25 years of the award, The Kreeger Museum aims to present a more focused, in-depth look at the new works of Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout.

In this respect, The Kreeger Museum’s exhibition not only celebrates artists based in the DMV area —aligning with the Museum’s mission—but also extends the reach of the AWAW program beyond New York City, further disseminating its mission: to support and bring greater visibility to the creative output of women artists.