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Berkeley, CA | Curator-Led Tour: “Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection” with Chief Curator Margot Norton
March 5 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, led by Chief Curator Margot Norton.
Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks from the Shah Garg Collection, which is committed to amplifying the voices and visions of women artists. The exhibition, which premiered in New York in 2023, is the first public presentation of this important collection. Making Their Mark juxtaposes contemporary practices with pathbreaking historical works to illuminate transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among artists from the postwar era to the present. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks spanning almost eight decades, the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art making, embracing craft techniques, uncommon supports, and alternative materials. Accompanied by a major publication produced in advance of the exhibition, Making Their Mark assembles significant examples by artists whose works go beyond prescribed definitions of art making established within a historically patriarchal field.
The Shah Garg Collection us owned by Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg, who support scholarship and public engagement highlighting the achievements and innovations of women artists through the Shah Garg Foundation. Through a wide range of projects and partnerships with educational institutions, arts organizations, and arts leaders, the Foundation works to bring greater recognition to art by women and to rectify the underrepresentation of women in public collections, exhibitions, and art historical narratives. Komal Shah will be honored at ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony in April of this year. Click here to read more and register!
“I want to make a point with the collection, which is how excellent these artists are — they belong in every single museum.”
– Komal Shah, The New York Times, 2023
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About Margot Norton
Margot Norton is Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), where she leads the curatorial team and oversees the exhibition program. At BAMPFA she curated the exhibition Gabriel Chaile: No hay nada que destruya el corazón como la pobreza (2023), and is curating the collection exhibition To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection (2024) and Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, co-curated with Cecilia Alemani (2024). Norton was previously Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she recently co-curated the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone; Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined; and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente. At the New Museum, she has also curated solo exhibitions with Carmen Argote, Judith Bernstein, Diedrick Brackens, Pia Camil, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Goshka Macuga, Nathaniel Mellors, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Kaari Upson and Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, among others, and group exhibitions including The Keeper, Here and Elsewhere, and NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. In 2017, she curated the Eighth Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Georgian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E. She is a founding member of Museums Moving Forward (MMF), an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. Before joining the New Museum in 2011, Norton was a curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has contributed to and edited numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.
Image credits:
Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
Margot Norton, photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr, courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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