Waave Foundation Initiates the First-Ever New York Women’s Art Month with (Sur)real: A Juried Award

Exhibition by Hall W. Rockefeller and Irene Ailin Wang 
March 6 – March 20, 2025 • The Blanc, 15 E 40th Street, New York

New York, NY—Waave Foundation, in partnership with The Blanc, is proud to announce (Sur)real, a juried group exhibition as announcing the first New York Women’s Art Month, on view from March 6 through March 20, 2025 at The Blanc (15 E 40th Street, New York). Featuring works by awardees Kate Donnelly, Emily Wisniewski, Sandra Cavanagh, Michelle Way, Wendi Men, and Katrina Slavik, along with three leading female artists Nancy Spero, Laurie Simmons, and Hu Junjun, (Sur)real explores themes of uncanny, discomfort, and fantasy. The exhibition offers a framework to reimagine the feminine in contemporary contexts and evoke new perspectives on identity. 

Curated as part of the inaugural New York Women’s Art Month, an initiative by the Waave Foundation spotlighting the crucial yet underrepresented contributions of women to the city’s cultural landscape—the exhibition is also featured in an interactive map application powered by ARTLAS. In (Sur)real, each artist challenges perceptions, embraces new materialities, and engages in a vibrant dialogue with both contemporary and historical contexts.