Inner Lives

November 5 – December 17, 2025

161 Water Street, Suite 2703, New York, NY

Salon 21 is pleased to present “Inner Lives,” a group exhibition of contemporary female painters and designers, opening to the public on November 5, 2025. The exhibition explores the enduring tradition of women artists turning their gaze toward themselves and one another. Inspired by the bold self-fashioning of Artemisia Gentileschi, who challenged the boundaries of representation of her time, the intimate self-portraits of Frida Kahlo, who transformed personal experience into universal allegory, to the tender, domestic interiors of Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, these emerging talents are working within a tradition of using portraiture and scenes of daily life to articulate the complexities of female identity, intimacy, and presence.