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Ceres Gallery Announces Its 2026 Annual Member Exhibition: “Raising Women’s Voices” with opening reception on June 25, 2026
NEW YORK, NY — From June 23 to July 18, 2026, Ceres Gallery is proud to present “Raising Women’s Voices,” its premier, annual group exhibition and a cornerstone of the gallery’s mission to champion the collective power of its membership.
As an all-women organization, Ceres Gallery views this highly anticipated yearly showcase as a vital act of cultural preservation, ensuring that women’s perspectives remain at the forefront of the contemporary art dialogue.
The 2026 annual exhibition draws from a sophisticated community of artists across the United States and abroad, highlighting an extraordinary range of artistic mastery and conceptual depth that spans traditional oil painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking alongside experimental digital installations, photography, and mixed-media textiles.
Thematically, the collection is as diverse as the artists themselves, moving beyond a single aesthetic to explore urgent, multifaceted viewpoints including socio-political activism that challenges existing power structures, artistic responses to environmental justice and the climate crisis, and deep investigations into personal identity and the hidden histories of women.
By weaving together these varied narratives and abstract reflections on the human condition, the exhibit creates a powerful, multifaceted experience that honors the complexity of women’s lives and reinforces the gallery’s long-standing belief that art serves as an essential social service with the power to educate, enhance, and enrich the world.
Founded in 1984 as a program of the New York Feminist Art Institute (NYFAI), Ceres Gallery is a feminist, not-for-profit, alternative gallery dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts, providing exhibition space that enhances public awareness and helps remediate women’s limited access to commercial galleries while serving as a supportive base for a diversity of artistic and political views.
Exhibition Dates: June 23 – July 18, 2026
Opening Reception: June 25, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Ceres Gallery presents Solo/Duo 3 – Culture and Stance, the third collaboration between sculptor Jo‑Ann Brody and mixed media/fiber artist Liz Ndoye. Both artists work figuratively, each bringing a distinct yet complementary approach: Brody explores stance and gesture, while Ndoye creates a fictional cultural world through her dolls.
Liz Ndoye continues her love affair with her doll “creatures” – soft, fabric, humanoid figures that she makes and installs in tandem with her large canvases and drawings in order to depict aspects of their doll culture and existence. In this, her latest show at Ceres, she will attempt to convey and share her passion for and joyous communion with her doll creations. She will make dolls, paint and draw them, and create installations that celebrate their healing, happy qualities.
Jo-Ann Brody Papier mache, mulberry papers, glue, varnish 9 x 6 x 9 inched, 6 panels
Brody’s sculptures rely on minimal cues that evoke the human figure, women, through distortion, elongation and exaggeration. Heads are mere punctuation. Working entirely in papier‑mâché with powdered pulp and colored mulberry paper, she creates expressive forms that read as lines in space. This exhibition also marks her return to the book form with two new works, Eyes and Dog Walk Mornings.
Women’s Self-Portraits, Part 4, the 16th to 18th Centuries
Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian, c. 1532 – 1625 S-P Holding a Medallion with her Father’s Name c. 1550, 3 ¼ x 2 1/2 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
What did they look like and how did they see themselves? Self-portraiture offers a lens through which to explore numerous artists’ legacies. This program, the fourth and final in a series of talks on women artists from history, will focus on the 16th – 18th Centuries, when women were beginning to assert their presences as professional artists, despite huge obstacles.
The presenter, Robert Bunkin, is a painter, art historian and curator, who taught art history for over 40 years in art schools, universities, cultural centers and museums around New York City and abroad. Bunkin is also a regular Ceres Gallery receptionist since 2023.
Free Admission, limited seating. This is a live program.
Double Vision, Graphite, conte, charcoal on white kraft paper, 24 x 18″, 2026
Double Vision, Graphite, conte, charcoal on white kraft paper, 24 x 19″, 2026 Marilyn Banner’s recent drawings suggest and further develop the throughlines found in her earlier work: darkness, body, nature, guardians, and spirit. Strong and energetic drawings suggest monstrous animal-like creatures, red eyes staring out, protecting the surrounding space. Quieter drawings of African masks, statues, and branches suggest ritual, and secret connections. Though the work suggests ancient myth and distant memory, it is contemporary in Banner’s mind. The times are turbulent; there is strong feeling in and around us. Like the angry goddesses of myth and legend, we today are challenged to hold our ground, protect the good and ward off what is evil.
Mary Alice Orito’s art and design practice includes mixed media, collage and a background of clothing and costume design in NYC’s garment industry, music videos, and TV costume design. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and New York University School of Social Work. Parallel to her art practice of over 20 years, she had a decades old private psychotherapy practice.
Aware of the waste in all our lives, Orito began saving the cut black construction paper she used in the last few years. This exhibition ‘bits-n-pieces’ at Ceres Gallery focuses on the cut pieces of prior exhibitions.
Tania Kravath’s work is tied to social and political narratives and she has a keen awareness of the fragility of this moment in time.Throughout the many chapters in her art making, Kravath returns to the female form and the theme of women as vessels of knowledge and nurturers of seeds.
Recent collages and paper sculptures honor our ancestors’ perseverance, the grief experienced from inevitable change and loss, and the emotional connections that nurture, sustain and cultivate hope.
Susan Grabel – Lost My Husband / Can’t Lose My Country Date: April 25 Time: 3:00–5:00 PM
Join us for the closing reception of Susan Grabel’s exhibition, Lost My Husband / Can’t Lose My Country. This powerful body of work features cast paper portraits housed in molded cardboard boxes alongside mixed media installations. Through these intimate and evocative pieces, Grabel explores personal loss while situating it within the context of a broader national crisis
Women’s Self-Portraits Part 3 The Nineteenth Century
Sarah Goodrich, American, 1788 – 1853, Self Portrait, circa 1825. Watercolour on ivory. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Beauty Revealed, 1828. Watercolor on ivory. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
What did they look like and how did they see themselves? Self-portraiture offers a lens through which to explore numerous artists’ legacies. This program, the third in a series of talks on women artists from history, will focus on the Nineteenth Century, a period of tremendous growth in the number of women who achieved careers in the visual arts.
The presenter, Robert Bunkin, is a painter, art historian and curator, who taught art history for over 40 years in art schools, universities, cultural centers and museums around New York City and abroad. Bunkin is also a regular Ceres Gallery receptionist since 2023.
Free Admission, Limited Seating. This is a live program.
Women’s Self-Portraits Part 2: 20th – 21st Centuries (continued)
Left to right: Marie Laurencin, French, 1883 – 1956, 1906, Charcoal, MoMA; Elizabeth Catlett, American, 1915 – 2012, 1999, silver pencil on black paper, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; June Leaf, American, 1929 – 2024, 2006, pencil on paper, 14 x 11 in. Estate of the artist
What did they look like and how did they see themselves? Self-portraiture offers a lens through which to explore numerous artists’ legacies. This program is the second in a series of talks on women artists from history and the contemporary scene.
The presenter, Robert Bunkin, is a painter, art historian and curator, who taught art history for over 40 years in art schools, universities, cultural centers and museums around New York City and abroad. Bunkin is also a regular Ceres Gallery receptionist since 2023.
Free Admission, Limited Seating. This is a live program.
