Being and Belonging: Contemporary Women Artists from the Islamic World and Beyond is an exhibition about claiming space and place for women as equal commentators on the world we live in today. As in many other spheres of professional life, women in the art world remain severely underrepresented. According to data collected in 2017 by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), artworks by women represent only three to five percent of major permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe. A similarly disheartening figure accounts for the number of artworks by women sold globally through major auction houses between 2007 and 2017: only four percent.
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