[3] According to the original press release, "In keeping with the feminist ideal of women defining themselves, the criterion for membership is professional excellence without restriction of style, medium, or theme.
[2][4] In addition to Glueckman and Gillies, the original members were Elena Borstein, Barbara Coleman, Maureen Connor, Eunice Golden, Marge Helenchild, Cynthia Mailman, Marion Ranyak, Rachel Rolon de Clet, Halina Rusak, Lucy Sallick, Morgan Sanders, Rosalind Shaffer, Sylvia Sleigh, Eileen Spikol, May Stevens, Suzanne Weisberg, and Sharon Wybrants.
[11] Invitational exhibitions, which tended to reflect a diversity similar to that of the gallery's member-artists, were likewise introduced in 1975 as a "community service" that gave viewers "a broad new look at new talent.
[13] The gallery obtained legal, non-profit 501(c)(3) status in 1989, which made it possible for SOHO20 to receive funding from the New York State Council on the Arts for two multi-year exhibition series, Ageless Perceptions and Emerging Women Artists.
[13] Drawing attention to the work of mature women, each Ageless Perceptions exhibition highlighted several artists, including Lil Picard, Esther Gentle, Dorothy Dehner, Sari Dienes, and Jane Teller.
A group of sublime drawings by Eve Ingalls, inspired by summers spent in the Idaho wilderness, were recognized for their combination of calligraphic, east Asian art forms and an empirical sensibility.
"[17] In her paintings of fields in upstate New York and Nova Scotia, Marion Ranyak's artistic touch was described as being "delicate as a bird" while the light in her works was "always at that point of gray heat that sets everything in a landscape in motion.
"[22] The exhibition included works by May Stevens, Howardena Pindell, Sue Coe, Erika Rothenberg, Nancy Spero, and Bonnie Lucas—"six 'gut issue' artists," as described by Grace Glueck in The New York Times.
[24][25] An exhibition in 1990, curated by Faith Ringgold, was made as a tribute to the civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964, and featured works by six African-American women artists, including Beverly Buchanan, Joyce J. Scott, and Clarissa Sligh.
[26] Blacklisted/Whitewashed/Red Handed (1990) addressed issues of censorship, funding restrictions, and First Amendment to the United States Constitution rights through the works of SOHO20 artists and artist-interns from Washington Irving High School.
[1] An exhibition of talks and dialogues called INTERNATIONAL FOCUS-Women in Crisis (2010) dealt with human rights issues such as sex trafficking, child soldiers, and genital mutilation; it later continued under the name CONVERSATIONS, with experts speaking on a variety of topics including "Voices of Muslim Women."