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Social Conditioning opens July 5th at Femina Potens gallery. Each of these four artists subjectively contemplates and deconstructs the social, cultural, and emotional conditioning experienced while growing up queer.

(Announcement for Social Conditioning. Courtesy: Femina Potens.)

Power Change (Initiated by a Woman), a show of work by Global Feminisms artist Elke Krystufek, opens July 6th at the Ulmer Museum.

(Elke Krystufek, Katherine Mansfield, 2008, ink on canvas. Courtesy: Galerie Barbara Thumm.)

When Color Was New: Vintage Photographs from Around the 1970s opens July 7th at Julie Saul Gallery. Three female pioneers of fine art color photography are included: Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, and Jan Groover.

(Helen Levitt, New York, 1980, C-print. Courtesy: Laurence Miller Gallery.)

Asian Cinevision and Asia Society host the 2008 Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF08) July 10th through July 19th. This year’s festival spotlights female documentary filmmakers. On July 17th, don’t miss the panel discussion Documentary Subjects, Female Gaze with three of the four AAIFF08 featured female directors Ann Kaneko, Risa Morimoto, and Mirjam van Veelen and moderator Anne del Castillo.

(Still from Megumi, directed by Mirjam van Veelen. Courtesy: Mirjam van Veelen.)

A show of work by Global Feminisms artist Sigalit Landau remains open at MoMA through July 28th. Landau here presents a video trilogy in which she employs circular movement and spinning in her performative exploration of the Israeli landscape.

(Sigalit Landau, Dead See (From Cycle Spun, 2007), 2005, video (color, silent). The Museum of Modern Art. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. Image © Sigalit Landau. Courtesy: MoMA.)

Mona Hatoum: Present Tense at Parasol Unit of London features work representative of the span of Hatoum’s career thus far. Hatoum renders ordinary domestic objects uncanny in her efforts to address notions of displacement, uncertainty, and extant power structures. Open now through August 8th.

(Mona Hatoum, Misbah, 2006. Courtesy: Jay Jopling/White Cube (London) and Parasol Unit.)

A Year in Drawing, which continues through August 1st at Galerie Lelong, brings together a diverse collection of work including drawings by Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, Jane Hammond, and many more!

(Kate Shepherd, Untitled (1-7), 2008, assembled cut screenprints. Courtesy: Galerie Lelong.)

Women in Photography is an ongoing online exhibition space for both emerging and established female photographers, featuring a solo show, curated by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips, of work by a new artist every two weeks. Currently on view, Sarah Sudhoff’s photographs reveal a personal take on “body art” as well as a meditation on the female body as an object to be examined.

(Sarah Sudhoff, Exam 2, 2006. Courtesy: Sarah Sudhoff and Women in Photography.)