MoMA PS1 has announced the 53 artists and collectives selected for Greater New York 2026, the sixth edition of its landmark survey of artists living and working across New York City. Opening April 16th, 2026, the quinquennial arrives at a pivotal moment — marking both the museum’s 50th anniversary and a period of heightened political, technological and economic tension across the city.
This edition feels less like a snapshot and more like a pressure reading.
Bringing together site-specific installations, new commissions, and recent works — most never before exhibited — the exhibition foregrounds early- and mid-career artists grappling with surveillance, precarity, infrastructure, migration, and resistance. A dedicated performance programme will unfold across three dates in May and June, premiering new works by eight participating artists.
For the first time, the exhibition is organised collectively by the full PS1 curatorial team, led by Agnes Gund Director Connie Butler and Chief Curator Ruba Katrib — a structural shift that mirrors the exhibition’s emphasis on shared authorship and collective response.
Connie Butler describes Greater New York as “a barometer of artistic production,” one that reverberates beyond Queens and into global conversations. Katrib adds that this year’s artists explore “the infrastructures that govern and pressurize life in the region,” oscillating between polish and ruination, claustrophobia and community.
Queens runs through the exhibition’s DNA. Artists born in the borough — including Dean Majd, Piero Penizzotto, Kenneth Tam, Candace Hill-Montgomery and Devlin Claro — appear alongside collectives deeply embedded in local networks, such as the Jackson Heights–connected Cevallos Brothers and the Flushing-based Red Canary Song.
The result is a portrait of New York not as myth, but as lived terrain.
Participating Artists: Marie Angeletti, Sophie Becker, Jay Carrier, Cevallos Brothers, Chang Yuchen, Devlin Claro, Mary Helena Clark, Taína Cruz, Janiva Ellis, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, Covey Gong, Mekko Harjo, Rachel Handlin, fields harrington, Hardy Hill, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Arlan Huang, Akira Ikezoe, Esteban Jefferson, Kite, Coco Klockner, Marc Kokopeli, André Magaña, Vijay Masharani, Taro Masushio, Win McCarthy, Dean Majd, Metoac Indigenous Collective, Dean Millien, Ian Miyamura, Kameron Neal, Louis Osmosis, Piero Penizzotto, Georgica Pettus, Maria Elena Pombo, Nickola Pottinger, Farah Al Qasimi, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Red Canary Song, G. Rosa-Rey, Coumba Samba, Cinthya Santos-Briones, Symara Sarai, Rezarta Seferi, Tiffany Sia, Sofía Sinibaldi, Kenneth Tam, Tom Thayer, Julia Wachtel, Kristin Walsh, Poyen Wang, Women’s History Museum, Cici Wu.
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
May 2nd, 2026: Sophie Becker, Symara Sarai, Rezarta Seferi
May 30th, 2026: Chang Yuchen and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Kite, Tom Thayer
June 27th, 2026: Georgica Pettus
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SUPPORT Leadership support is provided by the Teiger Foundation Exhibition Fund, which is committed to curatorial experimentation at MoMA PS1.
