These Are the Artists in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York Show
On its 50th anniversary year, the Queens-based museum tapped 53 local artists for the sixth edition of its cross-borough survey.
MoMA PS1 has announced the artist lineup for the sixth edition of its Greater New York exhibition, which highlights emerging and mid-career contemporary artists every five years.
Taking over the museum's transformed school building starting April 16, the cross-borough survey will celebrate MoMA PS1's 50th anniversary with a bevy of site-specific installations, new commissions, and rarely seen work by 53 artists and collectives living and working across New York City. A complete list of participants is included at the end of this article.
This year, Greater New York will coincide with the Whitney Biennial for the first time in the show's history. According to MoMA PS1's press release, the exhibition will pay special attention to modes of resistance and survival amid the exponential integration of surveillance technology throughout the city, as well as the precarious state of an economy pushed to the brink.
The artist lineup leans toward sculpture and installation work, interspersed with new and time-based media and contemporary painting. Shaping the city's next generation of contemporary artists, three native New Yorkers are among the youngest included in the exhibition: Coumba Samba, Piero Penizzotto, and Taína Cruz.
A tight schedule of artist performances will accompany the exhibition between May and June.
In an email to Hyperallergic, Cruz, whose work will also be featured in the Whitney Biennial, said that being included in Greater New York “feels deeply personal, because this is home.”
“My parents are New Yorkers, and my sister and I grew up on these streets, learning the city’s demands and what it means to belong here,” Cruz continued. She noted that the selected work “explores rest, attention, and subtle forms of play, and what that sensation feels like as something comes into being.”
“It holds onto chills and humor, and the fragile beauty of learning how to feel alive,” she said.
Penizzotto, who specializes in life-size papier-mache figuration, said in an email to Hyperallergic that his selection for the exhibition “reflects on intimacy, distance, and the indispensable importance of familial presence.”
“I do this for the younger version of myself who always wanted to see artwork that reflected my community, and I feel incredibly blessed to have been given a platform to help make my vision visible,” Penizzotto said.
The activist collective Red Canary Song, representing and advocating for NYC's primarily Asian migrant massage workers and sex workers, will also be included in MoMA PS1's survey. In an extension of its organizing work, the collective has staged installations evoking the environment of massage parlors, featuring artwork by and about its members.
Below is a list of all artists included in Greater New York.
Marie Angeletti (b. 1984, Marseille, France)
Sophie Becker (b. 1993, San Francisco, CA)
Jay Carrier (1963–2025, b. Six Nations Reserve)
Cevallos Brothers (b. Ecuador)
Chang Yuchen (b. 1989, Shanxi, China)
Devlin Claro (b. 1995, Queens, NY)
Mary Helena Clark (b. 1983, Santee, SC)
Taína Cruz (b. 1998, New York, NY)
Janiva Ellis (b. 1987, Oakland, CA)
Sophie Friedman-Pappas (b. 1995, New York, NY)
Covey Gong (b. 1994, Hunan, China)
Mekko Harjo (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA)
Rachel Handlin (b. 1995, New York, NY)
fields harrington (b. 1986, Sacramento, CA)
Hardy Hill (b. 1993, Wilmington, DE)
Candace Hill-Montgomery (b. 1945, Queens, NY)
Arlan Huang (b. 1948, Bangor, ME)
Akira Ikezoe (b. 1979, Kochi, Japan)
Esteban Jefferson (b. 1989, New York, NY)
Kite (b. 1990, Los Angeles, CA)
Coco Klockner (b. 1991, Cleveland, OH)
Marc Kokopeli (b. 1987, Seattle, WA)
André Magaña (b. 1992, Lagunitas, CA)
Vijay Masharani (b. 1995, Bay Area, CA)
Taro Masushio (b. Japan)
Win McCarthy (b. 1986, Brooklyn, NY)
Dean Majd (b. 1988, Queens, NY)
Metoac Indigenous Collective (est. 2025, Long Island, NY)
Dean Millien (b. 1972, Brooklyn, NY)
Ian Miyamura (b. 1991, Kailua, HI)
Kameron Neal (b. 1992, Raleigh, NC)
Louis Osmosis (b. 1996, Brooklyn, NY)
Piero Penizzotto (b. 1998, Queens, NY)
Georgica Pettus (b. 1997, New York, NY)
Maria Elena Pombo (b. 1988, Caracas, Venezuela)
Nickola Pottinger (b. 1986, Kingston, Jamaica)
Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, East Palo Alto, CA)
Red Canary Song (est. 2018, Queens, NY)
Rosa-Rey (b. 1955, Isabela, Puerto Rico)
Coumba Samba (b. 2000, New York, NY)
Cinthya Santos-Briones (b. 1983, Mexico)
Symara Sarai (b. 1994, Portland, OR)
Rezarta Seferi (b. 1990, Brooklyn, NY)
Tiffany Sia (b. 1988, Hong Kong)
Sofía Sinibaldi (b. 1992, Guatemala City, Guatemala)
Kenneth Tam (b. 1982, Queens, NY)
Tom Thayer (b. 1970, Chicago Heights, IL)
Julia Wachtel (b. 1956, New York, NY)
Kristin Walsh (b. 1989, Emerald Isle, NC)
Poyen Wang (b. 1987, Taiwan)
Women’s History Museum (est. 2015, New York, NY)
Cici Wu (b. 1989, Beijing, China)
