This is MoMA PS1’s sixth quinquennial survey of artists living and working around New York City. There are over 150 works by 53 artists and collectives in the show, including site-specific installations and performances. Most of the work is being exhibited for the first time.
The focus is on forces that shape city life and the ways we adapt to them. New York City makes you adapt or leave.
Greater New York 🪶 🇺🇸 🇪🇨 🇬🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Five-year survey of NYC contemporary artists
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens
Apr 16 – Aug 17
FREE
The curators are: Jody Graf and Elena Ketelsen González, Associate Curators; Kari Rittenbach, Assistant Curator; Sheldon Gooch, Curatorial Assistant; and Andrea Sánchez, Curatorial Coordinator; led by Connie Butler, Agnes Gund Director, and Ruba Katrib, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs.
New York City is seeing a lot of action in contemporary art right now. There is this exhibition, the New Museum of contemporary art just reopened, and the Whitney Biennial is on. WEPA!
The cover image is by New York Afro Puerto Rican artist: Taína Cruz. “Charm Written in Steam and Light.” 2025. Oil on canvas. 48 × 60 in. Courtesy the artist and Embajada, San Juan. Photo: Luis Corzo 🇵🇷
Latin Artists in Greater New York 2026
Jay Carrier (1963-2025) was a Native American artist from Niagara Falls. He is Onondaga nation (Wolf Clan), which is Haudenosaunee (Iroquis) Confederacy. His abstractions explore the relationship between the landscape and the spirit world. 🪶
Cevallos Brothers is an art collective originally from Ecuador. 🇪🇨
Taína Cruz (1998) is a New York artist whose African American Puerto Rican family enables her to draw from the vibrant folk traditions of both cultures, including Indigenous Taíno folklore. Yet her work is very New York. She is also in the ongoing Whitney Biennial. tainacruz.com 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🪶
Mekko Harjo (1987) of the Quapaw Nation, a multidisciplinary artist and sound designer, is showing an installation about anti-capitalist temporalities. 🪶
Kite (1990), an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist and composer, is performing “Four Handdreamers,” a sonic improvisation with Lakȟóta values of generosity and reciprocity. 🪶
André Magaña (1992), born in Lagunitas, California, is a Mexican American artist who explores Mexican identity and the Anglo/Latin cultural exchange. He is a sculptor who interprets pre-colonial Mexican folk art using industrial materials. 🇲🇽
Metoac Indigenous Collective (2025) of Long Island are hosting a Wampum Belt Weaving workshop. 🪶
Piero Penizzotto (1998) is a Peruvian-American sculptor who makes life-sized, vividly painted papier mâché sculptures. His practice is built around friendship and community, which along with family, are the core of Latin life. He was the Bronx Museum’s 2025 AIM Fellow. pieropenizzotto.com
His “Kings of Comedy” sculpture of corner boys recalls the way Latino and Black men gather in the morning or at the end of the day to chat, gossip, and tell jokes. Friendship among Latin men is wonderful. We form our own street corner societies.
María-Elena Pombo (1988) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. 🇻🇪
Nickola Pottinger (1986) was born in Kingston, Jamaica. 🇯🇲
G. Rosa-Rey (1955) was born in Isabela, Puerto Rico. It’s a beautiful, very clean town with a wonderful blue hole just off the beach in northwest Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷
Cinthya Santos-Briones (1983), born in Mexico, works with migration and identity. The community organizer is leading an artist talk on June 7. 🇲🇽
Sofía Sinibaldi (1992) was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. 🇬🇹