The Armory Show is New York City’s big fall contemporary art fair. It anchors the Armory Week cluster of contemporary art fairs which also launches NYC’s fall art season.
32nd Armory Show 2026
NYC’s biggest contemporary art fair has a Caribbean and Latin Art focus this year
Javits Center
Hudson Yards (Hell’s Kitchen)
Thu-Sun, September 24-27, 2026
$50+
A lot of good curation is a form of silent protest against current events. The art world, once a very stuffy place, has become inclusive in the last decade. Lately our country has become unrecognizable in many ways. So thank you for recognizing our common humanity and including us. Mil Gracias!
A couple of things about Latin art. You can’t look at it through a European lens. We have different cultural frameworks. An important one is that Latin art often isn’t decorative, but rather a container for spiritual energies. In our view, a beautiful skull made from mud is more valuable than a diamond encrusted skull by Damien Hirst. It goes places that Hirst can’t even imagine.
The second thing is that Latin collectors buy art because they want to live with it. There is less speculation. But at the same time, collectors have realized the value of long-overlooked Latin art, so it’s become a good investment too.
Focus: The Caribbean as a Meeting Point
The fair’s Focus section, curated by María Elena Ortiz of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, runs eighteen galleries deep and explores how the Caribbean has long served as a nexus for diverse communities and a foundation for contemporary artistic discourse.
The Caribbean is not the world’s most diverse place (Queens is one of them), but it has the most incredible layering of diverse cultures that produced today’s Caribbean people. Caribbean culture blended with African American culture dominates today’s global youth culture.
Ortiz has spent her career expanding art histories around Caribbean, Black diasporic, Latin American, and Latinx narratives, including founding the Caribbean Cultural Institute at Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Artists on view include Alba Triana with Casa Hoffmann, Ana Fernandez Mosseri and Mercedes Elena Gonzalez with Galería [SN] and Henrique Faria, Ernesto Rivera and Ricardo Cabret with mimo and Hidrante, and Gio Swaby and Kachelle Knowles with TERN Gallery.
Galleries from outside the region round out the section with artists shaped by Caribbean migration and diaspora, including Sofía Del Mar Collins with Chozick Family Art Gallery, Renée Cox with Ethan Cohen Gallery, Simon Benjamin with PATRON, Lizania Cruz with ProxyCo, Yanira Collado with Mindy Solomon Gallery, and Elliot and Erick Jiménez with Spinello Projects.
Platform: Large-Scale Installations
Curated by Jovanna Venegas of SculptureCenter, Platform features large-format work including pieces by Bony Ramirez with Regularnormal, Lucia Hierro with Marc Straus Gallery, and Zenobia Lee with Sea View. The section also carries a special presentation by Caribbean Artist Fellow Ania Freer of Artists in Residence in the Everglades, marking that organization’s 25th anniversary.
Armory Sculpture
Out on the floor rather than tucked into a booth, Puerto Rican artist Rafael Ferrer presents Geographic Avenger Beached, spanning 1974 to 2026 and examining the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico. Alongside it, Sonya Clark, whose heritage spans Jamaica, Trinidad, and the United States, shows Edifice and Mortar.
El Museo del Barrio
Founded in 1969 by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz alongside a coalition of Puerto Rican parents, educators, artists, and activists, East Harlem’s El Museo del Barrio is the nation’s leading museum dedicated to Puerto Rico, Caribbean, Latine, and Latin American art and culture. The museum is participating in this year’s fair as part of its ongoing mission to bring its programming to new audiences.
It’s a good museum that just keeps getting better. And since it’s Latino, it also functions as sort of a community center because that is how we are.
Armory After Hours
For the first time, the fair is hosting an evening program inside the hall: Armory After Hours takes place Friday, September 25 from 7 to 9pm, presented with TodayTix.
DJ and creative producer Adam “Foreigner” Cooper leads an immersive program of music and performance inspired by carnivals throughout the Caribbean diaspora, marking the fair’s Caribbean focus. Carnival isn’t just a party and parade, in Latin countries it’s one of the glues that holds communities together.
Separately, Cuban and Cuban American artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons presents in the Armory Live Theater, and Ortiz joins Focus artists Sofía del Mar Collins, Kiván Quiñones Beltrán, Yanira Collado, and Manuel Mathieu for a conversation titled Raw Alchemy.
The Armory Show’s Latin Lineup
These are the Latin cultures represented, as best as we can tell.
Cuban
Elliot & Erick Jiménez, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Paloma Izquierdo, Rafael Domenech, José Bedia, Ariel Cabrera, Ariamna Contino, Alex Hernandez Dueñas, Roberto Diago, Eduardo Ponjuán
Puerto Rican
Gadiel Rivera Herrera, Kiván Quiñones Beltrán, Nora Maité Nieves, Joshua Nazario, Sofía del Mar Collins, Ricardo Cabret, Rafael Ferrer, María Lucía Varona Borges
Haitian
Laurena Finéus, Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux, Paul Gardère, Gaëlle Choisne, Manuel Mathieu, Kathia St. Hilaire (also U.S.)
Jamaican
Simon Benjamin, Renée Cox, Zenobia Lee, Cornelius Tulloch, Ania Freer, O’Neil Scott (also U.S.), Theresa Weber (also Germany, Greece), Sonya Clark (also Trinidad and Tobago, U.S.)
Dominican
Yanira Collado, Ernesto Rivera, Bony Ramirez, Lucia Hierro, Lizania Cruz (also U.S.), Kandy G. Lopez (also U.S.), Jesús Hilario-Reyes (also Puerto Rico)
Bahamian
Gio Swaby, Kachelle Knowles, Tavares Strachan
Martinican
Vanessa Selk, Eymric Moderne
Guadeloupean
Chantaléa Commin
Guyanese
Sandra Brewster, Hew Locke
Surinamese
Remy Jungerman
Trinidadian
Valerie Brathwaite (also Venezuela), Curtis Talwst Santiago (also Canada), Adam “Foreigner” Cooper (Armory After Hours DJ)
31st Armory Show 2025
The 31st Armory Show 2025 brings over 235 international modern and contemporary art galleries from over 35 countries, including Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, French, French Canadian, Indigenous, Italian, Mexican, Nigerian, Peruvian, South African, and Spanish galleries, plus a focus on the American South; to Javits Center in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; from Thursday-Sunday, September 4-7, 2025. From $42.
The Show is organized into curated sections:
Consider taking one of the add-on fair tours. It really expands your experience of the show.
30th Armory Show 2024
The 30th Armory Show 2024 brings over 235 international modern and contemporary art galleries from over 30 countries; to Javits Center in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; from Friday-Sunday, September 6-8, 2024. From $45.
Consider taking one of the add-on fair tours. It really expands your experience of the show.
The Show is organized into curated sections:
This edition brings Latin, African, Indigenous, and Asian galleries from: Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, French Canada, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and United States.
The Armory Show
The Armory Show is New York City’s big fall contemporary art fair. It launches NYC’s fall art season with Armory Week, a cluster of contemporary art fairs. It’s a fantastic date.
The Show’s name is a reference to the 1913 Armory Show which introduced Modern Art to Americans. Held at the 69th Regiment Armory, the 1913 Armory Show scandalized the American art world with its Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism.
It was the first time most Americans saw work by now legendary artists such as: Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp. We now look back on the Show with admiration, but at the time most Americans had never seen anything like it. Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” is now considered one of the Modern Art classics, but back then it caused a stir by bringing motion into the static picture plane. There were complaints that the work in the show was vulgar and wasn’t art.
The modern Armory Show was founded in 1994. It was recently acquired by Frieze, the London art magazine and art fair producer. The company also produces the Frieze art fair the anchor of New York’s Frieze Week cluster of spring contemporary art fairs.
The Show is organized into curated sections:
Consider taking one of the add-on fair tours. It really expands your experience of the show.