The Queens Museum has long stood as a vital cultural institution in New York City, celebrated for its deeply rooted community engagement and its embrace of international perspectives. Located in one of the most ethnically diverse boroughs in the world, the museum serves as a critical stage for voices from the global diaspora.
Among the most impactful narratives showcased within its galleries are those of Latin, Caribbean, and African artists. Through powerful historical surveys and groundbreaking contemporary solo projects, these artists challenge the traditional art-history canon. They bring stories of resilience, hybridity, and imagination directly to the forefront of the contemporary art world.
Latin Artists at the Queens Museum
Sonia Boyce: Demonstrate
British-Jamaican | Interdisciplinary installation, film, photography, sound
Sat, June 27, 2026 – Sun, January 31, 2027
Opening: Sat, June 27, 2026 | 2pm–4:30pm
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The Queens Museum’s most ambitious exhibition of summer 2026 is this newly commissioned large-scale installation by Sonia Boyce — a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Royal Academician, and winner of the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, where she represented Great Britain.
The work draws on Boyce’s Jamaican-British heritage and her long practice of collaborative social art. Demonstrate grew from two days of filmed gatherings at the museum with community members, educators, artists, and the Resistance Revival Chorus, documenting improvised performance, song, movement, and collective ceremony. Multi-channel video, kaleidoscopic wallpaper prints, photographs, and sculptural constructions fill the galleries.
The installation includes documentation of the installation and opening ceremony of a Día de Muertos community ofrenda — a thread that ties the work explicitly to Latin and Indigenous American traditions of remembrance and ritual.
A companion video work, Transform, also filmed at Queens Museum, plays nightly in Times Square through June 30 as part of the Times Square Arts Midnight Moment program. It features Ecuadorian American artist Koyoltzintli — raised on the Pacific coast and in the Andes of Ecuador — performing ancestral Andean movements through Boyce’s signature mirroring and geometry technique.
Koyoltzintli (Karen Miranda Rivadeneira) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on Indigenous ancestral technologies, ritual, and sound. She is a NYFA Fellow and a recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship from the US Latinx Art Forum.
Ecuadorian Spring Recital / Recital Ecuatoriano de Primavera
Ecuadorian | Traditional dance and music
Sat, June 14, 2026 | 2–3:30pm
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Queens Museum and the Ecuadorian American Cultural Center bring together three ensembles for an afternoon of traditional Ecuadorian performance: the Ayazamana Dance Group, the Ñukanchik Sapi Children’s Traditional Dance Program, and the professional musicians of Amawta Roots.
Ecuador’s performance traditions run deep, from coastal Afro-Ecuadorian rhythms to the Andean highlands where Quechua-speaking communities maintained ceremonial dance across centuries of colonization. Programs like this — bilingual, multigenerational, community-rooted — are the reason Queens remains New York’s most culturally alive borough.
About Us: The American Imaginary
Group exhibition | Photography
February 28 – December 6, 2026
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Curated by three Terra Foundation Fellows drawn from the Queens community, this photography exhibition asks a fundamental question: what does “American” actually mean?
One of the three curators, filmmaker and artist Carlos David Trujillo, works with personal and institutional archives and brings a practice grounded in interpreting across languages and cultures. Another, Annette Parkins, is a writer and poet born in Jamaica who was raised in Queens. Together with Christina Chan, the three curators assembled photographs spanning the mid-nineteenth century to 1979, each collection emerging from lived experience, scholarly research, and community dialogue.
The exhibition is essential viewing for anyone interested in how Latin, Caribbean, and immigrant identities have been rendered visible — or invisible — in American visual history.
Ronny Quevedo: Pacha Cosmopolitanism Overtime
Ecuadorian American | Mural installation
Ongoing — Delta Air Lines Terminal C, LaGuardia AirportCommissioned by Delta Air Lines in partnership with Queens Museum
Before you even arrive at the museum, the Queens Museum’s reach is already visible at LaGuardia Airport. Pacha Cosmopolitanism Overtime by Ecuadorian American artist Ronny Quevedo — born in Ecuador, raised in the Bronx — fills the Terminal C atrium with a two-story mural on gymnasium flooring, its overlapping and fractured sports field lines drawn from the indoor soccer games Quevedo attended with his father throughout New York City.
The work honors the migrant communities that move through the airport and the city. The title takes its name from pacha — the Quechua concept of space-time — fusing Indigenous Andean cosmology with the global, cosmopolitan culture of Queens.
Panorama of the City of New York
No matter what rotating contemporary art is on display, the true crown jewel of the institution remains The Panorama of the City of New York.
Built originally for the 1964 World’s Fair, this staggeringly detailed, 9,335-square-foot architectural scale model features every single building, park, and bridge across all five boroughs.