MoMA PS1 to open exhibit featuring New York artists

A new PS1 exhibit explores the different ways New York-based artists experience the city. Image courtesy of Hiram Maristany, via MoMA

By Rachel Vick

MoMA PS1 is celebrating dozens of local artists with the post-COVID return of an annual exhibit.

“Greater New York” brings together 47 artists and collectives to explore the connections and differences across experiences in the city.

“After what could be described as an uncompromisingly transformative year socially, politically, and personally, we continue to be in a powerfully transitional moment in New York,” said PS1 Director Kate Fowle.

“This edition of Greater New York is a hard-hitting, intense show that foregrounds the resilience of the city, while channeling our collective need to reconnect and reflect,” Fowle said. “It honors the endurance and tenacity of artists to speak to the urgencies of their time.”

The work of Jamaica-based artist, musician and educator Milford Graves, who died in February, will be among the featured pieces from across mediums and disciplines when the exhibit opens Oct. 7.

Curator Ruba Katrib said that the featured artists have each in their own way, and collectively, “to a more diverse and complex understanding of the incredible range of artists who give creative life to the city.”

The exhibit brings together the varied works to catalogue the different way experience shapes art, and the way art can capture experiences.

“Greater New York offers an opportunity to process, mourn, and celebrate alongside New York City’s artists and communities,” Katrib said. “The exhibition highlights artists who have worked persistently in New York City—in some cases over many decades and often without recognition.”

Art from Yuji Agematsu, Nadia Ayari, BlackMass Publishing,Diane Burns, Kristi Cavataro, Curtis Cuffie, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Raque Ford, Luis Frangella, Dolores Furtado, Julio Galán, Doreen Garner, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Robin Graubard, Milford Graves, Bettina Grossman, Avijit Halder, Bill Hayden, Steffani Jemison, G. Peter Jemison, E’wao Kagoshima, Marie Karlberg, Matthew Langan-Peck, Las Nietas de Nonó, Athena LaTocha, Carolyn Lazard, Sean-Kierre Lyons, Hiram Maristany, Servane Mary, Rosemary Mayer, Alan Michelson, Ahmed Morsi, Nicolas Moufarrege, Marilyn Nance, Tammy Nguyen, Shelley Niro, Kayode Ojo, Paulina Peavy, Freya Powell, Raha Raissnia, Andy Robert, Diane Severin Nguyen, Shanzhai Lyric, Regina Vater, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa and Lachell Workman will also be featured.