Greater New York
Greater New York 2021
Oct 6, 2021 – Apr 17, 2022
- Past
- Exhibition
Video: Noel Woodford
Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area, returns for its fifth edition. Delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this iteration offers an intimate portrayal of New York City, forging connections between often under-examined histories of art-making in the city.
Featuring the work of 47 artists and collectives, Greater New York opens up geographic and historical boundaries by expanding familiar narratives around artists and art movements in New York. Bridging strategies of the documentary and the archive on the one hand, and surrealism and fabulation on the other, the exhibition considers the ways that artists record experiences of belonging and estrangement. Drawing connections across the interdisciplinary practices of international and intergenerational artists, Greater New York examines the many ways that affinities are formed in relation to place and through time.
The exhibition foregrounds the resilience of artists and artist communities in the city, while marking ways these artists have both profoundly shaped New York, and borne witness to its many transformations. As New York emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition offers an opportunity to mourn, celebrate, and reconnect with artist communities. This iteration of Greater New York honors not only the persistence of artists, many of whom have worked unrecognized over decades, but their ability to help us make sense of the many ruptures—social, political, and ecological—that have shaped New York City in this critical and transformative moment.
Artists
Yuji Agematsu
b. 1956
Nadia Ayari
b. 1981
BlackMass Publishing
est. 2018
Diane Burns
b. 1957, d. 2006
Kristi Cavataro
b. 1992
Curtis Cuffie
b. 1955, d. 2002
Hadi Fallahpisheh
b. 1987
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
b. 1955, d. 1989
Raque Ford
b. 1986
Luis Frangella
b. 1944, d. 1990
Dolores Furtado
b. 1977
Julio Galán
b. 1958, d. 2006
Doreen Garner
b. 1986
Emilie Louise Gossiaux
b. 1989
Robin Graubard
b. 1951
Milford Graves
b. 1941, d. 2021
Bettina Grossman
b. 1927, d. 2021
Avijit Halder
b. 1988
Bill Hayden
b. 1984
Steffani Jemison
b. 1981
G. Peter Jemison
b. 1945
E’wao Kagoshima
b. 1945
Marie Karlberg
b. 1985
Matthew Langan-Peck
b. 1988
Las Nietas de Nonó
est. 2011
Athena LaTocha
b. 1969
Carolyn Lazard
b. 1987
Sean-Kierre Lyons
b. 1991
Hiram Maristany
b. 1945
Servane Mary
b. 1972
Rosemary Mayer
b. 1943, d. 2014
Alan Michelson
b. 1953
Ahmed Morsi
b. 1930
Nicolas Moufarrege
b. 1947, d. 1985
Marilyn Nance
b. 1953
Tammy Nguyen
b. 1984
Shelley Niro
b. 1954
Kayode Ojo
b. 1990
Paulina Peavy
b. 1901, d. 1999
Freya Powell
b. 1983
Raha Raissnia
b. 1968
Andy Robert
b.1984
Diane Severin Nguyen
b. 1990
Shanzhai Lyric
est. 2015
Regina Vater
b. 1943
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
b. 1980
Lachell Workman
b. 1989