MoMA PS1 will mark its 50th anniversary with a new edition of “Greater New York,” organized by its entire curatorial team for the first time. The quinquennial survey will foreground artists living and working in the New York City area, presenting new commissions, performances, and recent works.
“‘Greater New York’ forms the backbone of MoMA PS1’s commitment to New York’s vibrant community of artists, and responds to urgent issues in real time, as expressed by all of the creative voices in our region,” said Connie Butler, director of MoMA PS1, in a press release.
The 2026 edition of “Greater New York,” founded in 2000, will bring together some 50 early- and mid-career artists, tracing how daily life in New York City shapes their artwork. The exhibition is led by Butler and the institution’s chief curator, Ruba Katrib. Associate curators Jody Graf and Elena Ketelsen González, assistant curator Kari Rittenbach, curatorial assistant Sheldon Gooch, and curatorial coordinator Andrea Sánchez will also be part of the organizing team.
“It’s always striking to see how artists manage to produce in New York—a city that is defined by its creative communities, yet increasingly difficult to live in because of astronomical costs,” Katrib told Artsy. New York’s rising prices has been a major talking point in the city in recent months, amplified by the recent mayoral election win by Zohran Mamdani, who ran on a platform of affordability.
Butler joined MoMA PS1 in 2023 after serving as chief curator at the Hammer Museum, where she oversaw major exhibitions such as “Made in L.A.” in 2014 and Mark Bradford’s retrospective in 2015. Previously, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art. Katrib has led the museum’s curatorial program since 2018, most recently organizing “The Gatherers,” a group exhibition, earlier this year.
The full artist list for the sixth edition of “Greater New York” has yet to be released. The exhibition will run from April 16, 2026, through August 17, 2026.“There is a remarkable sense of optimism among so many of the artists we’ve met,” Katrib told Artsy. “They persist, they build, and they continue to articulate their visions of the world. That tension is also present in much of the work we’re looking at; there is a pull between precarity and potential. It is often expressed not through grand gestures, but through an attention to margins, to subtlety, and to the layered, lived textures of New York itself.”
