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<\/p>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Latin Artists at the Queens Museum <\/p>\n
Sonia Boyce: Demonstrate<\/p>\n
British-Jamaican | Interdisciplinary installation, film, photography, sound
Sat, June 27, 2026 \u2013 Sun, January 31, 2027
Opening: Sat, June 27, 2026 | 2pm\u20134:30pm
Pay-what-you-wish admission<\/p>\n
The Queens Museum\u2019s most ambitious exhibition of summer 2026 is this newly commissioned large-scale installation by Sonia Boyce \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
The work draws on Boyce\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
The installation includes documentation of the installation and opening ceremony of a D\u00eda de Muertos community ofrenda \u2014 a thread that ties the work explicitly to Latin and Indigenous American traditions of remembrance and ritual.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 raised on the Pacific coast and in the Andes of Ecuador \u2014 performing ancestral Andean movements through Boyce\u2019s signature mirroring and geometry technique.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ecuadorian Spring Recital \/ Recital Ecuatoriano de Primavera<\/p>\n
Ecuadorian | Traditional dance and music
Sat, June 14, 2026 | 2\u20133:30pm
Pay-what-you-wish admission<\/p>\n
Queens Museum and the Ecuadorian American Cultural Center bring together three ensembles for an afternoon of traditional Ecuadorian performance: the Ayazamana Dance Group, the \u00d1ukanchik Sapi Children\u2019s Traditional Dance Program, and the professional musicians of Amawta Roots.<\/p>\n
Ecuador\u2019s 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 \u2014 bilingual, multigenerational, community-rooted \u2014 are the reason Queens remains New York\u2019s most culturally alive borough.<\/p>\n
About Us: The American Imaginary<\/p>\n
Group exhibition | Photography
February 28 \u2013 December 6, 2026
Pay-what-you-wish admission<\/p>\n
Curated by three Terra Foundation Fellows drawn from the Queens community, this photography exhibition asks a fundamental question: what does \u201cAmerican\u201d actually mean?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is essential viewing for anyone interested in how Latin, Caribbean, and immigrant identities have been rendered visible \u2014 or invisible \u2014 in American visual history.<\/p>\n
Ronny Quevedo: Pacha Cosmopolitanism Overtime<\/p>\n
Ecuadorian American | Mural installation
Ongoing \u2014 Delta Air Lines Terminal C, LaGuardia AirportCommissioned by Delta Air Lines in partnership with Queens Museum<\/p>\n
Before you even arrive at the museum, the Queens Museum\u2019s reach is already visible at LaGuardia Airport. Pacha Cosmopolitanism Overtime by Ecuadorian American artist Ronny Quevedo \u2014 born in Ecuador, raised in the Bronx \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
The work honors the migrant communities that move through the airport and the city. The title takes its name from pacha \u2014 the Quechua concept of space-time \u2014 fusing Indigenous Andean cosmology with the global, cosmopolitan culture of Queens.<\/p>\n
Panorama of the City of New York<\/p>\n
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Panorama of the City of New York, Queens Museum (Zhukovsky\/Dreamstime)<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Built originally for the 1964 World\u2019s Fair, this staggeringly detailed, 9,335-square-foot architectural scale model features every single building, park, and bridge across all five boroughs.<\/p>\n
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