Current Exhibitions

Niyeti Chadha: A Script for a Landscape

Niyeti Chadha, A Script for a Landscape, Queens Museum of Art, 2011

On view through April 01, 2012

Niyeti Chadha borrows visual cues from her immediate surroundings. The process often begins with her attention to mundane elements in her sight: a stack of bricks or a flowing gossamer fabric or the precisely sewn patches of a filled sail. Her act of drawing disassembles and reduces a space into primal forms to understand their [...]

Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle

Adam Shecter, BCAST: Clip Show, 10:00 M, Digital Animation and Video, Dimensions variable, 2008-2011

On view through May 20, 2012

Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle is the fifth edition of the Queens Museum of Art’s biannual survey of artists living and working in the borough. The 31 artists featured this year are based in Astoria, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Long Island City, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and Ridgewood, and comprise a multi-national and [...]

Frank Oscar Larson: 1950s New York Street Stories

Kids Playing, Williamsburg, archival digital prints from original negatives, 1959

On view through May 20, 2012

Frank Oscar Larson (1896-1964) was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, of Swedish immigrant parents and lived in Flushing, Queens most of his life. As an adult, Larson spent his days at a branch of the Empire Trust Company (now Bank of New York Mellon), working his way up through the ranks from auditor to vice-president, and [...]

Greg Sholette: Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses

The other Saadiyat Island as imagined by Hana Shams Ahmed, One of fifteen islands fabricated by Greg Sholette based on ideas proposed by invited collaborators, Mixed media (paper, sand, plastic, wire, resin), 2012

On view through May 20, 2012

Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses is a site-specific art infiltration into the Panorama of the City of New York, which was built for the 1964 World’s Fair by urban planner Robert Moses and is now a centerpiece of the Queens Museum of Art. Artist and theorist Greg Sholette made and placed new islands about the [...]

The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

On view through December 01, 2021

Since 1995 the Queens Museum of Art and the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass have partnered to present and promote the art work of Louis C. Tiffany in the New York metropolitan area. Now on Display Tiffany: The Glass is an exhibition organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass exploring the colors, patterns, textures [...]

A Watershed Moment: Celebrating the Homecoming of The Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System

Installation view of the Watershed Relief Map.

On view through December 01, 2021

In 1937, New York City was in preparation for the 1939’s World’s Fair, the first of two in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. To celebrate the immense and intricate inner-workings of the City, various agencies were invited to produce exhibitions for the New York City Pavilion (now the Queens Museum of Art). The Board of Water [...]

The Partnership Gallery

The Partnership Gallery

On view through December 01, 2021

The Partnership Gallery at the Queens Museum of Art provides opportunities for our cultural and other nonprofit organizational partners to develop and mount exhibitions based on their programs. In addition, the Partnership Gallery regularly showcases the work of students in QMA’s Department of Education. Please click here to see all past and present Partnership Gallery [...]