Mission Statement :
The Queens Museum of Art is dedicated to presenting the highest quality visual arts and educational programming for people in the New York metropolitan area, and particularly for the residents of Queens, a uniquely diverse ethnic, cultural and international community.
The Museum fulfills its mission by designing and providing art exhibitions and educational experiences that promote the appreciation and enjoyment of art, support the creative efforts of artists, and enhance the quality of life through interpreting, collecting, and exhibiting art, architecture, and design.
The Queens Museum of Art presents artistic and educational programs and exhibitions that directly relate to the contemporary urban life of its constituents while maintaining the highest standards of professional, intellectual, and ethical responsibility.
Following a successful launch last summer, Queens Rising has grown to include over 75 programming partners. On April 25, Queens Rising invites the cultural community and friends to attend a special morning to officially launch the Queens Rising June…
Read More »Aliza Nisenbaum portrays human stories. With her magically exuberant color palette, she paints people, individually or in groups, with their countenance, posture, and immediate surroundings organically composed to depict their humanity. Aliza…
Read More »Christine Sun Kim uses the medium of sound in various forms including performance and drawing to investigate its relation to spoken language and the aural environment. Kim’s work makes audible noise perceivable, giving it visual, physical, and…
Read More »The Queens Museum celebrates its partnership with Delta Air Lines with the exhibition A New Way to Travel: Delta Air Lines x Queens Museum at LaGuardia Airport. The six New York-based artists featured in Delta’s new Terminal C–Mariam…
Read More »A radical voice in the international art world since the mid 90s, Tracey Rose’s (b. 1974, South Africa) cutting and uncompromising vision will be on view in an exhibition that will include work created from the 1990s to the present. The…
Read More »Crisis Makes a Book Club is a comprehensive exhibition of Xaviera Simmons’ formal practice including photography, painting, video, sculpture, and installation. Featuring new monumental projects, Simmons examines how the conditions of the…
Read More »The 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair, themed “Building the World of the Future,” connected materials to the built environment through the symbolism of their physical qualities. The Glass Incorporated Pavilion shared the…
Read More »of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust is Charisse Pearlina Weston’s first solo museum presentation. The artist’s practice considers and mines Black tactics of refusal which sustain Black life in the…
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