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Discover our Current Exhibitions

Exhibition Current
Caroline Kent's large-scale mural at the Queens Museum. A variety of shapes resembling paper collage cutouts are layered on a black background. Most of the shapes are various shades of gray but a few feature pastel and bold colors.

Caroline Kent
A short play about watching shadows move across the room

12.06.23 – 02.07.27
Exhibition Current
A colorful mural on the sidewall of the museum portrays six Black Trans Femme icons. Marsha P.Johnson, Miss Major Griffin Gracy, Cayenne Doroshow, Qween Jean, Tourmaline, and Gia Love. The first person prominently stands out on the left side in a vibrant blue dress draped across the shoulder, while the person next to them wears a brown wrap skirt and ruffle blue top with one arm up in a fist. In the center is a person in a strapless bright orange dress holding it at the corner as they walk with an orange butterfly in their afro textured hair and music notes leave their lips. The next person is wearing a short blue skirt with a red top with a fist also in the air holding hands with a shadow of a smaller person. The last two people are, a person wearing a pink skirt with a white top in a motorized wheelchair and another person standing over their shoulder wearing yellow.

Glori Tuitt
Black, Trans, & Alive (Qweens Song)

10.01.21 – Ongoing
Exhibition Current

About Us: The American Imaginary

02.28.26 – 02.07.27
Exhibition Current

Sonia Boyce
Demonstrate

06.27.26 – 02.07.27
Exhibition Current

Collection Spotlight: The Panorama Archives

06.20.26 – 01.31.27

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Event Open AIR Artist Services
A checkered collage of purple rectangles and archived images from past fellowship projects.

Information Session 2: 2027–28 QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists

09.09.26, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Event

The Healing Museum Panel: UNGA Healing Arts Week

09.23.26, 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Event Artmaking Workshop

From Joy to Justice: Celebrating Community at September Family Day

09.26.26, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Event Artmaking Workshop
A pickup truck with a Guitar in the Back Trunk Driving over rolling hills into the sunshine with music notes in the clouds and a backdrop of a guitar

October Family Day: Artmaking Workshops featuring “Woody Guthrie’s Song to Grow On” Performance

10.18.26, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Explore Our Collections

Collection
Roosevelt Island sits in the middle of the frame, with the Queensboro/Ed Kotch Bridge connecting Manhattan on the left and Queens on the right. Manhattan is densely populated with tall buildings, while this section of Queens has small housing buildings. In the back of the frame the Triboro Bridge and the Bronx are visible.

The Panorama of the City of New York

On Long-Term View
Collection
A dome like spherical model with curved lattice work on the roof and a horizontal wave like structure through the middle. Jutting out from the middle of the sphere are two walkways. The base of the sphere has grass, trees and three figurines walking around.

World’s Fair Collection

On Long-Term View
Collection

The Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System

On Long-Term View
Collection
Dr. Egon Neustadt sitting in a brown, cushioned chair. He is wearing a blue button up and gray slacks. His face is framed and lit up by a sea of glass lamps with different, colorful, mosaic patterns. Behind him is a large, blue and green, stain-glass window of a nature scene.

The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

On Long-Term View

What’s Happening Beyond Our Walls

Project
A wide shot of artist Pauline Shaw leaning on the second floor balcony at Queens Center Mall, overlooking the Center Court. Under the balcony is her commissioned mural. The colorful installation features blue, purple, pink, and pink hues, combining extracted landscapes of birds and flowers with abstracted images of cells and tissues found in the human body.

Pauline Shaw at Queens Center

01.21.23 – Ongoing
Project
A video thumbnail with a centered, black “press play” symbol in a green rounded off square. The thumbnail is of a blue-gradient tiled art installation, covered with six large multi-color circles. In front of the art installation a dark skinned man walks by.

Mariam Ghani
The Worlds We Speak

06.01.22 – Ongoing
Project
A video thumbnail with a centered, black “press play” symbol in a green rounded off square. The thumbnail is of a two-story, vertical mural against a white marble wall. The mural is installed above a set of elevators, and between a set of escalators and a floor to ceiling window. The mural is made up of sixty, mixed-media, abstract portraits.

Rashid Johnson
“The Travelers” Broken Crowd

06.01.22 – Ongoing
Project
A video thumbnail with a centered, black “press play” symbol in a green rounded off square. The thumbnail is of jewel-like sculptures hanging in an atrium. The sculptures have a silver metal skeleton and are illuminated in soft gray and lavender light.

Virginia Overton
Skylight Gems

06.01.22 – Ongoing
Project
A video thumbnail with a centered, black “press play” symbol in a green rounded off square. The thumbnail is of a two-story, vertical mural against a white marble wall. The mural is installed above a set of elevators and between two sets of escalators. The mural has a wooden surface with different shades of blue paint in a rectangular shape in the center. Layered on top, are rounded off streaks of paint in many colors.

Ronny Quevedo
Pacha Cosmopolitanism Overtime

06.01.22 – Ongoing
Project
The painting depicts an airport scene. In the background are floor to ceiling windows with the view of a body of water and a cloudy blue sky. Posing in front of the window are sixteen Delta Airlines and Port Authority employees in their uniforms.

Aliza Nisenbaum
The Ones who Make it Run (Delta Terminal C, LaGuardia Airport)

06.01.22 – Ongoing

Preview Our Upcoming Exhibitions

Exhibition Upcoming

New York Proud: A Portrait of New York City

09.29.26 – 11.02.26
Exhibition Upcoming
Silhouettes of a family filled with a starry sky stand against a background of bright marigolds.

¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S. Pueblo!
Altares Ocultos de Duelo y Memoria (Hidden Altars of Grief and Remembrance)

10.07.26 – 02.07.27
Exhibition Upcoming
A GIF with a light gray background has a series of dark colored glyphs that fade in and out.

Maia Ruth Lee
Glyphs for Reverie

03.30.27 – 02.27.29

Dive Into Our Past Exhibitions and Projects

Exhibition 2026

Betsabeé Romero
A Green Carpet for Everyone: Weaving Nets

07.12.26 – 07.26.26
Exhibition 2026

In Shadows We Bloom

06.01.26 – 06.14.26
Exhibition 2026
An in-process artwork featuring trees, an erupting volcano and dinosaurs. The artwork is vibrant and textured.

2026 School Programs & Partnerships Exhibition

05.30.26 – 06.14.26
Exhibition 2026
A blue text slide with centered text that reads “Queens Teens Institute for Art and Social Justice”, in green font. The text is staircased along a zigzag line in the same green color.

Echoes of the Unseen

06.01.26 – 06.14.26
Exhibition 2025
Photograph showing an aerial view of a coal slurry dam in West Virginia.

Fia Backström
The Great Society

09.13.25 – 05.17.26
Exhibition 2026

2026 Queens Borough Arts Festival

04.29.26 – 05.17.26
Past Exhibitions & Projects