Armory Show Reveals Participants for 2025 Iteration
118June 13, 2025
The organizers ofthe Armory Showhave named the more than 230 galleries from thirty-five countries set to participate in the New York event’s 2025 edition, which will take place at the Javits Center September 5–7, with preview day on September 4. The show was purchased by art fair giant Frieze in 2023. This is the first iteration to be led by director Kyla McMillan, who joined the organization in July 2024. Visitors can expect to encounter a new floor plan, a new section, and fresh curatorial talent. The fair will welcome more than twenty exhibitors returning after a hiatus, over 135 repeat exhibitors, and more than fifty-five galleries making their debuts.
“The 2025 edition of The Armory Show will build on our legacy with a program rooted in New York’s cultural vitality and shaped by dialogue between American and international perspectives,” said McMillan in a statement. “This upcoming edition looks to provide expanded points of access for a range of collectors. Through newly imagined formats, the fair will foster deeper connection and discovery.”
The fair will be divided into seven sections: Galleries, Solo, Function, Platform, Focus, Presents, and Not-for-Profit. The core Galleries section will for the first time be interspersed with the Solo section, which features single-artist presentations. Galleries participants include 303 Gallery, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Peter Blum Gallery, James Cohan, Garth Greenan Gallery, Halsey Mckay Gallery, Kasmin, Sean Kelly, Nara Roesler, Silverlens, Templon, White Cube, and Vielmetter. Among the exhibitors in the Solo section are Gallery Espace, Esther Schipper, and SMAC Gallery.
The brand-new Function section will center art’s engagement with design; it is being curated by Ebony L. Haynes, senior director at David Zwirner and 52 Walker. Participants include Andrew Kreps Gallery, James Fuentes, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Silke Lindner, and 56 Henry. The Platform section, which showcases large-scale work, will be helmed by Souls Grown Deep, a nonprofit devoted to elevating the work of Black artists from the American South. It will be curated by Raina Lampkins-Fielder. Artists and galleries for this section have yet to be announced. Jessica Bell Brown, executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, will lead the Focus section, which typically amplifies the work of emerging and midcareer artists. This year, Focus, like Platform, will feature artists from the South, with participating galleries including the Hole, Marianne Boesky Gallery, the Pit, and What if the World. Among the participants in the Presents section, for galleries under ten years old, are 1969 Gallery, Rebecca Camacho Presents, kó, Lyles & King, and Mrs., while the Not-for-Profit section will include New York’s Lower East Side Printshop, Albuquerque’s Tamarind Institute, and Los Angeles’s Tierra del Sol Gallery.
Eric Crosby, director of the Carnegie Museum of Art and vice president of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, will chair this year’s Curatorial Leadership Summit, which will examine practical curatorial methods for navigating the contemporary landscape.
A full list of participants is availablehere.