Armory Show announces exhibitors for 2023
Armory Show organizers have revealed the names of more than 225 galleries that will participate in the 2023 edition of the event. Representing over thirty-five countries, exhibitors will showcase works by over eight hundred artists. For the third consecutive year, the fair will be held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, with the September 7 preview preceding the September 8-10 showing.
More than 140 galleries participating in the 2022 iteration will return this year, including New York's 303 Gallery, James Cohan and Kasmin; Instituto de Visión, based in Bogotá and New York, Zeno X Gallery, in Antwerp, and Nara Roesler, which has branches in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and New York. Several galleries are returning after being absent from the show, including CLEARING, which has branches in New York, Brussels and Los Angeles; Plan B Gallery, with branches in Berlin and Cluj-Napoca, in Romania; and Lehmann Maupin, which operates galleries around the world. Among the more than forty galleries making their debut in the 2023 iteration are New York's 56 Henry, Budapest's Acb Gallery, Minneapolis' Dreamsong and Miami's Nina Johnson.
The central section of the fair, which revolves around the main international galleries, has among its highlights a selection of new works by indigenous artist Gisela McDaniel, presented by Londoner Pilar Corrias; and new interpretations of Superflat art offered by Tokyo's Kaikai Kiki Gallery, whose owner, Takashi Murakami, invented the genre. A separate “Solo” section will feature solo exhibitions of work by emerging, established and historic artists. Among the works on display will be those by the emerging Chinese painter Xie Lei, presented by the Parisian gallery Semiose, making his debut at the Armory; hand-painted bronze and resin figures by Mary Sibande, gifted by SMAC Gallery, which has several outposts in her native South Africa; and paintings and sculptures by José Leonilson, courtesy of Almeida and Dale, from São Paulo.
The “Gifts” section of the fair, reserved for galleries under ten years old, will include an exhibition of new pictorial works by Puerto Rican painter Jean-Pierre Villafañe, offered by the Embajada de San Juan, and new paintings by Kayla Witt, depicting shops psychic. They are being featured by Los Angeles gallery Sow & Tailor, which is outfitting its booth to resemble the interior of one of these developments.
Curated sections of this year's show include “Focus,” which will be curated by Candice Hopkins; the director and chief curator of the Forge Project will center marginalized narratives in solo and dual artist presentations. Among the offerings will be works by the late Kwakwaka'wakw artist Beau Dick and Inuk artist Couzyn van Heuvelen, presented by Vancouver's Fazakas Gallery. Eva Respini, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Barbara Lee's Chief Curator at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, will curate “Platform”: Forming the core of the fair, the section focuses on large-scale installations and site-specific works. . Among the artists whose work will be on display here are Hank Willis Thomas, presented by multicity Ben Brown Fine Arts, and Jean Shin offered by Boston-based Praise Shadows Art Gallery.
The winner of this year's International Gramercy Prize, which awards a free booth to a New York-based gallery making its debut at the Armory Show, is No Gallery (New York), which will feature a solo booth showcasing new paintings by Valentina Vaccarella.