Teresa Margolles

LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, April 28, 2026—This fall, MoMA PS1 will present the first US survey of artist Teresa Margolles (Mexican, b. 1963), featuring several room-sized installations and a new commission. On view from September 24, 2026, through February 2027, the exhibition presents sculptures, photographs, and video made over the past three decades throughout the Museum’s expansive third-floor galleries. Trained as a forensic pathologist and a photographer, Margolles has created work that examines the implications of transnational violence, with particular attention to the US-Mexico border. Across mediums, her works trace disappearances, murders, political displacements, and societal neglect through methodical research, site-responsive interventions, and a radical rethinking of the memorial. In conjunction with the exhibition at MoMA PS1, a major installation by Teresa Margolles will be presented in a focused collection gallery at The Museum of Modern Art from September 17, 2026, through spring 2027.

This dual presentation is co-organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art by Ana Janevski, Curator, Department of Media and Performance, and Inés Katzenstein, Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute, MoMA; with Chloë Courtney, Curatorial Assistant, and Julia Detchon, former Curatorial Associate, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA.