Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene)

September 24, 2026 — February 8, 2027

MoMA PS1

LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, April 28, 2026—This fall, MoMA PS1 will present the first US large-scale museum exhibition 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, Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene) 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 25, 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.

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Teresa Margolles. La promesa (fragmento) (The Promise, fragment). 2012. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Teresa Margolles. La gran América (The Great America). 2017. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Installation view of Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene). From left: Vestigios de la ira (Vestiges of Wrath). 2026. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio; El testigo (The Witness). 2010. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Teresa Margolles. Vestigios de la ira (Vestiges of Wrath) (detail). 2026. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Teresa Margolles. La búsqueda (1) (The Search [1]). 2014. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Teresa Margolles. La búsqueda (1) (The Search [1]) (detail). 2014. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Teresa Margolles. Joya (cadena) [Jewel (Necklace)]. 2007. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Teresa Margolles. Periferia de la agonia (Periphery of Agony). 2003 Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Installation view of Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), on view at MoMA PS1 from September 24, 2026, through February 8, 2027. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio

Demolition process of a house located at Puerto de Palos Street and Tres Jacales Street in the housing development of Praderas de Oriente, Juárez City, Chihuahua, México. The house was demolished in eleven days and pulverized in June 2012. © 2026 Teresa Margolles.

Teresa Margolles, Irrigación (Irrigation). 2010. Single channel video, color, sound.

Installation view of Teresa Margolles: Aproximación al lugar de los hechos (Approaching the Scene) on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from September 25, 2026, through summer 2027. Photo: Martin Parsekian. © The Museum of Modern Art, New York