Armory Show Names Over 230 Galleries for 2025 Edition, First Under Kyla McMillan’s Direction
The Armory Show has announced the more than 230 exhibitors set to participate in its upcoming edition, scheduled to run September 5–7 at the Javits Center in New York, with a VIP preview on September 4.
This edition marks the first under the direction of Kyla McMillan, who joined the Armory Show last July, after its 2024 exhibitor list had been announced. Among the changes that McMillan will introduce are a new floor plan, an additional section, and a reconfiguration of its section for large-scale works.
“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,” McMillan said 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.”
This year’s edition will see more than 20 exhibitors returning after a hiatus, including White Cube, Andrew Kreps, Esther Schipper, and Instituto de Visión. Additionally, some 55 galleries will be participating for the first time, including Skarstedt, Megan Mulrooney, ILY2, Superposition Gallery, Martha’s, and JO-HS.
Other leading galleries who will show at the fair are 303 Gallery, Ben Brown Fine Arts, James Cohan, Garth Greenan Gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, Kasmin, Sean Kelly, Victoria Miro, Nara Roesler, Michael Rosenfeld, Silverlens, Templon, and Vielmetter.
The floor plan revision will see the fair’s Solo section, for single-artist presentations, intermixed within its main Galleries section. Galleries in the Solo section include Catharine Clark Gallery, Luis de Jesus, SMAC Gallery, and Spinello Projects.
Dealer Ebony L. Haynes, senior director at David Zwirner and 52 Walker, will organize a new section, called Function. This section will look at how “artists both engage with and puncture the tenets of design,” according to a release. Haynes has lined up nine galleries for the section, including 56 Henry, Corbett vs. Dempsey, House of Gaga, Marinaro, and Silke Lindner, winner of this year’s Gramercy International Prize, which comes with a free booth for a New York gallery that has never before participated in the Armory Show.
The Platform section this year will be led by Souls Grown Deep, the nonprofit dedicated to promoting Black artists from the American South, with its chief curator Raina Lampkins-Fielder organizing the large-scale works that will be on view. (The participating artists and their galleries will be announced at a later date.)
The Focus section, organized by Jessica Bell Brown, executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, will also look at artists from the American South. Galleries taking part include Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, The Hole, K Contemporary, What If The World, and Wolfgang Gallery.
The Armory Show will also include two additional sections. Rebecca Camacho Presents, 1969 Gallery, Fragment, kó, Kendra Jayne Patrick will feature in the Presents section, for galleries less than 10 years old. And the Not-for-Profit section will include the Lower East Side Printshop, Tierra del Sol Gallery, and the Storefront Center for Art and Architecture, which has won the fair’s Armory Spotlight award.
Additionally, Carnegie Museum of Art director Eric Crosby will lead the fair’s eighth Curatorial Leadership Summit.
In a statement, Kristell Chadé, the executive director of fairs for Frieze, which has owned the Armory Show since 2023, said, “the Armory Show holds a singular place in New York’s cultural and commercial landscape, engaging the city’s seasoned collectors and institutions. In appointing Kyla as Director, we recognised her curatorial intelligence and her clear understanding of what drives a fair’s success. Her leadership reinforces The Armory Show’s identity as a distinctly American fair, shaped by New York’s pace, rigour and reach.”
