THE ARMORY SHOW 2025
Javits Center, New York
VIP Preview: Thursday, September 4 | Invitation Only
September 5–7, 2025
429 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001
A cornerstone of New York’s cultural calendar since 1994, The Armory Show returns to the Javits Center from September 5–7, 2025, ushering in the city’s fall art season with a dynamic roster of international exhibitors, curated programming, and large-scale public art activations. This year’s edition arrives with heightened anticipation, marking the second year since its acquisition by Frieze, one of the world’s leading organizations for modern and contemporary art. While the fair’s DNA remains rooted in its history as a hub for curatorial excellence and institutional partnerships, its expanded scope reflects Frieze’s global network and influence.
The 2025 fair brings together hundreds of leading contemporary and modern galleries, with The Galleries section continuing as the central pillar of the event. The lineup spans New York powerhouses such as 303 Gallery (New York), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (Los Angeles, New York), and Skarstedt (Paris, London, New York), alongside international heavyweights like White Cube (Hong Kong, Paris, London, New York, Seoul), Templon (Paris, New York, Brussels), and Victoria Miro (London, Venice). Their presentations range from significant 20th-century works to cutting-edge contemporary pieces, across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and new media.
Beyond The Galleries, The Armory Show distinguishes itself through a series of curated sections that highlight specific geographies, thematic concerns, and conceptual approaches. Solo offers intimate presentations dedicated to a single artist, giving visitors the chance to engage deeply with individual practices. Focus, curated this year by Jessica Bell Brown, Executive Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, turns its attention to the American South, exploring the region’s cultural complexity and its role as a wellspring for some of the country’s most celebrated artists. Function, a new addition curated by Ebony L. Haynes, Senior Director at David Zwirner and head of 52 Walker, interrogates the relationship between art and design, examining how artists blur, challenge, or subvert functional aesthetics.
The fair’s large-scale installation program takes shape through Platform, curated by Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Chief Curator of Souls Grown Deep, with a focused presentation of monumental works by Black American artists from the South. This year’s Presents section spotlights emerging galleries under ten years old, offering a glimpse into the practices that will shape the art market’s future. The Not-For-Profit section, meanwhile, underscores the fair’s commitment to the wider arts ecosystem, giving space to organizations such as the Brandywine Workshop and Archives (Philadelphia), the New York Academy of Art, and the Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque).
Since its founding, The Armory Show has played a vital role in positioning New York as an epicenter of the global art market each September. Its origins in the Gramercy Park Hotel rooms of the 1990s gave way to larger venues and an increasingly international scope, all while retaining a curatorial focus that sets it apart from purely commercial fairs. The 2023 acquisition by Frieze signaled both a consolidation of influence and a commitment to ensuring the fair remains a fixture in the competitive landscape of global art events.
For collectors, curators, and the art public alike, The Armory Show offers not just a marketplace but a cultural barometer—an opportunity to see how artists and galleries are responding to current social, political, and technological currents. The 2025 edition promises to carry forward that legacy, reaffirming the fair’s place as a defining event in the art world calendar.
Hours
VIP Preview: Thursday, September 4 | Invitation Only
Friday, September 5 | 11am–7pm
Saturday, September 6 | 11am–7pm
Sunday, September 7 | 11am–6pm
