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(NEW YORK, NY — August 19, 2026) — Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to announce its Midnight Moment Fall 2026 Season featuring works by multidisciplinary artists LIZN’BOW (September), Dustin Grella (October), and Julien Creuzet (November).
Midnight Moment is the world’s largest, longest-running public digital art exhibition, synchronized on 100+ electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. The Fall 2026 program includes a digital portal into a dream-like alternate reality that centers joy and connection; a nostalgic meditation on the everyday beauty of New York City landmarks; and a moment of sacred reflection on the mythologies of marginalized Martinican histories.
LIZN’BOW | El Mundo es Niña
September 1–30 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
September 20–27 | Inflatable sculpture installation
September 23 at 10pm | Live premiere performance with special guests Poncili Creación
El Mundo es Niña transforms Times Square’s synchronized billboards into a portal to Niñalandia, an expansive fictional universe created by Miami-based artist duo LIZN’BOW. In the video, the artists construct a queer, futurist, "pro-pocalyptic" meta-reality—a world shaped by adaptation, collective joy, and new ways of living together in the face of climate change, technological transformation, and uncertainty. Drawing from over a decade of collaboration, LIZN’BOW weave pop culture references, nostalgia, humor, and personal memory into an immersive moving-image landscape where the digital and the real gradually bleed into one another. A unicorn cow riding a jet ski, floating milk jugs, islands of money, rainbow portals, and Liz’s abuela on a flying bike drift through purple skies and vibrant dreamscapes, creating a vivid collage that is at once playful, surreal, and emotionally resonant.
Through its layered imagery and recurring characters, El Mundo es Niña explores themes of memory, kinship, belonging, resilience, and chosen family, while challenging conventional narratives about identity, visibility, and the future.
This Midnight Moment is accompanied by a monumental 34-foot-long inflatable rainbow and a 27-foot-long inflatable unicorn cow riding on a jet ski, on view from September 20–27, in addition to the premiere of a live performance by the artists’ feminist reggaeton band Niña and Puerto Rican art collective Poncili Creación on September 23, supported by Creative Capital Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts. LIZN’BOW’s takeover transforms Times Square into Niñalandia, where moving image, public art, music, and performance merge into a shared site of imagination, participation, and collective celebration.
Dustin Grella | Sunday Morning
October 1–31 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
Animator Dustin Grella’s practice works to glean glimpses of colorful insight into the seemingly mundane. In Sunday Morning, Grella’s chalkboard animations wax nostalgic for an ever evolving city. Flowing between quotidian moments and New York City landmarks, illustrations move through 42nd Street, a subway platform, a stoop on the Lower East Side, Madison Square Park, Moondance Diner, Fifth Avenue, Doyer Avenue, Tribeca, and Battery Square Park.
Hand-drawn in chalk pastel on a slate blackboard salvaged from an 1800s schoolhouse, the piece captures fleeting instances of connection amid the city’s chaos: tea and a transistor radio on an East Village stoop, a summer picnic in Central Park, a late-night conversation at one of the city’s once-plentiful diners. The East Village stoop that opens the piece is drawn from memory: in the early 1990s, Grella spent his afternoons there, dreaming of one day making it as a New York artist. Thirty-five years later, his chalkboard drawings animate the synchronized billboards of Times Square.
Built from snapshots of memory, Sunday Morning consists of twenty years of animations, compiled from over four hours of footage and choreographed into a three-minute loop to consider New York as a city in constant transition, where brief moments of stillness, however easily overlooked, are what make the city, and its people, worth celebrating.
Julien Creuzet | Nos diables rouges, nos dérives commotions (...) danse papillon
Presented in partnership with the fourth edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art
November 1–30 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
Presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art, curated by Allison Glenn, French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet’s Midnight Moment transforms Times Square into a site of sacred mythologies and alternative, marginalized histories. Across 100+ digital billboards, a glistening presence emerges like an ectoplasm onto the screen. Provocative, sacred, masked, and adorned with mirrors, the figure never fully reveals itself throughout the video. The protagonist is a fixture of the Martinican carnival, roaming the streets as a festive specter. Its annual appearance during Martinique’s Mardi Gras opens a symbolic portal to worlds buried in the folds of history, hybridized beliefs, exiled tales.
Turning to Greek and Roman mythology as symbolic allies, Creuzet often engages with alternative and marginalized histories absent from dominant narratives, creating a new flow of meaning. References to saints and sacred figures are fluid, traversing history and the present.
A simultaneous presentation of Nos diables rouges, nos dérives commotions (...) danse papillon will be on view in Toronto’s Sankofa Square from September 26–December 20, 2026.
ABOUT LIZN’BOW
LIZN'BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital) are an interdisciplinary artist duo whose collaborative practice merges performance, installation, music, fashion, and technology to create immersive works within their expanding Niñalandia universe, a "pro-pocalyptic" future where climate change, rising waters, and technological transformation become conditions for adaptation, collective joy, and new ways of living together. LIZN’BOW construct speculative environments that blur the line between fantasy and reality, spaces where cultural icons, pop media, and personal mythologies become one. Their practice centers Niña, their femme reggaeton band, as protagonists in their universe. Through a queer and comedic lens, their work transforms the language of American and Latin pop into sites of humor, resistance, and reinvention.
LIZN’BOW started after the artists unexpectedly met at a party in Chicago in 2015, where Bow was working as a human lamp. Since then, they have built a life together that continues to shape their artistic practice.
Their practice has been supported by Creative Capital Foundation, The Knight Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Oolite Arts, Locust Projects, and numerous national organizations. Their work has been presented at museums, festivals, and public art venues throughout the United States and internationally. Their Times Square Arts project is followed by a residency at Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center.
ABOUT DUSTIN GRELLA
Dustin Grella is an animator whose work attempts to glean glimpses of colorful insight into the seemingly mundane. His films have screened at Cannes, Sundance, MoMA, and have been published in The New York Times Op-docs. His film “Prayers for Peace” screened at almost two hundred festivals worldwide and won over forty awards internationally. He has written and mailed himself a letter every day for the past twenty years and has over 7,000 sealed letters neatly filed and categorized. He is currently in production for the “Animation Hotline,” a series of micro-animations where he uses crowd-sourced voicemail messages for content.
ABOUT JULIEN CREUZET
Julien Creuzet lives and works in Paris. A French-Caribbean visual artist and poet, he actively intertwines these two practices via amalgams of sculpture, installation and textual intervention that frequently address his own diasporic experience. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection of the history of Martinique and the events of European modernity.
Creuzet represented France at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). He has had solo exhibitions at The Bell, Brown University, Providence, RI; Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Richmond, VA (2025); Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, France; Performa Biennial, New York, NY; LUMA, Zürich, Switzerland (2023); LUMA, Arles, France; Camden Art Centre, London, UK (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2021); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2019); Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France (2018); Bétonsalon, Paris, France (2018). He is included in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris; CNAP, Paris; MMK, Frankfurt; Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue; Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes; KADIST Foundation, Paris; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, NY.
ABOUT THE TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART
A twelve-week event every two years, the Toronto Biennial of Art commissions artists to create new works for a city-wide exhibition in dialogue with Toronto’s diverse local contexts. Year-round public and learning programs bridge Biennials and invite intergenerational audiences to explore the ideas that inspire our events. Building upon past editions and offering new ways of seeing and listening, each Biennial connects people to spark meaningful dialogues and imagine new futures. The Toronto Biennial of Art launched in 2019 and was a popular and critical success. The Biennial provides expanded understandings of contemporary art practices and is building a legacy of free, inclusive, and accessible contemporary arts programming in Toronto and surrounding communities.
ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ARTS
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance's own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators, such as Charles Gaines, Joan Jonas, Jeffrey Gibson, Pamela Council, Mel Chin and Kehinde Wiley, to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a cultural district and place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the arts program ensures these qualities remain central to the district's unique identity.
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