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(NEW YORK, NY — February 24, 2026) — Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to announce its Midnight Moment Spring 2026 Season featuring works by multidisciplinary artists Daisy Collingridge and Isabel Garrett (March), Tomokazu Matsuyama (April), and Yael Bartana (May).
Midnight Moment is the world’s largest, longest-running public digital art exhibition, synchronized on nearly 100 electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. The Spring 2026 program includes an intimate and surreal exploration of the bodily form, a multi-chapter story of individual and collective life in New York City, and a choreographed journey through the supernatural.
Daisy Collingridge and Isabel Garrett | Bod
Guest curated by Damian Bradfield
March 1–31, 2026 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
London–based artist Daisy Collingridge’s eccentric, intricately layered, squishy wearable sculptures break down the boundaries between fashion, costume, and art in playful and humorous ways. Working with soft jersey, hand-dyed into delicate flesh tones to mime the fragile, nuanced, shifting hues of human skin, Collingridge stitches layer upon layer of crease and fold to create wonderfully lumpy and bumpy wearable bodysuits, each with their own unique, characterful properties that celebrate the tactile nature of the human body.
Award-winning Welsh director Isabel Garrett is known for creating intricate and atmospheric worlds that are surreal, subversive, and tactile. Collingridge and Garrett’s videowork Bod depicts a woman—clad in Collingridge’s signature wearable sculptures—taking a dive inside her own bodily form while getting ready for bed. Through this surreal yet intimate lens, Bod examines the human condition: our relationship with our own flesh, the tension between exposure and protection, and the ways in which we navigate the spaces between self and other.
Tomokazu Matsuyama | Morning Again
April 1–30, 2026 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
Unfolding across vividly illustrated chapters, Morning Again is a visual narrative on the forces that shape New York City today. In the work, Japanese–born, New York–based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama traces four symbolic currents that move through the city: flows of hope, rhythm, self-expression, and transformation. Times Square, the city’s central pulse, becomes the stage.
Across the vast electronic canvas of Times Square’s billboards, histories overlap, diverse identities coexist without hierarchy, and the city’s inner rhythms are rendered in light and motion. Through the piece, viewers are invited to pause and feel the currents as they unfold: light rising into hope, vibrations carrying the city’s pulse, bursts of color and movement affirming presence and joy, and shifting silhouettes hinting at fluid identities. These currents converge, dissolve, and reassemble, forming a portrait of the shared energies that sustain and shape New York and the country. In a time of uncertainty and division, the work affirms diversity and independence, while imagining unity as a forward-moving force toward the future.
Yael Bartana | Farewell
Guest curated by Nato Thompson with Dreaming in Public
May 1–31, 2026 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
Farewell by Yael Bartana captures the moments leading up to the departure of a fictional generation ship destined for remote galaxies. Before embarking on a redemptive journey, humanity bids Earth goodbye in a choreographed ritual, hoping for survival in leaving the planet to heal itself. Shortly before midnight, allegorically running out of time, the ship emerges as a messianic vessel. The dancers mirror the kinetic movement of the ship as well as the human endeavor behind it. Their gestures navigate the liminal space between our world and the unknown future.
Following her method of pre-enactment, Bartana draws from the Labanotation, a system developed by choreographer Rudolf von Laban in the early 20th century, combining expressionistic dance with collective and ritualistic movement in ways that echo Bartana's own engagement with social themes. As the video unfolds, Bartana invites her viewers to join the great departure towards the new frontiers of outer space.
ABOUT DAISY COLLINGRIDGE
Daisy Collingridge (b. 1990) is a London-based artist whose multi-disciplinary work is rooted in the investigation of the human form. Working across sculpture, photography, and performance, she delves into anatomical properties with quilted flesh and limbs, harnessing a tactile and haptic quality of softness and color. Growing up in a medical family, the body and its workings were considered matter of fact, yet through the artist’s practice they became a matter of fiction as she became fascinated with giving form to what lies inside.
Collingridge graduated from Central St. Martins with a fashion design degree and has exhibited with the 62 Group at MAC Birmingham in 2018 and the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford in 2019. In 2019, Collingridge also exhibited in Zeitgeist at 108 Fine Art in Harrogate, UK. In 2020, she was selected to be part of the Sarabande Foundation Residency in London, as well as the J Hammond Projects Residency in collaboration with The Bomb Factory in London, UK.
ABOUT ISABEL GARRETT
Isabel Garrett is an award-winning Welsh director known for creating intricate, atmospheric worlds that are surreal, subversive, and tactile. Her narrative work explores themes of identity, our relationship with the natural world, and the strange perspectives that sit at the edges of human experience.
Alongside her independent films, she directs commercials and music videos with production company BlinkInk, where she recently directed a music video for Coldplay, working with visual artists from all over the world. She is an alumna of the National Film and Television School and formerly an artist in residence at Alexander McQueen’s Sarabande Foundation.
She is a graduate of the National Film and TV School with an MA in Directing Animation, and has directed commissions from clients including Alexander McQueen, Amazon, and the BBC.
ABOUT DAMIAN BRADFIELD
Damian Bradfield (b. 1977) is the founder of FUPE, the world's smallest entertainment company. He was previously Co-Founder, President, and CCO of WeTransfer, based in Amsterdam. He is the Chairman of The Supporting Act Foundation, Trustee of Alexander McQueen Sarabande Foundation, and author of Caro Carrowack, The Trust Manifesto and Algorithmic Reality and Co-Author of Not a Playbook.
A graduate of the London School of Economics, his background combines experience with some of the world’s leading creative companies (Stella McCartney, J Walter Thompson) with launching and mentoring a range of design and tech start-ups (Kuvva, Present Plus). He combines the former's ambitious, international strategic thinking with the quicker, nimbler energy of the start-up world. He is on the advisory board of Lito.io and SongTradr.
Damian writes a monthly newsletter called Any Given Sunday and has most recently launched Megalomaniacs.wtf under the umbrella of arts platform FUPE, a collective focused on altruistic education.
Damian has been interviewed and profiled by titles including The Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Russel Brand, Fast Company, Designweek, Mr Porter, 33Voices and LA Weekly.
ABOUT TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA
Tomokazu Matsuyama (b. 1976, Gifu, Japan) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, blending and reimagining visual languages across eras and culture—ancient and contemporary, figurative and abstract, Eastern and Western—to examine identity within today’s information-driven world. Recent solo exhibitions include Morning Sun at the Edward Hopper House Museum (Nyack, NY, USA, 2025), Liberation Back Home at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, GA, USA, 2025), and FIRST LAST at Azabudai Hills Gallery (Tokyo, Japan, 2025). His works are held in prominent private and institutional collections globally, and most recently, his monumental installation You, One Me Erase entered the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR, USA).
ABOUT YAEL BARTANA
Yael Bartana (b. 1970) is an observer of the contemporary and a pre-enactor. She employs art as a scalpel inside the mechanisms of power structures and navigates the fine and crackled line between the sociological and the imagination. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances, and public monuments she investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals, and collective gatherings.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including solo exhibitions with GL Strand Copenhagen (2024); Jewish Museum Berlin (2021), Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2019/2020); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); Secession, Vienna (2012); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2012); Louisiana Museum (2012) Moderna Museet, Malmö (2010); and MoMA PS1, NY (2008).
ABOUT DREAMING IN PUBLIC
Dreaming in Public brings magical thinking to our civic life. They curate, advise and strategize on making art an integral part of daily life.
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.
Support for Midnight Moment is provided in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the Times Square Advertising Coalition.
Midnight Moment is made possible by the Times Square Advertising Coalition, ABC SuperSign, American Eagle, Big Outdoor, Branded Cities, Clear Channel, Coca-Cola, Diversified, Express, Heritage Outdoor Media, KEVANI, Levi's, LG, Line Friends, McDonald's, Microsoft, Midtown Financial, Morgan Stanley, New Tradition, Outfront, Paramount, Prudential, RXR, Sensory Interactive, Sephora, Sherwood Equities, Show + Tell, Silvercast, Swatch, TSX, and T-Mobile.
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