Transform
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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Start:
Jun 1, 2026
End:
Jun 30, 2026
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
View Public Programming
Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Start:
Jun 1, 2026
End:
Jun 30, 2026
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
View Public Programming
Multidisciplinary artist Sonia Boyce presents Transform, a new film exploring the sensorial impact of kaleidoscopic movement and informed by patterning techniques developed over the artist’s 40-year career.
Transform emerges from a larger body of film and photographic documentation generated over two days at the Queens Museum in October 2025. Boyce facilitated performances with a diverse group of New Yorkers, artists, and educators, in which participants were invited to make, sing, speak, or move to open up new possibilities for play and social exchange. Transform shows artist Koyoltzintli demonstrating gestures from her Andean Animal Movements workshop, connecting the sun, body, and spirit through ancestral knowledge sharing practices. The workshop was offered to community members who attended the opening ceremony for the Museum's Día de Muertos ofrenda, combining the principles of sun energy with the movements of animals who are foundational to Andean cosmology. Rooted in the interplay between the physical and spiritual realms, each animal represents one of the three planes of existence: the condor in the sky world, the ocelot in the earth world, and the snake in the subterranean world.
By mirroring, repeating, and fragmenting photographic stills and video from the shoot, Boyce creates a surreal portrayal of Koyoltzintli's movements. These geometric techniques both extend the reach of the performer's actions and augment the viewer's perception of each gesture, encouraging the eye to relax and lose focus.
Transform points simultaneously in two directions: the transformative intentions of these sacred rituals, and the way that the moving image itself can shapeshift and take on an otherworldly quality through repeated pattern as transmutation.
June’s Midnight Moment is presented in partnership with the Queens Museum on the occasion of Sonia Boyce’s solo exhibition Demonstrate, on view June 27, 2026 – January 31, 2027.
“There is something life-affirming and transfixing about Koyoltzintli’s movements, in which she invites us all to harness the positive energy that surrounds us every day. Times Square is known all over the world as a beacon of spectacular light and cosmopolitan energy and so it feels exciting and fitting that the spectrum of light and energy in Transform finds its place in such an iconic context.” — Sonia Boyce
Film Credits
Transform, 2026
A film by Sonia Boyce
Director: Michelle Tofi
Performer: Koyoltzintli
Cameras: Maggie Brill, Brian Gonzalez, Sean Hanley
Stills Photography: Aarony Bailey, Sonia Boyce
Producer: Niamh Sullivan, Lindsey Berfond
Editor: Michelle Tofi
Colour Grade and VFX: RunVT
Co-Commissioner: Queens Museum
Multidisciplinary artist Sonia Boyce presents Transform, a new film exploring the sensorial impact of kaleidoscopic movement and informed by patterning techniques developed over the artist’s 40-year career.
Transform emerges from a larger body of film and photographic documentation generated over two days at the Queens Museum in October 2025. Boyce facilitated performances with a diverse group of New Yorkers, artists, and educators, in which participants were invited to make, sing, speak, or move to open up new possibilities for play and social exchange. Transform shows artist Koyoltzintli demonstrating gestures from her Andean Animal Movements workshop, connecting the sun, body, and spirit through ancestral knowledge sharing practices. The workshop was offered to community members who attended the opening ceremony for the Museum's Día de Muertos ofrenda, combining the principles of sun energy with the movements of animals who are foundational to Andean cosmology. Rooted in the interplay between the physical and spiritual realms, each animal represents one of the three planes of existence: the condor in the sky world, the ocelot in the earth world, and the snake in the subterranean world.
By mirroring, repeating, and fragmenting photographic stills and video from the shoot, Boyce creates a surreal portrayal of Koyoltzintli's movements. These geometric techniques both extend the reach of the performer's actions and augment the viewer's perception of each gesture, encouraging the eye to relax and lose focus.
Transform points simultaneously in two directions: the transformative intentions of these sacred rituals, and the way that the moving image itself can shapeshift and take on an otherworldly quality through repeated pattern as transmutation.
June’s Midnight Moment is presented in partnership with the Queens Museum on the occasion of Sonia Boyce’s solo exhibition Demonstrate, on view June 27, 2026 – January 31, 2027.
“There is something life-affirming and transfixing about Koyoltzintli’s movements, in which she invites us all to harness the positive energy that surrounds us every day. Times Square is known all over the world as a beacon of spectacular light and cosmopolitan energy and so it feels exciting and fitting that the spectrum of light and energy in Transform finds its place in such an iconic context.” — Sonia Boyce
Film Credits
Transform, 2026
A film by Sonia Boyce
Director: Michelle Tofi
Performer: Koyoltzintli
Cameras: Maggie Brill, Brian Gonzalez, Sean Hanley
Stills Photography: Aarony Bailey, Sonia Boyce
Producer: Niamh Sullivan, Lindsey Berfond
Editor: Michelle Tofi
Colour Grade and VFX: RunVT
Co-Commissioner: Queens Museum
The Queens Museum is dedicated to presenting the highest quality visual arts and educational programming for people in the New York metropolitan area, and particularly for the residents of Queens, a uniquely diverse, ethnic, cultural, and international community. The Museum fulfills its mission by designing and providing art exhibitions, public programs and educational experiences that promote the appreciation and enjoyment of art, support the creative efforts of artists, and enhance the quality of life through interpreting, collecting, and exhibiting art, architecture, and design. The Queens Museum presents artistic and educational programs and exhibitions that directly relate to the contemporary urban life of its constituents, while maintaining the highest standards of professional, intellectual, and ethical responsibility.
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.
Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets
New York, NY
Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am
Video still courtesy of the artist.
Sonia Boyce (DBE, RA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, drawing, photography, print, sound, and installation. In 2022, she presented FEELING HER WAY, a major commission for the British Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning Black British Arts Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s, however, Boyce has shifted significantly to embrace a wider social practice that invites improvisation, collaboration, movement, and sound with other people. In 2016, Boyce was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London and in 2023, she was elected as an Honorary Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Science in Boston. In 2014, she became a Professor at University of the Arts London, where she holds the inaugural Chair in Black Art & Design. In the 2024 King’s New Year Honour’s List, Boyce was awarded a Damehood. Her works are held in many UK and international museum collections including TATE, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Arts Council Collection of England, London; British Council, London; Government Art Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris; and Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados.
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Sonia Boyce
Sonia Boyce (DBE, RA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, drawing, photography, print, sound, and installation. In 2022, she presented FEELING HER WAY, a major commission for the British Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning Black British Arts Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s, however, Boyce has shifted significantly to embrace a wider social practice that invites improvisation, collaboration, movement, and sound with other people. In 2016, Boyce was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London and in 2023, she was elected as an Honorary Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Science in Boston. In 2014, she became a Professor at University of the Arts London, where she holds the inaugural Chair in Black Art & Design. In the 2024 King’s New Year Honour’s List, Boyce was awarded a Damehood. Her works are held in many UK and international museum collections including TATE, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Arts Council Collection of England, London; British Council, London; Government Art Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris; and Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados.
Learn More About
Sonia Boyce
Sonia Boyce (DBE, RA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, drawing, photography, print, sound, and installation. In 2022, she presented FEELING HER WAY, a major commission for the British Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning Black British Arts Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s, however, Boyce has shifted significantly to embrace a wider social practice that invites improvisation, collaboration, movement, and sound with other people. In 2016, Boyce was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London and in 2023, she was elected as an Honorary Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Science in Boston. In 2014, she became a Professor at University of the Arts London, where she holds the inaugural Chair in Black Art & Design. In the 2024 King’s New Year Honour’s List, Boyce was awarded a Damehood. Her works are held in many UK and international museum collections including TATE, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Arts Council Collection of England, London; British Council, London; Government Art Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris; and Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados.
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Sonia Boyce
