Yvette Mayorga's Magic Grasshopper: Unveiling Event

Yvette Mayorga's Magic Grasshopper Public Unveiling | Wednesday, October 15, 5:30-6:30pm

Join Times Square Arts and Yvette Mayorga for the public unveiling of Magic Grasshopper on Wednesday, October 15 at 5:30pm in Times Square. Remarks begin promptly at 5:45pm followed by a musical performance by a special guest from Mayorga's hometown of Chicago.

Yvette Mayorga: Magic Grasshopper
October 15–December 2, 2025
Broadway between 46th & 47th Sts

Times Square Arts is pleased to present Yvette Mayorga's Magic Grasshopper October 15-December 2, 2025. Featuring an opulent carriage drawn by carousel-style horses and loaded with 90’s nostalgia, artist Yvette Mayorga’s Magic Grasshopper is a 30-foot-long kinetic sculpture carrying critical narratives of migration, feminized labor, and colonial histories. Designed to metaphorically transport viewers across borders and historical eras, the pink-hued fantastical vessel is also a tribute to the physical and personal journeys undertaken in pursuit of the American Dream.

This work is on view to the public 24/7 through December 2, 2025. In conjunction, Times Square Arts will also present Mayorga's stop-motion animation PLEA$URE GARDEN$ on the district’s billboards nightly in October as a part of the Midnight Moment program.

About Yvette Mayorga

Yvette Mayorga (b. 1991) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist known for her Rococo-inspired reliefs that merge confectionary labor with found images to explore themes of belonging. Dominated by the color pink, Mayorga celebrates femme power while questioning the allure of consumer culture and the American Dream as a first-generation Latinx.

Mayorga holds a MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the University of Illinois. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY; Vincent Price Art Museum, CA; El Museo del Barrio, NY; The Center for Craft, NC; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico; LACMA, CA; and solo exhibitions at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT (2024), The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR (2022), and her first institutional international solo museum exhibition, La Jaula de Oro, at Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico (2024), which was reviewed by The New York Times.

Mayorga’s works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA; The City of Chicago permanent public art collection at O'Hare International Airport, IL; Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, NH; 21c Museum Hotels, KY; Cerámica Suro, Mexico; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; DePaul Art Museum, IL; El Museo del Barrio, NY; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, IL; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA; and New Mexico State University Art Museum, NM. She has been featured in Artforum, ARTnews, DAZED, Galerie, Hyperallergic, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, and W Magazine.

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, and Mel Chin, 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.