09/14/2026
Superposition Gallery proudly introduces a new exhibition by Zoë Pulley at The Armory Show 2026. A Conversation had on February 27th is a presentation that positions lineage as both material and method. It marks Pulley’s first ever fair presentation at The Armory Show and her first gallery presentation in New York. The project extends research and material experimentation developed during Pulley’s recent residencies at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Smack Mellon, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP).
Drawing from the archive of her grandmother, Sandra Olivia Moon Hightower, a prolific fashion designer and educator who staged independent fashion shows in Philadelphia in the early 1980s, Zoë Pulley reconsiders how histories of Black making circulate, disappear, and are reassembled across generations. Hightower’s shows were self-organized and self-financed, held outside the institutional fashion calendar and largely outside its record. What survives of them is partial: clippings, programs, photographs, patterns, the paper infrastructure of a practice that was never archived by anyone but the family. Pulley takes that partiality as her working condition rather than a problem to be solved.
Zoë Pulley
Look No. 22, 2026
UV ink on readymade, enamel, waterbased ink.
16 x 20 x 3 inches
40.64 x 50.80 x 7.62 cm
Zoë Pulley (b. Chicago, Illinois) is a maker and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She works with artists, writers, and institutions alongside her personal self-initiated projects. Her work utilizes textiles, writing, and digital media to examine American heritage and the seemingly ordinary stories of Black folks. Pulley received her MFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. Most recently, Pulley was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Smack Mellon. She has exhibited work at MoMA PS1, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Newport Art Museum, and The RISD Museum. Pulley is currently in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
Portrait by Alice Plati
Object Photography by Jazz Wong
Zoë Pulley in her studio
by Alic