VOLTA NY debuts at PIER 90 in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, in the solo-project fair's eighth stateside edition on March 5 – 8, 2015. 93 galleries across six continents converge on the new venue, situated adjacent to sister fair The Armory Show, delivering a dynamic survey of emerging and innovative contemporary talent by artists from 34 nations.

This year, over 80 percent of galleries have shown in prior VOLTA editions, both in New York and in Basel, exemplifying the fair's distinctive identity as a boutique platform for new and salient contemporary art positions within a curated (and, in the case of New York, solo-project) format — the foundation of VOLTA's mission since its 2005 Basel inception and arrival stateside in 2008.

Returning exhibitors showcase a full spectrum of artistic discovery. UNION Gallery (London) taps seminal British artist Rose Wylie, winner of the 2014 John Moores Painting Prize, contrasting her energetic current series Nicole Kidman and the Black Strap with a selection of key archival works; while BravinLee programs (NYC) presents a three-decade survey of Thomas Nozkowski's iconic 16 x 20 inch abstract paintings, accented by related brand-new works; and Popopstudios (Nassau) spotlights Kendal Hanna, the celebrated octogenarian Bahamian Abstract Expressionist and subject of last year's internationally produced documentary Brigidy Bram.

Other highlights from returning exhibitors at VOLTA NY include: Lisa Sigal (Samsøñ, Boston), whose site-specific painting constructions manifested with theatre in Prospect.3 New Orleans' Home Court Crawl/Blights Out, Sigal's site-specific intervention through four neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Katrina; constructed photography phenom Christiane Feser (Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main), active in multiple German museum group exhibitions this year; a threedimensional, color-saturated treatise on art institutions by Santo Domingo-based Cuban artist Quisqueya Henríquez (LYNCH THAM, New York), creator of Davidoff Art Initiative's debut Limited Art Edition, which premiered at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2014; and meticulous cut-roadmap figures by young Bostonian Nikki Rosato (Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans), a 2014 Blanche E. Colman Foundation Award winner and participant in Mark of the Feminine at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, last autumn. Bowery hotspot.

The Hole (New York) reveals a suite of Midwesterner Gabriel Pionkowski's laborious unraveled, hand-painted, and rewoven paintings; while Galerie Jan Dhaese (Ghent) strikes a particularly adept downtown Big Apple chord, presenting sublime works on paper from Sonic Youth co-founder and creative interdisciplinarian Lee Ranaldo. Plus, Richard Heller Gallery (Los Angeles) swings for the fences in a cultural purveyor double-header: Michelle Grabner, co-curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial in addition to a very active artistic career including her forthcoming solo at Indianapolis Museum of Art, plus sculptural paintings by Pioneer Works (Red Hook) founder and director Dustin Yellin, 2015 commissioned artist for the New York City Ballet.

17 new galleries to the VOLTA family keep a pulse on current cultural trends and concerns. Haines Gallery (San Francisco) spotlights Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, whose resplendent engineering of geometric abstraction with traditional Persian mosaic techniques spans a formidable career — from her solid-gold showing at the 1958 Venice Biennale to her four-decade solo survey Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings at the Guggenheim Museum (New York), opening March 13; ARNDT Contemporary Art (Berlin/Singapore) introduces young Manila-based wunderkind Jigger Cruz, whose proficient blend of Classical figuration and chaotic abstraction veers between reverence and defacement; Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (New York) presents new video and photography by Belgium-based Israeli artist Rachel Monosov, whose recent activities include sitespecific installations for the Beethoven Festival (Chicago) during her 2013 residency there, as well as participation in The Last Brucennial (New York, 2014); Christinger De Mayo (Zurich) conceives an enveloping gesamtkunstwerk for Yves Netzhammer, whose distinctive and evolving visual vocabulary has animated both the Venice Biennale's Swiss Pavilion (2007) and Kunstmuseum Bern (2010); Galeri Zilberman (Istanbul) stages a 'constructed museum' for skilled ceramicist and cultural reassembler Burçak Bingöl, who was featured in Sculpture Road to Miro at Baksi Museum (Bayburt, Turkey) and entered the museum's permanent collection last year; and YOD Gallery (Osaka) highlights signature ikimono ('from life') assemblages from Kyoto-based, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna-educated Hiroshi Shinno, subject of solo exhibition Mikrokosmos/Makrokosmos at Karuizawa New Art Museum (Nagano Prefecture, Japan) this past summer.

Exhibited artists do not waver from potent and pertinent sociopolitical statements in their respective solo presentations. Peterson Kamwathi (ARTLabAfrica, Nairobi) reveals his latest series Positions, large-scale works on paper in reaction to global religious conflict and exacerbated by the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi; current international artist-in-residence at The NARS Foundation of Art (NYC) Ida Kvetny (Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen) critiques globalization and deforestation within intensely psychedelic painted worlds; Travis Somerville (beta pictoris gallery, Birmingham, AL), subject of 2013 solo exhibition Rebirth of a Nation at Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), mounts a bracing mixed-media installation challenging post-racial American society by blending his activist upbringing with semiotics of historical racism in the United States repositioned as current national myopia; while Maïmouna Guerresi (Mariane Ibrahim, Seattle), participant in multiple DAK'ART and Venice Biennales, explores motherhood, multiethnic spirituality, and the marginalization of women in Islamic Africa through large-scale photography, sculpture, and video installation; and Rudy Shepherd (Mixed Greens, New York), whose current activities include traveling museum group exhibition When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, channels criminals and victims as filtered through mass media in a provocative suite 'straight from the headlines' and rendered in watercolor, balanced by ceramic Healing Devices.

Please find attached the full list of exhibiting galleries and their artists at VOLTA NY, sorted alphabetically by gallery.

313 Art Project, Seoul Kiwon Park
ADA Gallery, Richmond Brian Novatny
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London Sarah Woodfine
ARNDT Contemporary Art, Berlin / Singapore Jigger Cruz
ARTLabAfrica, Nairobi Peterson Kamwathi
Backslash Gallery, Paris RERO
Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt Christiane Feser
Beers Contemporary, London Sebastian Schrader
beta pictoris / Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL Travis Somerville
Rena Bransten Projects, San Francisco Marci Washington
BravinLee programs, New York Thomas Nozkowski
Brunnhofer Gallery, Linz Katharina Karner
CES Gallery, Los Angeles Ira Svobodová
Charlie Smith London, London Tom Butler
Christinger De Mayo, Zurich Yves Netzhammer
Ethan Cohen New York, New York Aboudia
Connersmith., Washington, DC Erik Thor Sandberg
Curator’s Office, Washington, DC Jefferson Pinder
Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles Nathan Gluck / Josh Reames
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris Yashua Klos
Galerie Jan Dhaese, Ghent Lee Ranaldo
Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin Andrej Dúbravsky
Galerie Dukan, Paris / Leipzig Olivier Masmonteil
Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen Ida Kvetny
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans Nikki Rosato
Galleri Flach, Stockholm Lisa D Manner
The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan Leonardo Ulian
Foley Gallery, New York Simon Schubert
frosch&portmann, New York David Hayward
Lucy García Gallery, Santo Domingo Jorge Pineda
Denis Gardarin Gallery, New York Rudolf Polanszky
GE Galería, San Pedro Garza García + Invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin Sergio Belinchón
FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery, New Haven Clint Jukkala / Jonathan Waters
Haines Gallery, San Francisco Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Alex Hamilton
Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles Michelle Grabner / Dustin Yellin
HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna Daniel Leidenfrost / Simón Vega
Hionas Gallery, New York Guillermo Pfaff
The Hole, New York Gabriel Pionkowski
Mariane Ibrahim, Seattle Maïmouna Guerresi
Inda Gallery, Budapest Balázs Kicsiny
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin Robert Armstrong
Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig Tilo Baumgärtel
Gallery Kogure, Tokyo Fuyuki Maehara
Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin Robert Fry
LYNCH THAM, New York Quisqueya Henríquez
MA2Gallery, Tokyo Nobuaki Onishi
Makebish, New York Adrian Tone
Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa / Montreal Natasha Mazurka
Mixed Greens, New York Rudy Shepherd
Gallery MOMO, Tokyo Katsumi Hayakawa
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York Rubens Ghenov / David Rathman
Mulherin Toronto, Toronto / New York Megan Whitmarsh
Marisa Newman Projects, New York Adler Guerrier
NOMADGALLERYBRUSSELS, Brussels Lavar Munroe
Pablo’s Birthday, New York Karsten Konrad
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland Arnold J. Kemp
Popopstudios International Center For the Visual Arts, Nassau Kendal Hanna
Andrew Rafacz, Chicago Robert Burnier
Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo Hulda Guzmán
robert henry contemporary, Brooklyn Derek Lerner
RYAN LEE, New York Paul Henry Ramirez
Samsøñ, Boston Lisa Sigal
Scaramouche + The Pool NYC, New York Eric Mistretta
SEASON, Seattle Peter Scherrer
Shin Gallery, New York Hyon Gyon
Shulamit Gallery, Los Angeles Miri Chais / Sanaz Mazinani
SIM Galeria, Curitiba Rodrigo Torres
Slag Gallery, Brooklyn Naomi Safran-Hon / Dan Voinea
Spinello Projects, Miami Sinisa Kukec
Stene Projects, Stockholm Per Fhager
Marc Straus, New York Sam Jinks / Marin Majic
Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt Hendrik Zimmer
STUDIO10, Brooklyn Jude Tallichet
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York Rachel Monosov
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York [dNASAb]
Tezukayama Gallery, Osaka Tomohiro Kato
This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Petrina Hicks
Galerie Trois Points, Montreal Anne-Renée Hotte
Two Rams, New York / London Ryan Schneider
UNION Gallery, London Rose Wylie
Upfor Gallery, Portland Jack Featherly
Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne Stephen Palmer
WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town Michael Taylor
widmertheodoridis, Zurich Jim Verburg
Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco Todd Lanam
YOD Gallery, Osaka Hiroshi Shinno
Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston Franklin Evans / Ann Pibal
Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul Burçak Bingöl