Citygroup’s exhibition program consists of open calls, the presentation of collective research, guest curator exhibitions, and the display of material related to projects and interventions mounted by the group. Exhibitions are amplified by a Dialogue Not Monologue debate and attending programs. This debate series invites architects and non-architects to discuss issues related to the city and the practice of architecture. Previous exhibition programming includes guest lectures, film screenings, neighborhood walking tours, and workshops. Additionally, in 2023, Citygroup initiated the first annual Poots Competition. Evoking the spirit of previous young architects’ competitions held in New York, the Poots open call asks participants to make proposals for the interstitial stepped zone between the sidewalk and the collective’s indoor space, a small area affectionately dubbed “the poots” (stoop spelled backwards). The exhibition program is always informed by and interfaces with Citygroup’s community-based projects and activism.

Carlos H. Blanco is an interdisciplinary designer working across writing, painting, and photography. Blanco is a professor at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and previously served as a teaching fellow at Yale School of Architecture.

Noah Gotlib is an architectural designer and researcher based in Toronto. Gotlib has worked for a number of international practices in the United Kingdom and Canada and has taught in the Architectural Association School of Architecture’s design studios.

Brad Isnard is a designer and writer based in New York. He teaches at Kean University and has been published in The Architects' Newspaper, The New York Review of Architecture, and other publications.

Zara Pfeifer is a photographer based in Berlin and Vienna. She teaches at TU Vienna and recently received the MAK Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles.

Daniel Jonas Roche is news editor at The Architect’s Newspaper. He is coauthoring a new book, Antifascist Architecture (Park Books: 2025).

Peter Scott is an artist, writer, curator, and director of the nonprofit gallery Carriage Trade. He has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a master of arts from Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, the Netherlands. He has exhibited his artwork internationally at The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Société, Brussels, Belgium; Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris; Riverside Studios in London; among others. His work has been exhibited in New York at The Queens Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, White Columns, The Emily Harvey Foundation,  Magenta Plains, Marianne Boesky Gallery, among other venues. Recent exhibitions include, Future City at the Suburban in Milwaukee Wisconsin; Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio; and After the Plaster Foundation at the Queens Museum. His project Public Sentiment will be presented at Citygroup in 2026. He's received two NYFA Fellowships, a Mass Council Fellowship, and residencies at McDowell Colony and Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony. His writing and interviews on art and culture have appeared in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Architect's Newspaper, e-flux, Art Monthly, Art Critical, artnet, Artscribe, Made in U.S.A., as well as several exhibition catalogues. His projects have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Artforum, The Manhattan Art Review, Frieze Magazine, The Architect's Newspaper, Screen Slate, Bomb Magazine, the Huffington Post, among other publications.

Ali John Pierre (AJ) Artemel is a writer, curator, and designer. In addition to working as a member of Citygroup, Artemel is director of communications and curator of public programs at the Yale School of Architecture. Artemel edited Perspecta 49: Quote, with Violette de la Selle and Russell Lestourgeon and is a member of the Perspecta board. Artemel curated the 2022–23 Citygroup exhibition Aesthetics from the End of History: Liberalization, Privatization, and Other Ghosts of the 90s. In addition, Artemel has contributed editorial work to many architecture publications as copy editor, managing editor, and translation advisor. His articles have appeared in the New York Review of Architecture, The Architect’s Newspaper, Metropolis, and elsewhere.

Michael Robinson Cohen is a founding member of Citygroup, a visiting lecturer at Bard College, and the author of Housing as Housing (Black Square, 2024). He earned a master’s of philosophy in architecture and urban studies from the University of Cambridge, a master’s in architecture from Yale University and a bachelor’s of arts from Brown University. His research at the University of Cambridge was funded by the Bass Scholarship in Architecture granted by the Yale School of Architecture. Before graduate school he served as the community coordinator for the Hollygrove Design Initiative, a neighborhood-based design organization funded by the National Endowment for Arts, His work has been published in Burning Farm, Journal of Architecture, New York Review of Architecture, AA Files, Pidgin, San Rocco, and Scroope.

Violette de la Selle is an architect and educator based in New York City. She earned her master’s in architecture at Yale University and her bachelor’s of science in architecture from the University of Virginia. De la Selle is a founding member of Citygroup. She has worked as a project manager with Becker + Becker since 2020 on renovating and transforming the Pirelli Building in New Haven into the net zero Hotel Marcel. She previously worked at SHoP Architects in New York and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in London. De la Salle coedited the journal Perspecta 49: Quote with AJ Artemel and Russell LeStourgeon. She has published writing in AA Files, New York Review of Architecture, San Rocco, and Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture, (Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, editor, Phaidon, 2018). De la Selle teaches design studios and a seminar course at the Yale School of Architecture.

Citygroup formed in 2018 in response to the structural and cultural forces that shape architecture and planning within the context of the city. The group believes it is necessary to interrogate the conditions that subjugate, alienate, and appropriate architects, designers, architecture, and the inhabitants of architecture. Through discursive and diagonal models of sensemaking, Citygroup hopes to foster solidarity and pursue an alternative approach to architecture that defends a life of dignity for everyone in the city.