Citygroup’s exhibition program consists of open calls, a presentation of collective research, guest curated exhibitions, and the display of material related to projects and interventions mounted by the group. Each exhibition is amplified by a Dialogue Not Monologue debate and attending programs. Dialogue Not Monologue invites architects and nonarchitects 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. In 2023 Citygroup initiated the first annual Poots Competition—an initiative that asks participants to make proposals for the interstitial zone between the sidewalk and the collective’s indoor space, a zone dubbed “the poots'' (stoop spelled backwards). Citygroup’s exhibition and debate program is always informed by and interfaces with their community-based projects and activism.

Anna Bokov is an architect, historian, and educator. She is a former member of the Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture at ETH Zurich and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is on faculty at the Cooper Union and Parsons in New York. Bokov is a recipient of multiple awards, including a Graham Foundation grant and the Mellon Fellowship. Her scholarly work has been published widely including by Log, IAS (Institution for Advanced Studies), the Journal of Architecture, Perspecta, Walker Art Center, and MoMA. She holds a PhD from Yale University and MArch from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Bokov's award-winning book Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930 (Park Books, 2020) is dedicated to the Soviet counterpart of the Bauhaus. Her book Lessons from the Social Condensers: 101 Soviet Workers’ Clubs and Spaces for Mass Assembly (gta Verlag, 2023) focuses on this distinct architectural typology.

Natch Quinn is a designer/maker specializing in fabrication, architecture, and data visualization. Raised in shops and studios emphasizing materiality and craft, he brings a tactile and detailed lens to his work across scales and mediums. His designs combine both digital and analog processes, bringing handmade details and customization to modern digital fabrication techniques. Centering environmental topics and critical thinking methodologies, he believes in the power of visual artifacts. He has lectured at The School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and Northeastern University and is a yearly visiting faculty member at Colorado College. His designs, fabrication and advocacy work has been exhibited at BRIC in Brooklyn, NY and Pratt Manhattan. His architectural and fabrication practice is under the studio, Hue Array. He currently works and resides in Kingston, New York.

Evan Shieh is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and educator. He is an assistant professor of architecture at New York Institute of Technology and is the director of Emergent Studio, a design and research office operating at architecture's intersection with urbanism, landscape, and infrastructure. Author of the recently published book monograph Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia (AR+D / ORO Editions, 2024), his interdisciplinary research investigates the urban and environmental crises that our monofunctional infrastructures and technologies are implicated in, with a particular focus on the spatial impact of mobility infrastructure and new mobility technologies. Shieh's research and design work have been curated and exhibited at venues around the world, including at the 2023 & 2019 Seoul, 2021 Venice, and 2020 Shenzhen Biennales of Architecture & Urbanism. Shieh holds a master’s in architecture in urban design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and a bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Southern California.

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 (MIT Press, 2016), 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 an 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 in art 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 a bachelor's of science in architecture from the University of Virginia. De la Selle is a founding member of Citygroup. She worked as a project manager with Becker + Becker 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 (MIT Press, 2016) 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, ed., Phaidon, 2018). De la Selle teaches at the Yale School of Architecture and Cornell AAP.

Citygroup formed in 2018 in response to the structural and cultural forces that shape architecture and planning within the context of the city. Citygroup 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.