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Through collaborations with a diverse group of arts organizations and artists, Parks brings to the public both experimental and traditional art in many park locations. Please browse our list of current exhibits and our archives of past exhibits below. You can also see past grant opportunities or read more about the Art in the Parks Program.
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Current Exhibits
Bronx
Habitat Workshop, MUD Workshop & Sighte Studio, SAIL
August 20, 2024 to December 31, 2024
Lou Gehrig Plaza, Bronx
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SAIL resembles the energetic, upward motion of the wind looking onto the Harlem River, capturing the spirit of the Bronx. The installation uses shade, seating, and color to create a lively gathering place. Developed along with neighborhood residents, merchants, and community partners, SAIL will be the epicenter of local activities throughout the year.
Morris Park Business Improvement District and Limbic Media, The Pulse
June 4, 2024 to November 30, 2024
Loreto Playground, Bronx
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The Pulse consists of two intertwining light strings with a central heart piece. It is customizable to change colors according to occasion and time of the year, holiday, and cultural celebrations. The Morris Park Business Improvement District was awarded a Commercial District Lighting Grant by the NYC Department of Small Business Services to address commercial district lighting improvements in the Morris Park Avenue commercial district in the Bronx. As a central point of attraction for the Morris Park Avenue corridor and surrounding community, Loreto Park plays a very important role for social and cultural activities, and as a community gathering space.
This exhibition is presented by the Morris Park Business Improvement District.
Formateria, Roberto Clemente 3000
September 18, 2024 to November 2, 2024
Macombs Dam Park, Bronx
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Displayed across from Yankee Stadium, this exhibition celebrates the life of Roberto Clemente, one of Puerto Rico's greatest sports figure with a career total of 3,000 hits. This immersive exhibition displays a collection of never-before-published, iconic images organized by El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico’s longest running newspaper. The exhibit began in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and traveled to Pittsburgh, home of the Pirates, followed by Miami, Florida, for the Caribbean Series and the Florida Marlins MLB 2024 season opening.
Brooklyn
Sally Rumble, Vibrant Echoes
August 10, 2024 to August 9, 2025
Crispus Attucks Playground, Brooklyn
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This vibrant mural features a dynamic array of abstract shapes and bold colors, creating a lively and engaging visual experience. The design incorporates sweeping curves and organic forms in shades of pink, green, red, yellow, and white. The interplay of colors and shapes evokes a sense of movement and energy, reflecting the diverse and dynamic spirit of the community. This exhibition is presented by FAB Fulton with support from NYC Small Business Services, Corigin Real Estate, and Bati Kitchen.
George Boorujy, Red Hook, Brooklyn Mural Trail: Anchoring People and Wildlife
July 8, 2024 to July 7, 2025
Red Hook Park, Brooklyn
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Red Hook, Brooklyn Mural Trail: Anchoring People and Wildlife is a colorful, vibrant display of the native plant and bird species that frequent Red Hook Park. The mural starts on Bay Street, spanning from Hicks Street to Clinton Street. It then wraps around the corner, incorporating the perimeter of Clinton Street between Bay Street and Halleck Street. As this is a collaborative effort with the Audubon Mural Project, many of the birds will be climate-threatened as indicated in Audubon’s ‘Survival By Degrees’ report. This exhibition is presented Red Hook Conservancy, National Audubon Society Mural Project, Gitler &_____, and the Monarch Foundation.
Community Heroes
July 19, 2024 to June 30, 2025
Commodore Barry Park, Brooklyn
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Community Heroes aims to bring together residents in the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Farragut, and celebrate those who empower and nourish these neighborhoods. Individuals were selected as representatives of the community, or heroes, from a pool of nominations collected during a community outreach process. Community Heroes seeks to tell the stories of the neighborhoods’ unsung heroes through the collaboration of newer residents and long-time residents, often people of color whose families have lived in the community for generations. Community Heroes continues to collect nominations for heroes and seeks photographers to take their portraits.
Angelly Perez, Jaden Ruffin, and Rosana Zapata (Red Hook Art Project), Safe Space in the Parks
June 28, 2024 to June 25, 2025
Bush-Clinton Playground, Brooklyn
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The Red Hook Houses NeighborhoodSTAT resident stakeholder team co-designed this fence mural with youth from New Leader Hoops and emerging artists from the Red Hook Art Project. This small park renovation aims to address physical space issues raised by community residents during the 2023 Local NeighborhoodSTAT participatory budgeting process.
Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School, A Celebration of Native Plants
June 25, 2024 to June 24, 2025
18th Street Pocket Park, Brooklyn
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Since 2020, each of the school’s graduating 8th grade classes has researched the history of the Prospect Expressway and its impact on local communities. The students have made observations of other nearby parks to inform plant selection, written letters to community members with proposed plans asking for feedback, created scale models of the pocket parks, researched native plants that would grow well in the pocket park’s environment, designed a garden, planted, and repainted the park. Throughout this project, students reflect on how they were including stakeholders and engaging with multiple perspectives and planning with a future mindset. This mural is a testament to environmental and social sustainability work being done by students at BUGS.
This exhibition is presented by the Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School.
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
Albert Capsouto Park, Manhattan
Queensbridge Park, Queens
American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage is an Augmented Reality (AR) installation based on slave ships and enslaved people. The installation describes the captives as figures made of gold. American Gold aims to draw attention to the monetary value of captives and the inhumane treatment of African captives. American Gold makes the slave ship an almost invisible structure that floats above the viewer, giving the viewer a glimpse of how many people were squeezed into a slaving vessel from below. The installation is part of a larger series of art installations about slavery called Slavery Trails, placed at historical sites throughout the United States.
Bryce Peterson, Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn
June 8, 2024 to June 7, 2025
Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn
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The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn is a traveling art installation that serves as a creative commons for artistic expression, public well-being, and collective stewardship. The work features a trellised canopy of edible and native plants, as well as a solar-powered lighting and audio system to support public programming hosted within and around the artwork. Throughout the summer and fall until the end of October, The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn will serve as a publicly accessible venue for the local community, hosting activations including performances, workshops, and wellness offerings. More information on related programming can be found here.
Apex for Youth/Yukiko Izumi, Untitled
June 4, 2024 to June 4, 2025
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
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This site-specific mural by artist Yukiko Izumi was made in collaboration with volunteers of Apex for Youth, a non-profit organization serving low-income and immigrant Asian youth. The artists worked with the volunteers to identify their favorite things about the park which viewers will find depicted in this mural.
This exhibition is presented by Apex for Youth.
Rose DeSiano, Lenticular Histories
February 26, 2024 to October 30, 2024
Highland Park, Brooklyn
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Lenticular Histories is based on the Praxinoscope and Zoetrope, 19th century devices of wonder that transform still photographs into moving images. Two seven-foot-tall rainbow-colored, luminous sculptures in the form of “eternal remembrance columns” are placed at the corner of Highland Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue in Lower Highland Park. The surface of the sculptures host colorful plexiglass panels and reflective mirrors adorned with historic photographs of Highland Park and the surrounding neighborhood. The photographs are interrupted by mirror panels that, when viewed from a distance, reflect back the park’s landscape and engage the viewer in an interactive moment of immersive optical intrigue and history.
This exhibition is the recipient of the Art in the Parks: Highland Park Art Grant.
Manhattan
Zeehan Wazed, Ball for Art
September 5, 2024 to September 4, 2025
Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Manhattan
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This group of four murals by artist Zeehan Wazed are set behind the basketball hoops on the Grand Street Basketball Courts in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Together, the murals bring a sense of movement and brightness to the retaining walls surrounding the courts.
Jeff Sonhouse, Harlequin
September 4, 2024 to September 3, 2025
St. Nicholas Park, Manhattan
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The basketball courts are designed with a diamond-pattern the artist saw while researching artist Pablo Picasso’s paintings of the Harlequin: a comedic, multi-faceted character, usually masked and dressed in diamond-patterned outfits, featured in his works. As a former scholar-athlete, professional basketball player, and currently a fulltime visual artist, Sonhouse chose this pattern to commemorate those individuals, who like the Harlequin were showmen. They inspired him to be more than he imagined was expected of him.
Edra Soto, Graft
September 5, 2024 to August 24, 2025
Doris Freedman Plaza, Central Park, Manhattan
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Made from corten steel and terrazzo, Graft is a monument to working class Puerto Rican communities and Soto’s first sculpture inspired by a specific house façade. Tables and seating invite visitors to enjoy a moment of rest, connection, and reflection. The sculpture creates a threshold, with one side representing a home’s exterior; the other, the more intimate atmosphere of an interior. The work’s title addresses Soto’s complex sentiments around migrating to Chicago while remaining connected to Puerto Rico. For Soto, feelings of dislocation are compounded by the island’s ambiguous status as an unincorporated territory of the United States. Graft opens connections between Puerto Rican communities across the city and reminds us of the centrality of the Caribbean to the history of New York City and the United States.
Beatrice Coron, Bloomingdale Medallions
August 16, 2024 to August 15, 2025
Various Locations, Manhattan
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This series of seven stainless steel medallions honors Bloomingdale neighborhood residents who have shaped our world, including The Malagon Sisters, musical group; Ben E. King, musician; Duke Ellington, musician; Bernardo Palombo, musician; Ismael Rivera, musician; Alvin Ailey, dancer and chorographer; and Angelo Romano, artist. Over the course of a year, the exhibition will rotate between three neighborhood parks: Booker T. Washington Playground (August 16, 2024 to December 12, 2024), Happy Warrior Playground (December 13, 2024 to April 10, 2025), and Frederick Douglass Playground (April 11, 2025 to August 15, 2025).
Arthur Simms, A Totem for the High Line
August 31, 2024 to August 3, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the High Line, Simms creates a new site-specific sculpture, A Totem for the High Line. In addition to materials that have become core to his body of work—wood, rope, and personal objects—A Totem for the High Line. also speaks directly to its site, both on the High Line and in New York City. The work incorporates a decommissioned utility pole found on Randall's Island, assorted cables, and discarded license plates from various states—perhaps a reference to the many visitors that flock to New York and the High Line. By integrating these elements, Simms continues his practice of entangling and reusing objects to emphasize the various histories and meanings they carry. The work stands as an homage to transformation and the perpetual unfolding of our past, present, and future.
The Black Fives Foundation, New York Rens Commemorative Court
June 26, 2024 to June 25, 2025
Howard Bennett Park, Manhattan
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The mural honors the legendary New York Rens, formed in Harlem in 1923 as the first Black-owned, all-Black, fully professional basketball team in history. From their debut on November 3, 1923 through 1949 when they dissolved, the Rens annually scheduled 130 games on average, winning 85%, the equivalent of an NBA team winning 70 games a season for 25 years in a row. Yet, there was no site in Harlem that commemorated and celebrated this Hall of Fame team, until now.
Na Chainkua Reindorf, Gaze
June 25, 2024 to June 24, 2025
Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
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Gaze depicts a stylized eye which is a recurring symbol in Reindorf’s work. Typically shown as a canton in the upper left quadrant of her flag paintings, the unblinking eye also shows up within the paintings in unexpected ways, alongside female figures whose only distinct facial feature are unblinking eyes which stare back at the audience. Considering how female bodies can especially be objectified in and outside of art, the eye is intentionally repeated across Reindorf’s works to provide the depicted female figures an opportunity to confront the audience as well as counteract the prevalent male gaze.
This exhibition is presented by Glossier.
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
Albert Capsouto Park, Manhattan
Queensbridge Park, Queens
American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage is an Augmented Reality (AR) installation based on slave ships and enslaved people. The installation describes the captives as figures made of gold. American Gold aims to draw attention to the monetary value of captives and the inhumane treatment of African captives. American Gold makes the slave ship an almost invisible structure that floats above the viewer, giving the viewer a glimpse of how many people were squeezed into a slaving vessel from below. The installation is part of a larger series of art installations about slavery called Slavery Trails, placed at historical sites throughout the United States.
Teresa Solar-Abboud, Birth of Islands
July 13, 2024 to June 15, 2025
High Line, Manhattan
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Birth of Islands, is composed of slick, blade-like foam-coated resin elements that emanate outward from the pores of a muddy, gray ceramic stump. When visiting New York, Solar-Abboud was struck by the landscape—building after building rising from the soil in a fight for prominence, just as vegetation in the forest combats for sunlight in order to survive. Birth of Islands refers to this competitive ecosystem, while also evoking human anatomy: two yellow, tongue-like emanations have seemingly tunneled their way from underground onto the High Line. The forms are spoon-like in their appearance, concave or convex, depending on one’s vantage point. The result appears simultaneously post-human and primordial, sophisticated and elementary—a representation of our own unending transformation alongside nature's ever evolving state. This exhibition is presented by the High Line.
Immanuel Oni, Halo
June 22, 2024 to June 15, 2025
M'finda Kulunga Garden, Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Manhattan
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At night, African-Americans during the 1800s were required to carry a candle or lantern on the street after curfew in order for people/police to see them. This was known as the "lantern law". This project reclaims this archaic form of surveillance by illuminating Black spaces, starting with the M Finda Kalunga Garden. Using existing infrastructure, the artwork embeds symbols and narratives into and around the perimeter. Like a halo, a decorated light shade is wrapped around a lightpost emanating light, African textile patterns, names of those buried or other related text. The fencing also portrays African symbols connecting it to the other Chamber's Street Burial Ground. Information such as maps are integrated to show other potential sites of remembrance, like the Freeman Alley.
Oliver Lee Jackson, A Journey
June 14, 2024 to May 25, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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The works on view on the High Line were produced by the artist for this exhibition. Since 2020 Jackson has constructed several monumental, slotted steel sculptures, largely based on smaller works of his from the late 1990s. The artist honors his utilitarian material, and yet the painted, cut, and pockmarked surfaces animate the sculptures beyond their material properties. On view at the Western Rail Yards, Oliver Lee Jackson’s energetic work complements the section’s simple gravel pathway and original self-seeded, wild landscape.
This exhibition is presented by Friends of the High Line.
Bruno Catalano, Travel to New York
May 18, 2024 to May 17, 2025
E. 34th to E. 39th Streets
Park Avenue Malls, Manhattan
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This exhibition of nine monumental sculptures features new bronze and marble pieces from French sculptor Bruno Catalano‘s "Travellers" series. The works pay particular attention to the relationship between sculpture and the textiles, folds, and colors that are key features of Catalano’s work. Models of bags, luggage and suitcases, as well as garments, and even the artist's clay-covered aprons allow the public a view behind the scenes of creation.
This exhibition is presented by Galeries Bartoux, Patrons of Park Avenue, and the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association.
Lee Tal, Blooming Reflections
May 11, 2024 to May 10, 2025
Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan
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A series of five sculptures placed throughout Stuyvesent Square, Blooming Reflections celebrates indigenous plants and highlights the efforts of community members to bring these types of flora back to the park. The sculptures are silhouetted depictions of several species of flowers: Iris Versicolor, Purple Clematis, Smooth White Beardtongue, Swamp Rose Mallow, and Yellow Trout Lily. Artist Lee Tal created the works in polished aluminum that reflects the natural surroundings and the viewing audience, reminding us of our interconnectedness. The sculptures are designed to engage the community with beauty but also provide new information on the value of indigenous plantings.
This exhibition is presented by the Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association.
Tishan Hsu, car-grass-screen-2 and car-body-screen-2
May 31, 2024 to April 28, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the High Line, Hsu presents car-grass-screen-2 and car-body-screen-2, two biomorphic forms constructed out of resin-wrapped foam. The cars’ shapes, with their soft edges and curved surfaces, appear entirely organic but for their glitching, screen-like skins. In the skin of car-grass-screen-2, Hsu includes a scannable QR code, which directly connects the sculptural form to both the virtual and physical realm—via the interface of the phone and the viewer’s hand holding the phone. Scanning the code prompts a video that echoes the grass and perforated metal screen featured on the sculpture’s surface, layered with peephole-style footage of grass, soil, and human skin and orifices. The ability to change the content connected to the QR code from virtual space reinforces Hsu’s interest in hybridity, in which the work is both fixed and open-ended, physical and cyber.
This exhibition is presented by the High Line.
Giulia Cenci, secondary forest
April 20, 2024 to March 31, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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The sculptural installation is composed of animal, human, and plant forms cast from aluminum, sprouting from a steel grid armature. This amalgamation of organic and industrial materials reflects the history of the Meatpacking District’s meat trade and the High Line’s role in that industry. Cenci also reflects on the blurred line between humans and all other forms of life. The work’s title, a term used in botany to describe a forest or woodland area that has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, allows viewers to reconsider their own impact on and relationship to the cycle of life.
This exhibition is presented by the High Line.
Mike Hansel, Intestinal Fortitude
August 15, 2024 to March 28, 2025
Central Park, Manhattan
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This arching steel tubular structure reaches in multiple directions while implying a lively quality of implied motion. Viewers can follow the sculpture's construction method, as there is no attempt to disguise or hide the fabrication process.
Sean Scully, Broadway Shuffle
July 12, 2024 to March 16, 2025
Broadway Malls, Manhattan
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Seven large-scale sculptures - each one a unique vertical stack composed from various configurations of metal, stone and wood - will be presented at seven locations along the green medians at the center of Broadway from Lincoln Square to Washington Heights. The artist recently said: "Broadway is legendary, and it has been mythologized in art and song. I called my project 'Shuffle' after a dance, in the same way that Mondrian, another geometric immigrant, called his painting 'Boogie Woogie' I love the idea of my blocks and stacks punctuating the endless rhythm of Broadway."
Myles Zhang and Stephen Fan, Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Chinatown's Public Realm
January 27, 2024 to January 19, 2025
Columbus Park, Manhattan
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Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown’s Public Realm is a collaboration by artist and architectural historian Myles Zhang and architect/designer Stephan Fan. This project explores the blurred boundaries between Chinatown’s public and private spaces in a graphic installation formulated and executed through various community-engagement efforts over the past two years. It is a horizontal map that presents iconic elements of Chinatown’s streetscapes. The streetscape draws familiar, if not legendary, scenes woven together in segments to suggest the many layers of human activation and experience of these vibrant congested historic streets.
This exhibition is presented by CALL / City as Living Laboratory.
Andrea Arroyo, ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity
September 27, 2024 to November 30, 2024
Anibal Aviles Playground, Manhattan
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Art as Solidarity is an ongoing series of artworks created in response to issues that touch us every day. The works reflect the universal values of love, justice, equality, and peace and aim to build bridges across borders, languages, and cultures and generate dialogue about issues relevant to both the local and global levels.
Lily van der Stokker, Thank You Darling
November 12, 2023 to November 30, 2024
The High Line, Manhattan
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Van der Stokker presents Thank You Darling, a monumental, site-specific mural. The light blue background is dotted with multi-colored, simple flowers in a decorative all-over pattern that appear to float across the facade. Superimposed over this, read the words “THANK YOU DARLiNG,” spelled out in a juvenile, arbitrary blend of lower and upper-case lettering. Van der Stokker’s puffy bubble-letters are a classic example of playful adolescent penmanship, seemingly lifted right out of a teenager’s diary. Thank You Darling actively engages with its audience, expressing gratitude to all those who pass, while reclaiming, at massive scale, intimate language that is often mocked or disparaged as being feminine and unserious.
This exhibition is presented by Friends of the High Line.
Karon Davis, Curtain Call
December 23, 2023 to November 18, 2024
The High Line, Manhattan
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Davis creates a larger-than-life bronze portrait of a ballerina taking her final bow after a performance. Using a combination of 3D scanning technology and traditional sculpting techniques, the bronze figure was derived from Davis’ life-size plaster cast sculpture of ballerina Jasmine Perry. Curtain Call draws on the artist’s experience growing up on stage and behind the scenes of the dance and theater world, seeing firsthand the incredible mental and physical toll taken to create a flawless performance. The work is part of a new series, Beauty Must Suffer, which examines the life and labor of Black dancers in the historically European tradition of ballet.
This exhibition is presented by Friends of the High Line.
Cannupa Hanska Luger, Attrition
June 5, 2024 to November 17, 2024
City Hall Park, Manhattan
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For Cannupa Hanska Luger, the bison is a symbol of Indigenous resilience and sovereignty. The mass slaughter of North American bison from 1845 to 1895 by settlers of European descent took place for profit, dominion over land and westward expansion. The strategic removal of this vital source of food, clothing, shelter and spiritual reverence for the Great Plains Native American populations forced their assimilation into western culture. It was also an ecological disaster with long lasting effects.
Luger, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold from the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota cultures, is a descendant of buffalo people. Attrition is a 10-foot long, larger-than-life skeletal sculpture made from steel with an ash black patina. The arresting form emerges from the soil beneath, visible through grasses indigenous to this region. The work highlights the profound interdependence between animals, humans and the land. It draws attention to the loss, trauma, and violence that can result from a single disruption in an ecosystem. Placed on the pathway to City Hall, Attrition symbolically engages with New York City’s heart of policy-making, bringing to light the history of the bison’s survival.
This exhibition is presented by Public Art Fund.
Pasha Radetzki, Love-ego=LOV
May 5, 2024 to November 5, 2024
Union Square Park, Manhattan
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The sculptural installation features three interlocked wooden structures, assembled from colored plywood, that spell out ‘LOV.’ As an interactive public art site, Love-Ego=LOV is inspired by the notions of egoless love, unity and the interdependence of human lives placed within the context of contemporary volatile social and ecological conditions. Its timing and content aim to counterbalance the divisive rhetoric of the presidential election campaigns by sharing some thought-provoking alternatives and unexpected observations.
Love-Ego=LOV is an interactive public art site composed of an outdoor sculpture, experimental garden initiative and a series of activation performances.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Union Square Partnership.
Jerome Haferd, Aleia
May 24, 2024 to October 31, 2024
Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan
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Aleia marks the second phase of interactive public artworks for the Culture, Creativity, and Care initiative by Harlem Grown. These public artworks play an important role in the community, doubling as spaces for respite, gathering, and connection. Aleia, a name that has multicultural origins meaning “ascendant”, and “exalted,” was chosen for the piece, which sits high atop the Mt. Morris Acropolis at the center of Marcus Garvey Park.
The main structure is shaped and sits atop a 32-foot semi-circular stage. Inspired by Sankofa’s modular system, the design conceptually breaks apart and reaches out, allowing for several pieces of Aleia to form a meandering Storywalk of steel totems that lead park goers up the stairs to the new installation. The centerpiece of the bright and youthful design are five paintings by the Harlem-based artist, Thomas Heath.
This exhibition is sponsored by Harlem Grown’s Culture Creativity & Care Initiative.
Jerome Haferd, Sankofa
June 16, 2023 to October 31, 2024
Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan
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“Sankofa” derives from Akan African folklore, symbolizing remembrance of things forgotten, and “in order to know our future we must look to our past.” The installation is simultaneously futuristic and ancestral, and draws upon intersectional cultures including African, Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous craft traditions as well as the everyday histories and contemporary life of the park.
The design concept for the pavilion comes out of working in community with members of the Marcus Garvey Park. The 32-foot circular structure incorporates a gathering space below a printed fabric mesh canopy depicting both archival images and AI generated “mythology” of Marcus Garvey Park and other motifs.
This exhibition is sponsored by Harlem Grown's Culture Creativity & Care Initiative.
Betsabeé Romero, Traces In Order to Remember: Sculpture on Park Avenue
March 22, 2024 to October 31, 2024
Between East 81st and East 83rd Streets
Park Avenue Malls, Manhattan
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Five sculptures made of recycled industrial tires, each of which is carved and painted with gold and silver, serve as memorials for those migrants who deserve to be remembered with respect and dignity. The pre-Hispanic iconography honors an ancestral culture and rich civilization that still has much to offer today. Tractor tires act as reminders of the laborers from the south who work the land; public transport tires that simultaneously hold memory of so many hopes and griefs. These tires are a metaphor of cycles traveled. Through this exhibition, the artist aims to dignify the contribution of millions of migrants who are not only laborers who were forced to leave their homes, but also humans who carry personal and cultural baggage that enriches the places they reach.
This exhibition is supported by Fundación Andrade, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Evelyn and Dick Belger, Kansas City and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Additional support provided by Ciinova, PPG Comex, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico, and Maestro Dobel Tequila.
This exhibition is presented by The Sculpture Committee of The Fund of Park Avenue.
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Analogue Sites
April 1, 2024 to October 31, 2024
Park Avenue at East 53rd Street, East 66th Street and East 67th Street, Manhattan
Park Avenue Malls, Manhattan
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Analogue Sites, by artist and preservation architect Jorge Otero-Pailos, is a public art exhibition that explores the intersection of art, architecture, and cultural diplomacy. Comprising three monumental steel sculptures wrought from fencing that surrounded the former U.S. Embassy in Oslo and inspired by the historical significance of Cold War-era embassies as places of cultural exchange, Analogue Sites highlights the role of American modern art and architecture in cultural diplomacy and advocates for the preservation of these modernist masterpieces at this critical moment of their decommissioning. Analogue Sites responds to and engage with iconic modernist landmarks including the Seagram Building, the Lever House, and the historic Park Avenue Armory.
This exhibition is presented by The Fund for Park Avenue, the Onera Foundation, the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, the AECID, and the Consulate General of Spain in New York.
Various Artists, Harlem Sculpture Gardens
May 2, 2024 to October 30, 2024
St. Nicholas Park, Manhattan
Morningside Park, Manhattan
Jackie Robinson Park, Manhattan
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens is a multi-site exhibition, curated to spread joy and beauty within the Harlem community. The exhibition includes artworks by a diverse array of artists working in a variety of media. Artists exhibiting in Morningside Park include Margaret Roleke, Miguel Otero Fuentes, Jaleeca Yancy, Peter Miller, Zura Bushurishvili, the team of Carol Diamond and Ben LaRocco, and Reuben Sinha. In St. Nicholas Park, artworks by Luke Schumacher, the team of Felipe Jacome and Svetlana Onipko, Carole Eisner, Dianne Smith, the team of Dario Mohr and Cody Umans, and Heather Williams are on view. Further uptown, Jackie Robinson Park hosts works by Zura Bushurishvili, Vera Tineo, ByeongDon Moon, Iliana Emilia Garcia, Kraig Blue, and Michael Poast.
This exhibition is presented by West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artists Equity Association.
Carmen Paulino, We Care for Harlem
October 29, 2023 to October 28, 2024
East River Esplanade, Manhattan
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This exhibition showcases a 65-panel crocheted mural featuring the diverse people and occupations that comprise this Harlem neighborhood as well as highlighting the natural beauty of the flowers, water fauna and sea creatures in our East River waterway.
This exhibition is presented by Friends of the East River Esplanade and Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Moses Ros, Nature’s Echo
October 21, 2023 to October 20, 2024
Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
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The concept for this artwork is a colorful background representing the human impact on the environment with superimposed silhouettes of the absence of animals. This mural was part of Korea Art Forum’s 2023 Shared Dialogue Shared Space program, with a theme of an Alternative Manhattan Project, which brings together artists who will be presenting their community-oriented and thought-provoking works of participatory art to engage the community in conversations on peacebuilding. The artists imagine an alternative history, inquiring what if peace-building efforts in the early 1940s were carried out through art and human interactions instead of the development of weapons of mass destruction.
This exhibition is presented by Korea Art Forum.
JAGO, Look Down
July 17, 2024 to October 17, 2024
Thomas Paine Park, Manhattan
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When Italian artist Jago arrived in New York City in 2018, his attention was drawn to the conspicuous presence of homeless people sleeping on the streets. After a few months, however, he realized that he had become numb to their presence, passing by them without noticing them anymore. This realization affected him deeply, making him reflect on the fact that each homeless person had been a child.
Queens
Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Richmond Hill Art Hub
September 15, 2024 to September 14, 2025
Lt. Frank McConnell Park, Queens
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A collaboration between Chhaya CDC and two NYC-based design firms, Hive Public Space and Studio For, this vibrant multi-use park installation celebrates Richmond Hill's diverse cultural heritage. It takes the form of a community stage for events, classes, and gatherings, adorned with colors inspired by neighbors' homeland flags. This installation aims to activate the space, showcase local culture, engage residents, and promote long-term preservation of cultural identity in public spaces.
Kenny Greenberg, Lumina Arcana
July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025
Vernon Mall and Gordon Triangle, Queens
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Created by Long Island City-based neon light artist Kenny, each pergola of Lumina Arcana is built from wooden materials and metal railings, adorned with vibrant neon lighting. These installations are strategically placed at Vernon Mall and Gordon Triangle to transform under-lit areas into lively, inviting spaces. The project aims to boost the visibility and allure of Vernon Boulevard, especially at night, encouraging increased foot traffic and supporting local businesses along the corridor. The Long Island City Partnership was awarded a Commercial District Lighting Grant by the NYC Department of Small Business Services to address commercial district lighting improvements in the Vernon Boulevard commercial district.
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
Albert Capsouto Park, Manhattan
Queensbridge Park, Queens
American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage is an Augmented Reality (AR) installation based on slave ships and enslaved people. The installation describes the captives as figures made of gold. American Gold aims to draw attention to the monetary value of captives and the inhumane treatment of African captives. American Gold makes the slave ship an almost invisible structure that floats above the viewer, giving the viewer a glimpse of how many people were squeezed into a slaving vessel from below. The installation is part of a larger series of art installations about slavery called Slavery Trails, placed at historical sites throughout the United States.
Queens Lighting Collective, Gateways to Sunnyside
August 9, 2024 to December 2, 2024
Sabba Park, Queens
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Gateway to Sunnyside greets visitors with joy as they enter or exit the Sunnyside neighborhood. It was designed and created in collaboration with the Sunnyside community for the Sunnyside Public Space Project under the Urban Design Forum’s Local Center Connected Corridors program. The goal of the project is to make public spaces in Sunnyside more welcoming and accessible for local residents and merchants while also cultivating local ownership and pride among Sunnyside residents and merchants for their public spaces, while galvanizing support for capital improvements in the area. This exhibition is presented by Sunnyside Shines.
Lily and Honglei, KITES: Portraits of Asian Immigrant Families
September 19, 2024 to November 29, 2024
Rachel Carson Playground, Kissena Corridor Park, Queens
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Resembling the flying kites in the boundless sky, KITES: Portraits of Asian Immigrant Families symbolically portrays the arduous and long journeys immigrants endure. It spotlights the daily life of Asian immigrants in Flushing Chinatown and the connection between people and nature influenced by their cultural heritage. It illustrates immigrant journeys from the first-person perspective, aiming to enhance understanding of the Asian immigrant community in the Flushing area, who urgently needs more representations in NYC’s cultural landscape, and bring joy to all visitors at the popular neighborhood park.
Julia Sinelnikova, Light Portal
November 30, 2023 to November 22, 2024
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
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Flushing Meadows Corona Park lacks a true contemporary art homage to the legendary Tent of Tomorrow, which will now itself be lit at night for the city's new program. The Tent of Tomorrow was designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964 World's Fair, however it is modeled off its Russian predecessors, namely the Shukhov Rotuna for the All-Russia Exhibition of 1896. Light Portal incorporates several elements of the original physical structure in a new design, with the many colors of the light disc above audiences to represent the diversity of languages and cultures in Queens. During our current period of closed borders around the world due to politics, it is important to remember periods of greater international exchange of ideas, and collaboration. Light Portal envisions hope, progress, and growth, creating a meditative and playful space. The work casts a kaleidoscope of healing colors onto viewers and the ground below during the day and is lit by solar-powered LED lights at night.
This exhibition is made possible by the Art in the Parks: Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park Grant, which supports the creation of site-specific public artworks by Queens-based artists for two sites within Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
LeMonde Studios, Summer of Sports
July 15, 2024 to November 15, 2024
Rafferty Triangle, Queens
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Summer of Sports is an interactive installation featuring six sports-themed art pieces produced by Nicolas Synnott of LeMonde Studio in collaboration with students from Information Technology High School. The install includes: 1 diving board bench, three sports ball benches- soccer, basketball, and tennis, 1 tennis racket bench and a photo frame/music box. The artworks that wrap around the music box and the diving board were created by Information Technology High School Art Club students Fariha Alam, Amy Martinez Chungata, Stella Golden, Brian Herrera, Gabriella Maniscalco, Santiago Navarro, Cesar Romero, Jair Sanchez, and Katherine Valverde.
Geoff Rawling, Bridge Murals, East Main Drive, Forest Park
November 8, 2023 to November 7, 2024
Forest Park, Queens
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This series of murals depicts various landmark areas of Forest Park, including Oakridge, The Overlook, the Carousel, the Nursery, the Golf Course, the Bandshell, Strack Pond, the Buddy monument, and the Pine Groves, as well as the natural beauty of the trails including the bridle path. The goal of the mural is to promote all the different amenities in the park and draw visitors to areas of the park that they may not frequent.
This exhibition is presented by the Forest Park Trust.
Cesar Figeroua, Diversity Is Our Strength
October 18, 2023 to October 17, 2024
Travers Park, Queens
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This mural is meant to invoke smiles, gentleness, and happiness. The hummingbird welcomes children to play and invites families into a public conversation on community and how we use public spaces. The bees and butterflies weaving through the flowers remind us of the vital task of caring for one another. For Project Attica, creating this mural was an act of increasing our sensibility to the interconnectedness of nature and the role that we play in caring for that balance amongst ourselves.
This exhibition is presented by Project Attica.
Staten Island
A+A+A & Urechi Uguguo, Abuelita Masala
September 15, 2024 to September 12, 2025
Tompkinsville Park, Staten Island
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Abuelita Masala is a functional art piece named after Afro-Caribbean and Latinx words for ‘grandmother’ to recall a powerful ancestral figure of kindness, versatility and strength. It serves as an information center for a weekly market and a hub for regular arts and culture programming inspired by past activations at the park. Its versatile doors and cabinets can be opened in multiple configurations to host diverse activities. Ultimately, Abuelita Masala acts as an open invitation to the community to discover and engage with local cultural programming as well as artists that represent the Afro-Caribbean and Latin heritage on site.
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