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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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2025
Brooklyn
Center for Educational Innovation (CEI), Benchmarks: Empowering Students to Create Inspiring Community Murals on Benches for a Citywide NYC Parks Exhibition
June 7, 2025 to September 14, 2025
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
CEI BENCHMARKS is a citywide NYC Parks exhibition of 20 inspiring murals on benches created by NYC public school students. These bench murals are part of the CEI Benchmarks program, a comprehensive student arts residency program that empowers NYC public school students to become engaged citizens and create large-scale, collaborative, inspiring community murals on benches for public display in a high-profile citywide exhibition in NYC Parks. The 20 benches, created by over 540 students of grades 3-12, will be on exhibit June 7-September 14 in the Bronx at Rev. T. Wendell Foster Park, in Brooklyn at Prospect Park Parade Ground, in Manhattan at Thomas Jefferson Park, and in Staten Island at Clove Lakes Park.
This exhibition is presented
by The Center for Educational Innovation - website.
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.
Various Artists, Rooted in Pride
June 1, 2025 to August 1, 2025
Washington Park, Brooklyn
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This exhibit features artwork – selected from an open call – by emerging and established Brooklyn-based LGBTQIA+ artists working in various styles and media. The works depict and celebrate what “pride” means to the artist and/or Brooklyn’s LGBTQIA+ community.
The banners are
displayed on the fence surrounding The Old Stone House & Washington Park
and J.J. Byrne Playground in Park Slope.
This exhibition
is presented by Arts
Gowanus, Brooklyn Pride and The Old Stone House.
George Boorujy, Migratory Pathways
July 8, 2024 to July 7, 2025
Red Hook Park, Brooklyn
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Migratory Pathways 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. More information about the mural can be found here. This exhibition is presented Red Hook Conservancy, National Audubon Society, Gitler &_____, and the Monarch Foundation.
Community Heroes
July 19, 2024 to June 30, 2025
Commodore Barry Park, Brooklyn
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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.
Graciela Cassel, River Bay Flags
April 19, 2025 to June 21, 2025
Shore Road Park, Brooklyn
Shore Park and Parkway, Brooklyn
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
River Bay Flags symbolizes our unity as a community
and commitment to nurturing the waters that sustain us, envisioning our
interconnected waterways as a nation and highlighting the role of water in
life. It promotes awareness and encourages collective responsibility to protect
our natural resources to ensure a sustainable future.
This artwork is part of the Bay Ridge biennial Essential
Shore/ Permeable Future, hosted by Stand4
Gallery. This exhibition presents free public artworks, interventions, and
programs throughout the community to strengthen people’s relationship to water
and the Narrows shoreline through an environmental lens.
Various Artists, Black lives, Black history, Black joy, and Black futures
November 8, 2024 to June 20, 2025
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
Organized by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy in partnership with a curatorial committee including leadership from the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), The Lay Out, Photoville, and Weeksville Heritage Center, this exhibition features photographs that share the diverse narratives—past, present, and future—of the Black community living and working in and around Fort Greene, including many of the 12,000 residents of nearby public housing. The exhibition and related programming will feature the selected artists and community leaders in conversation to foster discussion on building belonging, dismantling structural racism, preserving living cultures, and making space for envisioning and imagining a brighter future.
Marcus Brown, American Gold: A Ship of Human Bondage
June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2025
North 5th Street Pier and Park, Brooklyn
Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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.
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