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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
Manhattan
Britta Marakatt, Labba, Urmodern
April 1, 2025 to March 6, 2026
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the High Line, Marakatt-Labba presents Urmodern, which translates to “primordial mother.” Sámi mythology is based on the belief that every stone, plant, and body of water has its own spirit. It teaches that the cosmos and the earth were created and are protected by goddesses, emphasizing the pivotal role of women in Sámi culture. Through this lens, Urmodern serves as a representation of these female deities. The boulder-like base of the work is made of granite, topped with the head of the goddess rendered in bronze. Marakatt-Labba’s contribution to the High Line underscores the importance of environmental stewardship on a global stage, engaging audiences in critical dialogues about Indigenous rights and feminism.
This exhibition is presented by the High
Line.
Daniel Solomon, Zoe Goldemberg, Chloe Chow, Rishika Kartik, Gresh Chapman, Yutaka Tomokiyo, Hudson Hale, Claire Poissonnier., The Blind Urban Subject, Civic Visions
June 6, 2025 to December 31, 2025
Spring Street Park, Manhattan
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Civic Vision is an interactive viewfinder seeking to inspire mutual understanding of the blind and visually impaired in urban life. Curated by urban spontaneity, passersby are encouraged to experience a simulation of America’s four most common eye conditions.
This project was made possible with the
support of the Hudson Square BID, Brown Arts Institute, and the Tower Optical
Company.
Carl D’Alvia, Broadway Hubbub
May 9, 2025 to November 9, 2025
Broadway Malls, West 64th Street to West 117th Street, Manhattan, Manhattan
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In his Liths series, which are on view along Broadway, D’Alvia pushes the boundaries of sculpture with monumental painted aluminum works that blend toughness with vulnerability, humor with gravity. Inspired by ancient monoliths and 1970s artists such as Alexander Calder and Tony Smith, the artist transforms the traditional statue into something more animated and human. Each piece, coated in vibrant automotive paint, takes on distinct personalities. These sculptures combine the weight of historical monumentality with a whimsical, almost comedic character, bringing new life to the medium.
This exhibition
is presented by HESSE FLATOW and the Broadway Mall Association.
Various Artists, Harlem Sculpture Gardens
May 2, 2025 to October 30, 2025
Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park, Jackie Robinson Park, Montefiore Park, Broadway Malls at West 148th Street, Manhattan, Manhattan
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Now in its second year, Harlem Sculpture Garden 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 Abigail Regner, Motohiro Takeda, Graciela Cassel, Michael Levchenko, Michael Poast, and a collaborative installation by Peter Miller, Savona Bailey-McClain, James Richardson, and Vaiomona Oufil Khalil. In St. Nicholas Park, artworks by Bridget Conway, Ayala Napthali, Joseph Bochynski, Fitgi Saint-Louis, Peter Miller, David Shelton, David Karoff, and Richard Brachman are on view. Further uptown, Jackie Robinson Park hosts works by Dianne Smith, Eunkyung Lee, Michael Poast, Margaret Roleke, Carole Eisner, Luke Schumacher, and An Pham. Additional works by Shervone Neckles and Iliana Emilia Garcia are displayed at Montefiore Park and the Broadway Malls at West 148th Street, respectively.
This
exhibition is presented by West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artists Equity Association.
Thaddeus Mosley, Touching the Earth
June 3, 2025 to October 16, 2025
City Hall Park, Manhattan
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The exhibition
features eight bronzes recently cast from wood sculptures Mosley made between
1996 and 2021. The bronze sculptures range from human scale to the
monumental Gate III, while varied patinas and textures preserve the
original surfaces as well as the tactile presence of his hand and chisel.
Mosley draws on influences as varied as modernist sculpture, his collection of
Western African masks, and the genre of jazz, to realize a deeply humanist body
of sculptures through distillation, invention, and improvisation.
This exhibition
is presented by Public
Art Fund.
Immanuel Oni, Halo
June 22, 2024 to October 4, 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.
Dario Mohr, Acacia Bipod
June 9, 2025 to October 4, 2025
Orchard Alley Garden, Manhattan
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Acacia Bipod
stands as a monument honoring the Indigenous peoples of South Africa. The
double helix, ladder, and Acacia tree motifs merge here to reflect growth,
ancestry, and interconnectedness.
This exhibition
is a Lawrence Knight Project presented by New York Artists Equity Association
with support from the New York State Council on
the Arts, NYC Department
of Cultural Affairs, and the West Harlem
Art Fund.
Alma Allen, Alma Allen on Park Avenue
May 2, 2025 to October 3, 2025
Park Avenue Malls between East 52nd and East 70th Streets, Manhattan
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This public exhibition is Allen’s largest outdoor
installation to date and the newest in a series of large-scale outdoor
installations staged by Allen in the United States, Mexico and Belgium. Unique
bronze and onyx sculptures, including examples reaching over 10 feet tall and
realized especially for the exhibition, will be on view at eight sites that
span nearly 20 blocks. Park Avenue provides a unique opportunity for New
Yorkers to engage with the artist’s material explorations of consciousness,
free will, and the nature of time, unexpectedly tranquil amongst the energetic
velocity of the city. Juxtaposing the artist’s primordial formations against
the urban landscape, the exhibition encourages new perspectives on the
elemental nature of Allen’s fluid, biomorphic sculptural language.
This exhibition is presented by Kasmin
and the Fund for Park Avenue.
Naomi Lawrence, Superbloom
October 7, 2024 to October 1, 2025
Thomas Jefferson Park, Manhattan
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In California, a “Superbloom” of wildflowers that occurs every 2 to 3 years after record breaking winter rains. This surplus of nutrients leads to a spectacular show of spring wildflowers across barren deserts which can at times be visible from space. Harlem-based artist Naomi Lawrence replicates the naturally occurring event from the other side of the U.S. by crocheting oversized California poppies, blue, purple, arroyo lupine, and bright yellow fiddlenecks, and an array of wildflowers that are known to be part of this phenomenon. The artist’s freehand style allows her to capture the subtle shifts of color that happen in nature.
Kerstin Bratsch, Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Palladiana, Masaico_Bench I)
October 26, 2024 to September 21, 2025
The High Line, Manhattan
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For the High Line, Bratsch presents Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Palladiana, Mosaico_Bench I) (2023-2024), a large-scale site-specific mosaic bench that becomes a “stone painting.” The work is a material translation of one of her Fossil Psychics (stucco marmo) works, in which the painting gesture becomes a body of fossilized fragments, as if the result of geologic phenomena, enshrining the past into the present—like runes, or a fly trapped in amber. Wrapped around an Oregon Green Austrian pine tree, the work offers a moment of respite for parkgoers, quietly urging visitors to reconnect with the natural world that surrounds them on the High Line.
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