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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
Malin Abrahamsson, Moon Finder
September 28, 2024 to September 3, 2025
Riverside Park, Manhattan
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Moon Finder is a public sculpture and orientation device. Aligned with the ecliptic—the broad, dynamic celestial belt where the Sun, Moon, and planets orbit through space—it reflects Earth’s emerging position and astronomical relationships within the solar system. Combining elements of science and engineering with the moon’s symbolism as an object of longing and desire, Moon Finder acts as both a literal and metaphorical navigation tool, pointing to this location in Riverside Park and your presence in the cosmos.
Patricia Espinosa, Hourglass
September 28, 2024 to September 3, 2025
Riverside Park, Manhattan
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The Hourglass seeks to address the critical issue of water scarcity. The sculpture takes the form of a giant twisted sponge, resembling an hourglass, that symbolizes the diminishing availability of water. It combines both concepts—sponge & hourglass—seeking to visually, and technically, capture the course of water passing through and running out.
Marya Triandafellos, Happy to See You
May 4, 2025 to August 31, 2025
Washington Market Park, Manhattan
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Happy to See
You, a vibrant public art installation by local artist Marya Triandafellos,
is designed to inspire joy and positivity. The installation features colorful, minimalist
images displayed on a wrought iron fence on the Greenwich Street side of
Washington Market Park. Happy to See You offers a playful visual
engagement to brighten the area. With saturated colors and abstracted shapes
like clouds, fish, and flowers, the installation evokes universal themes of
connection, positivity, and community.
This exhibition
is presented by the Friends of
Washington Market Park.
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.
Mark Cobrin (a.k.a. doop), Transference
April 27, 2025 to August 23, 2025
Happy Warrior Playground, Manhattan
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
Cobrin has decades of experience working with various
forms of analog audio recording technology. The digital tools used to create
these images are housed in the same computer as the digital audio recording
programs used by the artist. For him, sound has a visual component that is
expressed in these pieces and may in fact be a part of the way in which digital
technology’s user interface is designed and received. Cobrin has taken that
effect to another level by making photographs that reconstruct these objects to
reveal their forms, and his use of color creates an impactful statement about
their obsolescence and decay.
This exhibition is presented by El Taller
Latino Americano.
Beatrice Coron, Bloomingdale Medallions
August 16, 2024 to August 15, 2025
Various Locations, Manhattan
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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.
Matthew Leifheit, The Gay Chorus: No Time At All
June 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025
NYC AIDS Memorial at St. Vincent’s Triangle, Manhattan
NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle, Manhattan
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
The sound installation, conceived by Matthew Leifheit for
the New York City AIDS Memorial, liberates long-unheard voices from archives in
cities across the United States, uniting them in an hour-long recital that will
loop daily throughout June 2025. The songs presented in this sound
installation-as-recital are sourced from an archive of gay men’s chorus
performance and rehearsal video recordings from the decade preceding the advent
of effective HIV treatments in the United States (1985–1995). At the time of
this installation, the artist has preserved 46 hours and 22 minutes of
performance footage, drawn from archives spanning New York, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and Washington, DC.
The Black Fives Foundation, New York Rens Commemorative Court
June 26, 2024 to June 25, 2025
Howard Bennett Park, Manhattan
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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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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Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.
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.
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