our public art projects & exhibitions.

FRED WILSON

Mind Forged Manacles/Manacles Forged Minds is a public art project featuring a large sculpture, composed of layers of decorative ironwork and fencing installed in the plaza at Columbus Park, Brooklyn. The piece asks viewers to consider perspective. Who is looking in? Who is looking out? Who is free? Who is trapped?

IMMANUEL ONI

Beyond Memorial is an art, design and healing justice response to the invisible—yet palpable— scars left in community spaces after gun violence and loss.

FREYA POWELL

I cannot not grieve: CRY SCREAM SHOUT SING draws upon the Sophoclean character of Elektra and a Greek chorus to recognize the experience of ambiguous loss as a means to counter the statistic-based records of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PABLO HELGUERA

Untitled (Comedy Show) is a 3-night off-broadway performance taking the form of a late-night talk show that critiques the art world.

LILY HONGLEI

The Red String was an installation in Flushing Chinatown consisting of both physical and digital components reflecting on East Asian cultural heritages and immigrant lives. 

SEAN DESIREE

BEAM ENSEMBLE is a public art project at Crotona Park in the Bronx that combines Sean Desiree’s understanding of timber frame construction and music production.

MARY MATTINGLY

Public Water is a multiform project and installation that brings attention to New York City’s intricate drinking water system and the communities who steward upstate watersheds and drinking water sources. 

KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO

Krzysztof Wodiczko returns to New York City with Ustedes (Them), which focuses on the stories of immigrant populations in the U.S. 

NOLAN HANSON

Trans Boxing is an experimental, artist-run boxing club for trans and gender variant people.

KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO

For More Art’s premiere international commission, Krzysztof Wodiczko worked closely with members of Milan’s growing immigrant population.

BRYAN RODRIGUEZ CAMBANA

A public sculpture and sound installation by Bryan Rodriguez Cambana at Coney Island Boardwalk, Summer 2019.

SARI CAREL

In Spring and Summer 2018, City Hall Park will be transformed into
an immersive, breathing, experimental soundscape.

SHIMON ATTIE

The week of the United Nations General Assembly Debate, a silent , minimalist film depicting portraits of refugees and asylum seekers will be shown on an LED screen installed on a utility boat going up and down the East and Hudson rivers.

BRENDAN FERNANDES

Clean Labor was a durational performance that made visible the crucial labor of janitors, housekeepers, and hospitality workers.

ANDREA MASTROVITO

NYsferatu engages immigrant communities in telling their stories to the world.

BRIDGET BARTOLINI & PRISCILLA STADLER

Almost Home is a storytelling, oral history, art, and video series throughout Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona.

HIDEMI TAKAGI

Hello, It’s Me is a collaborative media project with immigrant seniors and elders of color in NYC.

BUILDING STORIES

New works by our 2016 fellows  exploring housing and gentrification at Flux Factory.

HOME(WARD)

Contemporary artist redefine the boundaries of what it means to create a home in the urban context.

SOI PARK

Funeral Portrait Service (Young Geong Sajin) crystalllizes the complex facial expressions of the over one hundred and eight Korean American senior citizens who have participated in the portrait workshop and service, so far.

WILLIAM POWHIDA & JENNIFER DALTON

MONTH2MONTH was a series of events about housing and gentrification, held in private residences.

ENGAGING ARTISTS

New works by our 2015 fellows  exploring aging, health, and immigration at Queens Museum.

AMY WILSON

The Disappearing City is a series of workshops led by artist Amy Wilson and involving a group of Senior Citizens living in the Fulton and Elliot housing projects in Chelsea using quilt-making to encourage long-time elderly residents to engage with their past through the lens of gentrification.

SARI CAREL

Borrowed Light is a sculpture and sound installation with community-driven workshops and performances in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

REMAP

REMAP, by Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti, and Julia Rooney uses map-making as a method to trace the often invisible journeys and stories of transient and homeless populations in New York City. This project emerged from the 2014 Engaging Artist Residency.

ERNESTO PUJOL

9-5, choreographed by Ernesto Pujol will be a site-specific performance tailored to the contemporary architecture of Brookfield Place in Manhattan. 9-5 pays tribute to all city office workers as 11 performers dressed in white, write silently all day about the people they see, creating a literature of pedestrian life in the city.

ANDRES SERRANO

For Residents of New York Andres Serrano engaged with 85 homeless individuals in New York City, creating a series of portraits aiming to take poverty out of the realm of abstraction and present it in its candid and human dimension. The portraits will be exhibited in the West 4th Street subway station and various other locations around Washington Square Park.

DREAD SCOTT

On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide by Dread Scott engages the legacy of racism in the United States and pointing to the continuing struggles faced by minorities across the nation. The performance will take place underneath the Manhattan Bridge Archway, in DUMBO, for one time only on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 1pm in the afternoon.

OFRI CNAANI

For Moon Guardians, Cnaani realized a series of  video vignettes depicting longtime residents of the Meatpacking district which were then projected on the windows of a local historical building.

ENVISION NEW YORK 2017

KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO

Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection was a poignant video installation, which provided American war veterans and their family members with a public platform to share their often traumatic stories.

JENNY MARKETOU

Sunspotting a Walking Forest employed the language of fashion and performance to explore themes of identity, free speech, and public engagement. The project culminated with a performance on the High Line.

PABLO HELGUERA

El Club De Protesta was structured around a series of workshops led by Pablo Helguera during which senior citizens were invited to revisit well-known protest songs. The project concluded with a performance on the High Line.

JOAN JONAS

Lunar Rabbit was a collaborative project during which the artist, along with middle school students, explored and re-enacted an ancient myth.

ANA PRVACKI

The Wandering Band was a free performance of vocalists and musicians armed with portable wind, string, and brass instruments strolling along the meandering paths of the High Line.

XAVIERA SIMMONS

When You’re Looking at me, You’re looking at Country saw Xaviera Simmons set up an outdoor photography studio near the Fulton and Eliot housing developments in Chelsea and invite residents to have their picture taken.

KIMSOOJA

An Album: Hudson Guild was a video project created in collaboration with a multi-cultural community of senior citizens. The artist spent several days asking residents about their lives, backgrounds, families, and memories before filming them. The final video is a silent and poignant testament to their lives and struggles.

JUSTIN BERRY

The Mysterious House of Colors was a curatorial project realized in collaboration with students from the Clinton middle school in Chelsea. After visiting art galleries, Berry asked students to come up with ideas for a show of their own. He then assembled a number of pieces in order to put together an exhibition that took place at the Chelsea Art Museum.

ANTHONY GOICOLEA 

Neighborhood was a photographic project addressing Chelsea’s storied past. Anthony Giocolea took pictures of current residents and digitally integrated them into turn of the century photographs of Chelsea. The resulting images were displayed in the public space, pasted on the walls of Chelsea construction sites.

NICOLA VERLATO

Sleeping Monsters Produced by Reason was an experiment in art and democracy. After polling Chelsea residents Nicola Verlato proceeded to create a sculpture that aspired to integrate all their desires. The work was exhibited on a public plaza in Chelsea.

TONY OURSLER

AWGTHTGTWTA addressed the technological habits of contemporary youth. Working with a group of middle school students, Tony Oursler created a video featuring the students singing a song they created and with which the audience could interact via text messaging. This video was projected on the wall of a playground in Chelsea.

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

Enemy kitchen was a collaborative project addressing the Iraq war through cooking. Over the course of several weeks, the artists met with a group of middle school students and taught them how to cook Iraqi food, thereby opening the door for students to both discuss the war and learn about Iraq from a new perspective.  Documentation for this project was shown at Art Basel Miami Beach.

JAY DAVIS

Untitled (Inside); Untitled (Outside) was an assemblage of mobiles constructed from collages created as part of a collaboration with thirteen teenagers from Chelsea’s Clinton Middle School. This project was exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach.

MICHAEL JOO

Bodhi Obfuscatus (Allegiance) was a multi-media installation with video projection, mirrors and sound. A video helmet, devised by the artist as the equivalent of 48 live surveillance cameras, examined every detail of New York teenagers’ faces as they told stories about their lives and attempted to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance.” This project was exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum and Art Basel Miami Beach.

SLATER BRADLEY

Soundless Pounding of Accelerated Dreams was a photography project centered on a group of New York City Teenagers. Bradley photographed each participant individually in the place they found the most inspiring. Bradley adapted his photographic technic for each image so as to best convey their individual experience of the city. This project was exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum.

ANNA GASKELL

Erasers was a video piece realized in collaboration with a group of middle school students. The artist told the students a story concerning her past before filming each student re-telling the story as they remembered it.

GARY SIMMONS

Collective Portrait was an investigation of the art of drawing. Gary Simmons helped a group of middle school students to fabricated erasers boards before asking them to draw on it. The drawing act was completed by a radical act of erasure. This project was exhibited on a billboard in Chelsea.