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If We Don’t, Who Will?
2025 | A performative and functional artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory
Coco Fusco: Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker
2024 | Video activations honoring New York’s history of immigration
Noah Fischer: New York 2044
2024 | A newspaper from 20 years in the future, as envisioned by residents of NYC
Xenoduo: A Mobile Home
2024 | A mobile installation resembling an emergency shelter tent, serving as both a public sculpture and an immersive performance stage
The Yes Men + The Good Liars
2024 | Interventions by acclaimed “culture jammers” bringing attention to a looming public housing crisis in Chelsea, NYC

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Dive into More Art's public art and socially engaged projects below. Listed chronologically, starting with the most recent.

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If We Don’t, Who Will?
By Stephanie Dinkins
(2025) A performative and functional artificial intelligence laboratory in a public plaza in Downtown Brooklyn.
Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker
By Coco Fusco
(2024) Video activations honoring New York’s history of immigration.
New York 2044
By Noah Fischer
(2024) A newspaper from 20 years in the future, as envisioned by residents of NYC.
A Mobile Home
By Xenoduo
(2024) A mobile installation resembling an emergency shelter tent, serving as both a public sculpture and an immersive performance stage.
The Yes Men + The Good Liars
By The Yes Men + The Good Liars
(2024) Interventions by acclaimed “culture jammers” bringing attention to a looming public housing crisis in Chelsea, New York.
I cannot not grieve: CRY SCREAM SHOUT SING
By Freya Powell
(2024) A performance that explores the voice as a medium to recognize ambiguous loss.
Beyond Memorial
By Immanuel Oni
(2023) An art, design and healing justice response to the invisible scars left in community spaces after gun violence and loss.
Untitled (Comedy Show)
By Pablo Helguera
(2023) Helguera’s first off-Broadway production, plus special guests Mel Chin, Nina Katchadourian and Martha Rosler!
The Red String
By Lily & Honglei
(2022) An Augmented Reality (AR) art installation designed for multiple public parks in Asian American neighborhoods.
Mind Forged Manacles / Manacle Forged Minds
By Fred Wilson
(2022-2023) A monumental sculpture serving as a metaphor for both structural and psychological barriers to freedom.
Beam Ensemble
By Sean Desiree
(2021) An outdoor orchestra intended to give orchestral music back to the people by providing a resource for composition.
Public Water
By Mary Mattingly
(2020-2021) Public Water brings attention to New York City’s intricate drinking water system and the communities who steward upstate watersheds and drinking water sources.
Ustedes (Them)
By Krzysztof Wodiczko
(2020) Co-opted drone technology, often employed by governments for border surveillance operations, is used as a medium to broadcast the voices and perspectives of immigrants and refugees.
Trans Boxing
By Nolan Hanson
An ongoing co-authored art project in the form of a boxing club that centers the participation of trans and gender variant people.
Waiting for the session to begin
By Bryan Rodriguez Cambana
A public sculpture and sound installation by Bryan Rodriguez Cambana at Coney Island Boardwalk.
Loro (Them)
By Krzysztof Wodiczko
A technology performance project exploring the complexities of life as a refugee on a continent that is increasingly hostile towards foreign newcomers.
Night Watch
By Shimon Attie
A silent film centering New York's refugees and asylum seekers, projected atop a barge that traversed the East & Hudson Rivers.
Out of Thin Air
By Sari Carel
A sound installation that invited New Yorkers to think about breathing in all its intimacy and enormity.
Building Stories
By Multiple Artists - Building Stories
Building Stories is an exhibition of works by More Art’s 2016 Engaging Artists Fellowship focused on housing justice.
Hello, it’s me
By Hidemi Takagi
Collaborative multimedia project highlighting the stories of senior residents of the city.
Almost Home / Casi Llegando a Casa
By Bridget Bartolini & Priscila Stadler
A series highlighting the struggles and victories of community organizing against gentrification and displacement.
NYsferatu: Symphony Of A Century
By Andrea Mastrovito
A hand-drawn retelling of W.F. Murnau's Nosferatu, adapted to address immigrant rights in today’s world.
Clean Labor
By Brendan Fernandes
A dance performance that made visible what is too often overlooked — the work of hospitality workers and cleaning professionals whose contributions ensure that our homes, offices, schools, hotels, and public spaces are safe, clean, and livable.
Funeral Portrait Service (Young Jeong Sajin)
By Soi Park
Soi Park addresses the South Korean cultural practice of preparing memorial portraits of the elderly while the individual is still alive.
Engaging Artists at the Queens Museum
By Multiple Artists - Engaging Artists at Queens Museum
An exhibition featuring the work of first generation and foreign born artists who participated in the Engaging Artists program.
MONTH2MONTH
By Jennifer Dalton & William Powhida
A month-long platform addressing how class and wealth affect people’s ability to live in New York City.
Borrowed Light
By Sari Carel
An architectural environment and sound piece created in collaboration with Sunset Park’s stewards.
9-5
By Ernesto Pujol
A performance traversing themes of corporate labor, silence, and empathy.
REMAP
By Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti, & Julia Rooney
A collaborative project involving meditation, recipe sharing, and map-making with current & formerly unhoused community groups.
The Disappearing City
By Amy Wilson
Artist Amy Wilson led a series of workshops with a group of senior citizens from Hudson Guild Adult Programs and Greenwich House.
On The Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide
By Dread Scott
A one-time performance engaging with the legacy of racism in the United States, pointing to the continuing struggles faced by minorities across the nation.
Residents of New York
By Andres Serrano
(2014) A series of large-scale photographic portraits engaging with unhoused individuals in New York City.
Envision New York 2017
By Multiple Artists - Envision NY
A web-based project prompting New York City artists to share their vision of the city’s future.
Moon Guardians
By Ofri Cnaani
A series of site-specific video projections around Gansevoort Square in the heart of the Meatpacking district.
Sunspotting a Walking Forest
By Jenny Marketou
An interdisciplinary project aimed to connect fashion, language, communication, and performance.
Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection
By Krzysztof Wodiczko
An exploration of the traumatic consequences of war through digital intervention in public space.
When You’re Looking at Me, You’re Looking at Country
By Xaviera Simmons
Photographic portraits of community members of the Fulton and Elliott houses, Chelsea.
Lunar Rabbit
By Joan Jonas
For this project, students from the Clinton School for Writers and Artists worked with Jonas to explore the myth of a selfless rabbit who is rewarded by having his image eternally imprinted on the moon. Jonas previously studied a version of the myth in Japan, and created a book of images and photographs during her stay there.
El Club de Protesta | The Protest Club
By Pablo Helguera
Workshops and performances focusing on the repurposing of the protest song, focusing on the Latin and North American traditions and current issues surrounding immigration.
The Mysterious House of Colors
By Justin Berry
A youth engagement project that prompted students to create a compelling multimedia art exhibition.
The Wandering Band
By Ana Prvacki
A free performance of vocalists and musicians armed with portable wind, string, and brass instruments.
An Album: Hudson Guild
By Kimsooja
A portraiture project capturing senior citizens from the Hudson Guild Senior Center in Chelsea, New York City.
AWGTHTGTWTA (Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?)
By Tony Oursler
Inspired by the gaming habits of kids, Oursler worked with teens to make a video projection for the Fulton Houses playground.
Sleeping Monster Produced by Reason
By Nicola Verlato
A public art sculpture featuring a hybrid of heroes, created via a community poll of Chelsea residents. An experiment in art and democracy.
Neighborhood
By Anthony Goicolea
Families living in Chelsea were documented in the tradition of black and white portraiture from the early 20th Century.
Soundless Pounding of Accelerating Dreams
By Slater Bradley
A collaborative photography project engaging teens from Clinton Middle School.
Bodhi Obfuscatus (Allegiance)
By Michael Joo
A multimedia installation featuring a video helmet that captured close-up portraits of New York teenagers' faces as they told stories of their lives.
Untitled (Inside); Untitled (Outside)
By Jay Davis
An assemblage project reflecting on space and memory, created in collaboration with teens from Chelsea’s Clinton Middle School.
Enemy Kitchen
By Michael Rakowitz
A social sculpture project centering on food and war, fostering understanding across cultures.
Collective Portrait
By Gary Simmons
A collaborative self-portrait project with students from the Clinton Middle School.
Erasers
By Anna Gaskell
A film project focused on the art of storytelling. A collaboration with students from the Clinton Middle School.

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Public Art

If We Don’t, Who Will?

The Stories We Tell Our Machines: An Introduction.
by Stephanie Dinkins, 2025.
Public Art

Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker

By Coco Fusco, 2024.
Union Square.
Public Art

New York 2044

By Noah Fischer, 2024.
Online & various locations in NYC.
Public Art

The Yes Men + The Good Liars

By The Yes Men and The Good Liars, 2024.
Various locations in NYC.
Public Art

I cannot not grieve: CRY SCREAM SHOUT SING

By Freya Powell, 2023.
Elmhurst Hospital, Central Park, and The Green-Wood Cemetery.
Public Art

Untitled (Comedy Show)

By Pablo Helguera, 2023.
Laurie Beechman Theater, Manhattan.
Public Art

Mind Forged Manacles / Manacle Forged Minds

By Fred Wilson, 2022-2023.
Columbus Park, Downtown Brooklyn
Public Art

Public Water

By Mary Mattingly, 2020-2021.
Online and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Public Art

Ustedes (Them)

By Krzysztof Wodiczko, 2020.
Governors Island, NYC.
Public Art

Loro (Them)

Parco Sempione, Milan, Italy
Public Art

Night Watch

East River and Hudson River along the shores of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and New Jersey.
Public Art

Out of Thin Air

City Hall Park, Manhattan
Public Art

NYsferatu: Symphony Of A Century

Public screenings all around NYC.
Public Art

Clean Labor

Wythe Hotel, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Public Art

MONTH2MONTH

Private residences in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York.
Public Art

Borrowed Light

Located next to the Sunset Park Recreational Center 44th St & 7th Ave, Brooklyn
Public Art

9-5

Brookfield Place Pavilion, Lower Manhattan.
Public Art

The Disappearing City

Hudson Guild Gallery and Greenwich House, NYC
Public Art

On The Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide

Manhattan Bridge Archway Plaza, DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Public Art

Residents of New York

By Andres Serrano, 2014.
West 4th Street Subway Station and throughout the East and West Village.
Public Art

Envision New York 2017

Online/Digital project
Public Art

Moon Guardians

Gansevoort Square, Meatpacking District, NYC.
Public Art

Sunspotting a Walking Forest

Jenny Marketou, 2012 – The Highline, New York.
Public Art

Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection

Krzysztof Wodiczko, 2012 – Union Square, New York, NY
Public Art

When You’re Looking at Me, You’re Looking at Country

Chelsea
Public Art

Lunar Rabbit

Joan Jonas, 2011 - Hudson River Park, New York, NY.
Public Art

El Club de Protesta | The Protest Club

Pablo Helguera, 2011 - The Highline and the Hudson Guild, New York.
Public Art

The Mysterious House of Colors

Justin Berry, 2009 – Chelsea
Public Art

The Wandering Band

Ana Prvacki, 2010 – The Highline, New York, NY.
Public Art

An Album: Hudson Guild

Kimsooja, 2009 – Chelsea
Public Art

AWGTHTGTWTA (Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?)

Tony Oursler, 2008 — Chelsea
Public Art

Sleeping Monster Produced by Reason

Nicola Verlato, 2008 – Chelsea
Public Art

Neighborhood

Anthony Goicolea, 2008 – Chelsea
Public Art

Soundless Pounding of Accelerating Dreams

A photography project engaging teens from Clinton Middle School.
Public Art

Bodhi Obfuscatus (Allegiance)

Chelsea
Public Art

Untitled (Inside); Untitled (Outside)

Chelsea, 2007
Public Art

Enemy Kitchen

Hudson Guild Community Center, Chelsea, New York.
Public Art

Collective Portrait

Chelsea
Public Art

Erasers

Chelsea, 2005
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Engaging Artists

A Mobile Home

By Xenoduo, 2024.
Various locations in NYC.
Engaging Artists

Beyond Memorial

By Immanuel Oni, 2023.
East Harlem and Brownsville
Engaging Artists

The Red String

By Lily & Honglei, 2022.
Queens and Manhattan.
Engaging Artists

Beam Ensemble

By Sean Desiree, 2021.
Crotona Park, Bronx
Engaging Artists

Trans Boxing

New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Cincinnati, and New Orleans
Engaging Artists

Waiting for the session to begin

Coney Island Beach Boardwalk/Riegelmann Boardwalk, Brooklyn NY.
Engaging Artists

Building Stories

Flux Factory, Long Island City
Engaging Artists

Hello, it’s me

Hudson Guild Gallery.
Engaging Artists

Almost Home / Casi Llegando a Casa

Bridget Bartolini and Priscilla Stadler, with Milton X. Trujillo
Engaging Artists

Funeral Portrait Service (Young Jeong Sajin)

Multiple locations in Lower Manhattan, Flushing, Queens, and Ridgefield, NJ
Engaging Artists

Engaging Artists at the Queens Museum

Queens Museum
Engaging Artists

REMAP

Jefferson Market Library
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Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker: An Afternoon of Art, Music & Dance Celebrating the Diversity of NYC

by Coco Fusco, 2024. Broadway Plaza, North of Union Square.
Events

Opening & Performance: Xenoduo’s A Mobile Home

by Xenoduo, 2024. Senset Park.
Events

The Silent Unseen Audio Tour: An Embodied Introduction to Asian American History

by Ayo Ohs, 2024. Queens Museum.
Events

Why Not Public Housing? A Save Section 9 Teach-In

With Save Section 9, 2024. Virtual workshop.
Events

Rituals of Social Transformation

Engaging Artists Fellows, 2024,
HeadHi, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Jonathan González

By Jonathan González with Katrina Reid, 2023. Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Of Manacles and Monuments

Center for Brooklyn History, 2023.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Engaging Artists Fellows

2023 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Networks of Collective Care

Engaging Artists, 2023.
Recess, Brooklyn.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: george emilio sanchez & Patti Ortiz

2022 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Julian Louis Phillips

2022 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Resistance Revival Chorus and Pennants & Poets

2022 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Futures, Narratives, and Networks

Engaging Artists Fellows, 2022.
Queens Museum.
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If We Don’t, Who Will?

The Stories We Tell Our Machines: An Introduction.
by Stephanie Dinkins, 2025.
Events

Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker: An Afternoon of Art, Music & Dance Celebrating the Diversity of NYC

by Coco Fusco, 2024. Broadway Plaza, North of Union Square.
Events

Opening & Performance: Xenoduo’s A Mobile Home

by Xenoduo, 2024. Senset Park.
Events

The Silent Unseen Audio Tour: An Embodied Introduction to Asian American History

by Ayo Ohs, 2024. Queens Museum.
Events

Why Not Public Housing? A Save Section 9 Teach-In

With Save Section 9, 2024. Virtual workshop.
Events

Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker

By Coco Fusco, 2024.
Union Square.
Events

New York 2044

By Noah Fischer, 2024.
Online & various locations in NYC.
Events

A Mobile Home

By Xenoduo, 2024.
Various locations in NYC.
Events

The Yes Men + The Good Liars

By The Yes Men and The Good Liars, 2024.
Various locations in NYC.
Events

Rituals of Social Transformation

Engaging Artists Fellows, 2024,
HeadHi, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

I cannot not grieve: CRY SCREAM SHOUT SING

By Freya Powell, 2023.
Elmhurst Hospital, Central Park, and The Green-Wood Cemetery.
Events

Beyond Memorial

By Immanuel Oni, 2023.
East Harlem and Brownsville
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Jonathan González

By Jonathan González with Katrina Reid, 2023. Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Of Manacles and Monuments

Center for Brooklyn History, 2023.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Engaging Artists Fellows

2023 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Networks of Collective Care

Engaging Artists, 2023.
Recess, Brooklyn.
Events

Untitled (Comedy Show)

By Pablo Helguera, 2023.
Laurie Beechman Theater, Manhattan.
Events

The Red String

By Lily & Honglei, 2022.
Queens and Manhattan.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: george emilio sanchez & Patti Ortiz

2022 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Julian Louis Phillips

2022 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Gates, Borders, Barriers: Resistance Revival Chorus and Pennants & Poets

2022 - Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Mind Forged Manacles / Manacle Forged Minds

By Fred Wilson, 2022-2023.
Columbus Park, Downtown Brooklyn
Events

Futures, Narratives, and Networks

Engaging Artists Fellows, 2022.
Queens Museum.
Events

Beam Ensemble

By Sean Desiree, 2021.
Crotona Park, Bronx
Events

Public Water

By Mary Mattingly, 2020-2021.
Online and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.
Events

Ustedes (Them)

By Krzysztof Wodiczko, 2020.
Governors Island, NYC.
Events

Trans Boxing

New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Cincinnati, and New Orleans
Events

Waiting for the session to begin

Coney Island Beach Boardwalk/Riegelmann Boardwalk, Brooklyn NY.
Events

Loro (Them)

Parco Sempione, Milan, Italy
Events

Night Watch

East River and Hudson River along the shores of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and New Jersey.
Events

Out of Thin Air

City Hall Park, Manhattan
Events

Building Stories

Flux Factory, Long Island City
Events

Hello, it’s me

Hudson Guild Gallery.
Events

Almost Home / Casi Llegando a Casa

Bridget Bartolini and Priscilla Stadler, with Milton X. Trujillo
Events

NYsferatu: Symphony Of A Century

Public screenings all around NYC.
Events

Clean Labor

Wythe Hotel, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Events

Funeral Portrait Service (Young Jeong Sajin)

Multiple locations in Lower Manhattan, Flushing, Queens, and Ridgefield, NJ
Events

Engaging Artists at the Queens Museum

Queens Museum
Events

MONTH2MONTH

Private residences in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York.
Events

Borrowed Light

Located next to the Sunset Park Recreational Center 44th St & 7th Ave, Brooklyn
Events

9-5

Brookfield Place Pavilion, Lower Manhattan.
Events

REMAP

Jefferson Market Library
Events

The Disappearing City

Hudson Guild Gallery and Greenwich House, NYC
Events

On The Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide

Manhattan Bridge Archway Plaza, DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Events

Residents of New York

By Andres Serrano, 2014.
West 4th Street Subway Station and throughout the East and West Village.
Events

Envision New York 2017

Online/Digital project
Events

Moon Guardians

Gansevoort Square, Meatpacking District, NYC.
Events

Sunspotting a Walking Forest

Jenny Marketou, 2012 – The Highline, New York.
Events

Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection

Krzysztof Wodiczko, 2012 – Union Square, New York, NY
Events

When You’re Looking at Me, You’re Looking at Country

Chelsea
Events

Lunar Rabbit

Joan Jonas, 2011 - Hudson River Park, New York, NY.
Events

El Club de Protesta | The Protest Club

Pablo Helguera, 2011 - The Highline and the Hudson Guild, New York.
Events

The Mysterious House of Colors

Justin Berry, 2009 – Chelsea
Events

The Wandering Band

Ana Prvacki, 2010 – The Highline, New York, NY.
Events

An Album: Hudson Guild

Kimsooja, 2009 – Chelsea
Events

AWGTHTGTWTA (Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?)

Tony Oursler, 2008 — Chelsea
Events

Sleeping Monster Produced by Reason

Nicola Verlato, 2008 – Chelsea
Events

Neighborhood

Anthony Goicolea, 2008 – Chelsea
Events

Soundless Pounding of Accelerating Dreams

A photography project engaging teens from Clinton Middle School.
Events

Bodhi Obfuscatus (Allegiance)

Chelsea
Events

Untitled (Inside); Untitled (Outside)

Chelsea, 2007
Events

Enemy Kitchen

Hudson Guild Community Center, Chelsea, New York.
Events

Collective Portrait

Chelsea
Events

Erasers

Chelsea, 2005
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