Upcoming 2026 Exhibitions

Public Art Fund proudly announces its 2026 program, featuring ambitious exhibitions and new permanent installations—together showcasing 35 artists from around the world. From photographs on bus shelters to ping-pong table sculptures on the beach, monumental installations in city parks, and works at high-profile transit hubs, this season ensures New Yorkers can’t leave home without encountering a Public Art Fund exhibition. The featured exhibitions transform daily life into magical moments—inviting imagination, play, and reflection while remaining free and accessible to all.

Woody De Othello
May 5, 2026 – March 8, 2027
Brooklyn Bridge Park

Woody De Othello’s first major public art exhibition in New York brings together a selection of new works at monumental scale and existing bronze sculptures made between 2021 and 2025. Installed throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park, this exhibition highlights the artist’s ongoing exploration of nkisi—ritual objects in Kongo traditions which embody spiritual presences and channel protective or healing forces. Each work showcases the slippage of his sculptural language–where human limbs double as sonic sculptures, and everyday objects like a phone or comb become extensions of intimate actions.The exhibition also showcases a new body of work—totemic structures which serve as both a symbol of spatial protection and a site for “capturing the wind.”

Woody De Othello is curated by Public Art Fund Assistant Curator Jenée-Daria Strand.

Genesis Belanger
June 2 – November 15, 2026
City Hall Park

In City Hall Park, Genesis Belanger realizes her first public exhibition. The presentation unfolds across three sculptural vignettes that bridge concerns of our contemporary moment with the architectural language of the city and site. In the first scene, two crouching figures, blind but not impartial, meditate on classical depictions of a blindfolded Lady Justice, unbiased in her interpretation of the law. In the second scene, Belanger questions our desire to discern artificial from real, installing artificial plants and fruiting trees waiting patiently to be planted among the existing gardens. The third and final scene comprises a group of pigmented cast cement birds plucking pennies out of the City Hall Park Fountain at the center of the park. As the single cent coin is set to be decommissioned by the US Mint in 2026, the work marks its passing, along with the affordability of making wishes in the fountain. Belanger considers the ways in which our culture manipulates our psychology, the dynamics of consumption, issues of privacy in our increasingly online world, coping mechanisms for overwhelm, and beauty as a means to create desire.

Genesis Belanger is curated by Public Art Fund Senior Curator Melanie Kress.

Between Tides
Opening June 27, 2026
Rockaway Beach, Queens

Sited on Rockaway Beach, Between Tides is a group exhibition featuring newly commissioned sculptural ping-pong tables by emerging and mid-career artists Moko Fukuyama, Ilana Harris-Babou, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Carlos H. Matos, Amalia Pica, and SUPERFLEX. Installed on the sand, the sculptures will be directly embedded in the waterfront landscape and accessible to beachgoers. The works will respond to Queens as one of the nation’s most demographically diverse regions and home to Rockaway Peninsula’s delicate ecosystems of numerous wildlife species.

Between Tides centers on community participation and celebrates ping-pong’s history. Originally a game for the elite in Victorian England, table tennis later served as a tool for diplomacy between the US and China, became an Olympic sport, and transformed into a leisure activity enjoyed by people of all backgrounds. Due to its accessibility, the game cuts across class, race, age, and gender divisions, bringing people together. Between Tides energizes ping-pong through the visions of artists exploring sculpture, public engagement, and ecology on a New York City beach.

Between Tides is curated by Public Art Fund Associate Curator of Public Practice Gabriela López Dena.

Gabriel Orozco
July 8, 2026 – September 6, 2026
JCDecaux Bus Shelters in New York City, Chicago, and Boston

Photography has always been central to Gabriel Orozco’s practice—his images capture found objects, ephemeral sculptural interventions, and chance encounters in the urban landscape. For his Public Art Fund commission and first major public art exhibition in New York City, Orozco will create 10 new site-specific images exploring the fabric of urban life. While Orozco’s most emblematic images date from the 1990s and early 2000s, this project—the first commissioned photographic series in his career—marks an exciting return to the medium. Based between Mexico City, New York, Tokyo, and Paris, Orozco’s practice is shaped by the fluidity of moving across these cities, an experience that will inform this new body of work and its reflections on contemporary urban space.

Gabriel Orozco is curated by Public Art Fund Associate Curator of Public Practice Gabriela López Dena.

Camille Henrot
September 9, 2026 – August 29, 2027
Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park

For her first public exhibition in New York City, Camille Henrot introduces a group of sculptures of dogs – for her, symbols of domesticated life – that bring handcrafted delight to the park’s entrance. The collection of dogs on leashes marks a new outdoor chapter in Henrot’s recent body of work that explores how etiquette, order, and societal rules shape the imagination and inventiveness of young life. Each dog has its own unique personality and materiality, mirroring the wide variety of shapes and sizes of canine companions she meets across her own Upper West Side neighborhood. In painting, sculpture, film, drawing, and more, Camille Henrot tries to understand the world, or to at least respect its nonsense. Interested at once in banal and quotidian phenomena and the most far-reaching societal structures, Henrot follows the stories that we tell, the structures we impose to create order, and the symbols we invent to approximate shared understanding.

Camille Henrot is curated by Public Art Fund Senior Curator Melanie Kress.

JFK Airport Terminal 6

In collaboration with JFK Millennium Partners and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Public Art Fund will debut commissions at JFK Airport’s forthcoming Terminal 6 by 19 internationally renowned artists—Nina Chanel Abney, Nevin Aladağ, Candida Alvarez, Felipe Baeza, Kerstin Brätsch, Jane Dickson, Teresita Fernández, Charles Gaines, Sky Hopinka, Shara Hughes, Laure Prouvost, Barbara Kruger, Eddie Martinez, Kambui Olujimi, GaHee Park, Uman, Charline von Heyl, Dyani White Hawk, and Haegue Yang—whose sculptures, wall installations, and mosaic and bronze floor medallions all celebrate New York City’s cultural vibrancy and enrich the travel experience for millions of passengers.

Continuing in 2026, Public Art Fund also has several works permanently on view at locations including:

• LaGuardia Terminal B: Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig, Laura Owens, Sarah Sze
• Moynihan Train Hall: Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset, Kehinde Wiley
• Newark Terminal A: Layqa Nuna Yawar, Karyn Olivier
• Planet Word (Washington, D.C.): Rafael Lozano-Hemmer