Upcoming 2026 Exhibitions

Ends September 9

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.

2026 Exhibition Program

Camille Henrot: Dogs
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.

Ongoing Permanent Installations

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

Bloomberg Philanthropies is the presenting sponsor of the Public Art Fund 2026 Exhibition Season.

Leadership support for On the Flip Side is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman & Richard C. Pepperman II, and Jennifer Harris, with champion support from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation.

Leadership support for Woody De Othello: Guardian Spirit is provided by Karma, the Girlfriend Fund, the Abrams Foundation, Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman & Richard C. Pepperman II, Jennifer Harris, and the KHR McNeely Family Foundation | Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely, with champion support from The Lipman Family Foundation, Elise & Andrew Brownstein, Ellen & Andrew Celli, Jennifer & Jason New, Allison & Paul Russo, Allison Wiener & Jeffrey Schackner, and David Wine & Michael P. MacElhenny; generous support from Margot & Nathan Bram and Linda Lennon & Stuart Baskin; and major support from Jessica Silverman.

Leadership support for Genesis Belanger: Heads or Tails is provided by Pace Gallery, Perrotin, the Abrams Foundation, Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman & Richard C. Pepperman II, and Jennifer Harris, with champion support from Ellen & Andrew Celli, Alexandra & Grant Frankel, Jennifer & Jason New, Jessica Ogilvie, Karen & Sam Seymour, and Allison Wiener & Jeffrey Schackner; and major support from Diana Bowes.

Genesis Belanger: Heads or Tails is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Leadership support for Between Tides is provided by the KHR McNeely Family Foundation | Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely, the Abrams Foundation, Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman & Richard C. Pepperman II, and Jennifer Harris, with champion support from Elise & Andrew Brownstein, Andrea Krantz & Harvey M. Sawikin, and Allison & Paul Russo.

Leadership support for Gabriel Orozco: Public Nature is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman & Richard C. Pepperman II, and Jennifer Harris, with champion support from Andrea Krantz & Harvey M. Sawikin and Holly & Jonathan Lipton.

Kenneth C. Griffin and Griffin Catalyst are the presenting sponsors of Camille Henrot: Dogs.

Leadership support for Camille Henrot: Dogs is provided by Hauser & Wirth, the Abrams Foundation, Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman & Richard C. Pepperman II, and Jennifer Harris, with champion support from Elise & Andrew Brownstein, Ellen & Andrew Celli, Andrea Krantz & Harvey M. Sawikin, Alexandra & Grant Frankel, Holly & Jonathan Lipton, Jessica Ogilvie, Karen & Sam Seymour, and David Wine & Michael P. MacElhenny; generous support from Margot & Nathan Bram and Linda Lennon & Stuart Baskin; and major support from Charles B. Short & Chet Krayewski.

Special thanks to Brooklyn Bridge Park, JCDecaux, and NYC Parks and engineering partner TYLin.

Public Art Fund is supported by the generosity of individuals, corporations, and private foundations including lead support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, along with major support from the Abrams Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Ford Foundation, The Fuhrman Family Foundation, Kenneth C. Griffin and Griffin Catalyst, Agnes Gund, The Marc Haas Foundation, Hartfield Foundation, KHR McNeely Family Foundation | Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, Red Crane Foundation, the Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation, and The Silverweed Foundation.

Public Art Fund exhibitions and programs are also supported in part with public funds from government agencies, including the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.