Since 1977, Public Art Fund has presented more than 500 exhibitions by the world’s most compelling artists to broad audiences in New York City’s five boroughs and beyond. These dynamic free exhibitions—available for all to experience 24 hours a day, seven days a week—enhance our urban environment and offer the public access to powerful works of contemporary art without barriers like the cost of admission.

Early groundbreaking projects include Messages to the Public (1982-1990), an exhibition series that ran on an 800-square foot animated light board in Times Square and featured more than 70 artists, among them Guerrilla Girls, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, and Alfredo Jaar. More recently, we have presented iconic exhibitions including Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (2017), Tauba Auerbach: Flow Separation (2018), Pope.L: Conquest (2019), Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales (2019), and have worked with dozens of emerging artists to realize new works that extend their practice into new realms. We have also developed permanent art programs for essential new infrastructure projects including LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B (2020) and Moynihan Train Hall (2020) with artists including Elmgreen & Dragset, Laura Owens, Sarah Sze, and Kehinde Wiley.

At Public Art Fund, we believe in free access to great contemporary art for all, that artists are an essential part of our civic dialogue, and that art has the power to ignite conversation among different people, to open hearts and minds, and to help shape our collective future. We’re proud that the proceeds of this sale will both support Public Art Fund’s mission and the extraordinarily talented and generous artists who donated artworks.