Creative Time Public Art Projects

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Toward Sanctuary

A series of programs about sanctuary as a living history and ongoing aspiration. Events will take place at CTHQ and engage other spaces across the city including a nightclub and an urban farm.

Upcoming

In Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness

Reimagining American Democracy
Presented by Creative Time and Brooklyn Museum
Friday, October 23, 2026

Ongoing

CTHQ

CTHQ

Creative Time’s first public space is open weekly for events and drop in hours.

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2026

In Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness

Multiple Artists
Toward Sanctuary

Multiple Artists

2025

If You Hear Something, Free Something

Chloë Bass
Sonic Commons

Multiple Artists
R&D Fellowship

Multiple Artists

2024

Summit 2024

Multiple Artists
Cosmologyscape

Multiple Artists
The 2024 Fellows

Multiple Artists

2023

The World’s UnFair

New Red Order
Moving Chains

Charles Gaines

2022

The American Manifest

Charles Gaines
Open Call 2022

Creative Time
Tender Presence

Jill Magid

2021

The Last Stand

Kamala Sankaram
Red Stage

Rashid Johnson
When We Gather

Multiple Artists

2020

Waters of a Lower Register

Allison Janae Hamilton
Tender

Jill Magid
Creative Time Comics 2020

Multiple Artists
Open Call 2020-2021

Creative Time

2019

Speaking Truth | Summit X

Creative Time Summit
VIGIL

Jenny Holzer
The Privilege Of Escape

Risa Puno
Open Call

Creative Time

2018

On Archipelagos and Other Imaginaries—Collective Strategies to Inhabit the World

Creative Time Summit
Basilea

Multiple Artists
Bring Down The Walls

Phil Collins

2017

Of Homelands and Revolution

Creative Time Summit
On Homelands and the Stateless as the World Tilts Right

Creative Time Summit
Pledges of Allegiance

Multiple Artists
Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery

Sophie Calle
In Situ

Multiple Artists

2016

Doomocracy

Pedro Reyes
Occupy the Future

Creative Time Summit
Fly By Night

Duke Riley

2015

Curriculum NYC

Creative Time Summit
Art of the MOOC

Pedro Lasch
Biennale Arte 2015

Creative Time Summit
Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park

Multiple Artists

2014

Summit Stockholm

Creative Time Summit
Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn

Multiple Artists
A Subtlety…

Kara Walker

2013

Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st Century City

Creative Time Summit
Between the Door and the Street

Suzanne Lacy
StandART Channel 2013

Multiple Artists
Artist Sandcastle Competition 2013

Multiple Artists
Global Residency 2013

Multiple Artists
HEARD•NY

Nick Cave

2012

Sandcastle Competition 2012

Multiple Artists
Summit 4: Confronting Inequity

Multiple Artists
Creative Time Reports

Multiple Artists
Local Report 2012

Robert Whitman
The Last Pictures

Trevor Paglen
SPACE PROGRAM: MARS

Tom Sachs
Art Breaks

Multiple Artists
Living as Form Book

Multiple Artists

2011

Untitled

Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques Da Cruz, and Encke King
Social Practice Database

Multiple Artists
Living as Form

Multiple Artists
Summit 3: Living as Form

Multiple Artists
Creative Time Tweets

Multiple Artists
Teach 4 Amerika

Bruce High Quality Foundation
StandART Channel 2011

Multiple Artists
Global Residency 2011

Multiple Artists
Immigrant Movement International

Tania Bruguera
BHQFU

Bruce High Quality Foundation

2010

Oceanfront Nights

Multiple Artists
The Creative Time Summit II: Revolutions in Public Practice

Multiple Artists
At 44 1/2, 2010

Multiple Artists
Creative Time Open Door at P.S.1

Creative Time
Ralf and Jeanette

Bestué-Vives
Creative Time Comics: A Graphic Record of the Here and Now

Multiple Artists
A Bell For Every Minute

Stephen Vitiello
The Advice of Strangers

Marc Horowitz
Key to the City

Paul Ramirez Jonas
Dr. Cruel and the Afro-Icelandic Liberation Front

Jakob Boeskov
StandART Channel 2010

Multiple Artists

2009

Honor Among Thieves (Chapter 1: The Tower and the Star)

Glenn Kaino and Ryan Majestic

The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice

Multiple Artists

Creative Time Comics: A Graphic Record of the Here and Now

Multiple Artists

The Oceanfront at Art Basel Miami Beach

Pae White

PLOT09: This World & Nearer Ones

Multiple Artists

The River That Flows Both Ways

Spencer Finch

At 44 1/2, 2009

Multiple Artists

It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq

Jeremy Deller

2008

Invocation of the Queer Spirits

AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs
Democracy in America

Multiple Artists
Hey Hey Glossolalia

Multiple Artists
Muhheakantuck – Everything Has A Name

Matthew Buckingham
Playing the Building

David Byrne

2007

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans

Paul Chan
Six Actions for New York City

Multiple Artists
A Psychic Vacuum

Mike Nelson
One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This

Multiple Artists
The Art Parade 2007

Multiple Artists
The Rape of the Sabine Women

Eve Sussman and The Rufus Corporation
sleepwalkers

Doug Aitken

2006

Art on the Plaza 6

Ugo Rondinone
Sky is the Limit

Haluk Akakçe
Who Cares Projects

Multiple Artists
The Urban Visual Recording Machine

Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker
The Art Parade 2006

Multiple Artists
The 59th Minute, 2006

Multiple Artists
Strange Powers

Multiple Artists
Mermaid Parade

Multiple Artists
Broken Screen Happening

Multiple Artists
Billboards

Marilyn Minter

2005

The 59th Minute, 2005

Multiple Artists
Who Cares

Multiple Artists
The Plain of Heaven

Multiple Artists
For The City

Jenny Holzer
The Art Parade 2005

Multiple Artists
The Dreamland Artist Club 2005

Multiple Artists
Art on the Plaza 5: Look and See

Jim Hodges
NUEVOS RICOS = USA

Multiple Artists
A Consumer’s Guide to Times Square Advertising

Christine Hill

2004

The 59th Minute, 2004

Multiple Artists
For New York City: Planes and Projections

Jenny Holzer
Imitation of Christ Retail Store

Imitation of Christ
Operation Urban Terrain (OUT)

Anne-Marie Schleiner
Freedom of Expression National Monument

Multiple Artists
Plan B

Rudolf Stingel
The Dreamland Artist Club

Multiple Artists
Blue Moon

O+A
Art On The Plaza 4: Breath

Shirazeh Houshiary with Pip Horne
Burlesque Bash

Multiple Artists

2003

Halloween Hell House

Multiple Artists
Blur 03: Projects and Prototypes

Giles Lane
Light Cycle

Cai Guo-Qiang
Art on the Plaza 3: Peace

Zhang Huan
MATRIX X

Erwin Redl
Local Frequencies

Gabri Christa, Toshi Reagon, Everton Sylvester
What is What

Bill Shannon (aka The Crutchmaster)
The Peace Piece

Adelle Lutz
The Armory Show 2003

Multiple Artists
The 59th Minute, 2003

Multiple Artists

2002

Holiday Light Show

Multiple Artists
The 59th Minute, 2002

Multiple Artists
Sonic Garden

Multiple Artists
Art on the Plaza 2: Back of a Snowman

Gary Hume
Garlic=Rich Air

Shu Lea Cheang
Consuming Places

Multiple Artists
Blur 02: Power at Play in Digital Art and Culture

Multiple Artists
Metapet

Action Tank
Tribute in Light

Julian Laverdiere and Paul Myoda
Untitled

Hans Haacke
Tap

Multiple Artists
Art on the Plaza 1: Primal Graphics 2002

Jim Campbell
Time to Consider: The Arts Respond to 9.11

Multiple Artists

2001

4316 Watercolors

Mark Malmgren
The 59th Minute, 2001

Multiple Artists
Music in the Anchorage 2001

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 18: Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion

Multiple Artists
Wink

Takashi Murakami
Clouds

Vik Muniz
Blur 01: New Creative Practices Within Developing Technologies

Multiple Artists

2000

Untitled, 1995

Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Day With(out) Art: The Banner Project 2000 and CineVirus: Make a Scene

Multiple Artists
Airtime: A Series of Wireless Art Projects

Multiple Artists
DNAid: Billboards

Multiple Artists
DNAid: Deli Cups

Multiple Artists
Music in the Anchorage 2000

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 17: NoiseGate

Granular Synthesis
Tibor in Orbit

Tibor Kalman
Teleport Diner

Multiple Artists
Leap

Chris Doyle

1999

Day With(out) Art 1999: Banner Project, Daily Dispatch, and Web Action

Multiple Artists

Art in the Anchorage 16: Exposing Meaning in Fashion Through Presentation

Multiple Artists

Adolescence

Ange Leccia

1998

Day With(out) Art 1998: The Banner Project and 10 Web Action Tours

Multiple Artists
Between Dreams and History

Shimon Attie
Art in the Anchorage 15

Multiple Artists
El Mexterminator

Guillermo Gómez-Peña with Roberto Sifuentes and Sara Shelton Mann
Gesture as Value

Jerelyn Hanrahan
1-900-ALL-KAREN

Karen Finley

1997

Rumeurs–Les Avatars

Magali Claude
Day With(out) Art 1997: The Wish Machine, The Time Capsule, and Silent Orpheus

Multiple Artists
Silent Orpheus

Plaintext Players
The Wish Machine

Chrysanne Stathacos
Exquisite Corpses

Multiple Artists
World Views

Multiple Artists
That Big Yellow Braid

Duston Spear
Oh…A Fifty Year Dart

Multiple Artists
Music in the Anchorage 1997

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 14: Plug In!

Multiple Artists
Station Unidentified

Multiple Artists
Buying Time: The Nostalgia-Free History Sale

M. River and T. Whid Art Associates (MTAA)

1996

Winter Music

Phil Kline
Creative Time’s Holiday Buffet

Elaine Tin Nyo
Day With(out) Art Web Action 1996

CB Cooke
Race for the Arts

X-Cheerleaders
Music in the Anchorage 1996

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 13

Multiple Artists
Money Amok

Multiple Artists
Rent a Body

Paco Cao

1995

Day Without Art: Action Project

Multiple Artists
Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists

Multiple Artists
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (aka Paul D. Miller)
Art in the Anchorage 12: Affirmative Actions: Artists at Work

Multiple Artists
Deviant Craft

W. David Hancock
Café Bizzoso

Multiple Artists
Mama, I Thought Only Black People Were Bad

Negro Art Collective (Tony Cokes and Renée Cox and Fo Wilson)
Brinca Charcos (High Waters)

Jennifer Monson
Building Sweeps

Michael Bramwell
Relax. Fly Mass Transit

Darrell Wilks
All in the Family

Thomas Harris

1994

Master Builder

Multiple Artists
Combat Zone: Campaign HQ Against Domestic Violence

Mary Beth Edelson
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Wild Style

Multiple Artists
First Annual Sara D. Roosevelt Park Summer Festival

Multiple Artists
Creative Time’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

Mary Ellen Strom and Barbara Tsumagari
Art in the Anchorage 11: Mirage

Ann Carlson
42nd Street Art Project

Multiple Artists
Patina du Prey’s Memorial Dress

Hunter Reynolds
Mass Transit 3: Hey Bozo, Use Mass Transit

G.H. Hovagimyan
Body Politics

Multiple Artists

1993

Day Without Art 1993: We Interrupt This Program…

Multiple Artists
Underdevelopment in Progress / 500 Years

Vistas Latinas (Ana Ferrer and Kukuli Velarde)
Dyke TV: Weekly Art Segment

Multiple Artists
Universal Family Album

Max Below and Kim Irwin
42nd Street Art Project

Multiple Artists
In Honor of Allen R. Schindler

Bureau (Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett)
Art in the Anchorage 10

Elizabeth Streb and Ringside
Hairy Tales

Debra Levine
Victory Music Series

Multiple Artists
Higher Ground

Sarah Skaggs Dance Company

1992

Use Mass Transit 2

Jerri Allyn
Day Without Art 1992: We Interrupt This Program…

Multiple Artists
Two Spirits Speak Out

Multiple Artists
Accountablity?

Dinh Le
A Surreal Soap Opera

Victoria Bugbee and Company
Art in the Anchorage 9: Women’s Action Coalition

Multiple Artists
Sacrificial Ornament

Spring Hurlbut
Transitions, Inc.

Danny Tisdale
Private/Public

Multiple Artists
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

Ron Vawter
Use Mass Transit 1

Roger Shimomura
The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project

Peggy Diggs
The Fear of Disclosure Project: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret)

Marlon T. Riggs

1991

Our Voices: Our Songs

Lavender Light Gospel Choir
The Fear of Disclosure Project: (In)Visible Women

Multiple Artists
As A Dream That Vanishes (A Meditation on the Harvest of a Lifetime)

Multiple Artists
Clean Needles Save Lives: Drug Users Doing It For Ourselves

Multiple Artists
Masterpieces Without the Director

Spencer Finch and Paul Ramírez-Jonas
Wigstock

Multiple Artists
Skin

Paula Josa-Jones and Pauline Oliveros
Art in the Anchorage 8

Multiple Artists
Memories of New York Chinatown

Tomie Arai
Suz/o/Suz

La Fura Dels Baus
Not Just the Parade, Time to Get Paid

Algernon Miller
The Most Exciting Women in Music

Multiple Artists
Black Works

Station House Opera
Angels Have Been Sent to Me

Jerri Allyn with Helen Thorington
Visualize This

Nancy Burson with Kunio Nagashima

1990

Day Without Art 1990: Electric Blanket

Multiple Artists
Love of a Poet

John Kelly
Carbon Monoxide is a Lethal Gas

Hilja Keading
The Bowery Concert

Multiple Artists
Surgeon General’s Warning

Beth B.
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 7

Multiple Artists
The Wilds and the Deep

Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe
The Black Sheep

Karen Finley
Creative Time at Dixon Place

Multiple Artists
Demolish the Wall of Censorship

Multiple Artists

1989

All people with AIDS are innocent

Gran Fury

What’s in a Flame?

Cathy Quinn

Video/Musica

Multiple Artists

It Was Only Art

Karen Finley

Lincoln Center Out of Doors 1

Multiple Artists

Automotive Votive

The Kunst Brothers (Tom Leeser and Alison Saar)

Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do

Gran Fury

Light Site-ings: Holland Tunnel Drive-In Billboard

Leni Schwendinger

Art in the Anchorage 6

Multiple Artists

Poets in the Bars

Multiple Artists

1988

UP Tiempo!: Performing and Visual Artists of the Americas

Multiple Artists
15th Anniversary Halloween Party

Multiple Artists
Art on the Beach 9

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 5

Multiple Artists
In the WINTER GARDEN: Anggrek

Alice Farley and Company
Misfortunes of Desire Acted Out at an Imaginary Location Symbolizing Everything Worth Having

Survival Research Laboratories (SRL)
In the WINTER GARDEN: Relay

Connie Beckley

1987

Art on the Beach 8

Multiple Artists
Performance in the Park 2

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 4

Multiple Artists

1986

Performance in the Park 1

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 3: The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo

Multiple Artists
B. Holden to Diderot

Barry Holden

1985

A Drop in the Bucket

Jane Greengold
Art on the Beach 7

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 2

Multiple Artists

1984

Art on the Beach 6

Multiple Artists
Nighttrippers

Kaylynn Sullivan with Henry Threadgill
Touch Sanitation Show: Part One

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Walk-In Theater for Pedestrians

Carmella Saraceno

1983

Sanitation Celebrations

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Art on the Beach 5: Six Collaborative Projects

Multiple Artists
Art in the Anchorage 1

Multiple Artists

1982

Projects at the Chamber

Multiple Artists
Art on the Beach 4

Multiple Artists
Principles in Perspectives

Connie Beckley

1981

Ruckus Manhattan Revival

Multiple Artists
Art on the Beach 3

Multiple Artists
Windspun

Liz Phillips
Projects at the Precinct

Multiple Artists

1980

Breaking In

Multiple Artists
Masstransiscope

Bill Brand
Art on the Beach 2

Multiple Artists

1979

Downtown Drive-In 2

Multiple Artists

Custom and Culture 2

Multiple Artists

1978

Art on the Beach 1

Multiple Artists
Downtown Drive-In

Multiple Artists

1977

Butler’s Lives of the Saints

Ann Wilson
Custom and Culture 1

Multiple Artists

1976

Round: Sound for Concave Surfaces

Max Neuhaus
Anemones: An Air Aquarium

Otto Piene
New York Sky Events: Neon Rainbow

Otto Piene and Alejandro Sina
New York Sky Event: East Harlem Sky Events

Otto Piene

1975

Ruckus Manhattan

Multiple Artists

1974

Sail

Multiple Artists
Crafts in Action

Multiple Artists