22 May - 31 Oct, 2025
From May to October 2025, the inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial will present 15 compelling commissions sprawled across the city. Each visionary local, national, and international artist will produce sculptures, interactive exhibits, or performance-based and community-led activities with an emphasis on East Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, ensuring equitable representation and access. The Triennial 2025’s commissioned works will be joined by additional public art experiences across the city.
Celebrating the power of art to build bridges, The Exchange is an artist-driven and expert-supported cross-disciplinary exhibition of immersive landmark artworks and programming, dynamically created in dialogue with and beneficial to host locations. Curated works address intractable issues in new and inspired ways, nurturing collaboration and strengthening community resilience.
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Open days: May 22 - October 31, 2025
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The first-ever Boston Public Art Triennial is coming
The Boston Public Art Triennial will deliver 15 compelling new public art commissions across the city, created by visionary local, national, and international artists. Works ranging from sculptures to interactive exhibits will extend to hundreds of performance-based community-led programs in multiple Boston neighborhoods.
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Boston will host its first 'Public Art Triennial' in 2025
Now + There’s founding mission was, and still is, to “build a public art city.” That vision is expanding with plans to launch the Boston Public Art Triennial in May 2025. The massive endeavor also ushers in a name change for the organization.
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Boston Bets Big on Public Art With a New Triennial
Boston holds an important place in the public imagination for many things: claims to fame include its entrenched Colonial-era stories, like Paul Revere’s midnight ride and the Boston Tea Party, and its array of world-class academic and research institutions. But the city has not been known for contemporary art in the way thriving art-world hubs like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami are.
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