2025 Triennial
The Works on Water 2025 Triennial is a multi-sited exhibition and series of public art interventions made on, in, and with urban bodies of water, created in response to our global climate crisis. A full schedule of events can be found here.LMCC’s The Arts Center at Governors Island will serve as the hub and central exhibition space for The Works on Water 2025 Triennial.
OPEN HOURS
Friday 3-7pm | Saturday & Sunday 12-6pm | Additional hours by appointment
The Arts Center of Governors Island, Upper & Lower Galleries
Free Admission | Drop-In
The exhibition, curated by Emily Blumenfeld and Kendal Henry with the Works on Water team, frames the growing genre of Water Art as a defining environmental art form of the 21st century, exploring themes of access, exploitation, conservation, remediation, and care. Now in its third edition, this dynamic triennial invites New Yorkers to experience and reimagine the edges of the city through site-specific, participatory, and time-based works, in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society/NY Aquarium, South Street Seaport, and North Brooklyn Boat Club.
Nora Almeida / iki nakagawa, Frank Bloem, Monica Jahan Bose, Donald Hài Phú Daedalus, Jeremy Dennis, Sherese Francis, Jana Harper, Perrin Ireland, Art Jones, Marie Lorenz, sTo Len, Stacy Levy, Mare Liberum, Mary Mattingly, Wes Modes, Lize Mogel, Eve Mosher, Nancy Nowacek, Jean Shin, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Sunk Shore (Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low), Elizabeth Velazquez, and Marina Zurkow
The triennial will feature...WATER ARTWORKS by 22 artists
WALKING THE EDGE, a walk of the city’s 520 miles of coastline, in 10-mile segments, from May through the end of October 2025.
The debut of the WATER ART ARCHIVE, an interactive geography of Water Art around the world.
a RESIDENCY in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society / NY Aquarium focused on research expeditions of HUDSON CANYON.
and WORKSHOPS by
Jeremy Dennis, July 12: “Protest Sign-Making for Shinnecock Sovereignty and Water Protection”
More & More (Marina Zurkow and Sarah Rothenberg), July 26: “More&More Futures: Coastal Edition”
Lize Mogel, September 6: “Performing Infrastructure”
Sunk Shore (Clarinda Mac Low and Carolyn Hall), September 27: “Understanding Climate Change, Embodying Shorelines”