High Line Art has announced its 2026 season of public art commissions for New York's elevated park. The program includes a billboard work by Katherine Bernhardt and three major installations by Patricia Ayres, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Derek Fordjour, alongside video works for the High Line Channel by Saba Khan and a film grouping by Marianna Simnett, Filip Kostic, and Ana Hušman.
This season matters as it continues the High Line's influential role in presenting ambitious, free public art to millions of visitors. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the works engage with pressing social themes—from gender and the carceral system to environmental toxicity and the performance of labor—demonstrating how public art commissions can serve as a platform for critical discourse within the urban landscape.