Open Saturdays & Sundays, 12-6pm | Additional hours by appointment
at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Upper & Lower Galleries
August 28 – October 26

LMCC’s The Arts Center at Governors Island will serve as the hub and central exhibition space for The Works on Water 2025 Triennial, 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. 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. Artists include: Frank Bloem, Jeremy Dennis, Marie Lorenz, sTo Len, Lize Mogel, Eve Mosher, Nancy Nowacek, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Sunk Shore (Carolyn Hall and Clarinda MacLow), and Marina Zurkow.

The Works on Water 2025 Triennial exhibition at The Arts Center on Governors Island will be open to the public on Saturdays & Sundays, 12-6pm, and weekdays by appointment, August 28 through October 26. The exhibition will be on view in the Upper and Lower Galleries of The Arts Center. A series of public workshops in July and September will accompany the exhibition. 

The full Triennial runs May 20 to October 26 and includes Walking the Edge, a collective walk of all 520 miles of New York City’s Coastline. Visit worksonwater.org for details.

Works on Water is an experimental organization and triennial exhibition dedicated to artworks, performances, conversations, workshops and site-specific experiences that explore diverse artistic investigation of water in the urban environment. We seek to strengthen and nourish the community of artists working on and with bodies of water and to provide a platform to increase awareness of artists and organizations working on and with the waterways

Made possible with support from the Cultural Development Fund, Invoking the Pause, exhibiting artists, and Works on Water’s partner organizations.