Public Matter

Public Matter is a fully accessible exhibition platform curated by Library Street Collective. Public Matter features rotating outdoor exhibitions of large-scale paintings by the most recognized and celebrated names in contemporary art, with a particular focus on those artists who have developed their skills and visual art in public spaces.

 
 

July 2025 - July 2026

Public Matter: L. Kasimu Harris

 
 

July 2024

Public Matter: Genevieve Gaignard

JULY 2023

Public Matter: New Forms
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Carole Harris, Lonnie Holley, Ashley Hunt, Jared Owens, and Ronny Quevedo.

 

JULY 2022

Public Matter: Jason REVOK

JUNE 2021

Public Matter: Fictional Advertisements
Daniel Arsham

 

JUNE 2020

Public Matter: Everything Hurts.
Jammie Holmes

July 2019

Public Matter: Digitalia
Francois Beaurain, Manzel Bowman, Medina Dugger, KESH, Trevor Stuurman, Kyler Yearwood

 
 

June 2018

Public Matter: XERISCAPE
Nina Chanel Abney, Rosson Crow, Beverly Fishman, Tschabalala Self and Wendy White

JUNE 2017

Public Matter: Size of the Fight
FAILE

 
 

June 2016

Public Matter: New Horizons
FUTURA

MAY 2015

Public Matter: Printer Matter
Shepard Fairey

 

November 2014

Public Matter: Lemonade
Jordan Nickel / POSE