The Big Art Directory

Artists & studios

Discover the practices behind large-scale sculpture and installation. Profiles are independently researched; inclusion does not imply representation.

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Adrian Landon ↗

Reno, Nevada, United States

Adrian Landon is a Reno sculptor whose practice includes hand-formed metal horses and large mechanical installations. His biography dates his first Mechanical Horse to 2014 and locates his work at the Generator maker space. Wings of Glory brought a moving Pegasus with flame effects to Burning Man in 2019. Landon’s project account credits engineer Tom West with the aluminum wings and propane effects, alongside a wider fabrication and installation crew. His non-mechanical work includes Equus Argentum, commissioned by the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, in 2012. Apocalypto began as a hand-hammered steel sculpture in 2011; the artist distinguishes that original from later bronze and stainless-steel versions, including a bronze at the festival. These version histories are not treated as interchangeable physical works.

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Practice
metal sculpture, kinetic sculpture, mechanical sculpture, fire art
Project references
Wings of Glory — with Tom West and project crew · Equus Argentum · Apocalypto — original steel sculpture
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Akoaki ↗

Design studio founded by Anya Sirota and Jean Louis Farges, working across architecture, urbanism and scenography. Its projects combine civic use, cultural programming and the reuse of public environments.

Project details & references
Practice
architecture, public-space design, scenography
Materials in documented works
plywood, house paint, glitter, hardware
Project references
Mothership · Detroit Afrikan Funkestra · The Mothership
Documented contexts
Mobile cultural platform · Detroit, Michigan; Performance environment · Detroit, Michigan
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Albert Paley ↗

Rochester, New York, United States

Albert Paley’s documented work ranges from forged architectural gates to monumental steel sculpture for museums, universities and civic destinations.

Project details & references
Practice
public art, metal sculpture, architectural metalwork
Materials in documented works
formed and fabricated weathering steel, stainless steel, bronze, forged, formed and fabricated weathering steel
Project references
Animals Always · Sentinel · Portal Gates
Documented contexts
2006 zoo commission; historical production duration, not a current lead-time promise.; 2003 RIT work; artist’s material and dimensional record.
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Alchemy Arts Collective ↗

Portland, Oregon

Production and fabrication studio creating sculpture, immersive environments and performance settings.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, fabrication, environment design
Materials in documented works
steel, recycled satellite dish, acrylic, programmable LEDs
Project references
Helianthus Enorme · Lillium Gigantum · Sazanov, the 4th Dimensional Space Whale
Documented contexts
Illuminated botanical sculpture · gathering space; Configurable botanical installation · climbing or seated gathering
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Alex Cook ↗

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Alex Cook is a Boston artist whose mural practice connects nature imagery, direct messages and community participation. He began the YOU ARE LOVED mural project in 2014. The City of Boston commissioned him to create four interior murals for its Engagement Center, installed in November 2021 through the Transformative Public Art Program. The series includes Tree of Life, You Are Loved, Tree with Network of Stars and Thank You Heroes, with imagery and messages tailored to the different rooms and their users. Cook collaborated with the city’s Office of Recovery Services and Office of New Urban Mechanics. His own portfolio also documents neighborhood works including Love Forest in Roxbury and Welcome To Jackson Square in Jamaica Plain. Those portfolio captions identify places but do not supply installation dates or current-condition checks.

Project details & references
Practice
murals, community art, painting
Project references
Engagement Center mural series — four interior murals · Love Forest · Welcome To Jackson Square
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Alfredo Jaar ↗

Lisbon, Portugal

Alfredo Jaar works across art, architecture, photography and film, including public interventions. His US precedents range from a Times Square animation to a constructed space for reflection within a sculpture park.

Project details & references
Practice
installation, public art, photography, film
Materials in documented works
computer animation on an electronic light board, soil, limestone, gabion baskets
Project references
A Logo for America · Park of the Laments · A Logo for America — Times Square presentation
Documented contexts
Original animation distinguished from documentation and later versions.; Completed 2010 commission in the art and nature park.
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Alice Aycock ↗

New York City, New York

Alice Aycock creates architectural sculpture and public installations, including the Park Avenue Paper Chase series and Nashville’s Ghost Ballet. Her documented projects connect fabricated forms with movement, infrastructure, and the experience of a site.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, public art, architectural installation
Materials in documented works
aluminum, painted steel, neon, thermoformed acrylic shapes
Project references
San Francisco Public Library installation · Park Avenue Paper Chase · Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks
Documented contexts
Architectural collaboration at a civic library; Temporary sculpture series across Park Avenue medians
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Alison Saar ↗

Alison Saar makes figurative sculpture addressing identity, history, and transformation. Documented U.S. public projects include Feallan and Fallow in Madison Square Park, Flourish at San Francisco International Airport, and Embodied at Los Angeles’s Hall of Justice.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, public art
Materials in documented works
bronze (Winter component only; remaining materials not established), bronze reliefs, laminated glass panels, bronze
Project references
Feallan and Fallow · Flourish · Embodied
Documented contexts
Temporary group installation in Madison Square Park; Public sculpture in an airport terminal
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Alyssa Oliveira ↗

Alyssa Oliveira creates enterable installations with the Alpine Artists Collective. In Burning Man’s 2025 artist interview, she traces the group’s beginnings to 2023 and describes the Truckee Roundhouse makerspace as central to its fabrication process. Promise of the Decade used light-diffraction film to cast rainbows, while the 2024 Prismatic Perspectives—also called Doors Galore in her interview—brought 32 doors into a participatory structure. Her 2025 Disco Snail project shifted from primarily wooden architectural forms toward a character built with foam, concrete, tile and metal, including a welded aluminum shell. The interview records construction in progress; later archive inclusion does not independently verify every planned component, current location or availability.

Project details & references
Practice
interactive installation, light installation, sculpture, mixed media
Project references
Promise of the Decade · Prismatic Perspectives · Disco Snail
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Amanda Parer ↗

Tasmania, Australia

Amanda Parer creates large-scale installations that use altered scale, light and humor to examine human relationships with the natural world.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, large-scale installation, light art
Materials in documented works
nylon, LED lights, air blowers
Project references
Intrude · Lost · Fantastic Planet
Documented contexts
Public installation · rabbit figures in multiple versions; Botanical installation · festival and urban exhibitions
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Amigo & Amigo ↗

Sydney, Australia

Sydney studio producing permanent and temporary public artworks, with in-house design, engineering, fabrication and project management.

Project details & references
Practice
public art, interactive installation, light art
Materials in documented works
hand-woven suspension net, rope, net made from recycled plastic bottles, recycled plastic bags
Project references
Trumpet Flowers · ChronoHarp · Cocoon
Documented contexts
Interactive light and sound · musical garden; Interactive light and sound · shared participation
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Andrea Greenlees ↗

London, United Kingdom

Artist creating large interactive installations, often with engineering and fabrication collaborators.

Project details & references
Practice
public sculpture, interactive installation
Materials in documented works
clear acrylic panels, copper (shoes and ribbons; partial material description)
Project references
Cirque de Reflexions · Bee Dance · Trasparenza
Documented contexts
Participatory enclosure · Black Rock City, Nevada; Public sculpture · festival and urban district
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Andrew Carson ↗

Seattle, Washington, United States

Andrew Carson creates wind-driven sculpture using metal and glass; municipal examples include Zephyr in Issaquah and Glassinator in Kirkland, Washington.

Project details & references
Practice
kinetic sculpture, wind sculpture, metal and glass sculpture
Materials in documented works
shaped glass
Project references
Zephyr · Glassinator
Documented contexts
Public-art stop near a trail facility; Waterfront park and donated public sculpture
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Andy Goldsworthy ↗

Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Andy Goldsworthy works with natural materials and the conditions of a place. His public projects include structures made from trees removed during forest management and installations intended to change over time.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, land art, site-specific installation
Project references
Spire · Wood Line
Documented contexts
Completed 2008 Presidio commission.; Completed 2011 installation with intended decomposition.
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Andy Scott ↗

Los Angeles, California

Figurative sculptor producing large animal and human forms for public, corporate and private commissions.

Project details & references
Practice
figurative sculpture, metal sculpture
Materials in documented works
galvanized mild steel, stainless steel, painted mild steel
Project references
The Kelpies · The Calling · Arria
Documented contexts
Canal-side landmark · Falkirk, Scotland; Monumental sculpture production · St. Paul, Minnesota
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Anish Kapoor ↗

Anish Kapoor makes sculpture and installations that use reflection, scale, and spatial effects. U.S. public examples include Cloud Gate in Chicago, Sky Mirror at Rockefeller Center, and the Brooklyn Bridge Park presentation of Descension.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, installation, public art
Materials in documented works
stainless steel
Project references
Cloud Gate · Sky Mirror · Descension
Documented contexts
Large stainless-steel sculpture in Millennium Park; Temporary Rockefeller Center presentation
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Anita Margrill ↗

California, United States

Anita Margrill is a California-based artist whose public work brings architecture, technology and environmental processes together. ArtsWA describes installations that use sunlight, wind and water. Her Wind Pavillion at Sunnyside Beach Park in Steilacoom combines a wind-activated roof with a beach shower, connecting a sculptural structure to everyday public use. San Francisco’s civic collection documents her collaboration with Nobuho Nagasawa on pole-mounted sculptures, canopy panels and paving inserts for Third Street light-rail platforms. The same collection credits both artists for Blueprints, laminated-glass work commissioned for Muni’s Metro East facility. This record preserves the collaborative authorship and separates individual projects from the wider transit-art program. Documented locations describe the collection record; current condition, operating mechanisms and visitor access require a site-specific check.

Project details & references
Practice
environmental installation, kinetic sculpture, public sculpture, architectural integration
Project references
Wind Pavillion · Untitled (Third Street Light Rail Project), Arleta station · Untitled (Third Street Light Rail Project), Sunnydale station
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Anthony Howe ↗

Bow, Washington, United States

Anthony Howe makes wind-powered metal sculpture. His public-work record includes Octo in Greenville, Lucea I in Dallas and Azlon I in Columbia, Maryland.

Project details & references
Practice
kinetic sculpture, wind sculpture, metal sculpture
Project references
Octo · Kliptik and Sinclair · Octo 2
Documented contexts
Public streets and districts; Comparing individual sculpture specifications
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Antony Gormley ↗

Antony Gormley’s sculpture explores the human body and its relationship to space. Documented U.S. projects include the New York presentation of Event Horizon, Chord at MIT, and New York Clearing in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, installation, public art
Project references
Event Horizon · Chord · New York Clearing
Documented contexts
Body forms distributed across a New York neighborhood; Suspended sculpture in MIT’s Simons Building
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Aphidoidea ↗

Los Angeles, California, USA

A multidisciplinary art and design studio, also presented as Aphid Studio, led by Jesus Eduardo Magaña and Paulina Bouyer-Magaña. It develops public installations responding to site and participation.

Project details & references
Practice
public art, site-specific installation, interactive art
Materials in documented works
LED lighting, Coroplast, EMT pipe, Light modules
Project references
Chrono Chromatic · Through the Cattails · Crash Site Alpha - 13
Documented contexts
Festival gateway · Indio, California · 2015; Public park event · Los Angeles, California · 2017
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Arthur Mamou-Mani ↗

London, United Kingdom

Architect leading Mamou-Mani, with a practice in digitally designed and fabricated architecture and participatory installations.

Project details & references
Practice
architecture, installation, digital fabrication
Materials in documented works
timber, metal hinges, nets, off-the-shelf timber
Project references
Catharsis · Cosmic Tree · Tangential Dreams
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Atelier Sisu ↗

Australia

Renzo B. Larriviere and Zara Pasfield collaborate on temporary public installations using abstract forms, light and sound.

Project details & references
Practice
experiential sculpture, light installation, temporary architecture
Materials in documented works
colour-reflecting film, polypropylene, translucent coloured PVC fabric
Project references
Evanescent · Florescentia · Labyrinth
Documented contexts
Botanic garden and urban farm · Illinois · 2026 program; Artist interview · seasonal landscape and visitor interaction
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Aurora Robson ↗

Hudson Valley, New York, United States

Aurora Robson transforms discarded plastic into sculpture and installation. Her documented public works combine recovered material with fabrication processes and, in some projects, integrated light or responsive technology.

Project details & references
Practice
sculpture, installation, public art
Materials in documented works
post-consumer PET bottles, PP and HDPE bottle caps, steel armature, tinted polycrylic (artist) / polyacrylic (Rice)
Project references
Eos · Shhh · Lift
Documented contexts
Practice-level material and fabrication context.; Temporary Troy Glow commission, 2024.
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B!G ART ↗

Creator and producer of interactive public art, including illuminated structures, video installations and touring experiences. This is the studio at bigart.ca, separate from Big Art Partners.

Project details & references
Practice
interactive installation, public art, light art
Materials in documented works
LED bars, 1000 L water totes, doors, video pixels
Project references
The TUNNEL · The BEACON · The PORTAL
Documented contexts
Interactive light and sound · modular pedestrian route; Light and video installation · Calgary, Canada · 2022 documentation
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