This year’s standout public artworks brought civic imagination into parks, mountains, tunnels, and rooftops. From interactive sculptures to ecologically attuned installations, artists around the world are expanding the role of public art as a catalyst for reflection, play, and connection. The art and design fabrication company UAP has revealed its annual list of the most notable public art projects of 2025, curated in partnership with six internationally recognized curators.
The 2025 projects were selected by Salamishah Tillet, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic at the New York Times; Amanda Abi Khalil, founder of TAP (Temporary Art Platform); Pojai Akratanakul, project and research manager of the 2026 Timor-Leste Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and Deborah McCormick, a public arts strategist. They collaborated with Natasha Smith, UAP’s director of curatorial, and Danielle Robson, principal curator and curatorial manager at UAP.
“This year’s cohort of contributing curators presents a powerhouse of women, leading in the arts and reporting from New York to Beirut and beyond,” Smith said. “The artworks featured render this year of 2025 in a diversity of forms, color, light, culture and beauty.”
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