Public Art Fund presents Gabriel Orozco: Public Nature, an exhibition of 12 new photographs on view on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York City, Chicago, and Boston. The images, captured by Orozco as he walked through public spaces, explore how nature and the built environment shape one another, and together comprise the artist’s first commissioned photographic series.

The following photographs are presented by Public Art Fund as a part of Gabriel Orozco: Public Nature, an exhibition on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Chicago, and Boston, July 8, 2026 – September 6, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Kurimanzutto Gallery. 

“In this exhibition, Orozco uses the JCDecaux bus shelters as a framework to expand his longstanding interest in the built environment and bring it into a new register, where his images function as spatial interventions,” said Gabriela López Dena, Associate Curator of Public Practice at Public Art Fund. “The works create visual continuities between image and site, allowing elements within the photographs to appear as extensions of the surrounding urban landscape. As a result, the city itself becomes part of the work, and the work becomes part of the city.”

“When you see these images at the bus stop, you can imagine that you are physically in the landscape. It’s not just about the photography itself, but the photography in relationship with the body that is looking at that image, in that bus stop, on that street. The content of the images is in relationship with the urban context around them, and the size of the image is also in relationship with the body,” said Orozco. “I like to play in this friction between the natural world and the urban. The structured grid of cities is being challenged all the time by the way nature behaves.”

Gabriel Orozco: Public Nature is curated by Public Art Fund Associate Curator of Public Practice Gabriela López Dena.

Titlle image: Gabriel Orozco. Altavista y Periférico (Altavista and Periférico), 2026. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY. Presented by Public Art Fund as a part of Gabriel Orozco: Public Nature, an exhibition on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Chicago, and Boston, July 8, 2026 – September 6, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Kurimanzutto Gallery.