Pratt Institute Sculpture Park

Philippe Anthonioz is a French sculptor and artist from Paris, France. He is self-taught and started his career working with Nadia Pasquer, Raymond Mason and finally with Diego Giacometti. Philippe’s work has been exhibited extensively in museums around the world. He lives and works in Paris (From Art in Embassies).

Anthonioz's sculpture La Méditerranée (2016) is located near the South East corner of the Library. 

Siavash "Siah" Armajani was an Iranian-born American sculptor and architect. During his decades-long career, Siah Armajani has produced a nuanced and wide-ranging body of work that includes sculpture, public art, painting, drawing, and conceptual projects. He is best known for outdoor gardens, gazebos, plazas, and bridges, works that exist at the intersection of art, community, and site and explore what the “public” in public art really means. Less known are his studio sculptures, which combine social and political content with forms adapted from the vernacular architecture of rural America, Bauhaus design, and Russian Constructivism, among others. All of his works speak directly to an American experience of immigration—something Armajani, as a native of Iran and now a resident of Minnesota, knows well (From the Walker Art Gallery).

Armajani's sculpture Picnic Table (1999) is located near the entrance to the library. 

Walker Art Gallery Bio

"Manifesto: Public Sculpture in the Context of American Democracy"

MoMA Bio

Ilan Averbuch was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He received a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York and an M.F.A. from Hunter College, New York. He lives and works in New York. Since the early 1980’s his work has been exhibited regularly in the United States, Europe, Israel, India and Canada. 

In June 1997, the art critic Carter Ratcliff wrote of Averbach, “in part his sculptures owe their monumental aura to their materials—stone, copper, lead, heavy wooden beams. In greater part, this aura is created by his themes—civilization and its history, its interactions with nature. Yet the deepest power of Averbuch’s art is its truly convincing monumentality, the product of qualities that we ordinarily consider anti-monumental. A monument of the usual sort has a single message, simply stated. Sculpture of this sort presents its single-mindedness as a claim to authority.

The authority of an Averbuch monument is quite different, for it flows from a refusal to advance just one idea. As we have seen, his images not only permit, they demand, multiple readings. He is a master of ambiguity, of the richness of meaning that engages the imagination and prompts it to follow cues in every direction, as far as our energies will take us. Always subtle, he is often playful, and his art never permits us to be certain even about such seemingly simple matters as formal resemblance.” (Adapted from the Nancy Hoffman Gallery)

Averbuch's sculpture The Book of Stone and Steel (2005) is located west of the Main Building. His sculpture Leaf (1993) is located west of Memorial Hall. 

Ilan Averbuch – Sculpture and Drawings

Ilan Averbuch on Vimeo

Masaru Bando studied sculpture at an art university in Tokyo for two years before studying at Roma Academia with the Italian sculptor Emio Greco. After living and working for 10 years in Rome, Bando moved to New York in 1983. Currently, he has a studio in New York City and a studio in Hokkaido, Japan. (Adapted from the Newport News Public Art Foundation)

Bando says of his artistic process, “My work begins with the study of life models, from which I make life-size charcoal drawings and abstract and figurative sculptures in clay, plaster, wood and bronze. Thinking and working with the figure includes the understanding of the internal spiritual and physical essence of the human form as well as the expansion of the form into the surrounding space. Thus, I explore both architectural and natural surroundings in the creation of the works” (From Masuro Bando - Artist Statement)

Bando’s sculpture Imagine 95 (1995) is located between the Library and Dekalb hall, near Hall St.

Masaru Bando

Cathey earned her MFA with high honors from Pratt Institute on a full fellowship where she recently retired as a full professor. She created Wild America, a series of college accredited initiatives partnering with national parks, and has taught interdisciplinary environmental design studios at Cooper Union and the Masters Program in Exhibition Planning and Design at the University of the Arts (From Billian Studio).

Billian’s sculpture Whispering Bench— Texting (2014) is located to the north of Esther Lloyd Jones Hall.

For over 30 years, artist/musician team, Bill and Mary Buchen, have designed public art installations and interactive sound sculptures for parks, schools, science centers, transit stations, children’s museums and playgrounds around the world. They were awarded a joint fellowship for the project Designing for Children in Community Gardens. Their artworks invite active play and group participation; whether tapping rhythms on percussion instruments inspired by global music cultures or investigating environmental phenomena.

Their sculpture Wind Reeds (1999) is located north of the Library near Hall St. 

Santiago Calatrava is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter widely known for his sculptural bridges and buildings. Calatrava studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, from which he graduated in 1974. The following year he began a course in structural engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, receiving a Ph.D. in technical science (1979) for a thesis entitled “On the Foldability of Frames.” In 1981 he established his own architecture and engineering firm in Zürich. He later opened offices in Paris, Valencia, and New York.

Some of his best-known architectural commissions include the Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, Sweden, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas, and his largest project, the City of Arts and Sciences and Opera House in his birthplace, Valencia (Adapted from Britanica.com).

His sculpture S7 (2011) is located between the Library and DeKalb Hall, near Ryerson Walk. 

Noël Copeland was born in Jamaica, and studied at the Jamaica School of Art in Kingston. Later he went to Pratt Institute of Art and Design where he attained a MFA, with Honors, in Ceramics and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and has received several commissions and awards. He currently lives and works in New York (Adapted from NoelCopeland.com).

Copeland’s Seven of Hearts (2007) and Brooklyn Blooms (2009) can both be found south of Dekalb Hall.

Style Makers; Noel Copeland, Sculptor and Ceramist - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Grayson Cox is a New York City based artist working in a variety of media, from painting and printmaking to photography and furniture-like sculpture. He was born in 1979 in Indianapolis, Indiana, received his BFA from Indiana University and spent two years living and working in Tokyo before moving to New York City in 2005. Grayson received his Masters of Fine Art from Columbia University in 2010. Grayson is the recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic innovation and collaboration grant, National Society of Arts & Letters Career Award, the Daisy Soros Prize, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency. He has exhibited in New York and internationally including the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; The New Museum, New York; Elizabeth Foundation, New York; The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens, New York; Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY; The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NY; and the Sculpture Center in Queens, NY. 

Grayson’s most recent solo and two person exhibitions have been held at Pressure Club Gallery in Philadelphia, Gasser Grunert Gallery in New York, and Planthouse Gallery in New York. His shows have been reviewed in multiple publications including the New York Times, Art in America, Artnet.com and Time Out New York. 

Grayson is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. (From GraysonCox.com)

Cox's sculpture Half Story Mountain (2013) is between the Pratt Studios and the Engineering Building.

Mark di Suvero is one of the most prominent American artists to emerge from the Abstract Expressionist era and his sculptures have appeared in museums and outdoor public settings around the world. After being critically injured, di Suvero learned to operate a crane and use an electric arc welder, creating monumental steel sculptures fashioned from industrial materials and found objects. In 1975 he became the first living artist to have his work shown in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris.

Di Suvero was a founding member of the Park Place Gallery and ConStruct, both artist-owned galleries, and has shown commitment to emerging artists through the Athena Foundation and the Socrates Sculpture Park. Di Suvero has received International Sculpture Center’s Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and the 11th annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities for his commitment to aspiring artists.(From The National Endowment for the Arts)

Di Suvero's sculpture Paintbrush (2009) is between the Library and DeKalb Hall.