Nōvo Collective brings a global public art movement to Mexico, transforming the city into an open-air exhibition of creative freedom.
Leon Reid’s “Of a Free Will,” presented with Nōvo Collective, turns a Brooklyn sidewalk into a mirror for our digital dependencies.
Nōvo Collective’s uncommissioned invites artists worldwide to reclaim public space through unsanctioned, poetic interventions.
Catherine Sarah Young’s “Deep Sea Mining Claw Machine” gamifies environmental collapse in a sharp critique of extractive futures.
Gabriela Gorab reflects on how uncommissioned redefines the role of art in public life—where risk, politics, and play collide.
Chuman Zhang and Jerry Guo are the duo behind Nōvo Collective, a global platform reimagining how public art moves through the world.
Helmed by Nōvo Collective, the initiative features 54 artists who are slipping playful and defiant gestures into the cracks of everyday urban life.
Real public art, they argue, “doesn’t announce itself with plaques. It just shifts how a space feels.
Point us to a location—yours, a friend’s, an enemy’s. We’ll bring the art.
Follow Us
Drop a Line
hi@novocollective.org