Exhibitions
Including works by: Izumi Kato, Michelle Grabner, Sarah Braman, Nat Pyper, Teresa Baker, Kim Miller, Naotaka Hiro, Luftwerk, Erika Verzutti, Pao Houa Her, Isamu Noguchi, Katy Cowan, and more.
Curated by John Riepenhoff.
Including works by: David Hammons, Meg Webster, Lois Weinberger, Oscar Tuazon, Arthur Simms, and Tyree Guyton, and more.
Curated by Ugo Rondinone.
Including works by: Robert Indiana, Betty Gold, Roxy Paine, Radcliffe Bailey, Tony Cragg, Michelle Grabner, Deborah Butterfield, Sanford Biggers and Arlene Shechet.
Acquired works on permanent or seasonal view.
All Artworks
Explore all the artworks from 8 years of Sculpture Milwaukee public programming and exhibitions.
NOW ON VIEW
Three works by Truman Lowe
at Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Now – March 9, 2025.
Visionary Ho-Chunk artist Truman Lowe transforms native traditions into sophisticated minimalist sculptures that bridge ancestral wisdom and contemporary artistry. Raised in Wisconsin's woodlands speaking Hoocąąk, Lowe crafts graceful works from malleable wood that pay homage to sacred elements while exploring identity and landscape. A distinguished educator at UW-Madison and former Smithsonian curator, his masterful fusion of Ho-Chunk heritage and modern sculptural techniques continues to captivate audiences, with a landmark retrospective planned at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in October 2025.
2024 Exhibition Poster
This signed, limited edition, four-color screenprint designed by Nat Pyper and printed in Milwaukee at The Factory showcases custom-mixed ink and a hand embossed exhibition logo. This artwork was carefully crafted along with Sculpture Milwaukee's new visual identity by the artist.
The collaged halftone images represent the sculptures featured in Sculpture Milwaukee’s 2024-2025 exhibition, Actual Fractals, Act II. Layered atop is a spiraling mind map, illustrating a network of relationships among audience members as they engage with each other in public spaces amidst sculptures throughout downtown Milwaukee and beyond.
Above image:
"Perceived at a Distance" for Social Choreography, performed at Milwaukee Art Museum, 2024.
Choreographed and directed by Kim Miller.
Image courtesy the artist and Menyeneabasi Akpan and Peter Barrickman.
SCORE FOR ACTUAL FRACTALS
To stumble, to flail, to hesitate, is not to fall. Make a gesture that stumbles – one that reaches for something without arriving.
Social choreography works with and through a body that is not an image – the body is not a representation of something else. The body is not a problem. While it holds ideology, it never does so fully, or for long. The flesh of the collective is historically, culturally marked and named. The body-field, collective enfleshment, is a condition for possibility of change. The body is not a thing, but a lived body, the body is a question – what do I do? – an open possibility.
What do you do?
How can you move right now, right here, towards a change? Make a gesture of change. Scale this gesture until it reaches someone else.
– Kim Miller, 2024
Score for
Actual Fractals
EXHIBITIONS
Sculpture Milwaukee has dozens of artworks on the streets of Milwaukee with more to come.
The public art currently on view includes works from our current exhibition cycle: Actual Fractals, Act I & II, previous exhibitions on Extended View, and permanent installations of Legacy Artworks - acquisitions of Sculpture Milwaukee curated works.
ACTUAL FRACTALs, act II
ACTUAL FRACTALs, act I
Nature doesn't know about us
works on extended view by
Oscar Tuazon, David Hammons, Arthur Simms,
Meg Webster, and Lois Weinberger.
legacy artworks
works on permanent or seasonal exhibition, acquired and collected by private donors and business partners.
explore the exhibition and find artwork near you with the summer-fall 2024 exhibition map
Designed by Actual Fractals, Act II artist, Nat Pyper.
"An annual exhibition of public sculpture unrivaled by anything in New York or Los Angeles. It was a great idea which started big and never looked back. It uses the power of relationships and Milwaukee’s connection to the world to imagine and produce an event that would be distinguished anywhere in the world."
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