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High Line Originals

Part of High Line Channel, High Line Originals is High Line Art’s commissioning program for artists working in time-based media. This initiative invites emerging or underrecognized US-based artists, nominated by a trusted group of contemporary curators, to submit a proposal for a new video work that considers the context of the park in a meaningful way and will resonate with our diverse audience.

Part of High Line Channel, High Line Originals is High Line Art’s commissioning program for artists working in time-based media. This initiative invites emerging or underrecognized US-based artists, nominated by a trusted group of contemporary curators, to submit a proposal for a new video work that considers the context of the park in a meaningful way and will resonate with our diverse audience.

High Line Originals launched in 2019 with Tourmaline’s Salacia, which is now held in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. Other past commissions include Onyeka Igwe’s The Miracle on George Green (2021), Alicia Mersy’s NYC Wisdom (2024), and Frank WANG Yefeng’s Groundless Flower – ཨ (2025).

Yefeng’s 2025 commission also inaugurated a new long-term partnership with CHANEL Culture Fund. This commitment allows High Line Originals to now be an annual co-commission, and provides more robust support for an artist (or collaborative team) experimenting in digital media to create a screen-based work of art.

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Frank WANG Yefeng

Groundless Flower - ཨ

Frank WANG Yefeng presents Groundless Flower - ཨ, the fourth High Line Originals video commission, and the inaugural Originals work co-commissioned with the CHANEL Culture Fund.

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Alicia Mersy

NYC Wisdom

Global premiere of NYC Wisdom, a poignant reflection on healing, self-actualization, and what it means to survive and thrive as a community in New York City.

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Onyeka Igwe

The Miracle on George Green

Onyeka Igwe presents The Miracle on George Green, a collective social history of the UK’s tradition of the commons—land collectively owned and used for gathering, play, and debate.

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Tourmaline

Salacia

Tourmaline’s Salacia reimagines the story of Mary Jones, a Black transgender New Yorker living in Seneca Village in the 19th century.

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Frank WANG Yefeng

Groundless Flower - ཨ Artist Talk

Frank WANG Yefeng presents Groundless Flower - ཨ, the fourth High Line Originals video commission, and the inaugural Originals work co-commissioned with the CHANEL Culture Fund.

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Alicia Mersy

Global premiere of "NYC WISDOM", a film by Alicia Mersy

Alicia Mersy joined Ali Rosa-Salas for an in-depth conversation following the premiere of her High Line Originals commission, NYC Wisdom.

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Onyeka Igwe

Film Premiere: The Miracle on George Green

Onyeka Igwe joined Melanie Kress, High Line Art Associate Curator, for an in-depth conversation following the premiere of her High Line Originals commission, The Miracle on George Green.

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Tourmaline with Kimberly Drew

A conversation in celebration of Salacia

On the occasion of Pride Month 2019, High Line Channel artist Tourmaline joined writer and curator Kimberly Drew for a public conversation about Salacia.

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SUPPORT

Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc., and Charina Endowment Fund.

High Line Art is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.

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Major support for High Line Originals is provided by the CHANEL Culture Fund.

Chanel Culture Fund

Major support of High Line Art digital infrastructure is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Commissions

We work with world-renowned artists to commission temporary, site specific sculptures, installations and murals that are visible from the high line and the surrounding neighborhood.

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Performances

Artists create participatory, dynamic performances and transformative experiences that take advantage of the High Line’s setting.

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Plinth

This new landmark destination for major public art commissions launched in 2019.

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