Art
Explore UChicago’s Collection of Public Art
UChicago’s Public Art collection represents a range of artists, styles, and scale, from the traditional to the unusual to the monumental. Visitors are invited to wander past a pair of Chinese stone guardian lions, ponder Concrete Traffic, a 1957 Cadillac DeVille encased in concrete, or circle a six-thousand-pound kinetic sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro. Everyone is welcome—students, faculty, staff, neighbors, and visitors from Chicago and beyond.
Browse the collection below and learn more about the works of art, artists, and how they relate to the University’s history.
Always Excelling
Peter Calaboyias
1992
Earth, Water, Sky
Ruth Duckworth
1967–68
Untitled
Ruth Duckworth
1972
Mother and Child
Sorel Etrog
1968
Pulcinella II
Sorel Etrog
1978
Love and Hope, or Messaggio di Speranza
Virginio Ferrari
1967
Truncated Pyramid
Jene Highstein
1992
Survival: When you expect fair play…
Jenny Holzer
2022
Living: How concise that you can cry…
Jenny Holzer
2022
Why
Richard Howard Hunt
1974
International House Fountain
Jon Magnus Jonson
1934
Instance the determination
Helen Mirra
2006
Idee di Pietra (Ideas of Stone)
Giuseppe Penone
2010
Construction in Space and in the Third and Fourth Dimensions
Antoine Pevsner
1964
Grande Radar
Arnaldo Pomodoro
1974
Beethoven
Gilbert Riswold
1926
Seattle Right Angles Propped
Richard Serra
1991
For a Field of Grass
Sara Skolnik
1974
Trees of Aspen
Alan Sonfist
2011
Shaler Memorial Angel
Lorado Taft
1969
Concrete Traffic
Wolf Vostell
2016
Haskell Hall Totem Pole
Artist unknown
1987
Chinese Stone Lions at the Cochrane-Woods Art Center
Unknown artists