Public Art On Campus

In the early 1970’s York University acquired, through purchases and donations, a number of large-scale works of art by prominent sculptors such as Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Hugh LeRoy, Mark di Suvero, and George Rickey. These works were permanently installed on the campus grounds.

Our goal today is to build on this important nucleus, enabling artists of our own day to create new works through the sponsorship of site-sensitive installations for locations across the York University campus. A step in this direction has been made in commissioning works by Jocelyne Alloucherie, Enzo Cucchi, Rodney Graham, Brian Groombridge, Susan Schelle, and Liz Magor.

The Art Gallery of York University is committed to enriching the cultural and intellectual environment of the university. We believe that the creative energies and interventions of contemporary artists can enhance York’s environment, giving a prominent place to art within the university.

Enabling art to find a public role and to interact with the natural and the constructed environments seems important today. Creating public spaces that are transformative, that can stimulate the imagination by speaking to many diverse uses and users, is a guiding principle for the development of the York University sculpture collection.

1 Jocelyne Alloucherie
2 Alexander Calder
3 Anthony Caro
4 Enzo Cucchi
5 Mark di Suvero
6 Kosso Eloul
7 Rodney Graham (no longer exists)
8 Brian Groombridge
9 Kuzy Curley and Ruben Komangapik
10 Hugh LeRoy
11 Liz Magor
12 David McDougall
13 William Hodd McElcheran
14 John Reynolds
15 George Rickey
16 Susan Schelle
17 Lionel Thomas (on Glendon Campus)
18 Armand Vaillancourt
19 Walter Yarwood