Public Art at BU
Boston University is proud to be the home of more than two dozen public art installations, including one of our newest installations from Carson Fox, as well as work from noted Chilean Sculptor Sergio Castillo, Alum Russel Jacques, mason Edward Monti, and sculptor and photographer Gregg Lefevre.
If you are interested in proposing a temporary pubic art installation, review the information here.
Scroll down the page to explore temporary and permanent work on each of BU’s campuses. For more information on each work or artist, click the photo or artists’ name.
Visit the Photonics Center Art Displays page to see the great work in that building.
Where can you find these pieces on campus? Check out our Google Map to find each one!
Temporary Installations

Grow Your Future
Grow Your Future is located at Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre, 820 Commonwealth Avenue.

Aftermath
This environmental and public health sculpture is a large-scale art advocacy installation that explores the serious impacts of textile waste.
Art on the Charles River Campus: BU East
Art on the Charles River Campus: BU Central

Unknown Artist/Title
775 Commonwealth Ave; if you know more about this piece, please contact us at artsinbu@bu.edu.

Unknown Artist/Title
BU Beach; if you know more about this piece, please contact us at artsinbu@bu.edu.

Unknown Artist/Title
Alpert Mall; if you know more about this piece, please contact us at artsinbu@bu.edu.

Unknown Artist/Title
Alpert Mall; if you know more about this piece, please contact us at artsinbu@bu.edu.
Art on the Charles River Campus: BU West

Unknown Artist/Title
871 Commonwealth Ave; if you know more about this piece, please contact us at artsinbu@bu.edu.

Unknown Artist/Title
10 Buick St; if you know more about this piece, please contact us at artsinbu@bu.edu.
Art on the Fenway Campus
Art on the Medical Campus

Unknown Title/Artist
72 East Concord Street; Centennial gift of alumnus Nathan J. Fineberg, MD. Class of 1930
This page includes only work that is located outside, or inside a first-floor, entryway. If you believe we have missed work, or if you have information on work that we have not been able to identify, please contact us at artsinbu@bu.edu.
Special thanks to Kimber Chewning, PhD Candidate, History of Art & Architecture for photography, research, content, and design work on this page.