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Kiki Smith: The Obama Presidential Center Expands Its Public Art Legacy with Next Wave of Monumental Commissions

Obama Presidential Center, IL
10 September 2025

The Obama Foundation announced today an additional group of ten celebrated artists whose commissioned work will be featured across the Obama Presidential Center's expansive campus, the vast majority of which is free and open to the public.

 

These ten luminary and rising artists - Nick Cave, Nekisha Durrett, Jenny Holzer, Jules Julien, Idris Khan, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jack Pierson, Alison Saar, Kiki Smith, and Marie Watt - represent a diverse and dynamic cross-section of the global contemporary art world and reflect the Center's commitment to free, accessible public art as a vital force in civic life.