This summer NYBG presents a major site-specific exhibition of sculptural and horticultural installations by visual artist Ebony G Patterson. The exhibition will reflect a deep engagement with the concept of gardens as human-made interventions in nature, shedding new light on the Botanical Garden while providing new pathways for engagement with the natural world.

Marking the first solo exhibition for Patterson at a major New York institution since 2016, the show at NYBG will provide unique insight into the artist’s work, which has long examined and experimented with the concept of the garden.

Ebony G Patterson’s dynamic, colorful, and immersive work across media images gardens that grow out of a complex entanglement of race, gender, class, and violence, seducing viewers into acknowledging a darker truth lurking ominously beneath the lushly planted surface.