SaveArtSpace is proud to present Photosymphony, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, opening May 8, 2026, curated by Millie Brown.
SaveArtSpace x Millie Brown invite artists to imagine nature not as backdrop, resource, or metaphor, but as a sentient presence with agency, intelligence, and voice. The theme asks how humans might live with the natural world rather than over it - through attention, reciprocity, care, and shared systems of survival.
Artists are encouraged to explore coexistence across scales and species: human and plant, urban and wild, technological and organic, ancestral and future-facing. Submissions may reflect ecological interdependence, non-human consciousness, symbiosis, ritual, stewardship, adaptation, or alternative models of living that resist extraction and domination.
Billboard works selected through this open call will be curated in dialogue with Photosymphony: A Live Plant Orchestra by Millie Brown, a large-scale, multisensory installation presented in New York during Frieze Art Week this May. The work aims to recontextualize nature by bringing it into the gallery space, opening up a dialogue between human and nature.
We invite artists of all ages and talents to submit their artwork between February 9 and March 23, 2026 in order to be considered for the exhibition. This is an opportunity to have your work placed on billboard ad space in New York, NY.
The application donation fee is $10 per image submission. Fees support the production of the exhibition, including the purchase of billboard ad space. All fees paid to SaveArtSpace are 100% tax deductible donations.
Selected artists will be announced after April 6, 2026. Public art will be on view starting May 8, 2026 in New York, NY, and will be on view for at least one month.
Curator
Millie Brown is a British, multiethnic multimedia artist known for her boundary-pushing performance art. Working across performance, installation, sound, painting through unconventional methods, sculpture, and art film, her practice engages deeply with nature, human consciousness, and the mind-body connection.
She has exhibited internationally with museums, galleries, and cultural institutions including Tate Britain, MOCA Miami, the Chicago Expo, LACMA and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Artnet, and on the cover of the Los Angeles Times.
Connect with Millie at @milliebrownworld.
SaveArtSpace
Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a message of social change that benefits the working class. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.