Exhibitions
Exhibitions at NYC Health + Hospitals play a vital role in promoting healthcare accessibility and raising awareness of critical public health resources. Exhibitions also promote community engagement through artworks and themes that reflect the people and neighborhoods where they are placed. By presenting exhibitions both onsite and through partnerships with institutions like Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing, Arts in Medicine expands access, deepens impact, and positions the arts as essential to inclusive, community-based care.
Current Exhibitions
We Belong Here, NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Broadway, Opened on June 4th, 2025
Learn more about this exhibition: “Love is the Drug”: We Belong Here at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, NYC – ArteFuse
Flourishing, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, Opened on May 12th 2025
Bringing it Back: The Impact of Creative Arts Therapy at Rikers & Beyond, Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing and NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, Opened on November 20, 2024
Creating Within: Art from Rikers and the NYC Health + Hospitals Art Collection, NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, Opened on December 5, 2023-November 2024
Learn more about this exhibition: NYC Health + Hospitals Presents First-Ever Exhibition to Showcase Art from Both Rikers Island and Its Own Collection
NOURISH, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Opened on October 4, 2023
Exhibition Strategy
Art created in any form under any circumstance has this unique ability to reach down really deeply and open us up; and as our patients prove, make us feel free…without Arts in Medicine’s partnership, we would not have been able to do exhibitions like [Creating Within and Bringing it Back.]Dr. Patsy Yang
Senior Vice President,
Correctional Health Services
Evidence-based Interventions 2023 – 2025
- Our exhibition program launched in Winter 2023 with Creating Within: Art from Rikers and the Arts in Medicine Collection at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull which established hopeful benchmarks for embedding an exhibition strategy:
- 30 staff engaged in cross-departmental collaboration
- 300+ attendees at opening reception
- 61 CHS patients directly involved
- 73 total artworks displayed (63 from Creative Arts Therapy program, 10 from permanent collection) at exhibition and on the Bloomberg Connects app
- Building on this foundation, Bringing It Back: The Impact of Creative Arts Therapy at Rikers and Beyond (November 2024) expanded its reach through a cultural partnership with Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing with over 200 attendees before traveling to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. At the opening, Arts in Medicine hosted a panel discussion about the impact of creative arts therapy for incarcerated individuals. The exhibition’s impact extended beyond live programming through our produced film Beautiful Humans, which has gained national recognition with acceptance into two film festivals as of June 2025.
- We Belong Here (June 2025) exemplified our strategic community health approach by directly addressing healthcare access barriers during Immigrant Heritage Month. This exhibition at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Broadway in Bushwick, a diverse immigrant neighborhood, featured eleven artists from ten countries, including three newly commissioned works by New York-based immigrant artists Viktoriya Basina, Carla Torres, and Zeehan Wazed. Live performances by Sing for Hope and artist Fadi Khoury created cultural bridges that combat healthcare discrimination and establish trusted pathways to care for immigrant communities. Selected works were deployed citywide on LinkNYC kiosks with QR codes directly linking to NYC Care access resources.
This dual approach—combining onsite exhibition with digital community outreach—demonstrates our model’s capacity to scale impact beyond traditional exhibition boundaries. The partnership with NYC Care (serving 140,000 active members with over one million primary care appointments) positions exhibitions as direct healthcare access interventions, moving beyond cultural programming to address systemic health disparities in immigrant communities.
Learn more about the history and content of the Arts in Medicine Exhibition Program on the free Bloomberg Connects app:
