"JR: Chronicles", Brooklyn Museum, 2019-2020

JR: Chronicles, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA, 2019-2020

"JR: Chronicles", Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA

October 4, 2019 – October 18, 2020

Over the past two decades, JR has expanded the meaning of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to a broad spectrum of people around the world. Showcasing murals, photographs, videos, films, dioramas, and archival materials, JR: Chronicles is the first major exhibition in North America of works by JR.

JR: Chronicles, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA, 2019-2020

This soaring multimedia installation traces JR’s career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide to his more recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics.

JR: Chronicles, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA, 2019-2020

The centerpiece of the exhibition is The Chronicles of New York City, a new epic mural of more than one thousand New Yorkers that is accompanied by audio recordings of each person’s story. All of the projects on view honor the voices of everyday people and demonstrate JR’s ongoing commitment to community, collaboration, and civic discourse.

The Chronicles of New York City, Domino Park, USA, 2020

In addition to works by JR presented at the Museum, a monumental public mural featuring The Chronicles of New York City was on view in Domino Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The project has been conceived in collaboration with LOT-EK, which designed Triangle STACK #2 to help bring JR's mural into the city's open space. Sections of The Chronicles of NYC were also pasted in different parts of Brooklyn.