BRONX, NY.- From May 24 through October 26, 2025, visitors to NYBG can revel in the beauty of the natural world that inspired Vincent van Gogh, one of the world’s most revered artists. You’ve seen the paintings, now see them come to life at the Garden. NYBG presents botanical displays along with contemporary art by Lee Baker and Catherine Borowski of Graphic Rewilding, sculptor Amie Jacobsen, and immersive artist Cyril Lancelin, including a field of real and sculptural sunflowers in which visitors can wander through a sea of yellow blooms. Complementary daytime programming on select dates during Van Gogh’s Flowers offers engaging, interactive experiences, such as “Plein Air Drop-In and Paint,” that spark NYBG visitors’ creativity, offer respite from City life, and inspire them to see nature as Van Gogh did.

The Conservatory Lawn blooms with a massive field of monumental sunflower sculptures by artist Cyril Lancelin alongside living sunflowers and other plants, all inspired by the flowers in Van Gogh’s famed artwork, making it the ideal location for visitors to immerse themselves for a perfect photo opportunity. Larger-than-life creations by Graphic Rewilding in the Reflecting Pools of NYBG’s Leon Levy Visitor Center and in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory’s Palms of the World Gallery pay homage to Vincent van Gogh’s signature style, depicting the many flowers featured in his works. Farther inside the Conservatory, visitors can pose in front of artist Amy Jacobsen’s three-dimensional sculptures inspired by Van Gogh’s expressive masterpieces of irises, imperial fritillaries, oleanders, and roses, with walls of selfie worthy living plants behind them. The garden of the hospital in Arles, which Van Gogh painted in 1889, comes alive in a magnificent rendition of living flowers and architectural elements.

Contemporary Artists in Van Gogh’s Flowers

Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker joined forces over a decade ago to create and curate art that meets people at “eye level,” producing projects intended to inspire discourse in the public realm. This work naturally led to the inception of Graphic Rewilding—a public art practice that is centered around improving quality of life. As an artistic counterbalance to the severe lack of green space in cities, Graphic Rewilding was founded to create vast, flower inspired, attention grabbing, positivity inducing artworks and immersive environments in often-overlooked urban spaces. The intention is to inspire people to connect and empathize a little more with the natural world.

Amie J. Jacobsen is a designer, sculptor, and public artist living and working in the Kansas City area. A lifelong creator, she has produced work in painting, illustration, and graphic design before transitioning to design and metal-working in 2015. She holds a B.A. in studio art from Western State Colorado, as well as an M.F.A. in illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design where she also taught illustration from 2006–2015. In 2015, Amie took the opportunity to learn metalworking as an in-house designer and resident artist at Machine Head, a metal fabrication shop in the Crossroads Art District in Kansas City, Missouri. Today, Amie’s studio is located in Independence, Missouri.

Cyril Lancelin lives and works in Lyon, France, where he develops sculptures, immersive installations, drawings, virtual experiences in the Metaverse, and videos that forge links between the physical and the fictional. Employing a visual vocabulary based on geometry, he links architecture and the human body, the everyday and the functional, the perennial and the ephemeral, science and nature. He began his career working for architects and artists in Paris and Los Angeles, using 3D modeling and virtual imaging techniques that he developed in the 1990s. Repetition and parametric generation are recurring themes in his work. It anticipates our passage into a world of multiplied and shared data.