Precious Okoyomon: Courtyard Commission 

Production | Exhibition Grant

Launching in summer 2026, MoMA PS1’s Courtyard Commission series is a major new program which invites an artist to transform the museum’s courtyard for a period of two years. For the inaugural Courtyard Commission, Precious Okoyomon will produce a living forest featuring a large-scale, interactive bear sculpture—the artist’s signature motif—that resembles an oversized children’s toy. The forest, developed in collaboration with the experimental nursery issima, will grow into  an ever-morphing woodland of trees, invasive plants, exotic flowers, weeds, and boulders. Visitors are invited to venture into the bear’s body, where they can experience a multi-sensory installation before exiting through its mouth.

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