Art, Built In
At 222 North City, art is not confined to a gallery. It lives throughout the building, in the lobby, hallways, social spaces, and unexpected moments in between. Featuring works by internationally acclaimed artists alongside site-specific commissions, the collection was thoughtfully curated to inspire curiosity, conversation, and connection.
Ugo Rondinone
Born: 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland
Ugo Rondinone is known for his large-scale, vibrant sculptures and installations that explore natural forms and the human condition. His practice employs a hybrid visual language informed by both sculpture and painting, extending across installation, video, performance, and object-based works.
Jorge Pardo
Born: 1963, Havana, Cuba
Jorge Pardo is an artist born in Havana, Cuba, whose work explores the intersection of contemporary painting, design, sculpture, and architecture. Employing vibrant color, eclectic pattern, and natural and industrial materials, his practice ranges from murals to furnishings to large-scale fabrications, transforming familiar objects into artworks that question distinctions between fine art and design.
Odili Donald Odita
Born: 1966, Enugu, Nigeria
Odili Donald Odita brings heightened awareness to color and space in paintings where abstraction is an optically, physically, and culturally-felt phenomenon. Odita’s take on non-objective art is suffused with connectivity to the world around him, and arises from memories, philosophical reflections, and meditations on the ways in which political forces shape relationships between perception and form.
Michael Craig-Martin
Born: 1941, Dublin, Ireland
Sir Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA is one of the most significant artists working in Britain today. His instantly recognisable paintings, drawings, installations, and sculptures depict everyday objects with a nuanced simplicity that exposes the tensions between objects and their representation.
Spectrum & Ben Johnson
Cape Town, South Africa
Spectrum is the creative studio of Caitlin Warther and Wendy Dixon, founded in Cape Town, South Africa. Specializing in innovative techniques for mirror, glass, and metal, they developed their signature chromatic gradients through their own fine art practice. Ben Johnson is a Berlin-based graphic designer who collaborated on this project by developing the tessellated compositions used across the installation, translating Spectrum’s bespoke gradient mirror finishes into a series of site-specific configurations.