Dinosaur Collection

Featuring the art of Iván Argote, our limited edition Dinosaur collection features the famous 21-foot tall “big pigeon” from the fourth High Line Plinth commission. A celebration of the humble, oft-maligned pigeon, Argote’s sculpture garnered a lot of love from New Yorkers and tourists alike.

Reflecting on the work’s title, Argote notes, “The name Dinosaur makes reference to the sculpture’s scale and to the pigeon’s ancestors who millions of years ago dominated the globe, as we humans do today… the name also serves as a reference to the dinosaur’s extinction. Like them, one day we won’t be around anymore, but perhaps a remnant of humanity will live on—as pigeons do—in the dark corners and gaps of future worlds. I feel this sculpture could generate an uncanny feeling of attraction, seduction, and fear among the inhabitants of New York.” 

Learn more about Dinosaur (2024) and upcoming High Line Art.

Iván Argote (b. 1983, Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in Paris, France. He has held solo exhibitions at institutions including SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia (2024); KØS Museum, Denmark, Copenhagen (2024); Museo del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia (2023); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2022); Kunstverein Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (2021); ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona (2019); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018); Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), Bogotá, Colombia (2017); MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria (2015); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2012); CA2M, Madrid, Spain (2012). He has participated in major international group exhibitions, including Quizá mañana (Maybe Tomorrow), 16th Cuenca Biennial 2023, Cuenca, Ecuador (2023);Off the Pedestals, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany (2023); Intención poética, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2022);L’Avvenire appartiene ai fantasmi, Accademia di Belle Arte di Brera, Milan, Italy (2022); Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2022); Ires y venires, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia (2021);Global(e) Résistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2020); A point of view, in situ installation made for Desert X 2019, Salton Sea – Coachella Valley, California (2019);The Street. Where the World Is Made, MAXXI, Rome, Italia (2018); BIENALSUR, Museo de la Inmigración, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017); among many others. In 2024, he participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia:Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, with an ambitious outdoor installation in the Giardini. His work is featured in the collections of major institutions around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum (New York, US); Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); ASU Art Museum (Phoenix, US); Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami, US); Colección de Arte del Banco de la República (Bogotá, Colombia); Kadist (San Francisco, US); MACBA (Barcelona, Spain). Argote is the youngest recipient of the High Line Plinth after Simone Leigh, Sam Durant, and Pamela Rosenkranz, and the first from the global south.

High Line Art is dedicated to expanding the role of contemporary art in public spaces. We commission and produce world-class art projects on and around the High Line, sparking the dialogue that is an essential element of city life.