Art for every
surface of the
built world.
Monumental Art Projects designs, delivers and warrants permanent art for the surfaces that fall outside the design budget. Walls, sculpture, building systems and roofs, delivered with the architect of record under one contract.
One studio for the surfaces nobody budgeted for.
Monumental Art Projects is a single contracting entity with four practices underneath it. We hold the client relationship, the design collaboration with the architect of record, and the delivery, warranty and maintenance obligations for every one of them.
An owner can start with one surface and add the next without running a new procurement. You contract once, and the capability grows without you requalifying a vendor.
Murals
Walls, streets and open land turned into portraits of the people who live there, sometimes so large they can be photographed by satellites. Painted to last, or drawn in charcoal to fade cleanly.
Sculpture
A human gesture or a single face made monumental, so it records a collective moment rather than an individual ego. Bronze, stone and steel, engineered for South Florida.
Cool Roof Art
Certified reflective systems with the rooftop treated as a designed surface. The art lowers surface temperature and extends membrane life, so it carries an engineering case alongside the aesthetic one, backed by a 20-year warranty.
Louver systems
Shade, ventilation and screening with a large-scale image built into the fins. Head-on, a working facade. From the right angle or distance, a monumental portrait resolves across the whole surface.
Jorge
Rodríguez-Gerada
A Cuban-American muralist, sculptor and land artist whose works are so large some are photographed by satellites. He uses walls, streets and open land as the canvas and the people who live there as the models, so each portrait carries the imprint of a community rather than only the mark of the artist.
Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, Jorge began his career in the early 1990s as a founding member of New York's Culture Jamming movement, altering billboards to return public space to the public. He moved to Barcelona in 2002, began the Identity Series there, and since 2009 has curated the AvantGuard Urbano festival in Tudela, Navarre. That instinct runs through three decades of work, from a six-acre portrait on the National Mall to bronze at Lincoln Center.
He leads the artistic direction of every Monumental Art commission, across all four solutions. Most recently, the City of Miami awarded him the Miami Incorporators Monument at Bayfront Park.
"A kind of Robin Hood of street art."
Portraits of communities on five continents, at the scale of the city and the land.
- Out of Many, One
National Mall, Washington, D.C., 2014. A six-acre portrait for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. - Reflection
Westin Grand Central, Manhattan, 2019. A 44 by 52 meter mural against child labor, with Street Art for Mankind, marking the UN ILO centenary. - The Hug
Lincoln Center, New York, 2021. A 10-foot bronze. - Nyssa
San Antonio, Texas. A 100 by 150 foot portrait painted on the ground beside San Pedro Creek. - Dr. Decoo
Queens, New York. A memorial portrait of a pediatrician lost to the pandemic.
- Wish
Titanic Quarter, Belfast, 2013. An 11-acre land portrait. - Mama Cash
Amsterdam, 2012. A 125 by 170 meter land portrait of a human rights defender. - Recordar
Barcelona. 2,200 square meters honoring the 465,000 who fled into exile in 1936 to 1939. - Panorama
Sant Martí, Barcelona. A composite of ten local women. - Outsight · Laon, France
Grounded Gratitude · Aubervilliers, Paris
Promise · Turin, Italy, with Lavazza
- David
San Telmo, Buenos Aires. A portrait of an 11-year-old student to defend a school for at-risk youth. - Connection
Bachoura, Beirut. A boy exploring a circuit board, on a war-scarred building awaiting reconstruction. - Perpetual Flow
Morocco. 37,500 square meters of land art symbolizing recycled water and a new greenbelt for Ouarzazate.
- Miami Incorporators Monument
Bayfront Park. Awarded commission. - Ebb and Flow
Alvorada on the Bay, North Miami Beach, 2026. - Miami Dade College
Wolfson Campus roofs. Installation underway.
- Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
- Google Research Lab
- United Nations Sustainable Development Group
- Neurocrine Biosciences · Monumental Moments
- Lavazza · 2019 calendar, "Good to Earth"
Time · The Washington Post · Artforum · CNN · PBS · AP · Reuters · The Guardian · NBC
Featured in No Logo by Naomi Klein, Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution, Big Art / Small Art and Artivism.
It started on the roof.
Our first practice, Cool Roof Art, began with one observation about the fifth facade. Once we solved for the roof, architects and developers kept asking us to solve the other surfaces that fall outside the design budget.
So we built Monumental Art Projects: one studio, one contract and one warranty for every surface of a development. We sign as artist of record, never architect of record. The architect keeps the aesthetic; we carry delivery and warranty.
We work inside the architect of record's intent, from concept through the drawing set.
One contract, one design conversation, four possible line items.
Delivery, warranty and maintenance stay with one accountable entity.