Minneapolis Muralist
Walls worth stopping for
Site-specific murals for workplace and civic spaces, created by Sylvia Hecht.
Selected Work
Commissioned murals for commercial interiors and civic spaces
Public Art
Placemaking that puts down roots
Murals that emerge from the stories, relationships, and landscapes that shape a community. Sanctuary, created during an artist residency at the Oxbow Hotel, wraps a downtown building in sandhill cranes and a luminous teal forest. Roots of Our Community, created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Willy Street Co-op, layers metallic roots and neighborhood figures into a visual reflection on food, connection, and place.
Created through partnerships with local institutions, both murals were designed to strengthen a sense of belonging, using color, storytelling, and shared identity to transform everyday spaces into places people recognize as their own.
Commercial Murals
PepsiCo partnership
Sylvia's largest commercial relationship started with one break-room wall and grew, director to director, into six murals across three PepsiCo locations. The work turns plain interior walls into the spaces people point out to visitors: local landmarks, brand history, and color that holds up under office light. Commercial commissions begin at a four-figure floor and scale with the wall.
About
Sylvia Hecht
I create large-scale work rooted in the belief that art can shift how a space feels to move through and inhabit. Every mural begins with listening to the environment it will inhabit: the architecture, the quality of light, the people passing through it each day, and the story already embedded in the space. I work with saturated color, metallic paints, and reflective elements to create pieces that hold presence from a distance while continuing to reveal new layers through movement, light, and closer observation.
Over the past nine years as a muralist, this approach has carried across a wide range of environments globally, from neighborhood placemaking projects to large corporate interiors. My largest ongoing commercial collaboration expanded organically from one connection into six murals across three PepsiCo locations. Public commissions including Sanctuary and Roots of Our Community were created through collaborative processes with the communities connected to them. My large street art murals have received multiple awards and numerous features in regional press.
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