apexart Open Calls present an opportunity for arts professionals everywhere to turn their idea into an apexart exhibition. The Open Calls use an online selection process drawing more than 1,000 proposals that are anonymously crowd-source juried by over 600 people around the world. Winning proposals become apexart exhibitions, receiving apexart staff support and a budget of USD 10,000 to produce a small, local, focused exhibition.
October 1–31, 2019 apexart NYC Open Call accepts proposals. 3 exhibitions awarded a USD 10,000 budget for the 2020-2021 season in NYC.
February 1–28, 2020 apexart International Open Call accepts proposals. 4 exhibitions awarded up to USD 11,000 budget for the 2020-21 international season.
Learn more about how to submit a proposal, be a juror or be part of the classroom juror process.
upcoming 2019-2020 exhibitions
September 7-October 26 The Criminal Type (New York, NY) Curated by Elizabeth Breiner. This exhibition examines the entwined history of photographic portraiture and criminality.
October 6-November 2 QueerArch (Seoul, South Korea) Curated by Kang Seung Lee and Jin Kwon. Inspired by the Korea Queer Archive, this project uses art and archive to re-define Queer History.
November 7-December 21 Surrendered to the Air: Remembering Toni Morrison (New York, NY) Curated by Tom Healy. Featuring photographs and paintings of the revered Nobel Laureate and the legacy she left behind.
December 5-December 31 Muso Ka Touma Sera (Bamako, Mali) Curated by Fatima Bocoum. “The Era of Women has Arrived:” this exhibition addresses the social condition of Malian women.
January 11-March 7 Souls Grown Diaspora (New York, NY) Curated by Sam Gordon. This project situates African American artists in a historical lineage shaped by the Great Migration.
February 16-March 14 WOMEN C(A)REATE (Tehran, Iran) Curated by Elnaz Tehrani and Anahita Rezaallah. Through tapestry, this project addresses gender-based stigma around drug addiction in Iran.
April 26-May 23 Fantasy Battleground (São Paulo, Brazil) Curated by Clarissa Aidar. Six transgender women artists create public artworks addressing themes of survival in Brazil today.
May 28-August 1 Meteorological Mobilities (New York, NY) Curated by Marianna Tsionki. Raising awareness of climate injustice,this project challenges primary contributors to climate change.
Our Fellowship program is intended as a creative catalyst that takes artists through an intense schedule of some 70 diverse activities over one month in a new and distant location. Fellows are presented with new ideas, including volunteer activities, workshops, psychotherapy and non-career related meetings along with experiences and an opportunity to think in a non-directed way. Fellows come from and are sent to cities such as NYC, Phnom Penh, Jerusalem, Moscow, and Kampala. Notably participants are selected by people they know, in their home country who are familiar with their work, their culture, and their “need” for this unorthodox challenge.
upcoming 2019-20 Fellowships
September 6-October 5 NYC Fellowship: Sophal Neak (Phnom Penh, Cambodia to New York City)
October 8-November 6 NYC Fellowship: Nicholas Calvin M. (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to New York City)
November 15-December 14 NYC Fellowship: Derek Tumala (Manila, Philippines to New York City)
January 1-31 NYC Fellowship: Pavlo Grazhdanskij (St. Petersburg, Russia to New York City)
March 1-31 NYC Fellowship: Nyadzombe Nyampenza (Harare, Zimbabwe to New York City)
February 1-March 1 International Fellowship: Zatara McIntyre (New York City to Montevideo, Uruguay)
April 1-30 International Fellowship: Manuel Molina Martagon (New York City to TBA)
July 1-30 International Fellowship: Claire Kambhu (New York City to TBA)
