2022–23 season

apexart offers exhibition opportunities for anyone, anywhere, to turn their idea into an apexart exhibition. Submissions are crowd-sourced and juried by an international group of more than 400 people including individuals and university classes around the world. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s exhibition season. 

Proposals for New York City will be accepted from October 1–31, 2021. Proposals for international locations anywhere in the world will be accepted from February 1–March 1, 2022.

Five winning exhibitions will receive a 10,000 USD budget, an “apexart” brochure and full staff support for an exhibition in NYC.

Learn more about how to submit a proposal and the classroom juror process. Want to help us as a juror?

Upcoming exhibitions 2021–2022

New York: September 10–October 23
The Nature of the Beast: Meditations on Life, Death, and the Art of Collecting 
Curated by JD Powe with Morbid Anatomy
Exploring the curious human drive to pursue, possess, preserve and memorialize other members of the animal kingdom via one man’s astounding collection of antique taxidermy. 

Oakland, California: October 10–November 6
Ctrl+Alt+Yellow
Curated by Janet Oh
Bay Area artists with lineage in Asia engage radical modes of narration, responding to and transcending histories of racism in the US to overcome historical and present-day hardships.

New York: November 5–December 23
TRANS DANCE REVOLUTION
Curated by After Party Collective (Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani)
Locates the site of the party as a political space where trans* folx from the Global South have agency to embody the rhythms, adornments, and choreographies of our collective futures.

New York: January 14–March 12
Oh, I Love Brazilian Women
Curated by Luiza Testa
Challenging the sexualized stereotypes of Brazilian women that trace back to colonial times and extend through misreadings of the Carnival and its imagery.

Kaduna, Nigeria: Feburary 5–March 5
Arewa, Me Too
Curated by Favour Ritaro
Women artists living and working in northern Nigeria confront regional stereotypes and cultural expectations that perpetuate domestic and gender-based violence.

New York: March 25–May 21
Recontarnos (Rewriting us)
Curated by La Revuelta
Reclaims historical and social narratives that traditionally reflect the viewpoints of men, prioritizing the voices of Central American women as a means to resist patriarchy within the art world.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: April 2–30
Art for Women’s Lives
Curated by Milhas Pela Vida das Mulheres
Women across Brazil use art to guide the urgent debate on the de-criminalization of abortion, defying the ultra-conservative government’s petitions to severely restrict access.

New York: June 3–July31
A Thousand Secrets
Curated by Mae A. Miller
Explores the myriad connections between the world’s oceans and human life by unsettling conventional modes of listening and unearthing entangled histories of extraction.

Tokyo, Japan: July 9–August 5
“Can you fuck it?” - The Fembot Phenomenon
Curated by Elena Knox
Using humor, deconstruction, and the speculative reframing of a familiar figure, international women artists working in Asia critique the modern phenomenon of the female-simulating robot.

The apexart Fellowship is an alternative educational program that challenges creatives to leave their familiar lives for a month-long experience in a foreign location. The program provides inspiration through exposure to new ideas, cultures, and interests. Participants are nominated by an individual in their home country who is familiar with their work, their culture, and their “need” for this unorthodox challenge that includes volunteer activities, workshops, psychotherapy and non-art related meetings. The program prompts artists to reevaluate their daily practices and lives. 

Upcoming fellows:
Local NYC Fellowship: Pooneh Maghazehe (local)
International Fellowship: Ify Chiejina (outgoing)
International Fellowship: Claudia Hart (outgoing)
New York City Fellowship: Jenny Fraser (incoming Brisbane, Australia)
International Fellowship: Manuel Molina Martagon (outgoing)
New York City Fellowship: Nyadzombe Nyampenza (incoming Harare, Zimbabwe)
International Fellowship: Claire Kambhu (outgoing)

For more information about the about the fellowship, visit here and for information about the open call submissions, visit here.