2022–23 exhibitions, fellowships, and open calls

2022–2023 open calls
apexart open calls present an opportunity for creatives 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 voted on anonymously by over 800 people around the world. Winning proposals become apexart exhibitions, receiving a budget of up to 10,000–11,000 USD, and apexart staff support to produce a focused, idea-driven exhibition. Learn more about how to submit a proposal, be a juror or be part of the classroom juror process.

October 1–31, 2022
apexart NYC Open Call accepts proposals
Five winning proposals are awarded a budget of up to 10,000 USD and become part of apexart’s 2023–2024 exhibition season in New York.

February 1–March 1, 2023
apexart International Open Call accepts proposals.
4 winning proposals are awarded a budget of up to 11,000 USD and become part of apexart’s 2023-2024 international exhibition season.

2022–2023 exhibitions
September 9–October 22, 2022
Kafala: Migrant Labor in the Arabian Peninsula (online and New York), curated by Clark Clark
Surveying art and activism that renounce the exploitation of migrant labor in the Arabian Peninsula, made possible through the infamous Kafala sponsorship system.

October 8–October 27, 2022
Memory Card: The Perk of Being Able to Remember (online and Paris, France), curated by Sol Kim
Considers the act of subjective human recollection as a sacred activity, in a time when technology’s “memory” threatens to make our own remembering obsolete.

November 4–December 23, 2022
Flora Fantastic: Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art (online and New York), curated by Corina Apostol, Tashima Thomas
Investigating the role of indigenous and imported plants within colonialism, through botanical economics as they relate to medicine, science, migration, and nationalism.

December 6, 2022–February 17, 2023
Art for Women’s Lives (online and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 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.

January 13–March 11, 2023
My Pen Won’t Break, But Borders Will (online and New York), curated by Julia Hartmann
Telling exceptional stories of individual refugees, migrants, immigrants, and asylum seekers in an effort to underscore the importance of exercising solidarity beyond closed borders.

February 25–March 25, 2023
Sem Sombras/Unshadowed (online and Maputo, Mozambique), curated by Onyịnye Alheri and Carolina Policarpo
Highlights the ways that queer and trans Mozambicans and other Africans are undoing enforced social norms and demanding rights, pleasure, and freedom.

March 24–May 20, 2023
KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History (online and New York), curated by Eimi Tagore-Erwin
Examining the ways that art can construct and dismantle national histories, through works that visualize contested perspectives of Japan’s expansionism during the Asia-Pacific War.

May 20–June 17, 2023
The Corrections (online and Canton, MA, United States), curated by Sam Fein
Artworks created by survivors-turned-activists reveal the “Troubled Teen Industry,” a multi-billion dollar industry designed to modify socially-undesirable behaviors in adolescent girls.

June 2–July 29, 2023
Defiant Visions (online and New York), curated by Marie Meyerding
Expanding public perception of anti-apartheid imagery by showcasing how women photographers exercised resistance to oppression through the lenses of their cameras.

July 1–July 30, 2023
I saw the future, it’s so wonderful, there are Puerto Ricans (Vi el futuro, es maravilloso, hay puertorriqueñxs) (online and San Juan, Puerto Rico), curated by Mariana Ramos Ortiz
Counters narratives that suggest Puerto Ricans are the root of the archipelago’s problem by presenting works that consider new strategies for colonial subjects to reclaim agency over their past, present and future.

2022–2023 fellowships
Our fellowship program is a one-month-long activity intensive creative catalyst that takes artists through an active schedule of some 70 diverse activities in a new and generally distant location. Fellows are presented with new ideas through taking part in volunteer activities, workshops, psychotherapy and non-career related meetings along with experiences and an opportunity to think in a non-directed way. 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 fellowships
New York City Fellowship: Emiliano Fernandez (Shepparton, Australia to New York City)
New York City Fellowship: Damián Cabrera (Asunción, Paraguay to New York City)
International Fellowship: John Torrieri(New York City to TBA)
New York City Fellowship: Jenny Fraser (Brisbane, Australia to New York City)
International Fellowship: Cody Herrmann (New York City to TBA)