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We received 747 proposals voted on by an international jury of 1072 people from many disciplines. 79 countries were represented on both sides. In addition to many individuals, 27 international university classes made voting part of their syllabus, including CalArts, Seoul National University, Goldsmiths, and College Year Athens.
All jurors were asked to read at least 50 anonymous submissions, with many reading over a hundred. Over 36,000 votes were ultimately cast to determine the five winning proposals that will become exhibitions in the 2026-2027 season at apexart in New York City.
The winning proposals are:
Weaving a Day, Mourning a Life: The Mother and Daughter-in-Law of Phúc Sen
Submitted by Dala Nguyen
An interdisciplinary group exhibition inspired by a Vietnamese weaving ritual, exploring how grief, memory, and time are transformed through photography, sound, and textile installation into a meditation on life, loss, and continuity.
DEVOTION: A Black Love Archive
Submitted by Myeshia C. Babers
DEVOTION makes the hidden labor of Black love visible through intimate artifacts—texts, voicemails, receipts, and rituals—transforming private care into a public archive and participatory toolkit for building, breaking, repairing, and remembering love.
TRIBUTE
Submitted by Anh Dao Ha
TRIBUTE honors Asian American artists pivotal to DIY, punk, and street culture, reframing zines, bands, and grassroots archives as vital cultural infrastructure while refusing their historical erasure through contemporary art, publication, and performance.
Disarm: Art in the Shadow of Gun Violence
Submitted by Donald Gialanella, Spencer Vomacka
Disarm brings international artists together to confront gun violence as both personal trauma and systemic condition, transforming bullets, forensic materials, and state archives into works of grief, resistance, and collective witness that challenge myths of power, protection, and control.
Lands That Feed the World: Colonial Continuities in Agriculture
Submitted by Marwa Benhalim
An interdisciplinary exhibition that explores how contemporary agricultural practices in Egypt and North Africa are shaped by long-standing structures of dependency and extraction that sustain global consumption while reshaping local ecologies and food traditions, inviting audiences to rethink food sovereignty, colonial legacies, and the politics embedded in what we grow, trade, and consume.
Please consider submitting a proposal to our International Open Call in February 2026, or being a juror by sending an email to juror@apexart.org by the first week of January 2026.
