Open call for Artists, Curators, and Other Professionals

apexart’s Open Calls are opportunities for artists, curators, and other professionals to turn their curatorial idea into an apexart exhibition, combined with inviting apexart’s international community to collectively determine programming through an online jury process. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s next exhibition season and receive funding and staff support. apexart is not a granting organization-all exhibitions are part of apexart’s programming.

apexart has increased the budget substantially to $10,000 for each Open Call exhibition and related programming. Each curator/organizer must work within apexart’s budget to cover expenses including curator travel, artwork shipping, artist and public program participant honorariums, equipment, installation, and venue fees with $8,000 of the budget. Of the $10,000, the curator/organizer receives up to a $2,000 honorarium for coordinating the project and writing the exhibition brochure essay. For exhibitions outside NYC, apexart will match up to $1,000 for a location rental if necessary.

Requirements

When the submission forms are live, you can submit a 500-word proposal describing a focused, idea-driven, and original group exhibition.

Anyone, from anywhere can submit. There are no fees involved at any level. Creative people who have interesting exhibition ideas, trained and student curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of experience level, background, or location can apply.

» Every October they accept proposals for exhibitions in our NYC space. The next proposal period is October 1 - 31, 2024 for apexart’s 2025-26 Exhibition Season.
» Every February they accept proposals for exhibitions taking place anywhere in the world, except for NYC. The next proposal period is February 1 - March 1, 2025 for apexart’s 2025-26 program season.

For exhibitions proposed outside NYC (February Open Call), submitters must select a geographic location where they have visited, to ensure they have a sense of the location logistics and potential challenges of organizing an exhibition there. The specific exhibition venue can be determined following selection by apexart’s jury.

Submissions are accepted only through an online form which will be posted to this website during the above mentioned submission periods.

Application Instructions