Open Call for Curator: "Light & Shadow: Rethinking Visual Spaces"

The Bronx Council on the Arts is seeking applications to curate its Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Summer 2022 group exhibition, Light & Shadow: Rethinking Visual Spaces (June 17– August 19, 2022). The selected curator will be responsible for contacting and sourcing all materials from artists, writing exhibition texts, and facilitating a public program. We encourage curatorial proposals by emerging and independent curators who are unafraid of experimentation and familiar with artists from The Bronx. This call for proposal expands our mission of supporting emerging artists from underrepresented groups such as women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and artists of color. Further, we continue our commitment to present exhibitions in various media, including interdisciplinary practices that connect artists in the Bronx and beyond.

Light & Shadow: Rethinking Visual Spaces

Light and Shadow: Rethinking Visual Spaces is a group exhibition to be held at the Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, featuring mostly Bronx-based/affiliated artists who manipulate light and shadow in their artworks to create powerful visual and narrative statements. This exhibition will primarily spotlight three-dimensional and interactive works that incorporate light and motion-based technologies, celebrating the legacy of artistic experimentation within The Bronx and drawing the audience’s awareness to the innovative practices utilized by the borough’s artists today. Through these works, artists address the polarized role of technology in our lives and the tangible effects of light and its absence—including on mental health and perception, as well as light’s relationship to our environment and ecosystems. Steeped in our current moment of rapidly improving technology and its social implications, these artists are nonetheless harnessing these advancements to redefine the role of light and shadow in visual art.

FEE:
The selected applicant will be awarded a $2,000 honorarium.

Requirements

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos will only accept electronic submissions through Submittable. Please include the following attachments in Word or PDF format:

• An exhibition proposal with your name, address, phone number and e-mail address of up to 1000 words that includes a 300-word curatorial statement, exhibition goals and objectives, any technical requirements, and artists names. We additionally encourage the proposal of a public program (date and time to be determined if proposal is selected).
• A full exhibition checklist with artist names, selected artwork, and links to their website and/or social media. Please include images and dimensions for all works. Video samples (if applicable) may be submitted as separate .mov or .mp4, with filenames formatted as such: ARTISTLASTNAME_1.mov. All video samples must be accompanied by a link to the full piece, to be included in the checklist.
• A Curator’s CV.
• Three professional references with contact information.

Application Instructions

GUIDELINES:

1. While the paragraph above describes the intention and focus for this exhibition, we will accept proposals that offer variations on the themes to accommodate for the curator’s vision.
2. Proposals must be conceptually rigorous and focus on artists and themes in a way that is innovative, challenging, and engaging. We prefer that most artists proposed be emerging or under-represented, but will consider artists with a more established career
3. Extra consideration will be given to proposals that clearly demonstrate a unique and creative approach to curatorial research methods.
4. Guest Curators should not include their own work in the exhibition they are proposing to BCA’s Longwood Arts Project.
5. Include a list of artists and a proposed checklist with images.
6. Longwood Arts Project strongly encourages applications that expands our mission and contribute to our ongoing commitment to upcoming and mid-career artists, social justice, and advocacy for artists.

Final selection and applicant will be notified by BCA staff. Please do not submit original materials; ONLY ELECTRONIC FILES WILL BE PROCESSED. All applications will be kept on our files for future reference. For technical inquiries: longwood@bronxarts.org *No phone calls inquiring about the status of your submission, please.