apexart Exhibitions Invites Curators, Artists, and Others to Turn Their Idea Into an Exhibition

Dalit Indigenous Trans Poetry Circle, program in New Delhi, India (October 2018); Sto Len’s performance program at the Newtown Creek Center of Visual Research, Queens, New York (October 2018); Opening reception for Re-Imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation, Lagos, Nigeria (February 2019); Creating Playable Spaces with Code Liberation, program at apexart NYC (April 2019).

Internationally-known arts organization apexart offers opportunities to independent curators and artists to challenge their ideas about art, its practice, and its curation as an apexart exhibition in New York City or around the world.

Open Call Submission Dates for the 2020-2021 apexart Exhibition Season

New York Exhibition proposals will be accepted from October 1 – 31, 2019.
International Exhibition proposals will be accepted from February 1 – 28, 2020.

The schedule below was selected from over 1000 submissions anonymously juried by more than 600 people and university classes internationally. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s exhibition season, and receive production support and funding of up to $10,000 USD to produce a modest-sized, local, focused exhibition.

2019-2020 apexart New York Exhibitions

Sep 7 – Oct, 26, 2019
The Criminal Type, curated by Elizabeth Breiner
19th century rogues’ galleries to Mugshots.com; history of photographic portraiture and criminality
Nov 7 – Dec 21, 2019
Surrendered to the Air: Remembering Toni Morrison, curated by Tom Healy (invited curator)
Jan 11 – Mar 7, 2020
Souls Grown Diaspora, curated by Sam Gordon
Contemporary, visionary African-American artists; Great Migration; re-informing art history
Mar 19 – May 16, 2020
To be announced
May 28 – Aug 1, 2020
Meteorological Mobilities, curated by Marianna Tsionki
Climate injustice; radical rethinking; challenging governments and corporations in power

2019-2020 apexart International Exhibitions

Oct 6 – Nov 2, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea
Untitled (QueerArch), curated by Kang Seung Lee and Jin Kwon
QueerArch in Seoul (a.k.a. the Korea Queer Archive); history of art and queer culture; new commissions
Dec 5 – 31, 2019 in Bamako, Mali
Musow Ka Touma Sera (The Era of Women has Arrived) Curated by Fatima Bocoum
Gender-based violence in Mali; photography; first exhibition in Mali organized by a woman featuring all women artists
Feb 16 – Mar 14, 2020 in Tehran, Iran
WOMEN C(A)REATE, curated by Elnaz Mohammad Tehrani and Anahita Rezaallah
Drug addiction in Iran; stigma; women’s empowerment; tapestry-based collaborations
Apr 26 – May 23, 2020 in São Paulo, Brazil
Fantasy Battleground, curated by Clarissa Aidar
Public installations responding to transphobia in Brazil; six transgender women artists; survival