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# Winners of apexart 2021–22 International Open Call Announced
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/apexart-2021-2022-international-open-call-winners/
- Published: 2021-04-09T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:11:12.000Z
- Description: Jurors cast over 18,000 votes to decide the winning exhibition proposals, which will be presented in their respective cities of Oakland, Kaduna, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo.
- Author: apexart
- Tags: Announcement, apexart, Exhibition Announcement, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

Four exhibition proposals have been selected from 520 submissions through apexart’s [2021–22 International Open Call](https://bit.ly/3dXX82T?ref=hyperallergic.com). They were evaluated by 514 individual jurors, including students from 24 university classes and 1 high school class, resulting in 18,462 votes cast! Submitters and jurors represented 88 countries. The following highest-rated exhibitions will be presented in their respective proposed cities during apexart’s 2021–2022 season. Congratulations!

[***Ctrl+Alt+Yellow***](https://bit.ly/3mtle9j?ref=hyperallergic.com)(Oakland, US)  
**Submitted by Janet Oh**   
Bay Area artists with lineage in Asia engage radical modes of narration, responding to and transcending histories of racism in the US to overcome historical and present-day hardships.

[***Arewa, Me Too***](https://bit.ly/3cUgpmm?ref=hyperallergic.com)(Kaduna, Nigeria)  
**Submitted by Favour Ritaro**  
Women artists living and working in northern Nigeria confront regional stereotypes and cultural expectations that perpetuate domestic and gender-based violence. 

[***Art for Women’s Lives***](https://bit.ly/3rXyKmR?ref=hyperallergic.com) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  
**Submitted by Milhas Pela Vida das Mulheres**  
Women across Brazil use art to guide the urgent debate on the decriminalization of abortion, defying the ultra-conservative government’s petitions to severely restrict access.

[***“Can you fuck it?” — The Fem-bot Phenomenon***](https://bit.ly/3wK1Xp5?ref=hyperallergic.com)(Tokyo, Japan)  
**Submitted by Elena Knox**   
Using humor, deconstruction, and the speculative reframing of a familiar figure, international women artists working in Asia critique the modern phenomenon of the female-simulating robot.

[**Visit apexart online**](https://bit.ly/3dXX82T?ref=hyperallergic.com) to read the original proposals, and consider submitting an idea to the [**2022–23 NYC Open Call**](https://bit.ly/3rY6JLV?ref=hyperallergic.com), accepting proposals in October 2021 for exhibitions at apexart in New York City.

Want to be a juror for our next Open Call? [**Learn more here**](https://bit.ly/2xi7YiA?ref=hyperallergic.com).