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# apexart Exhibitions Invites Curators, Artists, and Others to Turn Their Idea Into an Exhibition
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/apexart-exhibitions-invites-curators-artists-and-others-to-turn-their-idea-into-an-exhibition/
- Published: 2019-08-12T16:18:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:23:18.000Z
- Description: The 2019-2020 exhibition schedule features shows in South Korea, Mali, Iran, and Brazil, and five in New York City.
- Author: apexart
- Tags: Announcement, apexart, Opportunities, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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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**](https://apexart.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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**](http://bit.ly/2OJxDsv?ref=hyperallergic.com) **Submission Dates for the 2020-2021 apexart Exhibition Season**

- [**New York Exhibition**](http://bit.ly/2OJxDsv?ref=hyperallergic.com) proposals will be accepted from October 1 – 31, 2019.
- [**International Exhibition**](http://bit.ly/2OJxDsv?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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***](https://apexart.org/exhibitions/breiner.php?utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=season1920), 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*, c*urated by Tom Healy (invited curator)
- Jan 11 – Mar 7, 2020  
[***Souls Grown Diaspora***](https://apexart.org/exhibitions/gordon.php?utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=season1920), 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***](https://apexart.org/exhibitions/tsionki.php?utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=season1920), 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)***](https://apexart.org/exhibitions/lee-kwon.php?utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=season1920), 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***](https://apexart.org/exhibitions/bocoum.php?utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=season1920) **(*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***](https://apexart.org/exhibitions/tehrani-rezaallah.php?utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=season1920), 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***](https://apexart.org/exhibitions/aidar.php?utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=season1920), curated by Clarissa Aidar  
Public installations responding to transphobia in Brazil; six transgender women artists; survival

For details on how to submit a [proposal](http://bit.ly/2GSrunD?ref=hyperallergic.com) or about the [classroom juror process](http://bit.ly/2M4D3fF?ref=hyperallergic.com) visit [apexart.org/opencalls.](http://bit.ly/2OJxDsv?ref=hyperallergic.com)