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# These Are the 200+ Artists in the Brooklyn Museum’s Open-Call Show
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/these-are-the-200-artists-in-the-brooklyn-museum-open-call-show/
- Published: 2024-08-27T20:51:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:08:24.000Z
- Description: Opening on October 4, The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition will celebrate the museum's 200th anniversary by spotlighting talent across the borough.
- Author: Rhea Nayyar
- Tags: News, Brooklyn Museum, Featured, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:36 (2023, 2024, part 2)

After whittling down nearly 4,000 submissions following an open call for local artists, the Brooklyn Museum has announced the 216 participants selected for *The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition*, opening October 4\. A complete list of artists is included at the end of this article.

The museum began fielding artwork submissions in February, referencing its history of supporting and platforming artists in the borough for the last several decades in anticipation of its 200th anniversary. The show will sweep across 15,000 square feet of the museum's Great Hall, seeking to highlight Brooklyn creativity and diversity by featuring artists who work in every medium imaginable.

Participant Qualeasha Wood, an emerging textile artist, told *Hyperallergic* that showing her work at the Brooklyn Museum felt special because her family is from the borough, which she doesn't often get to address in her work.

"The first American ancestor on my dad's side was born in Brooklyn in 1873, so my family has a very long and storied history in Brooklyn as a space where they put down roots," Wood said. "It's where my dad spent a lot of his childhood, and where I spent a lot of time as a kid."

Wood created a new work for the exhibition titled "Brooklyn Baby," referencing a Lana Del Rey song of the same name. "All the images of me in the work are from my studio and apartment in Brooklyn, with some background details from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which is where I had my first real date with my fiancé, and even the Winthrop Street stop on the 2 train," Wood said.

While championing locals, the Brooklyn Museum has also been at the center of controversy in recent years. Throughout 2023, the institution faced criticism for [drawn-out negotiations](https://hyperallergic.com/averting-strike-brooklyn-museum-union-ratifies-first-contract/) with its [unionized employees who threatened to strike](https://hyperallergic.com/brooklyn-museum-union-plans-strike-as-contract-negotiations-stall/). More recently, pro-Palestine protesters have staged frequent actions on its property amid Israel's ongoing decimation of Gaza following Hamas's October 7 attack, criticizing the museum board's ties to military investments. This year, the museum decried the "police brutality" that took place at a May 31 protest, where local activism groups such as the Palestinian-led collective [Within Our Lifetime](https://hyperallergic.com/activists-decry-show-of-force-and-violence-at-brooklyn-museum-protest/) were shoved, tackled, and physically thrown out by the [museum's external security units and the NYPD](https://hyperallergic.com/brooklyn-museum-is-complicit-in-violence-against-protesters/).

The forthcoming show is in the tradition of similar open-call exhibitions, such as the [*De Young Open* at San Francisco’s de Young Museum](https://hyperallergic.com/an-egalitarian-art-salon-at-san-franciscos-de-young-museum/). For *The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition*, an organizing committee made up of artists Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli was in charge of reviewing applicants, inviting others to participate, and curating the show. The exhibition was also coordinated by Brooklyn Museum Deputy Director of Art Sharon Matt Atkins, Senior Exhibitions Project Manager Lauren Bierly, and Special Exhibition Administrator Jennie Tang.

A complete alphabetized list of selected artists appears below.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2024/08/laurena_fineus_darkwaterofrenewal.jpg)

Laurena Finéus, "Dark water of renewal" (2024), oil, ink, and acrylic on canvas (© Laurena Finéus; image courtesy the artist and Charlotte L. Newman)

Evelyn Adams  
Destinie Adélakun  
Seongmin Ahn  
Scott Albrecht  
Danielle Alhassid  
Jonathan Allen  
Kadine Anckle  
Kate Bae  
Felipe Baeza  
Michael Ballou  
Yevgeniya Baras  
Sarah Bedford  
Hannah Beerman  
Aisha Tandiwe Bell  
Jane Benson  
Damien Olsen Berdichevsky  
Magda Biernat  
Samantha Bittman  
Lucas Blalock  
Sebastiaan Bremer  
Johanna Burke  
Stephen Burks  
Kimberly Bush  
Paul Campbell  
Mary Carlson  
Jazmine Catasús  
Geoffrey Chadsey  
Henry Hung Chang  
Ruby Chishti  
Jasmine Clarke  
Jennifer Coates  
Wendy Cohen  
Karen Cunningham  
Jennifer Dalton  
Lisa Corinne Davis  
Isis Davis-Marks  
E. V. Day  
Leah DeVun  
Lisa di Donato  
Nicole Eisenman  
Rodney Ewing  
Sean Fader  
Mohammed Iman Fayaz  
Keltie Ferris  
Alanna Fields  
Jane Fine  
Leo Fine  
Laurena Finéus  
Avram Finkelstein  
Tatiana Florival  
Amaryllis R. Flowers  
France François  
Ronen Gamil  
Teri Gandy-Richardson  
Chitra Ganesh  
Scherezade García  
Prajwal Godse  
Anthony Goicolea  
Shosh Goller  
Tamara Gonzales  
Isamar Gonzalez  
Garry Grant  
Stanley Greenberg  
Katya Grokhovsky  
Nancy Grossman  
Haoua Habré  
George Hagen  
Richard Haining  
Susan Hamburger  
Ilana Harris-Babou  
Heather Hart  
Elana Herzog  
Eric Hibit  
Honorroller  
Jackie Hoving  
Sumin Hwang  
James Hyde  
Sarra Hussein Idris  
Michelle Im  
Madjeen Isaac  
Yoko Iwanaga  
Katherine Jackson  
Swati Jain  
Lutfi Janania  
Gaël Jean-Louis  
Ruichao Jiang  
Khari Johnson-Ricks  
Bo Joseph  
Melissa Joseph  
Yaz Josiah  
Brad Kahlhamer  
Sophia Karwowski  
Nina Katchadourian  
Nathan Kensinger  
Jon Kessler  
Jarrett Key  
Kyung Tae Kim  
Yongjae Kim  
Matthew Kirk  
Sonomi Kobayashi  
Tamara Kostianovsky  
Fay Ku  
Alison Kuo  
Gabrielle Lansner  
Athena LaTocha  
An-My Lê  
Emilie Lemakis  
Sujin Lim  
Emily Loughlin  
Lisa Ludwig  
Sylvia Maier  
Emily Manwaring  
Guadalupe Maravilla  
Karen Margolis  
Chris Martin  
Rachel Martin  
Mario Martinez  
Ingrid Mathurin  
Esperanza Mayobre  
Josiah McElheny  
Frederick Mershimer  
Sam Messer  
Caleb Miller  
Steven Montgomery  
Jaye Moon  
T. Dylan Moore  
Livia Mourão  
Donna Moylan  
Cheryl Mukherji  
Loren Munk  
Timothy Paul Myers  
Mayumi Nakao  
Rita Nannini  
Martha Naranjo Sandoval  
Narcissister  
Susan Newmark  
Danielle Noel  
Dynasty Ogun  
Soull Ogun  
Clayton Okaly  
Ozodi Onyeabor  
Allison Michael Orenstein  
Laura Ortman  
Yaw Owusu  
Tinuade Oyelowo  
Christian Padron and Samora Pinderhughes  
Norm Paris  
Quiana Parks  
Cate Pasquarelli  
Rhesa Paul  
Lindsay Perryman  
Jamaal Peterman  
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya  
Naudline Pierre  
Lin Qiqing  
Colin Radcliffe  
Erika Ranee  
Robert Raphael  
Mark Reigelman  
Naomi Reis  
Resurrect Studio LLC  
Vernando Reuben  
Erin M. Riley  
Pema Rinzin  
Ilisa Katz Rissman  
Matthew Ritchie  
Leslie Roberts  
Alex Dolores Salerno  
Gwyneth Scally  
Hiba Schahbaz  
Rick Secen  
Michelle Segre  
Lauren Seiden  
Jonathan Seliger  
David Shaw  
Bobby Silverman  
Kuldeep Singh  
Tuesday Smillie  
Jane South  
Susan Špiranović  
Sharon Sprung  
Monica Srivastava  
Josh Sucher  
Takura Suzuki  
Assane Sy  
Catherine Tafur  
Hidemi Takagi  
Alison Elizabeth Taylor  
Leo Tecosky  
Dannielle Tegeder  
Mary Temple  
Darryl DeAngelo Terrell  
Jade Thacker  
Zac Thompson  
Jim Torok  
A. R. Tran  
Janaina Tschäpe  
Juan Pablo Uribe  
William Villalongo  
Sophia Wallace  
Cyle Warner  
Kit Warren  
Chris Weller  
Michelle Wen  
Tabitha Whitley  
Tracie Dawn Williams  
Oliver Wilson  
Qualeasha Wood  
Kenny Wu  
Akiko Yamamoto  
Jason Bard Yarmosky  
Betty Yu  
Halley Zien  
Brenda Zlamany  
Balint Zsako