Exhibitions, fellowships, and open calls 2023–24

October 1–October 31, 2023
apexart NYC Open Call accepts proposals
Five winning proposals are awarded a budget of up to 10,000 USD and become part of apexart’s 2024–2025 exhibition season in New York.

February 1–March 1, 2024
apexart International Open Call accepts proposals.
4 winning proposals are awarded a budget of up to 11,000 USD and become part of apexart’s 2024–2025 international exhibition season.

apexart open calls present an opportunity for creatives everywhere to turn their idea into an apexart exhibition. The open calls use an online selection process drawing more than 1,000 proposals that are voted on anonymously by over 800 people around the world. Winning proposals become apexart exhibitions, receiving a budget of up to 10,000–11,000 USD, and apexart staff support to produce a focused, idea-driven exhibition. Learn more about how to submit a proposal, be a juror or be part of the classroom juror process.

2023–2024 exhibitions

September 8–October 21, 2023  New York
FITTER, HAPPIER, MORE PRODUCTIVE (online and New York), curated by Lexington Davis
Explores the toxic underbelly of capitalist wellness culture, proposing instead alternative understandings of wellbeing that confront structural inequalities.

October 12–November 11, 2023  Cairo, Egypt
The Valley of Walls, curated by Farida Youssef

Engages with the archive as an artistic and ecological intervention through site-specific installations in the abandoned apartment of Egypt’s former Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation.

November 3–December 23, 2023  New York
Fruits of Labor— Reframing Motherhood and Artmaking , curated by Bruna Shapira

Calls for a shift in the paradigms of both mothering and artistic expression by arguing that motherhood is not in conflict with artmaking but rather the prevailing narratives framing womanhood.

November 18–December 18, 2023 Brooklyn–apexart at Pratt
HAIRITAGE, curated by Favour Ritaro

Untangling the racial politics of Black hair and the deep rooted systems of oppression that have shaped its prejudicial treatment through art that explores complex personal experiences of marginalization and empowerment.

January 12–March 9, 2024  New York
BUILD WHAT WE HATE. DESTROY WHAT WE LOVE., curated by Fabiola R. Delgado

Amplifying the voices of Venezuelan migrants by articulating the social and cultural components that make up their mass exodus.

February 24–March 23, 2024  San Antonio, TX
DEATH RIGHTS, curated by Marian Casey

Presents artists engaging with loss, remembrance, and the afterlife by radically reclaiming death as a political tool.

March 22–May 18, 2024  New York
IF SHADOWS COULD SHINE, curated by Yi Cao

Visualizing the erasure and displacement of marginalized communities through the metaphor of shadow.

May 11–June 8, 2024  Toronto, Canada
AS WE MOVE AWAY FROM THE SUN, curated by Fatma Hendawy

Invites audiences to engage with topics of migration, displacement, and adaptation with a focus on the inextricable connections between human and plant migration.

June 1- July 27, 2024  New York
WELCOME HOME, curated by Jeroen Stevens

Mobilizing art as a radically transformative tool to challenge the revolving door between incarceration and homelessness in black American communities.

June 29–July 27, 2024  Lagos, Nigeria
ASHAWO : WHO SAYS YOU’RE A HOE?? , curated by Amaechina David SNIPES

Challenges prejudice against the Nigerian women through fashion, performance, spiritualism, visual art, and activism.

2023–2024 fellowships
Our fellowship program is a one-month-long activity intensive creative catalyst that takes artists through an active schedule of some 70 diverse activities in a new and generally distant location. Fellows are presented with new ideas through taking part in volunteer activities, workshops, psychotherapy and non-career related meetings along with experiences and an opportunity to think in a non-directed way. Participants are selected by people they know in their home country who are familiar with their work, their culture, and their “need” for this unorthodox challenge.

Upcoming New York and International Fellowships: 
Mvelo Midoli Antonia Mahlangu  (South Africa to New York) January 2024
Patcharapa Inchang (Thailand to New York) March 2024
Diyali Bhalla (Dubai to New York) April 2024
Sonia Paulino Love (New York to TBA) January 2024
Jevijoe Vitug (New York City to TBA) February 2024
Syd Fini (New York City to TBA) April 2024