The Juror List
NYC Open Call 2024-25 Winning Proposals and Proposal Ranking     

The five highest ranking proposals were submitted by:
Gülistan Kenanoğlu (Divine Violence / Jin, Jîyan, Azadî (ژن، ژیان، ئازادی)), Turkey
Souya Handa (Take it home, for (__) shall not repeat the error. [Manhattan Project]), Japan
Katie Yook (Goddess Tales), United States
Matthew Terrell (Cruising in the Shadows: Uncovering Secret LGBTQ+ Culture in New York City), United States
and Noel Maghathe (On my fingertips), United States

The NYC Open Call accepts ideas for group exhibitions to be presented at apexart in New York. The organizers of the five highest-ranked proposals will receive curatorial honorariums, funding for their exhibitions, and funding for exhibition-related public programming. Dates will be posted as they are determined.

Thank you for submitting a proposal this round. We hope that you will consider doing so again in the future as the jury changes every time and many winners have submitted multiple times.

Rank ID Score Title
1 153 4.0909 Divine Violence / Jin, Jîyan, Azadî (ژن، ژیان، ئازادی)
2 414 4.0377 Take it home, for (__) shall not repeat the error. [Manhattan Project]
3 372 4.0182 Goddess Tales
4 376 4.0182 Cruising in the Shadows: Uncovering Secret LGBTQ+ Culture in New York City
5 80 4 On my fingertips
6 344 3.9444 Collective Amnesia
7 243 3.9259 Tension: Asian Labor in the US
8 358 3.9259 Profile of a Land
9 409 3.9245 Crip Time
10 257 3.9123 Invisible weaving
11 391 3.9107 Hum Dekhain Gay (We shall see)
12 392 3.8909 ALIENS
13 231 3.8545 Not My War
14 328 3.8462 Our Past Is not Evil: Orishas are Us
15 382 3.8421 After War, A Garden From the Future
16 253 3.8393 Home is Waiting for You: Contemporary Art by Yemeni Women
17 302 3.7885 Beneath The Surface
18 252 3.7857 The Earth Is Cracked Yet The Water Stays Still
19 198 3.7778 Faux Future
20 353 3.7778 Bridges of Belonging
21 442 3.7736 UNTOLD JOURNEYS: GIRLS FIGHT FOR EDUCATION
22 359 3.7544 Artmaking Rooted in the Collective Resistance of Our Unhoused Neighbors
23 181 3.7455 Current Futures
24 309 3.7407 Astral Landscapes
25 68 3.7273 Sugar Fields
26 77 3.7222 Biphasic Dreams: The Night in Three Acts
27 318 3.7193 CROSSROADS
28 320 3.7143 Soil Times, the life beneath our feet.
29 36 3.6852 Reframing Thokoza as home, in the aftermath of South Africa’s “township wars”
30 367 3.6792 Menagerie of Disappearance
31 433 3.6667 Taste of Hand
32 266 3.6607 Sapara: The Dream of a Universe in Resistance
33 331 3.6604 Rites of Passage: Fragments and Cycles
34 225 3.6545 Xeno
35 319 3.6545 The Work of Art in the Age of Internationalized Internet
36 445 3.6491 Am I Not Soft Enough?
37 430 3.6481 Deadpan Pan
38 400 3.6429 I can't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future
39 313 3.625 Remember, We Can't Take It With Us
40 205 3.6226 Alterations
41 301 3.6226 SEAWEED TASTES LIKE FOREVER
42 363 3.6182 The Power of Storytelling
43 365 3.614 Rising From the Ashes
44 303 3.6071 The Memory of Trees
45 471 3.6038 Temporarily Here
46 62 3.6 How Pakistani culture affects religion and how women's sexuality is suppressed
47 278 3.6 La temperatura del cobre
48 75 3.5965 The Inverted Gaze
49 152 3.5962 Corporal Femininity
50 85 3.5918 Trouble/d Generation/s
51 395 3.5849 URDIMBRE: A visual tribute to identity
52 38 3.5818 Serenity, NOW
53 443 3.5818 Archives of Belonging: LGBTQ+ Narratives in Photography
54 444 3.5818 Vis-à-vis
55 105 3.5789 LyfeStyle - The Future Perfected
56 159 3.5789 Epi Lemma
57 364 3.5741 Finding Home
58 470 3.5741 A Few Unlikely Forms of Ecdysis
59 176 3.5714 Fragmented
60 398 3.5714 Artquatic Shop: Open for speculation!
61 279 3.5636 Un-deniable
62 16 3.5536 Maria Islands
63 132 3.5536 Open Your Mouth, Get Well Soon
64 293 3.5536 From Ashes to Art: Celebrating Resilience and Joy in Black Womanhood
65 254 3.5455 Plantation Futures: Foregrounding Lost Narratives
66 394 3.5455 The Double Sugar (The Impact of sugar on social mobility in Indonesia)
67 343 3.5439 Threads of Colonization: Textile Waste and Global Consequences
68 459 3.5357 Do you want to see my room?
69 378 3.5283 Art at Work: an exhibition celebrating public sanitation art
70 415 3.5283 Double Trouble
71 130 3.5185 Huščar (from the Belarusian language, it's a "thicket")
72 136 3.5185 If You Prick Me, Do I Not Bleed?
73 403 3.5185 Deep listening of a soil
74 94 3.5179 The Empty Chair: Artivist Outcries Against Femicide
75 99 3.5179 Refloresting bodies, Re-enchanting territories
76 199 3.5091 Bodies exa(o)m
77 323 3.5091 You Cannot F*ck the Land!
78 29 3.5 Conduits
79 70 3.5 American Education
80 197 3.5 Bound Narratives: A Photobook Library
81 242 3.5 the soil works for all
82 299 3.5 Polishing the Air
83 361 3.5 Unveiling The Unseen (Latin American Women Artist from Costa Rica)
84 402 3.4909 A Bat is a Leather Butterfly
85 19 3.4821 Second Bodies
86 55 3.4821 “Ukraine Mon Amour”: An Exhibition of Resilience and Humanity
87 307 3.4821 Let me be your ruler
88 124 3.4815 Reanimating the Sensing Body
89 65 3.4737 Go girl, go boy. Age Unveiled” 416 3.4737 Archives of Intimacy 103 3.4727 Creating Safer Space 347 3.4717 The Shape of Healing 127 3.4643 Counterpoints of Memory 50 3.4545 Pedagogy & Palette: The Dual Lives of NYC Educator-Artists"
90 195 3.4545 Digital Frenzy
91 315 3.4545 The Last Mile
92 425 3.4545 What Light Said About A Stone
93 191 3.4528 Palmyra, The Agony
94 88 3.4464 Today, please, leave me alone
95 339 3.4386 Monuments to the Anthropocene
96 345 3.4386 Contours of Change: Alternative Maps, New Worldviews
97 139 3.4364 Counter-Texts: Language is Not Neutral
98 145 3.4364 Parrots, Pirates
99 311 3.4364 Better Versions
100 261 3.4259 The New Idols. Antimonuments and contemporary visions on commemoration
101 111 3.4211 Institute of Rest
102 450 3.4074 I Miss You So Much: an epistolary romance between old friends, new immigrants, two art students, and
103 273 3.4035 On the Edge: Housing in the Borderlands
104 259 3.4 Homeless In the Family of Man
105 186 3.3962 Hydra
106 401 3.3929 Institute of Societal Anxieties
107 39 3.3889 My Archeological Body
108 263 3.3889 Feel Good Parasite- Bodies in the Age of Technology
109 325 3.3889 To Return the Earth to the Earth
110 379 3.3889 52nd Street Revisited
111 297 3.3818 (Re)Constructing Territories
112 385 3.3818 Concrete Futures
113 333 3.375 My Tank friend
114 314 3.3654 The apple (do)esn't fall far from the tree
115 21 3.3636 Echoes of Yesterday: An Exploration of Memory and Identity"
116 151 3.3585 Amina
117 174 3.3571 Familiar
118 423 3.3519 Unveiling home
119 373 3.3455 Ethicize: Unveiling the Erased Narratives
120 53 3.3393 Whimsical Lines: A Doodled Journey
121 157 3.3393 Fahrenheit 451: The Sequel
122 245 3.3393 Temporalities anchored by light
123 271 3.3393 High Heel Manifesto
124 138 3.3333 JUMPING THE FENCE
125 428 3.3333 Watermarks That Seeped Through The Concrete
126 238 3.3273 The Poster Show (working title)
127 268 3.3273 Amathungululu
128 129 3.32 Women in Memory
129 54 3.3158 FRUITS OF LABOUR
130 455 3.3158 Lakh War Sadkay (a hundred thousand sacrifices)
131 95 3.3148 Timeless Echoes: Portraits of Resilience in Monochrome
132 377 3.3148 the shushes of nothing at all
133 421 3.3148 The noise of the slowness
134 380 3.3091 From The Rubble, She Speaks: A Call For Peace In The Dust of Division
135 438 3.3091 Witchful Thinking (by the Baltic Sea)
136 324 3.3077 Inner State
137 256 3.3036 Glitched ID
138 128 3.3019 Disconnecting Tissue
139 351 3.2982 notions of care: deviant communities
140 196 3.2909 Lament
141 404 3.2909 Cosmetic Culture: Makeup in Contemporary Art
142 408 3.2857 Dancing on Hallowed Ground
143 393 3.283 Feeling Material
144 432 3.2778 I See Beauty in You
145 224 3.2727 The Choice of Narrowtive
146 316 3.2727 loveMANia
147 429 3.2727 Weighted Balloons
148 67 3.2679 Longleaf
149 89 3.2679 Feeling in Doomtime an ECOPUNK internvention
150 317 3.2679 Body of Mere Being
151 340 3.2679 It's a twister!
152 454 3.2679 Leer el Paisaje / To Read the Landscape
153 24 3.2632 Textiles Autonomy
154 219 3.2632 ARTIVISTS - Art Against Oppression
155 413 3.2593 Hair Sarkissian, Mashika Firunts Hagopyan, Scout Tufankjian
156 185 3.2545 Telekinesis, listening, and other forms of resistance
157 306 3.2545 Hypermnesia: memory fictions
158 98 3.25 The EXPANSE! EXHIBITION
159 396 3.25 Reshaping The Memory
160 435 3.25 City Vistas: Embracing Caribbean Migrations
161 342 3.2456 Repeat after me
162 431 3.2456 A.paisajes
163 270 3.2407 Now and then bodies arise
164 381 3.2407 The fae in the high castle: Crafting Cottagecore
165 460 3.2321 Fight today to not die tomorrow
166 165 3.2281 If our skin has no value, then our bones must be gold!
167 451 3.22 Museum of Walks
168 221 3.2182 Artificial Nature
169 272 3.2182 Post Structural: Richard Tuttle, Mike Cloud, Tauba Auerbach, and the Denial of Support
170 384 3.2182 A soft place to land, a hard place to leave
171 448 3.2182 sea, sands, corals, seaweeds, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves…seas and mothers (working
172 140 3.2143 “A Wise Conjurer’s Incantation: Humankind is alive... Hope and Peace is afoot.”
173 226 3.2143 Losing My Religion, The World Within
174 424 3.2143 Brushed Defiance
175 440 3.2143 The Art World is a Circus
176 115 3.2037 We The People
177 133 3.2037 Home Is Where the Heart Is
178 406 3.2037 Dancing on Hallowed Ground
179 216 3.2 Peering with, /in
180 82 3.1964 Thousand Island
181 229 3.1964 Expo Mala III
182 180 3.193 END
183 131 3.1887 Unveiling Perspectives
184 168 3.1852 The Longing Time
185 84 3.1818 IYKYK: AN EXPLORATION OF MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN THE DIGITAL ERA
186 79 3.1786 The Art Gallery Problem
187 346 3.1786 Bad Timekeepers
188 464 3.1786 Afro-Latinx Visions: Shaping Histories and Futures
189 120 3.1754 Lessons in the Black Arts and the Decolonial Sciences
190 283 3.1754 Temple of Sleep
191 298 3.1698 I Clicked on an Instagram Ad and This Happened
192 41 3.1607 El cielo como bandera
193 189 3.1607 Is other-scape…?
194 206 3.1607 Tides of Change: Documenting Oceanic Marvels and Confronting Plastic Pollution
195 222 3.1607 Silent Signs: A Poetics of Multilayered Urbanism
196 276 3.1607 Prügeltorte: Form as Submission
197 235 3.1509 WE ARE ONE
Rank ID Score Title
198 43 3.1481 Insular City
199 329 3.1455 METAPHYSICА
200 267 3.1404 Title: "Borders of Humanity: Uniting through Art"
201 410 3.1404 Track Changes
202 233 3.1404 FRONTIERS
203 232 3.1321 SKIN, COLD TO TOUCH
204 326 3.1273 Break with me
205 269 3.125 How have I not heard you?
206 371 3.1228 memos on difference
207 420 3.1228 Environmental Boundaries
208 446 3.1176 Paper Meets Pixels : Collage Unleashed
209 262 3.1111 Ruin: an erotics of decay
210 292 3.1111 Becoming with
211 334 3.1111 Chile woke up?
212 239 3.1091 Clipped White
213 280 3.1091 Saṃsāra: Spinning on a Broken Axle
214 247 3.1071 Is it time?
215 22 3.1053 Sharp Teeth
216 437 3.1053 21st Century Wanderer
217 250 3.0926 Al-muthanna Ubuntu in Afro Arab landscapes
218 61 3.0909 Wisper and Shouts
219 461 3.0909 Mediagua
220 203 3.0893 Entangled Matter
221 427 3.0877 Fiber & Forge
222 26 3.0769 All Together Now: friendship and solidarity in the face of crisis
223 112 3.0727 Potentia
224 162 3.0727 nonplace.site
225 170 3.0714 El arte del comer- The art of eating
226 193 3.0714 Mathematical Expressionism: Bricks, Time and Restlessness
227 190 3.0702 Another tourist destinations
228 209 3.0702 I am not free
229 337 3.0577 Embodied Densities: Polyphonic Genealogies
230 352 3.0577 END MEASURE: OF SONIC FUTURES PAST
231 453 3.0577 I’LL BE IN MY KITCHEN
232 227 3.0556 Opaque Voices, Encrypted Sounds
233 405 3.0556 Politics of Imperceptible: The Regimes of Post-truth
234 58 3.0545 DESENFRENO Audiovisual
235 240 3.0545 Indepthtedness
236 370 3.0545 Reconfiguration, Recombination, Redistribution, Reattachment, …
236 412 3.0545 Healing through ...
237 167 3.0536 SCRIBBLINGS: Choreographies of Unravellings, Meanderings & Wandering Wanderlusts
238 417 3.0536 Art in Evolution: From Pictorial to Quantum State
239 447 3.0536 The Collectors
240 32 3.0526 Mapping Memory – Where am (I/WE/YOU)?
241 217 3.0364 POOR BUT SEXY
242 287 3.0364 Posting Is Like Sending A Message In A Bottle
243 407 3.0364 I see you in 3D
244 441 3.0357 Free My Colonized Mind
245 106 3.0351 The Edge of Skin
246 42 3.0182 Nomadicus Digitalis: a rising species
247 122 3.0182 WORK, (DIS)ORDER AND (SELF)DISCIPLINE: The Invisible Labor of Cultural Workers
248 321 3.0182 The Transgressive Power Of Grief
249 349 3.0182 A liberated carnival (Un carnaval liberado)
250 387 3.0182 Paleo Genesis
251 25 3.0179 CUIRIO: Looking at Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer Artists in New York City
252 220 3.0179 MISFITS
253 383 3.0179 We taste the future - my somatic intelligence and me
254 96 3.0175 SUBMERGED
255 160 3.0175 Maternal Depths
256 37 3 Vocal Imprint
257 107 3 The Narrative: The Art of Storytelling in Contemporary Painting
258 119 3 [Aqua + Terra + Air]
259 335 3 Unlearning Imperialism
260 83 2.9821 Welcome to the Game on Earth: Avatars of the Spirit
261 187 2.9818 BLACKBOARDS FULL OF NOISE
262 146 2.9649 MEMORIES OF LONGING AND BELONGING…
263 171 2.9649 Living Thing
264 63 2.9649 Colours of the Soul
265 49 2.9643 Unveiling Identities: Exploring Cross-cultural Narratives in LGBTQIA+ Art
266 248 2.9636 MINERALIA
267 294 2.9636 Minor Injury: An Alternative Vision of the 1980s New York Art
268 389 2.9636 Jag Vill Leva, Jag Vill Dö I Norden
269 411 2.963 Redefining Realities: New Media Art in the Digital Age
269 141 2.9455 dengên jinan
270 158 2.9455 Shadows of Simorgh
271 264 2.9455 Unique Expressions: We Are Who We Are
272 48 2.9444 Mi prendo cura di me ("I take care of me")
273 366 2.9423 Gore Porno Tropicalism
274 125 2.9259 Fillings
275 290 2.9259 LAKE-FACING PEOPLE
276 74 2.9123 Draw me a sheep
277 142 2.9123 When The Heaven Was Fall: Art from Myanmar
278 179 2.9123 red-amber-green
279 126 2.9091 Unknown at the moment
280 194 2.9091 There's no place like home
281 118 2.9057 Mission to Vision
282 289 2.8947 Resolution 1481
283 102 2.8929 The Forbidden Fruit: Object of Desire
284 137 2.8929 Wild Renaissance : the symbiotic perspective
285 327 2.8889 Echoes of X
286 241 2.8772 Follow The Feeling: A Musical
287 156 2.875 In Loving Memory
288 439 2.875 Threads of the Soul.
289 91 2.8727 Let your dark out
290 348 2.8727 Diverse Perceptions
291 33 2.8704 I shot P.
292 322 2.8545 Subversive Parallels
293 166 2.8421 Reduce, reuse, recycle
294 214 2.8364 Counterforms: six proposals from Argentina and Chile
295 154 2.8333 A Moment to Dream: The Art of Fashion Photography
296 275 2.8333 SANDCASTLE
297 291 2.8269 Breaking Things at Work: Today’s Luddites
298 45 2.8182 Reflection
299 17 2.8036 ANTI-SOCIAL: EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY HETEROTOPIAS
300 237 2.7963 Nuwa City
301 465 2.7963 Reclaiming the muses
302 28 2.7857 Memes: visual criticism (the role of the image as a critical method in the viral space)
303 30 2.7857 THIS IS ... NOUVELLE VAGUE
304 296 2.7857 Shadows of Bygones: Interpreting Temporality Through Materiality
305 104 2.7818 A World At Every Plunge
306 244 2.7818 Is it Art ir AI, or both?
307 336 2.7593 The Sanatorium or how to levitate over the cracks. Art is not a competition 2024
308 23 2.7407 And Me: The American Girl
309 100 2.7407 TechVolution: An Art-Tech Fusion at Apexart
310 164 2.7407 My ancestors told me that spirits never die
311 386 2.7407 Advanced materials : Cyber counter narratives from the most mafia-ridden place in the world
312 258 2.7321 For Want of a Room
313 201 2.7193 Delinquency
314 277 2.7193 Are we our own Matrix?
315 390 2.7143 I love I get to exist with you
316 472 2.6981 Zauriak
317 47 2.6964 We Know Nothing About Everything
318 362 2.6964 Family
319 204 2.6909 Traces of other lives: Memory in the individual and the collective
320 357 2.6852 Speculative Now
321 300 2.6792 Blade Thin
322 27 2.6727 Your Gold is not Our Glory
323 211 2.6727 On the Verge
324 200 2.6545 A place I can't call home
325 284 2.6545 Earth Awaiting Humanity
326 305 2.6545 You Manejo, Dios Me Guía
327 73 2.6481 disorientation
328 173 2.6481 SILENT VOICES
329 274 2.6471 The Imaginarium: Universe of the Mind
330 150 2.6429 THE GREAT CIRCUS OF THE PATRIARCHY
331 368 2.6296 Protection, confrontation, freedom: cloaks and armor (working title)
332 72 2.625 The Whole Technoshamanism Catalogue
333 388 2.6182 SHORT STORIES OF EMERGING IDENTITIES
334 355 2.6111 Xeno: resilience
335 182 2.6 For Kappa
336 93 2.5893 Boundaries, Borders and Walls - Artists and Art: The Common Denominator
337 208 2.5893 Unknown, Unsung and Forgotten
338 18 2.5741 The Chemistry of a BLUEPRINT
339 31 2.5614 Legacy
340 175 2.5536 Birds Of A Feather
341 286 2.5536 Animated US
342 281 2.537 Archive As Organism
343 375 2.5357 Reclaiming the muses
344 350 2.5273 You don't look Brazilian
345 87 2.5179 Resilience Reflected: Echoes of Contemporary Pueblo Existence
346 249 2.5088 Mental Gardens
347 51 2.5 Hommage to Sarah G.
348 56 2.4909 INSOLENCE
349 202 2.463 Voyage through Virtual Vistas: Exploring AI Art with ChatGPT
350 212 2.4561 an art calligraphy " a crreative dialogue " divinely revealed scriptures
351 109 2.4444 A painted place
352 255 2.4182 LATINOAMERICA CONECTA - Photographic Narratives from an Entire Continent
353 169 2.4151 Other//Bodies
354 234 2.3929 RØMSKOG
355 436 2.3818 Grey Market: Normalize crime
356 457 2.3684 The Ultimate Sink
357 192 2.3519 Late Start For Mardis Gras
358 108 2.3 THE PICTURE YOU SEE IS NOT A PORTRAIT OF ME / A CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT: ABSENT AND IMAGE
359 360 2.2759 Dispute Unresolution
360 332 2.2667 Connections: The Path to Interaction
361 354 2.2667 having a good time
362 155 2.2364 Unbinding Histories
363 135 2.2333 'White Inferno''
364 230 2.2333 VISION(A.I)RY
365 78 2.2182 The wounds we make
366 422 2.2 Even a worm will turn
367 81 2.1818 Women as We See Them
368 147 2.1667 The canvas as a fighting flag (Chile´s October Outbreak)
369 452 2.1667 People’s Pick
370 97 2.1333 Goliat
371 20 2.1 Not a Monolith
372 121 2.1 Popular Knowledge
373 215 2.0667 Filtered
374 341 2.0667 Sonic Agencies: triggering auditory resistances
375 285 2.0645 Traditions that should not be lost
376 184 2.0333 Dark Ecology
377 143 2 Silent Voices
378 207 2 Outer Layer
379 356 2 CINEMA 17
380 369 2 mangment
381 330 1.9355 Football & Art (Soccer)
382 57 1.9333 Indian Art Fusion
383 40 1.931 Belonging, blinded choices
384 310 1.8333 Analogous Luddite: Slow Down
385 113 1.8 Art Politics ( A display of talent, and unotordoxed technics.)
386 178 1.7 Drawing you in
387 177 1.6667 illustration world
388 246 1.6667 Vice Versa
389 2 1.6333 African life
390 34 1.5 Moment
391 462 1.4667 AVALANCHE
392 161 1.3333 Art Everywhere
393 312 1.3333 your rock, my volcano