NYC Open Call 2023-23 Proposal Ranking   JurorsMore info

The five highest ranking proposals are available on the website and were submitted by:
Jeroen Stevens (Welcome Home), Belgium
Yi Cao (If Shadows Could Shine), Netherlands
Fabiola R. Delgado (Build what we hate. Destroy what we love.), United States
Lexington Davis (Fitter, Happier, More Productive), United States
and Bruna Shapira (Fruits of Labor— Reframing Motherhood and Artmaking). Brazil
The NYC Open Call accepts ideas for group exhibitions to be presented at apexart, 291 Church Street, in New York City. 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.

Rank ID Score Title Country
1 315 3.9833 Welcome Home Belgium
2 286 3.9322 Fitter, Happier, More Productive Netherlands
3 389 3.8833 If Shadows Could Shine United States
4 83 3.8814 Build what we hate. Destroy what we love. United States
5 327 3.8644 Fruits of Labor - Reframing Motherhood and Artmaking Brazil
6 63 3.8448 Hairitage United States
7 383 3.8276 Reza, Give Us a Beat! United Kingdom
8 305 3.8167 Las flores mueren dos veces Mexico
9 162 3.8136 Death Rights United States
10 248 3.7833 Bodenständigkeit 触地 United States
11 202 3.7719 Palmyra: Tug of War, the Agony Multi-Channel audiovisual installation with dance performance Australia
12 76 3.7705 Sapara: transgressing oblivion Ecuador
13 219 3.7667 Scar Tissue United States
14 303 3.7627 On the Other Side of Violence United States
15 50 3.7458 The memory of thread Ecuador
16 375 3.7167 The Amazon’s Bloodstained Beauty Colombia
17 407 3.7167 My Body, My World United States
18 232 3.6727 Fashion for Survival Mexico
19 77 3.6721 Domestic Market United States
20 69 3.6667 Green colonialism and the extractive zone Sweden
21 140 3.6667 Only I can make my tomorrow. Stringing together stories from Honduras. Costa Rica
22 224 3.6607 Remnant traces Germany
23 364 3.65 The streets are ours! Women in street art in Brazil Brazil
24 367 3.6458 ṣiyāḡah (صياغة) Saudi Arabia
25 394 3.6379 Working on Being Softer Canada
26 183 3.6296 Mae hiraeth arna amdanot ti — I miss you United States
27 189 3.6296 Escape Routes United States
28 352 3.6296 Reducing the Distance Kazakhstan
29 278 3.6271 Memories of Tomorrow: Migration and Identity from the Perspective of an Asian City Déjà Disparu Hong Kong
30 68 3.6 Player Piano United Kingdom
31 240 3.6 Hairpieces United States
32 258 3.5965 Encoded Tapestries: AI and Woven Art United States
33 314 3.5965 Gut Reactions: Soft Sculpture Then & Now United States
34 15 3.5926 Maharlika Philippines
35 130 3.5714 LET THE GOOD ONES GO Serbia
36 272 3.5714 Techno-vernacular: a declaration against a global future France
37 348 3.5714 Hubbub of Shadows Turkey
38 400 3.5714 Return to Sender United States
39 144 3.5614 Jin, Jiyan, Azadî / ژن، ژیان، ئازادی Turkey
40 129 3.5556 SEE ME, HEAR ME: Invisible Americans United States
41 283 3.5455 Embody, Entwine Canada
42 255 3.5357 The Feminine Altar of Huarochiri Peru
43 212 3.5179 Spain – dazzling, delightful…dangerous Spain
44 47 3.5091 Roe Rage United States
45 260 3.5088 Illusions Of Choice United Kingdom
46 295 3.5088 Signs of feelings left everywhere Taiwan
47 269 3.4727 FutureCurrents Australia
48 341 3.4727 The Stories We Remade Switzerland
49 369 3.4706 archiva_mutante / mutant_archive: reading the cities in feminine is the new revolution Mexico
50 153 3.4643 Reflexive Imagination - The Sage and Disciples of Video Feedback Japan
51 332 3.4643 What's in a Name? India
52 396 3.4464 Non-Disposable: Cardboard in Contemporary Art United States
53 191 3.4444 MIGRANTS IN DARIEN: HUMAN TRAGEDY Panama
54 206 3.4364 Code Brew Korea, Republic of
55 356 3.4364 An Ecomedial Situation: Art, Ecology, Technology United States
56 307 3.4286 Plowing Snow For A Better World. Norway
57 268 3.4211 Rom-Con. Love, Lies and Online Scam France
58 287 3.4211 Oil and Air United States
59 82 3.4182 I closed my eyes to creation Canada
60 200 3.4182 Where do we go when we create art? United Kingdom
61 299 3.4182 Cabinet of Art-Archaeology Portugal
62 405 3.4182 Price of PEREMOGA /victory/ukr. Ukraine
63 337 3.4074 Battlefield Bodies: a look at ideals and self-pressure United Kingdom
64 386 3.4 Collective Territories: Mining Sustainable Urban Lifestyles United States
65 4 3.3962 Power and Women United States
66 131 3.3962 Colorizing Latin America United States
67 306 3.3889 Lost Sundaland: Re-encounter Animist Beliefs in the Indo-Pacific United States
68 244 3.386 Heirlooms United States
69 110 3.3818 After Tomorrow. Speculating a post-human future United Kingdom
70 381 3.3818 Panorama of Possessions United States
71 154 3.375 Hidden Truths: Animals on the Periphery United States
72 195 3.375 PS: Let’s flourish them, you crip! Spain
73 330 3.375 Environmental Futurism: Art and Social Change United States
74 391 3.375 You May Know The Whole Sack by a Handful (مشت نمونه خروار) United States
75 408 3.375 PLACE/SPACE United States
76 99 3.3684 Art Ful-Feeling (see the sound, hear the image) Ireland
77 233 3.3684 A Particular Kind of Heaven: Ex-Urban Space/Time and Fantasies of Non-Urban Living United States
78 35 3.3636 Women of an Undetermined Age: BLACKSTRACTION United States
79 36 3.3571 I See A Red Door Brazil
80 18 3.3519 (In)-visible Synthesis United Kingdom
81 355 3.3519 Museum of Black Joy United States
82 380 3.3519 Muse-Worthy United States
83 22 3.3455 Twilight Zone Israel
84 64 3.3455 MEGALITH United Kingdom
85 124 3.3455 Drips into Deluges: Leaks in Contemporary Art United States
86 186 3.3396 Documents Made A Difference United States
87 116 3.3393 Structures of a Land (temporary name) Israel
88 325 3.3393 TUMORROW Art Confronts Disease Italy
89 411 3.3393 Does life sound different in the absence of light? United States
90 281 3.3333 When the sun kissed my skin Netherlands
91 79 3.3214 End of Tour Greece
92 60 3.3158 FREE PLAY Hong Kong
93 237 3.3148 Re-Form and Reform: Unlearning American Iconography United States
94 59 3.3091 Contain Your Fear United States
95 165 3.3091 Indiscipline Brazil
96 285 3.3036 Daddy's Dinner Norway
97 316 3.3036 La Lagunilla: trade, art y other curiosities Mexico
98 321 3.3036 All the World’s Memory United States
99 388 3.3036 Alien Bloom United States
100 170 3.2982 Imagined Landscape: Catastrophe along the River Flow Indonesia
101 238 3.2982 ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM United States
102 320 3.2982 Groundless Landing United States
103 338 3.2982 all my softest spaces: fat in art Poland
104 125 3.2909 Dance Is My Medicine, Dance Is the Fist United States
105 172 3.2909 Fragments: Art of our siblings United Kingdom
106 254 3.2909 K: of Everyday Korea, Republic of
107 377 3.2909 This is america—and it is not Guatemala
108 203 3.2857 Thought of a woman Nigeria
109 152 3.283 Altar'ed Remembrance United States
110 228 3.283 (Re)Presenting Absence United States
111 73 3.2778 The Emancipation of Everyday Life Portugal
112 94 3.2778 this is a love poem, France
113 226 3.2545 Unexpected Freedom Israel
114 322 3.2545 Release United States
115 201 3.25 Feminine Maximalism: Taking Up Aesthetic Space United Kingdom
116 292 3.25 I am here and everywhere Germany
117 150 3.2456 Second skin: the characters we inhabit Dominican Republic
118 265 3.2456 Soak it Up! United States
119 362 3.2407 MONUMENTAL United States
120 71 3.2321 Regression Progression United States
121 90 3.2321 THE CONTEMPORARY MAGICIAN Netherlands
122 96 3.2321 ¡Queremos pintar! (We want to paint) Costa Rica
123 273 3.2321 (Sun Glistens) in the Flecks of Long-Dead Plants Germany
124 371 3.2321 ENSEMBLE PIECE! United States
125 357 3.2281 Body sheet: Visions of the sewing pattern in contemporary art Germany
126 358 3.2281 Nontime United States
127 387 3.2281 Graffiti, You've Got Just What I Need: Asserting the Fine Home Furnishings Era of Aerosol Art United States
128 178 3.2182 Space Out United States
129 142 3.2143 Un potrero en un jardín Colombia
130 160 3.2143 Let The Art Fly Switzerland
131 342 3.2143 Has the pen or pencil dipped so deep in the blood of the human race as the needle? Poland
132 373 3.2143 UNatural PRocesses United States
133 217 3.2105 Everywhere and Nowhere United States
134 253 3.2037 Imagined Communities United States
135 159 3.2 The emotional twist Argentina
136 86 3.1964 The delirious order of things Mexico
137 291 3.1964 Can you hear me through the machine? Singapore
138 205 3.193 Cry me a river : a poem about the brazilian water crisis Brazil
139 313 3.1786 Do you know me? Ireland
140 101 3.1754 Objects of Agency United States
141 340 3.1731 Empires of Dirt - Exploring the Bog Gothic Ireland
142 259 3.1667 THE F* WORD, WOMEN*S REALITIES Austria
143 263 3.1636 Star's Ejecta Mexico
144 95 3.1607 Contamination United Kingdom
145 214 3.1607 Garden of Eden Denmark
146 415 3.1579 風土 - When the Wind Touch the Earth United States
147 7 3.1538 Pups Grow Fangs United States
148 81 3.1481 Unsovereign Elements: Geological Poetics and Epistemological Convergences in Caribbean Art United States
149 139 3.1481 RECYCLED: Reconfiguring the discarded Colombia
150 339 3.1481 The Voice of the Fourth Person Romania
151 42 3.1455 My AI Cries To Me ; artificial intelligence experiencing consciousness United Kingdom
152 393 3.1455 Hyper Aesthetic Distopic United States
153 401 3.1455 Books as Objects. Mexico
154 365 3.1429 What I wrote in the blank France
155 221 3.1346 Resistance: The Luddites Among Us Germany
156 225 3.1296 Where are the drums? Brazil
157 334 3.1296 Tell me Your Story, Karlygash Kazakhstan
158 128 3.1228 Fragments of Earth United Kingdom
159 363 3.1228 Waste Works Germany
160 168 3.1111 We Are Data Australia
161 329 3.1071 Quoting out of context United States
162 353 3.1071 Subversive realism in times of new fascist movements Germany
163 346 3.0909 Archeologies from the void, tie up the dust. (Arqueologías desde el vacío, atar el polvo) Mexico
164 354 3.0877 THE UNIVERSITY _ A PROJECT United States
165 32 3.0755 Elements of life Mexico
166 119 3.0741 the text is the message—the message is not the text United States
167 271 3.0741 At the Thresholds of Vulnerability: Networking Care within Digital Life United States
168 204 3.0727 Partial Standpoints Italy
169 236 3.0727 Fuck With/ My Mind United States
170 390 3.0727 All Together Now India
171 318 3.0714 Zurcir el espacio de la caída Mexico
172 297 3.0702 Journal of Therolinguistics United States
173 288 3.0556 Who Is The Artist? United Kingdom
174 409 3.0556 Vivir entre el río y el mar (Living between the river and the sea) Ecuador
175 37 3.0545 Love is the force and the fire: A call for communion United States
176 156 3.0545 Fragile mir Italy
177 105 3.0536 Run Away Fast Brazil
Rank ID Score Title Country
178 5 3.0526 Age of AI Avant-Garde Armenia
179 8 3.0526 El Contrato Natural Puerto Rico
180 33 3.0377 TICKET TO INDIA -PARIS IS NOT A CITY NOR INDIA A COUNTRY THEY ARE BOTH EXPERIENCES" India
181 13 3.037 Sow in the fire. Mexico
182 14 3.037 Primary Portraits United States
183 193 3.037 Natural Spillover or Environmental Porn India
184 374 3.037 The Red Line Egypt
185 9 3.0364 Unknown Reverberations أصداء مجهولة Germany
186 149 3.0357 Souvenir's Testimony Spain
187 182 3.0357 The Forest Cyprus
188 185 3.0357 Desire Paths Mexico
189 282 3.0357 SAVING A LOST DREAM: BETWEEN DREAM AND MEMORY Israel
190 382 3.0357 Supernormal Awareness United States
191 331 3.0185 nagging, whispering, buzzing United States
192 84 3.0179 Maricón Mexico
193 416 3.0179 It is not the sea, but the river Mexico
194 10 3.0175 Compulsory Measures United States
195 207 3.0175 Me in You Brazil
196 296 3 Politics of horror and indigestion Brazil
197 412 3 A lamb reflects on existence inside a box with holes. Perspectives of contemporary drawing in Chia Mexico
198 276 2.9821 Nusa/ntara Hong Kong
199 324 2.9821 UN-WAR United States
200 134 2.9815 Sign on the dotted line Canada
201 145 2.9643 Drifting Terranea: Interobjects and Temporal Latencies Japan
202 151 2.9643 A Bronx Show & Tell United States
203 173 2.9643 geo-imaginaries for a resilient Terra Finland
204 252 2.9643 BRINGING A PORTABLE DEVICE TO THE EXHIBITION IS RECOMMENDED United States
205 359 2.9643 Borrowing lies to tell a truth United Kingdom
206 6 2.9636 Капитализам (all must be loved) Serbia
207 410 2.9636 I Miss You So Much: an epistolary romance between old friends, new immigrants, two art students, and United States
208 184 2.9474 Unlearning as a Daily Practice United States
209 34 2.9464 The Re-Invocation of Art as Gift United States
210 229 2.9464 Machine Language United States
211 310 2.9464 MOTHERLAND United States
212 141 2.9444 Where is the Homeland? United States
213 12 2.9434 Ènìyàn laṣọ (humans are clothes) Nigeria
214 267 2.9298 It is a Fictitious Condition That Does Not Exist - and Other Tales. United Kingdom
215 309 2.9298 Art in the Age of Sexist Censorship Spain
216 100 2.9286 TARIMIAT Ecuador
217 67 2.9107 Flows (in) Flow: Transience Brazil
218 290 2.9107 Expanse!: A creative celebration of underrepresented NYC emerging artists! United States
219 26 2.9091 Bodies Mirroring The World United Kingdom
220 136 2.9091 To Sever a Body United States
221 187 2.9091 Who are the Chileans? A way to look at yourself again. Chile
222 148 2.9074 A cathedral in the desert: civil unrest in Naples in the 1970s United Kingdom
223 180 2.9074 speaking in tongues Portugal
224 222 2.9074 The Lock in United Kingdom
225 234 2.9057 Corps + Cosa United States
226 192 2.8947 Eco-sustainability of the hydrosystem: Analysis of aquatic dynamism in a fragile ecosystem Italy
227 308 2.8947 If a tree falls in a forest, and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? Argentina
228 155 2.8929 Urban Space and Modernity. China
229 167 2.8929 Why not rest as a Kouala and play as a Panda? Egypt
230 210 2.8909 WHY DO THEY PLAY WITH WHAT HAS NO SPARE? Venezuela
231 323 2.8909 Familiar Hearth, Lunar Fire United States
232 19 2.8889 HOME Brazil
233 97 2.8889 The artist as curandero(a): Visions of andean-descendant relational plastic. Peru
234 171 2.8889 What am I? Colombia
235 98 2.8772 What I have done for love Mexico
236 181 2.8772 EL SER HUMANO Colombia
237 370 2.8772 El Museo es la Comunidad. Venezuela
238 177 2.875 Qualia: THE PHENOMENAL PROPERTIES OF EXISTENCE United States
239 404 2.8727 Revive: An Archive of Forgone Creativity United States
240 123 2.8704 Reconstructed United States
241 319 2.8596 SOME GOOD NEWS Croatia (local name: Hrvatska)
242 402 2.8596 If to create is human, what does Artificial Intelligence do? United States
243 376 2.8519 Poetic Poli(ti)s South Africa
244 92 2.8421 The border, not only fisical but also a mental state Spain
245 231 2.8421 Mass Transition Into Being United Kingdom
246 174 2.8364 A Mouthful of Leaves United Kingdom
247 194 2.8364 Resting Noise Panama
248 209 2.8364 Un-learning. Platforms for Polyphonic Vocabularies Italy
249 351 2.8302 Sun hides face in shame: eclipse. Austria
250 378 2.8246 Magical Urbanism United States
251 61 2.8214 COMPOSING THE REAL Italy
252 161 2.8214 Augmenting the Present Spain
253 249 2.8214 Weaving World-lines Mexico
254 196 2.8036 Crystal cage United States
255 277 2.7895 ENCHANTED ISLAND Germany
256 350 2.7895 Kené: The Visible Language of Nature United States
257 44 2.7857 Vivendis- Urban Interrogations Angola
258 103 2.7857 Global Planet Crisis Mexico
259 30 2.7736 Me, you Voyeur Brazil
260 239 2.7719 Ultrasense Brazil
261 293 2.7719 Half Price Spain
262 127 2.7679 POST-NATION NEW-FOLKLORE: an exhibition investigating transnational identities originating from East United Kingdom
263 279 2.7636 Laws of Hospitality Portugal
264 220 2.7593 Panoptic Belgium
265 107 2.7544 BIOPOLITICS OF PLEASURE Spain
266 361 2.7544 Drawing from History United States
267 75 2.75 Healing Bodies Italy
268 336 2.75 Let this darkness be a bell tower Germany
269 274 2.7455 Afterglow Italy
270 417 2.7368 Portraits of Self-Love United States
271 349 2.7358 Artist Self-Help Tool KIT Kazakhstan
272 235 2.7273 What should I call it? Romania
273 275 2.7255 The Day The Alien Stood Still United Kingdom
274 179 2.7222 Our Wars Mexico
275 298 2.7193 Revolve:R United Kingdom
276 384 2.717 Unyielding Spirit United States
277 262 2.7143 Endgame Greece
278 104 2.7091 DE LO ANCESTRAL A LO CONTEMPORANEO Colombia
279 289 2.7037 In the name of liberate art Turkey
280 343 2.7037 Israel x Palestine / Palestine x Israel United States
281 208 2.7018 Breaking Borders - at a new edge Ireland
282 397 2.7018 EXTINCTIONS Peru
283 54 2.6964 Trauma Austria
284 163 2.6909 Postales de Mosquera Colombia
285 111 2.6852 Color Pace, Gesture Shade, Pulse Length Brazil
286 328 2.6786 The Office of Boredom United States
287 88 2.6667 Synchronicity Taiwan
288 91 2.6667 All we have is Now Armenia
289 169 2.6607 In Complete United States
290 250 2.6607 Off The Porch United States
291 31 2.6481 From sacred plants to the consciousness destruction Mexico
292 11 2.6429 art crime United States
293 29 2.6429 Photographic materiality Canada
294 89 2.6429 All We Are Saying Italy
295 335 2.6429 Stranger Things Austria
296 108 2.6316 A Decade of Dimensions NYC United States
297 243 2.6316 Ever Shifting Selves United States
298 20 2.625 Central America Strip Honduras
299 113 2.625 Inheritances United States
300 311 2.625 Seeding worlds and dreams (working title) Italy
301 53 2.6 Since 1960 Nigeria
302 284 2.6 Of Wandering Paths India
303 55 2.5926 How we wed United Kingdom
304 242 2.5926 Branding Conflict United States
305 257 2.5893 presence without matter: is it possible? Peru
306 270 2.5893 Here is the truth. Bow down before it! United States
307 385 2.5636 Action! Perfect Persona in Contemporary Era United States
308 223 2.5273 roaming through the woods Germany
309 147 2.5263 Like if we could roll the dices Spain
310 17 2.5185 Chile lindo Chile
311 395 2.5179 If looks could kill, then art can heal United Kingdom
312 122 2.4912 Transparadise: Beyond gender Spain
313 21 2.4821 The Angel & The Flower Denmark
314 301 2.4815 Work, Labor, Action Germany
315 157 2.4717 We Are Who We Are United States
316 93 2.4643 Explore 2.0 United Kingdom
317 102 2.4464 Fly Robin Fly Venezuela
318 112 2.4182 INNER COLLECTIVE Ecuador
319 213 2.4107 IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION (ITS AT SOCIAL SCENARIO BASE PROJECT) India
320 197 2.4074 Performance Art Now United Kingdom
321 176 2.3519 Counter-evolution Turkey
322 261 2.3273 Unarchived Semiotics: Essence & Absence Georgia
323 164 2.2807 Swimming Lessons United Kingdom
324 23 2.2444 Peace of mind South Africa
325 27 2.2444 Unknown, Unheard, Uncelebrated United States
326 245 2.2444 WOMEN OF THE WORLD, MEXICAN WOMEN. Mexico
327 294 2.2222 The impasse is you Italy
328 403 2.2045 Tales Of A Moment in Memory South Africa
329 406 2.2045 Patterns United States
330 190 2.2 Introspection Bolivia
331 25 2.1818 Almond and Pebble United States
332 266 2.1818 Dreams and Visions France
333 66 2.1591 King of the underworld (the nature of evil in art) United States
334 211 2.1591 Cosmic Theatre Germany
335 57 2.1556 The New Pyramid United States
336 199 2.1556 Merupa kertas Indonesia
337 138 2.1163 Stupeur et Decharge Sweden
338 16 2.0667 Græn R∞m United States
339 120 2.0233 don't be yourself Spain
340 43 2 we are growing a new world. India
341 3 1.9778 The Color of Pomegranates Armenia
342 344 1.9333 French Fries France
343 398 1.9318 ARTEURBAINEARCHITEKTURE United States
344 109 1.907 Motherfucker Australia
345 312 1.8444 FICTIONAL VARIANTS ON A SINGLE OSCILLATION. United States
346 118 1.814 The Home as Metaphor United States
347 28 1.8 Time Mexico
348 24 1.7778 In Light United States
349 65 1.75 RejueNations: Youth Streaming Truth United States
350 52 1.5556 Who the F*!% is Muddy Monroe United States
351 56 1.5111 Black Terrain United States
352 251 1.5111 What is Pinoy ART?! United States
353 62 1.4419 Bord ello Italy
354 241 1.4318 Skin of memory France
355 418 1.1429 For Instagram Nakrutka Russian Federation