For our Spring 2025 season, a three-person jury of arts professionals will select for the 2025 Exhibition Open Call: four (4) curator and/or artist-led, month-long exhibitions with a minimum of two (min. 2) artists to be hosted in our approximately 1000-square-foot gallery.

 

Held annually since the 1986-87 season and restarted in 2023, the Exhibition Open Call helped to define PS122 Gallery’s long history. The organization gave first exhibitions to artists such as Peter Halley, Keith Haring, and Amy Sillman, among many others; and exhibited hundreds more artists throughout the years like John Ahearn, Michael Ashkin, Lutz Bacher, Louise Bourgeois, Co-Lab, Petah Coyne, Karen Finley, Nan Goldin, Joanne Greenbaum, Arturo Herrera, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Byron Kim, Larry Krone, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Vik Muniz, Thomas Nozkowski, Mira Schor, Dread Scott, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Denyse Thomasos, and David Wojnarowicz; and writers and curators such as Allen Frame, Ellen Handy, Lucy Lippard, Saul Ostrow, Calvin Reid, and Raphael Rubinstein.

 

Recent winners can be found here and here.

 

Criteria

• Exhibitions must include a minimum of two (min. 2) artists working in any medium;
• Either the Curator or the Artists must reside in one of the five New York City boroughs;
• Collectives are encouraged to apply, as are experimental uses of the exhibition space, and in those cases, public programs with an aesthetic component are strongly encouraged, but not required.
• PS122 Gallery welcomes applications that help our organization achieve its DEIA+ goals;
• Matriculated students are not eligible;
• Limit yourself to one (1) final submission; duplicates will be discarded.