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apexart

Name: apexart
Address: 291 Church Street, New York, NY, 10013, US
Telephone: (212) 431-5270

apexart is a A 501(c)(3) visual arts exhibition space and fellowship program.

apexart is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit contemporary visual arts organization located in Lower Manhattan. Through our exhibitions, international residency, publication initiatives, and programs and events, we are committed to cultural and intellectual diversity and aim to stimulate public dialogue about contemporary art. Our exhibitions and programs are intended to promote consideration among our lo

cal audience while extending the dialogue to our international audience through our print and electronic outreach. Since our inception in 1994, more than 1,200 artists, from emerging to established and from all over the globe, have participated in 150 exhibitions. Each year apexart presents seven group exhibitions, hosts eight international residents, organizes numerous public lectures and performances, and distributes 70,000 full-color interpretive exhibition brochures to individuals and institutions in 95 countries. In addition, our web-based audience consists of over 17,000 unique visitors monthly from more than 100 nations. This widespread distribution and outreach of our programs is vital to apexart's ability to develop new audiences and to bring new voices and critical perspectives to New York. We have been privileged to work with such well-known individuals as Vito Acconci, Martha Rosler, Dave Hickey, John Baldessari, Hou Hanru, Ute Meta Bauer, David Byrne, Janine Antoni, Kerry James Marshall and Jean-Hubert Martin as well as other known and lesser known individuals from around the world.

05/30/2026

Join us on June 5th at 5:00 for a live curatorial tour of Silence Is Still Our Best Chance. The tour will be led by the curator in conversation with Atul Giri, offering insight into the exhibition’s themes, artistic processes, and approaches to silence, stillness, and listening.

BIO: Atul Giri is an Oslo based Indian sound and music artist. Through ambient music, field recording, sound art, and spatial audio installations, he creates works that invite deep listening and reflection. His practice explores remote sound environments, silence, place, memory, and a myriad of human conditions.

Image: Atul Giri, Ūrmiphone II: Absence of an Epoch, 2026

05/29/2026

Opening next week, June 5th, "Silence Is Still Our Best Chance" curated by Atul Giri

Through this exhibition, visitors will be invited to delve into silence as a profound and immersive experience, underscoring its importance amidst the chaos of city life.

Šárka Benedová
Carolina Boettner
Atul Giri

Image: Carolina Boettner, Displaced Sound I, 2026

05/26/2026

The exhibition is closed, but you can still view our exhibition archive online and in 3D.

The uterus is also a fist' curated by Talita Trizoli and Renata Freitas

This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to bring political pieces into the public arena.

Liane Roditi
Ludmilla Ramalho
Mariana Feitosa
Raffaella Yacar
Rosa Bunchaft
Renata Freitas
Rikia Amaral
Leíner Hoki
Guillermina Bustos
Letícia Ranzani
Natali Tubenchlak

05/23/2026

FINAL CHANCE to see 'The uterus is also a fist' curated by Talita Trizoli and Renata Freitas

This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to bring political pieces into the public arena.

Liane Roditi
Ludmilla Ramalho
Mariana Feitosa
Raffaella Yacar
Rosa Bunchaft
Renata Freitas
Rikia Amaral
Leíner Hoki
Guillermina Bustos
Letícia Ranzani
Natali Tubenchlak

Image: Guillermina Bustos, Conditional Autonomy, 2025

05/20/2026

Opening next month, June 20th 'Bad Boundaries: Bodies in Tension' curated by Sue Jeong Ka

The exhibition responds to the broader societal reckoning prompted by the 4B movement, a feminist discourse that emerged in Korea and has recently gained momentum among young feminists in North America.

Lauren Lee McCarthy
Sun Forest
Yon Natalie Mik

Image: Sun Forest, Asterisms of a Seeded Ghost, 2026

05/09/2026

Join us on May 16 at 4pm for a conversation with researchers and curators Carolina Filippini and Fernanda Correa da Silva, who will discuss the exhibition’s works through the lens of reproductive rights in Brazil.

Bio:
Fernanda Correa da Silva is a researcher, professor, and mother whose work engages multidisciplinary perspectives within contemporary art and culture. Her research focuses particularly on counter-hegemonic visual practices and dialogues with ethnic-racial and gender studies. Informed by the experience of parenthood, she also investigates the notions of motherhood and mothering as political devices within the field of art. She has worked with cultural institutions and public and private collections, and has taught courses in art history, criticism, and theory at universities and independent programs.

Carolina Filippini: Art historian (PhD, University of Campinas) and curator whose research examines contemporary artistic practices related to the body, politics, and reproductive rights. She is currently a researcher and curator at the University of Campinas.

Talita Trizoli is a Brazilian curator, coordinator of G.A.F (Feminist Artistic Group). She holds a PHD from USP-BR and was a Mellon Fellow at UT Austin in 2025.

Renata Freitas is a Brazilian visual artist and curator with a PhD in Communication and Semiotics. Her work delves into femininity, challenging cultural narratives and representations.

Image Caption: Natali Tubenchlak, Necrófagos/Founder mother, 2025

05/05/2026

Opening next month, June 5th, "Silence Is Still Our Best Chance" curated by Atul Giri

Through this exhibition, visitors will be invited to delve into silence as a profound and immersive experience, underscoring its importance amidst the chaos of city life.

Šárka Benedová
Carolina Boettner
Atul Giri

Image: Šárka Benedová, Quiet Circle, 2026

04/21/2026

Downtown Culture Walk
Saturday, April 25, 2026
12-6PM with the Soho Arts Network

This Saturday is the Downtown Culture Walk, a self-guided walking tour presented by the SAN, highlighting non-profit art spaces in and around SoHo! SAN celebrates the rich history of our unique creative community and collectively shares our distinct cultural contributions with neighborhood residents and visitors.

Physical maps will be available at all spaces. Access the digital maps via our linktree.

Participating spaces:

Apexart
Canal Projects
Dia: The New York Earth Room & The Broken Kilometer
The Drawing Center
Judd Foundation
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Museum of Chinese in America
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
Ukrainian Museum
initial research

04/10/2026

Voting has concluded for our 2026-2027 INTL open call. Thank you to all who juried, submitted, and participated in this years open call! You make apexart possible.

This year 805 Jurors cast 23826 votes on 337 eligible submissions (406 total) from 80 countries.

Full ranking on our website: https://apexart.org/intl/results26.php

Congrats to the winners!

1. Wind, Land, and Their Song
Submitted by Gray by Silver - Jeju, Korea
Explores disappearing Jeju folk traditions through sound, installation, and textile art, linking cultural memory to ecological knowledge. The exhibition considers how communities preserve and adapt traditions amid environmental change, tourism, and generational loss.

2. Cargo of Hope
Submitted by Badagry Young Contemporary Collective - Lagos, Nigeria
Examines human trafficking across West Africa through installation, sculpture, and performance, revealing how migration becomes exploitation. Artists explore loss, commodification, and survival, questioning what happens when hope itself is manipulated as a system of control.

3. We Are Each Other’s HARVEST: Black Women and the Politics of Self-Care
Submitted by Tara Jefferson - Cleveland, United States
Archives a century of Black women’s self-care as resistance through audio, film, and artifacts. Centering healing, rest, and community, the exhibition reframes care as a vital, intergenerational practice of survival and liberation.

4. Five Women Drinking Mercury
Submitted by Naira Corzon Cortez - La Paz, Bolivia
Five artists confront mercury contamination from illegal mining in La Paz, Bolivia through sound, video, and installation. Blending personal exposure with scientific evidence and activism, the exhibition transforms lived crisis into collective witness and demands urgent government accountability.

5. Softwear
Submitted by Kira Wainstein - London, United Kingdom
Traces the shared histories of weaving and computing, highlighting gendered labor and early code systems. Contemporary artists use textiles to reinterpret digital logic, reclaim materiality, and reveal overlooked connections between craft, technology, and computation.

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