apexart

apexart 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.

09/01/2026

Opening this week, Weaving a Day, Mourning a Life: The Mother and Daughter-in-Law of Phúc Sen curated by Dala Nguyen

In Ph'c Sen, a village in Northern Vietnam, the N'ng An people practise a unique tradition where a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law weave daily on separate looms. Each day's pattern is different. Upon the elder's death, this collectively woven cloth is repurposed into her funeral garment. After mourning, the garment is dyed with indigo and incorporated back into daily wear, transforming a symbol of loss into one of continuous life.

Trieu Van
Minh Sang Chu
Tra My
Chu Thieu

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August ☀️Let's look back on our International 2025-26 season f...
08/30/2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August ☀️

Let's look back on our International 2025-26 season fellowship season.

Our Fellowship program, which is only nomination based, provides important introspective opportunities for artists to consider new ideas and issues.

You can read more about each fellows experience at https://apexart-journal.tumblr.com/ or watch their exit interviews at https://www.youtube.com//videos

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August ☀️Let's look back on our NYC 2025-26 season fellowship ...
08/29/2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August ☀️

Let's look back on our NYC 2025-26 season fellowship season.

Our Fellowship program, which is only nomination based, provides important introspective opportunities for artists to consider new ideas and issues.

You can read more about each fellows experience at https://apexart-journal.tumblr.com/ or watch their exit interviews at https://www.youtube.com//videos

Join us on September 4th at 4pm EDT for Weaving a Day, Mourning a Life Online Curatorial TourNo RSVP needed—just tune in...
08/28/2026

Join us on September 4th at 4pm EDT for Weaving a Day, Mourning a Life Online Curatorial Tour

No RSVP needed—just tune in to Instagram live

Bio: Minh Hieu Nguyen (Dala) is a Mường artist and curator based in London. His practice centres on socially engaged exhibition-making at the intersection of material culture, memory, and the politics of visibility for ethnic minority communities in Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora. Weaving a Day, Mourning a Life is his debut curatorial project at apexart, selected as the winning proposal of the apexart NYC Open Call 2026–27.

Image Caption: Trieu Van, Quite Loom, 2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season!...
08/27/2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️

September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season! During August please enjoy previews for the ten exhibitions that we'll have in NYC and internationally.

Opening September 4th, Weaving a Day, Mourning a Life: The Mother and Daughter-in-Law of Phúc Sen curated by Dala Nguyen

It is a project about process, legacy, and the quiet wisdom embedded in often-overlooked forms of women's labour.

Image: Trieu Van, Daily Pattern

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season!...
08/25/2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️

September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season! During August please enjoy previews for the ten exhibitions that we'll have in NYC and internationally.

Softwear curated by Kira Wainstein

Code, labour, and women have defined the histories of both textiles and computation.

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season!...
08/22/2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️

September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season! During August please enjoy previews for the ten exhibitions that we'll have in NYC and internationally.

Drinking Mercury curated by Naira Corzon Cortez

We are five women artists living and working in La Paz. We drink this water. We do not know, with certainty, what is in it.

Image: Viviana Mamani, Cori, Piel/pixel, video, 3:00 min (still)

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season!...
08/20/2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️

September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season! During August please enjoy previews for the ten exhibitions that we'll have in NYC and internationally.

TRIBUTE curated by Anh Dao Ha

When we think of punk, zines, riot grrrl, or graffiti, Asian Americans rarely appear in the narrative. This exhibition corrects that erasure.

Image: "TIE", Mission Street, San Francisco, mid-1990s. Photographer unknown

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season!...
08/18/2026

☀️ apexart is closed for summer break during the month of August☀️

September 2026 marks the beginning of our next season! During August please enjoy previews for the ten exhibitions that we'll have in NYC and internationally.

Lands That Feed the World: Colonial Continuities in Agriculture curated by Marwa Benhalim

At the heart of this exhibition lies a question: what forms of dependency and displacement are created when aid becomes investment, and cultivation becomes extraction?

Image: Yasmine El Meleegy and Magdy ElGohary

Opening next month, Softwear curated by Kira WainsteinCode, labour, and women have defined the histories of both textile...
08/17/2026

Opening next month, Softwear curated by Kira Wainstein

Code, labour, and women have defined the histories of both textiles and computation.

Crystal Bennes
Shannon Swinburn
Monica C LoCascio & daniella brill estrada
Steph Linn
Charlotte Johannesson

Image: daniela brill estrada & Monica C. LoCascio, Begriff des Körpers: Phantom Fields, 2026

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291 Church Street
New York, NY
10013

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Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm

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