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NYC Open Call 2021-22 Winning Proposals

The four highest ranking proposals were submitted by: La Revuelta (Maya Juracán, Renata Alvarez, Jimena Galán Day, Christa Krings and Andrea López) (Recontarnos (Rewriting Us)), Mae A. Miller (A Thousand Secrets), After Party Collective (Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani) (Trans Dance Revolution), and Luiza Testa (Oh, I Love Brazilian Women). 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 four highest-ranked proposals will receive curatorial honorariums, funding for their exhibitions, and funding for exhibition-related public programming.

Recontarnos (Rewriting Us)

Submitted by: La Revuelta (Maya Juracán, Renata Alvarez, Jimena Galán Day, Christa Krings and Andrea López)



Reclaims historical and social narratives that traditionally reflect the viewpoints of men, prioritizing the voices of Central American women as a means to resist patriarchy within the art world.

A Thousand Secrets

Submitted by: Mae A. Miller




Explores the myriad connections between the world’s oceans and human life by unsettling conventional modes of listening and unearthing entangled histories of extraction.

Trans Dance Revolution

Submitted by: After Party Collective (Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani)



Locates the site of the party as a political space where trans* folx from the Global South have agency to embody the rhythms, adornments, and choreographies of our collective futures.

Oh, I Love Brazilian Women

Submitted by: Luiza Testa




Challenging the sexualized stereotypes of Brazilian women that trace back to colonial times and extend through misreadings of the Carnival and its imagery.