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    The In Practice 2024 open call closed on Aug 6, 2023 at 11:59PM EST.

    All artists will be notified of their submission status via email by Jan 2024.

    Questions? Please email: inpractice@sculpture-center.org.

    Artists who have not yet had an institutional solo exhibition in New York City are invited to submit proposals for solo exhibitions in designated gallery spaces at SculptureCenter through our annual open call. Up to seven artists are selected to participate in the program each year.

    SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution that takes the history and legacy of sculpture as a framework from which to consider the diverse activity taking place in the field of contemporary art. SculptureCenter's program encourages artists and audiences to explore the possibilities of sculpture and the multifarious ways in which sculpture is developing and connecting to other forms of expression, including installation, video, performance, architecture, and other media.

    About In Practice

    Since 2003, SculptureCenter’s In Practice open call program has supported the production of new work by 250 artists. As of June 2023, In Practice alumni include:

    Isabel Mallet, Devin T. Mays, Marina Xenofontos, Salim Green, Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik (2023); Marco Barrera, Allen Hung-Lun Chen, Violet Dennison, Enrique Garcia, Ignacio Gatica, Cherisse Gray, Jessica Kairé, Alan Martín Segal, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Stella Zhong, Monsieur Zohore (2022); Carlos Agredano, Leslie Cuyjet, Kyrae Dawaun, Dominique Duroseau, Hugh Hayden, Sunny Leerasanthanah, Abigail Lucien, André Magaña, Catalina Ouyang, Chiffon Thomas, and Quay Quinn Wolf (2021); Qais Assali, Andrew Cannon, Jesse Chun, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Ficus Interfaith, Laurie Kang, Devin Kenny and Andrea Solstad, K.R.M. Mooney, sidony o’neal, Mariana Silva, Jordan Strafer, Andrew Norman Wilson (2020); Natalie Ball, Takming Chuang, Niloufar Emamifar, LaMont Hamilton, Ariel René Jackson, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Aliza Shvarts, Rosa Sijben and David Bernstein, Sara Stern, Kenneth Tam, Kiyan Williams (2019); Elena Ailes & Simon Belleau, Nobutaka Aozaki, Cudelice Brazelton, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall, Carey Denniston, Jules Gimbrone, Baseera Khan, Courtney McClellan, WangShui, Carmen Winant, Lachell Workman (2018); Lauren Bakst & Yuri Masnyj, Olivia Booth, Kim Brandt, Crystal Z Campbell, Danielle Dean, Ilana Harris-Babou, Jesse Harrod, Candice Lin and Patrick Staff, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Kate Newby, Barb Smith, Marian Tubbs, Jessica Vaughn (2017); Christopher Aque, Phillip Birch, Onyedika Chuke, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Tamar Ettun, Raque Ford, Jeannine Han, Elizabeth Jaeger, Meredith James, Jamie Sneider, Patrice Washington, Tuguldur Yondonjamts (2016); Rosa Aiello, Nanna Debois Buhl, Catherine Czacki, Ben Hagari, Sol Hashemi, Madeline Hollander and Alexandra Lerman, Janelle Iglesias, Ryan Johnson, Mary Walling Blackburn, Xu Wang (2015); Vanessa Anspaugh, Ben Thorp Brown, Brendan Fernandes, Pedro Neves Marques, Sahra Motalebi, Daniel Neumann, Essex Olivares, Nick Paparone, Rachel Rose, Hayley Aviva Silverman, Conrad Ventur, Laura Vitale (2014); Korakrit Arunanondchai, David Berezin, Paul Branca, Lea Cetera, Rachel Foullon, Molly Lowe, Shana Lutker, S. A. C. (Student Art Collective) with Justin Lieberman, Julia Sherman, Bryan Zanisnik (2013); A.K. Burns, Yve Laris Cohen, Michael DeLucia, Aleksandra Domanović, Takashi Horisaki, Sean Raspet, Christine Rebet, and Keith Connolly, Ethan Ham, Tom Thayer (2012); Michele Abeles, Samuel Clagnaz, Isabelle Cornaro, Miles Huston, Charles Mayton, Valerie Snobeck (2011); Justin Matherly, Lior Shvil, Josh Tonsfeldt, Viola Yesiltac (2010); Jason Kraus, Meredith Nickie, Marlo Pascual, Xaviera Simmons, Marianne Vitale, Eric VVysocan (2009); Michael Ashkin, Michael Blum, David Dixon, Simone Leigh, Cindy Loehr, Virginia Overton (2009); Carey Ascenzo, Becket Bowes, Tyler Coburn, Wojciech Gilewicz, Samara Golden, Rachel Mason, Amy Patton, Peter Simensky (2009); Forde & the Ashbirds, Drew Heitzler, Alix Lambert, Haley Mellin, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Erik Smith, Agathe Snow (2008); Nina Lola Bachhuber, Richard Bottwin, Edward Kihn, Mary Ellen Strom & Ann Carlson, Paul & Wilken, Cesare Pietroiusti, Willoughby Sharp, Nolan Simon, Elisabeth Smolarz (2007); Alex Arcadia, Fia Backström, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Garrett Ricciardi & Ross Cisneros, Amy O'Neill, Lucy Raven, Karin Schneider, Karen Yasinsky (2007); Justin Beal, Bozidar Brazda, Xavier Cha, Rachel Hayes, McKendree Key, Michael Mahalchick, Mary Temple, Monika Zarzeczna (2006); Maximilian Goldfarb, Nicholas Herman, Elana Herzog, Justin Lowe, Linda Post, Karlis Rekevics, Michael Schumacher (2005); Isidro Blasco, Stephanie Diamond, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Eric Fertman, Ross Knight, Ana Linnemann, Karyn Olivier, Juliane Stiegele, Karin Waisman (2005); Jane Benson, Ian Burns, Chris Caccamise, Digital Mullet, Hope Ginsburg, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Kent Henricksen, Thomas Kotik (2004); Diana Shpungin & Nicole Engelmann, Chris Doyle, Ellen Harvey, James Hegge, Rebecca Herman and Mark Shoffner (2003); Frantiska and Tim Gilman, Myra Greene, Kathleen Griffin & Leon Dewan, Joanna Malinowska, Dave McKenzie, Alicia Renadette (2003).

    From 2013 to 2022, curatorial fellows organized SculptureCenter’s In Practice exhibition. These curatorial fellows included: Kari Rittenbach, Jess Wilcox, Olga Dekalo, Alexis Wilkinson, Allie Tepper, Gee Wesley, Kyle Dancewicz, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Camila Palomino.

    Sponsors

    In Practice 2023 is made possible by the generosity of the Elaine Graham Weitzen Foundation for Fine Arts. The Foundation’s support for SculptureCenter’s annual open call exhibition reflects Elaine Graham Weitzen’s (1920-2017) lifelong commitment to emerging artists and her exuberant support of new ideas in art. Weitzen served as a devoted Trustee of SculptureCenter from 1987 to 2017.

    Major support for the In Practice program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In Practice is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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