Open Call to Asian Pacific American Artists for Portraiture
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program are partnering to create an exhibition of work for NPG’s “Portraiture Now” series, featuring contemporary artists exploring issues of cultural hybridity and Asian Pacific American identity through the art of portraiture.
We invite you to submit information about your work for the NPG’s curators to evaluate before they make their final decisions about artists to include in the exhibition. The exhibition will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC from August 12, 2011 through October 14, 2012.
How to submit and what to submit
Send a link to your website and/or concise information about yourself and no more than 2 jpeg images of your recent portrait work (jpegs should be no larger than 250 KB each) to NPGPaintingandSculpture@si.edu. Please be sure to identify the medium, date, and dimensions of your portraits. The curators will contact you if they need more information. We are interested in all visual arts media, including painting, photography, prints, drawings, sculpture, installation art, animation and other time-based media, etc. The artist’s body of work must be focused on the portrait or self-portrait—a likeness or conceptual project that references an individual or group.
Please send images of recent (2005 – 2010) work.
Deadline
Information will be accepted until June 4, 2010. Artists who are chosen for consideration for the exhibition will be notified by July 31, 2010.
Download the pdf release here.
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