35th Annual Juried Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: July 28- August 15- 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 30, 5PM - 8PM
Susan Lichtman will be the juror for Bowery Gallery’s 35th annual juried competition. The selected works will be installed in the gallery’s exhibition space in Chelsea, NYC, with an opening reception to be held 5-8pm on Thursday, July 30. Over its 57-year history, exhibitions at Bowery Gallery have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New York Sun, The New Republic, Art in America and many other publications.
Susan Lichtman is a figurative painter of domestic spaces. She is Professor and Charles Bloom Chair, Emerita, of the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University, where she taught for over 40 years. She has also taught at The Chautauqua Institute, The Pont-Aven School of Art and MassArt New England. She has been a visiting artist at numerous colleges and universities around the U.S. Lichtman has had solo exhibitions at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects (NY, NY); Fahrenheit Gallery (Madrid, Spain); Gross McCleaf Gallery, (Philadelphia, PA); and Wilson Museum at Hollins University (Roanoke, VA), among many other venues. Her work has been reviewed in The Savvy Painter Podcast,
The Kenyon Review, The Providence Journal, Painter’s Table, and The New Criterion. A recipient of a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she also holds awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. She graduated from Brown University and received an MFA in Painting from Yale University School of Art in 1980.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT APRIL 20, 2026
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible two dimensional media include painting, drawing, printmaking, pastel and mixed media. Sculpture, photography and digital art are not eligible. Work may not exceed 36” in height or width, not including frame. Bowery accepts applications from outside the U.S.
SALES: All work will be for sale unless the artist informs the gallery to the contrary. All proceeds from sales will go to the artist.
FEES $35.00 entry fee allows each artist to submit 1-3 images. Additional images may be submitted for an extra $6.00 per image.
Maximum submission: 6 images. Entry fees are paid through the entry form’s Paypal link, which accepts credit cards.
SUBMISSION: Work will be juried from images submitted only through the gallery’s online submission form accessible at: www.bowerygallery.org/juried-shows. Images must be JPGs with minimum width/height of 1000px, maximum size 3MB. Please do not use spaces or special characters (such as @/!”)(:#;%&$) in image file names. An embedded color profile is recommended for accurate color.
Bowery Gallery will make every effort to notify all applicants of juror’s decision by June 1, 2026.