ELIGIBILITY:

• Media: Examples of eligible media include: painting, drawing, printmaking, pastel, and mixed media. Sculpture, photography, and digital art are not eligible.

• Format: Work must be “two dimensional,” meaning that it must be able to be displayed hanging on a wall. Eligible work does not have to be flat, as long as at it can hang on a wall.

• Size: Work must not exceed 36 inches, including the frame, in the height and/or width dimension.

• Hanging: Work must be able to hang on a wall on a nail or hook. Work requiring other means of display are not eligible.

• Geography: There is no geographic restriction on eligibility: applicants from within the United States as well as international applicants are all eligible to apply, as long as the artist is able to ship (or personally deliver) the work to Bowery Gallery in New York City.

• Students: Currently enrolled students are not eligible to apply.

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 NOTES: All submissions of work must be sent through the online submission form at: https://app.entrythingy.com/bowerygallery/bowery-gallery-2026-annual-juried-exhibition/
Images must be JPGs with minimum width/height of 1000px, maximum file size 3MB. An embedded color profile is recommended for accurate color.

NOTIFICATION: Artists will be notified by email by June 1, 2026 as to whether or not their work was accepted into the Juried Exhibition. To avoid this notification email getting filtered into spam/junk folders, applicants should please add info@bowerygallery.org to your email contact lists.

DELIVERY OF WORK: Artists whose work is selected for the Juried Exhibition are responsible for shipping (via UPS or FedEx) or personally bringing their work to Bowery Gallery. All work must be received at the gallery by July 25, 2026.

GALLERY EXHIBITION: The selected works will be exhibited in the 35th Annual Juried Exhibition for a three week show (July 28 - August 15, 2026) at Bowery Gallery in the Landmark Arts Building, 527 W. 27th Street, Suite 508, New York, NY. Artists and the public are invited to attend an opening reception Thursday, July 30, 2026, from 5PM to 8PM. Bowery Gallery will publicize the Juried Exhibition via the gallery’s contacts (collectors, critics, media, artists, art lovers), website, and social media, and with a press release, postings on art exhibition listings, and other marketing channels. 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.

SALES: Exhibiting artists may decide if their work is for sale and the pricing of their work. 100% of proceeds from sales at the Juried Exhibition go to the artist, with no commission to Bowery Gallery.

JUROR: 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, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She graduated from Brown University and received an MFA in Painting from Yale University School of Art.