Submitting a Proposal for Exhibition or Project:

Gallery 400 invites proposals for exhibitions and new projects. From 2002 to 2008 Gallery 400 commissioned new projects in a series entitled At the Edge, supporting new projects of an experimental and innovative nature from Chicago artists. As of 2009 that program is folded into the gallery’s larger program, which in total now includes commissions, curated exhibitions, and one-person exhibitions of large or small scale for the three spaces of the gallery.

Gallery 400 accepts exhibition proposals of new work or of existing work. Given the gallery’s history of support for At the Edge commissions we are especially receptive to proposals for new work. Alongside exhibitions in the gallery space, Gallery 400 has the capacity to present projects that are public objects or architectural installations outside of the gallery; installations; events, seminars, or web-based projects; new media, video, and/or film installations; prototyping displays; sound works or radio plays; performance pieces; printed ephemera; and projects of similar scope. We invite artists and curators from the Chicago area, as well as national and international proposals.

Proposals are accepted for the gallery’s three exhibition spaces, one larger gallery (1,500 sq. ft.) and two smaller galleries (250 sq. ft. and 410 sq. ft.). Proposals are reviewed by Gallery staff and faculty advisors from the College of Architecture and the Arts at UIC. Proposals are reviewed quarterly. Rest assured, you will receive a response from us.

To propose an exhibition, please bundle the following documents into a pdf binder. Email the binder as an attachment to uicgallery400@gmail.com with 'Exhibition Proposal' in the subject line.  For more information on how to create a single pdf containing all of your application documents, please follow this link.

In your application pdf, please include:

1.   A resume.
2.  An artist's statement and/or other background material.
3.  An Exhibition Proposal. In the proposal please be specific and descriptive about what it is that will be created, how it will be achieved and what larger implications you expect of the work.
4.  Documentation of the work to be shown.  Or, if the proposal is for new work, please include documentation that demonstrates your ability to complete the proposed project.  
 
For Visual Arts, Design or Architecture include:

* A minimum 10 and maximum 25 images of your work, one image per page of the pdf.
   (Website links are not accepted for images.)
* Be sure to integrate your image captions into the image presentation. Captions should include a title, date, dimensions, media and any other descriptive clarifying information for each work.
* For proposals for new work, mockups of the planned work, in addition to past work, are accepted.
* Please reduce image size so that emails do not exceed 10MB in size.  
 
For Film, Video, Digital Art, Sound or Performance include:

* A website, Youtube or Vimeo link(s) to documentation of your work.
* A list of works featured on the link(s) along with the title, date and length of the submitted works. (Please note the order in which you’d like work to be viewed. We will view up to 15 minutes in initial review.)
* Any descriptive information that will clarify the presentation.
Please be clear and informative in indicating how the works get exhibited, this is particularly important for film, video, digital, performance and sound work.

Please email your pdf application to uicgallery400@gmail.com with the subject line 'exhibition proposal.'

 Alternatively, you may mail your hard copy materials to:
Exhibition Review
Gallery 400
University of Illinois at Chicago
400 South Peoria Street (MC 034)
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 312-996-6114
Fax: 312-355-3444
 
*Please note, after December 1, 2010 Gallery 400 will no longer accept hard copy applications.

*Email applications not submitted in the format described above will not be considered.

Images of Gallery 400 space on Flickr