You are invited 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. Here are some details on how to submit:
How to submit and what to submitAre you an artist who works in portraiture? Maybe you are awesome. If so, they want to see your work! Don't get overlooked -- make sure you'reincluded in this special exhibition. For more information, go to the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program website here.
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.