CALL FOR ENTRIES

Deadline: Sept 28, 2025 by 11:59 PM

ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists invites art submissions for its 2026 exhibition season

ROY’s regular exhibition calendar is organized from an annual juried process that begins with a call for entries (CFE), asking emerging artists to submit their work for consideration. The CFE submission pool is reviewed and voted upon by a panel of jurors representing the contemporary arts community.

We welcome submissions from artists both local and global. Selected artists will be featured in a month-long small group exhibition during the 2026 calendar year, curated by the gallery director.

ROY defines emerging artists as those that:
➜ Are early in their careers
➜ Have a focused direction and goals while developing their artistic voice
➜ Have yet to be substantially celebrated within their field, the media, funding circles, or the public at large
➜ Are not represented by a gallery
➜ Have not exhibited at ROY (with the exception of ImageOHIO and the annual smallworks member show)

ROY’s highest priority is to support artists early in their careers and celebrate work that is:
➜ Deeply considered and intentional, providing artistic experiences that communicate unique perspectives
➜ Executed with attention to craft and with technical proficiency
➜ Inviting viewers to question, discover, and explore new ideas
➜ Innovative and risk-takingーengaging, questioning, challenging, or re-imagining conventional artistic forms 

These qualities reflect our interest in supporting diverse artists who are expanding ways of working, asking questions, and inspiring new ways of imagining.

  • Please take care to read this information thoroughly; incomplete submissions will not be considered.

    1. To enter, become a member of ROY G BIV Gallery, or renew your membership at our website for a fee of $25. Your membership is valid for one calendar year from time of payment.

    2. Email your submission to info@roygbivgallery.org using the subject “CFE 2026” and include an artist statement, résumé or CV and list of works. Your list of works must include title, date, media, size, and price if applicable. Please ensure that the numbers listed correspond to your image titles (e.g., “01.jpg” must match “01” in your list of works.) Complete and include the form provided below in the body of your email:

    Name* (Required)
    First Name: 
    Last Name:

    Email* (Required):

    Address
    Address 1:
    Address 2: 
    City:
    State/Province:
    Zip/Postal Code:

    Website:

    Instagram or other social media (Instagram is preferred for cross-posting/tagging on ROY’s social media):

  • - No more than 10 images
    - File names: Use only a number (e.g., 01.jpg). Please do not embed your name in any image file names.
    - File formats: JPG or PNG
    - File size: No larger than 1.5 MB per photo
    - Detail and installation photos may be included within the 10 images
    - Attach images to your email
    - DO NOT send zipped files
    - DO NOT embed files in the body of your email

  • - No more than 5 videos
    - For video submissions, upload your videos to Vimeo or YouTube and submit their URLs in your List of Works.
    - It is not necessary to remove your name from your account or videos.
    - Please make videos easily accessible to the jury; include an access code if needed. Private videos with no provided code will not be considered.
    - The first two minutes of each video will be reviewed.

  • - File names: Please include your name on your Résumé, List of Works, and Artist Statement.
    - File formats: PDF
    - List of Works should include the following for each work:
    1. File name (e.g., 01.jpg) or video URL (e.g., https://www.youtube.com)
     2. Title
    3. Year of completion
    4. Medium(s)
    5. Dimensions
    - Attach files to your email
    - DO NOT send zipped files
    - DO NOT embed files in the body of your email

  • Inclusion of artwork featuring explicit or violent content will be considered at the discretion of the gallery.

    Artist is responsible for transportation of all artwork to and from ROY G BIV Gallery. If work must be shipped, the artist is responsible for packaging and shipping expenses. Artist is responsible for artwork installation and providing any speciality installation supplies. Two-dimensional work must be ready to hang and include appropriate hanging hardware. One projector is available on a first come first serve basis. Videos may be shown on a loop to accommodate multiple artists. Artist is responsible for providing any additional video monitors or equipment for installation work or videos not to be included in the loop.

Meet the Jurors

Rebecca Arp (b.1997) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Columbus, Ohio. Arp earned her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in 2020, and was the recipient of the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award upon graduation. Notable exhibitions include solo shows at Space 204 Gallery (Nashville, TN) Officina (Berlin, Germany) and Dream Clinic Project Space (Columbus, Ohio); as well as group shows at AUTOMAT Collective (Philadephia), Ortega y Gassett Projects (NYC), and Beeler Gallery (upcoming, Columbus). She is a co-curator at Dream Clinic Project Space and a past intern for Tiger Strikes Asteroid non-profit arts organization. She is an annual recipient of GCAC's Individual Artist Grant, and in 2025 was awarded GCAC's Artist Projects Grant for her upcoming curatorial project "Solar Flare", a pop-up sculpture garden and art walk on the Near East side of Columbus. Arp is grateful for this opportunity to jury the 2026 Open Call at ROY G BIV, especially alongside such excellent artists. 

Marcus Morris is an interdisciplinary artist and imagemaker whose work centers Blackness, queerness and performance. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and Queer Studies at Denison University. Marcus was an MFA Fellow in Photography from The Ohio State University(2024) and received his BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design (2012). In addition, he spent six months studying Art and Photography at The Michaelis School of Fine Art at The University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. Marcus is a founder of Cineseries, an experimental film program series at The Wexner Center for the Arts, and was co-curator of the 2024 Fotofocus Biennale at Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design. He was the Fall 2024 Artist Fellow at the Annex at The Gund at Kenyon College and winner of Best Series in the 2025 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition. His work has been featured in The Appalachian Journal, Gayletter and Callaloo Journal for African Diasporic Culture, Literature and Arts.

Britny Wainwright is a sculptor, curator, and educator based in Columbus, Ohio. She employs ceramics, fiber, and mixed materials to abstract and draw meaning from domestic objects. She investigates the gendered division of craft and fine art, and queer material culture. She has exhibited work at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA, Vinegar Contemporary in Birmingham, AL, VisArts in Rockville, MD, The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR among others. She has held several residencies, most notably as a co-facilitator for “Clay in the Expanded Field” at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Edgecomb, ME. She cofounded Dream Clinic Project Space in Columbus, OH and currently serves as visiting faculty and Director of Foundations Studies in the Department of Art at Ohio State University.