New Commissions

Publicly launched in 2005, Art in General’s New Commissions Program centers on developing and exhibiting new and challenging projects by artists who are interested in creating new work. We commission visual artists to create new projects in any medium or form—from painting to sculpture to performance to video to other, perhaps undefined, types of art or interdisciplinary work, and we work closely with artists with studio or post-studio practice, and help them to develop their work from idea to final form.

Since the program’s launch, Art in General has invited and commissioned new works from six to eight artists every year. Three to four of these artists each year are chosen through an annual open call competition reviewed by Art in General and an Advisory Panel; the other three to four artists are selected by Art in General’s curator after extensive research, studio visits, and meetings with local artists. The open call has no thematic or spatial parameters, and artists can choose to present a project proposal based on long-standing or emerging interests. The art project proposals presented by these artists are developed and presented through exhibitions, events, or other forms of programming at Art in General.

Art in General’s Advisory Panels consist of a group of thoughtful artists and arts professionals based in New York City or the surrounding region whose work has influenced the ways in which contemporary art is created, experienced, and interpreted. The members of the panel change on an annual basis.

2007-2008 Advisory Panel

Regine Basha
Independent Curator, Texas

Heman Chong
Artist, Singapore; former artist in residence at Art in General

Anne Ellegood
Associate Curator, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

Larissa Harris
Associate Director, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge

David Joselit
Professor and Chair of History of Art, Yale University