Young Space, no.104
Undercurrents.
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
—Henri Matisse
I’ve spent the last week playing catchup after my trip, including a couple of deadlines I had to push, plus installing a little more than a third of a giant exhibition across seven libraries in Madison, Wisconsin.
I don’t think I’ve ever installed art so rapidly, let alone needed to figure out installation methods that run the entire gamut of options, piece by piece. And let’s be honest, sometimes it’s just wonky. Like, why is the wire so far up that it’s right behind the frame? Why was this four-part piece sent with a note saying “needs frame” when the instructions explicitly said it needed to be ready to hang? Why are multiple same-sized pieces not wired at the same height on the back?
But also it’s always a moment of real admiration for artists’ installation instructions and diagrams—there could be an exhibition of these alone. My favorite tool is always a template, for a multi-part piece, marking exactly where the holes go so that when you situate the template on the wall, you can just mark or nail right through it. One artist kindly sent along a spare star-shaped drill bit because he included torx screws. A time-consuming piece comprising at least 10 individual components to be installed in a grid included a very appreciative note. These things matter when your brain is scrambled for going-on-12 hours of install!
I guess we really wouldn’t have it any other way. Who would invite 150 artists to make new pieces for a huge show if we didn’t love this sort of thing!? The whole thing, 150 Artists x 150 Years, is scheduled to open the first weekend of December, if you happen to be in the area!
See you next week.
—Kate
What you’ll find below:
Exhibitions to see in Cape Town, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Stockholm, and Yucca Valley
Eleven opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
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Exhibitions
LONDON | TRISTAN HOARE
Lydia Gifford: Undercurrent
Gorgeous, painterly works by Lydia Gifford express the relationship between “form and feeling. Favouring the emotive, intuitive and spontaneous over the calculated.”
Runs through November 13
NEW YORK CITY | MARGOT SAMEL
Amy Winstanley: Life Hum
“Life Hum refers to the constant humming movement of all matter, from a social to a molecular level. In each painting, through every moment, life is jittering, fluctuating, wavering, vibrating, and oscillating.”
Runs through November 15
NEW YORK CITY | ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN
Gabriel Mills: The Great Collapse
Mills describes his dynamic oil paintings as “a union of weight and atmosphere.”
Runs through November 19
More Exhibitions Worth a Peek
Giovanni Fabián Guerrero: Sabiduría Eterna (Eternal Wisdom) at Larkin Durey, London, through November 7
Tess Jenkins: Thank You Universe, May I Delight You at Don’t Look Projects, Los Angeles, through November 8
Jessie Makinson at Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, through November 8
Waiting for the Wind at Compound, Yucca Valley, California, through November 16
Joachim Ojanen: Welcome to My Show! at Hospitalet (Carl Kostyál) , Stockholm, through November 17
Kamyar Bineshtarigh: Group Show at Southern Guild, Cape Town, through November 20
Artist Opportunities
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Schloss Solitude Fellowships 2026–2028
Deadline: November 14
Akademie Schloss Solitude is accepting applications for its residential fellowships for the period 2026–2028. International artists, researchers, and cultural professionals from all disciplines will have the opportunity to apply for a six- or nine-month fellowship.
Submission fee: none
The Kindling Fund Grants for Maine Artists
Deadline: November 16
The Kindling Fund awards project grants ranging from $3,000 to $7,000 (with smaller Research and Development Grants) to Maine-based artists of all career levels, who organize projects that engage audiences and the visual arts in inventive and meaningful ways.
Submission fee: none
Creative Commission for Sycamore Gap Tree
Deadline: November 17
The National Trust invites artists, organizations, and creative agencies to submit proposals that will breathe life into the wood saved from the felled Sycamore Gap tree. This opportunity will see up to five shortlisted artists receive funding to develop their ideas, with one final concept selected in early 2026. The shortlisted artists or collaborations will each receive £5,000 to develop their proposals.
Submission fee: none
ACRE Summer 2026 Residencies
Deadline: November 18
Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions is an artist-run, community-driven organization that produces programs and initiatives offering ongoing resource-sharing, opportunities for professional growth, and the generative connections artists need to thrive. The subsidized fee is $700 per person for a 14-day residency.
Submission fee: $45 until November 9, then $60 until November 18
Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School
Deadline: November 20
The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School enables a gifted and dedicated post-graduate artist from outside the United Kingdom to attend the Royal Drawing School during the Summer Term each year. To assist with travel and accommodation costs, the Don Bachardy Fellow will be awarded a $5,000 stipend, half of which will be granted on receipt of the Fellowship and the remainder on arrival in London.
Submission fee: none
Bernheim Forest Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: December 1
Established in 1980, this internationally renowned program has awarded visual artists of all mediums, the opportunities to live and create works inspired by Bernheim’s wondrous natural environment. Up to 4 artists are selected for residencies at Bernheim annually. One residency is always dedicated to an artist currently living in Kentucky or nearby counties in Southern Indiana, and one residency is dedicated to an artist whose work addresses environmental issues and the climate crisis. The duration is between 6 and 8 weeks, and artists receive a $2,500 stipend (regional artists also receive year-round access to Bernheim resources during their selected year), a furnished cabin, and a modest studio space.
Submission fee: none
Denbo Fellowship at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Deadline: December 3
The Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists from a range of artistic disciplines an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. It provides a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in the areas of papermaking, printmaking, and book arts. Residencies run for at least three weeks or a maximum of one month.
Submission fee: none
The 8th John Ruskin Prize
Deadline: December 5
The John Ruskin Prize is open to entries from artists, designers and makers, amateur or professional, from anywhere in the world. The theme of this year will be “Patience in Looking, Truth in Making.” The Prize welcomes works in all mediums, including drawing, painting, print, sculpture, photography, textile, animation, mixed media, digital, performance, installation and more
The selection panel will shortlist up to 50 artists and select work for inclusion in an exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, from January 29 to February 8, 2026. Four winners will receive prizes totaling £9,500: a 1st Prize of £3,000, The Alan Davidson Under 26 Prize of £1,000, Ruskin Mill Trust Prize of £3,000, and the Chelsea Arts Club Award of £2,500.
Submission fee: £20-50 depending on age, medium, and number of entries
Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts
Deadline: December 10 (deadline to submit a fee waiver request is December 3)
The South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The program is open to individual artists living in the South Arts region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The South Arts State Fellowship (state fellowship) is a state-specific prize of $5,000 awarded to artists whose work reflects the best of the visual arts in the South. The nine state fellowship recipients will compete for the Southern Prize. The $25,000 Southern Prize will be awarded to the artist whose work demonstrates the highest artistic excellence, and a runner-up will be awarded a $10,000 Prize.
Submission fee: none
National Lottery Project Grants for U.K. Artists
Deadline: Rolling
National Lottery Project Grants is always open for project grants between £1,000 and £100,000.
Submission fee: none
Awesome Foundation Grants
Deadline: Rolling
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. The Foundation distributes unrestricted $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. At each fully autonomous chapter—there are 79 in 10 countries—the money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given to creatives, no strings attached.
Submission fee: none
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