“I look at my art as a vehicle for change. It's never really for me. It's for others.” —Nick Cave
I’m keeping things fairly brief this week with the news that I’ve revived the Young Space Archive! Thanks to the support I receive for this newsletter and the feedback I received a couple of months ago when I announced that it would be removed, I’ve decided that it’s better for it to stick around for at least a little while longer.
Years of interviews and thousands of images cost a lot to store and keep active. But archives are also important, and when it involves the work of hundreds of artists—many of whom have progressed far both creatively and professionally, and interacted with Young Space at the earliest points in their careers, it actually feels more important as more time passes.
As I look back through interviews with people like Adrian Kay Wong, Jen Hitchings, Moley Talhaoui, Amy Bravo, Gioele Amaro, and so many more, it’s remarkable to see the evolution of their practices and understand some of the ideas they investigated on the path to where they are now.
I think this approach begins sums up why I do what I do. It’s not the destination; it’s the journey, as we know. Artistic practices are fluid; ideas are cyclical and multidimensional and often fold back in on themselves. This is what makes it more and more interesting, the more I speak with artists and see how things change—and how work that I run across from six or seven years ago still makes me go “wow.” That’s why it should stay. At least for now.
THANK YOU, as ever, for your support and for making Young Space what it has been and is for the past 10+ years.
—Kate
P.S. I’m excited to be attending the Midwest Arts Writers Convening next week, organized by Sixty Inches from Center in Chicago. It runs Sunday through Tuesday, and I’m stopping by EXPO over the weekend, too. The newsletter will run a little later than usual next week—expect it Thursday or Friday—but there will be plenty to chat about! See you then.
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—Kate
What you’ll find below:
A new semi-regular feature: Emerging
Exhibitions to see in Beijing, Berlin, Brescia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Paris, and Tokyo
Twelve opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Emerging: Leslie Drennan
“Emerging” is a new, occasional feature of works by emerging graduates and early-career artists.
Wrapping up her MFA in sculpture at Georgia State University, Leslie Drennan explores the micro and macro impacts of impermanence in the landscape, especially as she observes natural spaces replaced by subdivisions and commercial developments. “I use various mark making techniques such as embroidery, both ink and pastel drawing, and burning to highlight the emotionality of watching these places transform before my eyes and tell the story of the place I know so well.”
Drennan just wrapped her MFA thesis exhibition, Arcadia Disrupted, exploring a range of assemblage, video, installation, and sculpture. Find more on her website.
Exhibitions
TOKYO | NIDI GALLERY at (PLACE) BY METHOD
Jason Thompson: More On More
Gorgeous geometric abstractions in playful-yet-sophisticated acrylic, ink, and pencil are complemented by brilliant artist frames.
Runs through April 27
BRESCIA | THE ADDRESS
Édouard Nardon: The long invisible hand slowly
unlocks the tinted window
Nardon’s creative process often begins “with precise compositions rooted in personal fixations.” Layering materials like marble dust, gypsum, and pigments, he methodically deconstructs his initial intentions, resulting in a choreography of color and texture.
Runs through April 30
NEW YORK CITY | HARPER’S
Chloe West: Games of Chance
Set against mountains, desert plains, and the cobalt blue skies one finds at high elevations, Chloe West’s striking oil paintings merge Dutch Golden Age iconographies with both mythic and everyday motifs of the American West. (Read more on Colossal.)
Runs through May 10
More shows worth a peek:
Maia Cruz Palileo: SATOR ROTAS at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, through April 26
Bare Things at SETAREH, Berlin, through April 26
Ju Ting: Amber at Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, through May 4
Alexandra Noel: there, there at Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris, through May 5
What They Said at Circle Contemporary, Chicago, through May 9
Tara Walters: Heartbreaker, Dream Maker at Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, through May 17
Artist Opportunities
Young Space emphasizes fully-funded opportunities with low or no entry fees and programs that focus on creative and professional development for visual artists and curators. Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
Paid subscribers, check out the whole list anytime at yngspc.com/opportunities and enter the password you received in your signup email. Can’t find it? Just shoot me a note. Thank your for your support!
CCA Islands Travel Scholarship for Curators, Artists, and Architects, and Designers
Deadline: April 25
CCA Islands offers the CCA Travel Scholarship for emerging artists, curators, architects, designers and those who aim to be a professional in various areas of contemporary art and culture, pursuing their research and creative activities in Japan. The scholarship offers research expenses of JPY 200,000 and covers one return transportation fare. Preference will be given to applicants under 35 years of age. The recipients are expected to stay in Japan, and the minimum length of stay is 4 weeks—8 weeks maximum—between September 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026. At the end of their stay, the recipients are required to report the result of their research.
Submission fee: none
Center for Afrofuturist Studies Visiting Artist Residency
Deadline: April 30
Since 2016, the CAS has hosted fully-funded residencies for artists of color whose work mines and expands the possibilities of Black futurism. Artists-in-residence are housed in a large private apartment at Public Space One (PS1)’s repurposed 19th-century house near downtown Iowa City, Iowa – a building that also houses the CAS reading room, PS1’s busy gallery and performance space, artist studios, and community organizations.
Submission fee: none
Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship
Deadline: May 1
Every year the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation offers a $50,000 cash award plus a solo exhibition with our partner institution The Center for Maine Contemporary Art to an artist living and working in the United States.
Submission fee: none
Contemporary Craft Regional Residencies (Pennsylvania)
Deadline: May 1 (rolling—next review dates are August 1 and November 7)
The Regional Artist-in-Residence program at Contemporary Craft allows artists living within 100 miles of Pittsburgh free access to fully equipped studios, CC staff support, and the opportunity to interface with the public while creating a body of work. The regional residencies are three months long. In exchange for the free usage of Contemporary Craft’s state-of-the-art studio space as well as a monthly materials stipend, the artist in residence will be asked to engage with the public while working in the studio.
Submission fee: none
Schloss Plüschow Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: May 1
The Art Foundation of Schloss Plüschow awards five grants for the duration of three months, from October to December, for visual artists. The Schloss Plüschow grant is a residence fellowship. Guests are expected to live and work in Plüschow during the period of their residency. The castle offers five large studios and apartments with kitchenette, bathroom, and toilet. An engraving studio and internet access are available to artists, and the individual monthly grant amount is €1,000 (some services like electricity deducted).
Submission fee: none
Fundación Casa Wabi x ArtReview Residency Prize 2025-26
Deadline: May 2
Fundación Casa Wabi and ArtReview are pleased to announce the eighth annual open-call residency prize for three artists/collectives interested in cultural cross-pollination and wishing to enter a dialogue with the communities around Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Submission fee: none
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 7
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The grant also support art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles.
Submission fee: none
Arts Council Ireland Arts and Disability Connect Scheme
Deadline: May 7
The Arts and Disability Connect Scheme supports artists with disabilities and disabled artists to develop their practice and connect with other professional artists and arts organizations in Ireland. The maximum award is €15,000.
Submission fee: none
Arts Council Ireland Touring of Work Scheme 2026
Deadline: May 8
The Touring of Work Scheme supports the touring of work across Ireland by individual artists and organizations. It focuses on making great art from different art forms available to more people throughout the country, and there is no maximum amount for this award.
Submission fee: none
Triangle-Astérides Residency
Deadline: May 9
The residency program (program 1) is intended for early/mid-career artists from French (excluding Marseilles) and international scenes, regardless of age or nationality. The associate artists program (program 2) is intended for early/mid-career artists from the local scene, based in Marseilles and its surroundings.
Program 1 runs in three sessions for two months each between January and December 2026 and offers a studio, curatorial support, a single room (or two rooms for duos), a grant of €1,000 per month, a fee of €150 for an open studio event, and more. Program 2 runs a single session for the whole of 2026 and includes a studio, curatorial support, a production budget of €1,000, €150 for each of three open studio events, and more.
Submission fee: none
Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant for Turkish Artists
Deadline: May 12
This two-year grant program will provide a dynamic space for artistic research and production, encouraging robust engagement between creative practitioners and their communities across the region. This year’s grants will support two works at the intersection of art, technology, and ecology and are open to creative practitioners from Turkey who work in various disciplines. The two grants of €20,000 each include:
Artistic Research Grant facilitates in-depth artistic research, focusing on contemporary art and design, technology, and ecology. The use of Salt Research’s archival resources is encouraged for this research grant.
Production Grant supports an artistic production responsive to the dynamic, diverse, and evolving nature of the moving image. The scope of this grant includes traditional or expanded forms of storytelling, visual expression, and performance using film, cinema, and new media.
Submission fee: none
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Deadline: May 13 (rolling—next cycle deadlines: July 8 and September 9)
These grants of up to $5,000 support direct treatment expenses that have been incurred, or are needed, for medical, dental or mental health treatment. Artists practicing in the visual arts, film, video, electronic, digital arts, and choreography are eligible. The program is offered approximately every two months in rolling cycles.
Submission fee: none
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