OPEN CALL & EXHIBITION
Open call: Fall & Winter 2025 - 2026 | New York Exhibition: Spring 2026
Submission Deadline: Sunday, February 8th
FLUID ECOLOGIES is an international open call and exhibition exploring ecologies across a broad spectrum and the ways in which such systems respond, change, adapt, and evolve.
The project invites artists to consider the concept of an ‘ecology’ as a metaphor and framework for how we live, interact, and relate - an opportunity to visualize and respond to the systems that sustain and impact us both on a personal level and in the world writ large.
The ways in which art itself acts as a living ecosystem connecting humans, materials, institutions, and other living and non-living entities may also be addressed.
Submissions from all visual media, including video will be accepted.
The FLUID ECOLOGIES initiative will culminate in an exhibition in New York City and program of talks designed to foster artistic dialogue, interdisciplinary exchange, and reflection on new models of coexistence.
Prizes
Grand Prize Winner: Capsule Solo in Exhibition
Finalists: Inclusion in Group Exhibition (5-7 artists)
See|Me Member Prize: Inclusion in Group Exhibition
All Winners Receive:
Invitation to join the See|Me Digital Gallery
Invitation to be included in the Artsy FLUID ECOLOGIES Collection
Custom social media promotion
*Additional prizes to be announced.
Purchase your Entry Ticket:
“FLUID ECOLOGIES” May be Interpreted in Any Medium from Painting and Drawing, to Sculpture and Fiber Arts, to Photography and Digital Media. Possible Interpretations include:
Interrelationships and Interdependence:
Through techniques and materials such as layered paint, transparent fabric, overlapping imagery, and mingled media, artworks can reveal varied interdependencies and complexities and explore the ways in which natural, cultural, or technological systems interact, collide, coexist, and build upon one another.
Change, Evolution, and Transition:
Artworks that embody shifts, mutations, or transformations in any medium, for example, color gradients, evolving imagery, sequences and series, or kinetic sculptures. Materials, forms, and narratives that morph and evolve represent states of being not fixed or fully formed, while time-based media, moving surfaces, and evolving compositions might reflect the flux of ecological and social realities, or hint at both the beauty and the instability of perpetual change.
Personal Narratives, Symbols, and Inner Worlds:
Work that turns inward, mapping an artist’s internal ecosystem, including memories, identities, and emotional states. This work might use personal archives, private symbolism, embedded text, portraiture, or autobiographical materials. Such compositions include intimate ecologies of heritage, emotion, and memory, reflecting identity as a layered, living environment in itself.
Exhibition Venue: New York City - April, 2026
We’re thrilled to announce that FLUID ECOLOGIES will be held at the sophisticated BLANC Art Space in New York City.
The BLANC Art Space is dedicated to promoting and advancing visual, performing, and creative art through a series of exhibitions, performances, presentations, panels, and outreach programs. We are committed to forging an innovative and inspiring art exchange in which all people have the opportunity to collectively share the rich aesthetic, creativity, inclusion, and humanity of their art.
Judging Panel
The Judging Panel will be comprised of 3 - 5 artworld professionals
Judges will be announced in the following weeks
Rules and Regulations
Submission Format: All competition entries are completed through an online submission form that each participant receives via email after purchasing their entry ticket or membership.
Accepted Media: Submissions from the following mediums are accepted: Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Printmaking, Collage Art, Mixed Media, Digital Art and Video Art.
Art Collectives: Art collectives are encouraged to submit when the concept of your ‘collective’ authentically addresses the open call concept - for questions, please contact nerissa@see.me
Uploading Artwork: When uploading artwork, all files must be named in the following format: Your full name followed by the title of the artwork. Example: “Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night”
Image Resolution: We ask that participants upload image files of high resolution at a maximum file size of 5MB per image (accepted image filetypes are JPG, JPEG, and PNG).
Video Submissions are made by entering direct links to the submission form.
Video submissions work best by uploading files to a platform like YouTube or Vimeo and then copy-pasting the URL(s) into the submission form.
Video files such as MP4, MOV, and AVI are not accepted.
The FLUID ECOLOGIES open call ticket allows artists to include up to 6 artworks in your submission. Artists are eligible to win both the capsule exhibition and group show prizes.
This is a digital product: A link to submission instructions will be sent via email immediately after purchase.
Please email our team with any questions.