Gallery 400 invites proposals for exhibitions and new projects! Established artists and recent MFAs, we'd love to hear from you!

Gallery 400 accepts exhibition proposals of new or existing work. In addition to exhibitions in the gallery space, Gallery 400 has the capacity to present a number of different projects, including public objects or architectural installations outside of the gallery; installations; events, seminars, or web-based projects; new media, video, and/or film installations; prototyping displays; sound works or radio plays; performance pieces; printed ephemera; and projects of a similar scope. We invite artists and curators from the Chicago area, as well as national and international proposals.

Proposals are accepted for the gallery's three exhibition spaces, one larger gallery (1,500 sq. ft.) and two smaller galleries (250 sq. ft. and 410 sq. ft.). Gallery staff and faculty advisors from the College of Architecture and the Arts at UIC review all proposals on a quarterly basis.

To propose an exhibition, please bundle all of your documents into a pdf binder (for information on how to create a pdf binder, please follow this link). Email the binder as an attachment to our email account dedicated solely to exhibition proposals: gallery400proposals@gmail.com. Please include your last name in the subject line of your email.

In your pdf binder, please include:

1. A resume.
2. An artist's statement and/or other background material.
3. An Exhibition Proposal. In the proposal please be specific and descriptive about what it is that will be created, how it will be achieved, and what larger implications you expect of the work - we call this the "what, how, and why."
4. Documentation of the work to be shown. Or, if the proposal is for new work, please include documentation that demonstrates your ability to complete the proposed project, work and possibly mock-ups for the new work.

For Visual Arts, Design or Architecture include:

• A minimum 10 and maximum 25 images of your work, one image per page of the pdf (website links are not accepted for images).
• Be sure to integrate your image captions into the image presentation. Captions should include a title, date, dimensions, media and any other descriptive clarifying information for each work.
• For proposals for new work, mockups of the planned work, in addition to past work, are accepted.

Please reduce image size so that emails do not exceed 10MB in size.

For Film, Video, Digital Art, Sound or Performance include:

• A website, Youtube or Vimeo link(s) to documentation of your work.
• A list of works featured on the link(s) along with the title, date and length of the submitted works. (Please note the order in which you’d like work to be viewed. We will view up to 15 minutes in initial review.)
• Any descriptive information that will clarify the presentation.

Please be clear and informative when indicating how the work will be exhibited. This is particularly important for film, video, digital, performance, and sound work.

**Please note that Gallery 400 will no longer accept hard copy applications. In addition, we will not consider any application that is not submitted in the format described above.

If you have any questions, please contact the gallery at 312-996-6114 or at gallery400proposals@gmail.com.