Submission Policy

We accept submissions from individual artists and curators on a rolling basis.  Our selection process is informal and based on space in the calendar, fit with our program, and our own personal interests.

We respond to ALL submissions as quickly as possible.  You won’t drop into a black hole.  Even if it’s not a fit for us, we enjoy learning about what you do, so basically feel free to send us stuff.

Bear in mind a few things.

What we provide:

  • Installation of work, marketing and promotion, primarily through email, Facebook, this website, submission to periodicals and Twitter.
  • Inclusion in a hopefully cohesive program in which your exhibition will have respectable company.
  • Commission-free sales.  We redirect sales inquiries to the artists, but handle the actual pick-up of artwork.
  • An honest, open conversation and relationship with people genuinely interested in working with you as artists, not commodities.

What we don’t provide:

  • We don’t cover shipping costs.
  • We don’t provide insurance.
  • We don’t generally print cards.

To submit a proposal

Email submissions to info@mountairycontemporary.com, with “Proposal” in the Email Subject.

Individual Artists:

Please include:

  • A short artist’s statement
  • Images representative of the bodies of work you’re most interested in exhibiting.
  • Curriculum Vitae

If we’re interested, we will try to set up a studio visit with you.  Bear in mind that for us this is a long term process; some of the artists we’re showing in 2011 first showed up on our radar three years ago during POST visits.

Curatorial Proposals:

Please include:

  • A brief description of what you’d like to do.  Three to five sentences is better than 5 pages of Derrida-inspired monologue.
  • A list of proposed artists in the exhibition.
  • Images of what you’d like to include.  Please make the selections as representative as possible of the work that will be in the final show.
  • Your Curriculum Vitae.

Submission Formats:

CDs are okay, but we prefer online delivery.  Zip up the images if you can, but if they’re too large, other online delivery methods will work.  Give us a public DropBox folder to pull from, or FTP, etc.