ANNOUNCING TWO OPPORTUNITIES!!!
2026-27 FLAT FILE/NOT FLAT FILE open call & 2027 EXHIBITION open call
See below for details and how to apply.
FLAT FILE / NOT FLAT FILE
*FLAT FILE/NOT FLAT FILE APPLICATION FORM*
Open Call
Exhibition: November 28, 2026–January 10, 2027
Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
Peep Space is accepting submissions for our annual Flat File, along with a new companion exhibition, Not Flat, bringing small three-dimensional works into the Back Room.
Artists may apply to Flat File, Not Flat, or both.
FLAT FILE 2026/27
Each year, Peep Space’s Main Gallery becomes home to our Flat File exhibition, featuring small works by artists working across a range of processes and approaches.
Selected works will be exhibited in the Main Gallery from November 28 through January 10 and will then remain in the Peep Space Flat File through the following year, where they will be available for viewing and purchase.
We’re interested in drawings, prints, photographs, collage, mixed media, and other works on paper. All works must be UNMOUNTED, UNFRAMED, no larger than 18 x 24” and no thicker than 1/4”. Maximum price for each work of art should not exceed $1000. Please keep in mind Peep Space seeks work at a variety of price points to share with our communities.
NOT FLAT FILE
What about the things that don’t fit in a drawer?
Running concurrently in Peep Space’s Back Room, our Not Flat File is an open call for small three-dimensional works.
Ceramics, sculpture, assemblage, textiles, artist-made objects, and other three-dimensional works are welcome. Works may be freestanding, shelf-based, or simply wall-mounted and must measure no more than 12 inches in any dimension. Because the Back Room is very small, works requiring complex installation cannot be accommodated. Maximum price for each work of art should not exceed $1000. Please keep in mind Peep Space seeks work at a variety of small sizes and price points to share with our communities.
Unlike works selected for the Flat File, works included in our Not Flat File will be exhibited only for the duration of the exhibition and returned to artists afterward.
DATES
Application deadline: October 28, 2026
Artists notified: by November 11
Artwork due at Peep Space: November 21
Exhibition: November 28, 2026–January 10, 2027
Artists may submit to one or both calls through the application form.
2027 EXHIBITIONS CALL FOR PROPOSALS
*2027 EXHIBITION APPLICATION FORM*
Main Gallery + Back Room
Application Deadline: November 11, 2026
Notification: December 2026
Peep Space invites artists and curators to submit exhibition proposals for our 2027 programming year.
We welcome proposals from emerging and established artists, artist groups, and independent curators. Proposals may be for solo or group exhibitions and will be considered for Peep Space’s Main Gallery or Back Room.
Peep Space is an artist-run contemporary art project space founded in 2020 in Tarrytown, NY. Our programming is centered around contemporary art and artists, with an emphasis on experimentation, dialogue, and exhibitions that benefit from the intimate scale and context of an artist-run space.
THE SPACES
Main Gallery
Our approximately 300-square-foot Main Gallery accommodates solo and group exhibitions across a wide range of media.
Back Room
The Back Room offers an intimate setting for focused site-responsive exhibitions and projects that engage with its scale and character. Separated by a short dividing wall at the back of the Main Gallery, the Back Room is entered through a glass door and open to the ceiling.
To see images and dimensions of the spaces, please click here.
Applicants may indicate a preference for the Main Gallery, Back Room, or either space. Final placement will be determined in conversation with selected artists and curators.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition proposals will be selected for 4–5 week exhibitions during the 2027 calendar year.
Peep Space provides:
- Gallery space
- Regular gallery hours
- Online and social media promotion
- Curatorial and installation support
Selected artists and/or curators are responsible for:
- Transportation or shipping of artwork to and from Peep Space
- Installation and deinstallation of the exhibition, with assistance from Peep Space
- Coordinating participating artists when proposing a group exhibition
Peep Space retains a 40% commission on artwork sold through the exhibition.
WHO MAY APPLY
The open call is available to artists and curators age 18 and older.
Individual artists, artist groups, and independent curators are welcome to submit proposals. Proposed exhibitions may include work in any medium that can reasonably be accommodated within the gallery.
SUBMISSION MATERIALS
Please submit the following via the submission form:
- Exhibition proposal — 500 words maximum. Tell us about the proposed exhibition, participating artist(s), and how you envision the project at Peep Space. If you’re applying for the Back Room, please consider how your work will respond to and interact with the specific space. (300 words max).
- 1–10 images of proposed or representative work. Applicants working with video or sound may submit up to three samples of up to two minutes each.
- Corresponding image list including artist name, title, medium, dimensions, and year.
- Names and websites/Instagram accounts of participating artists, if applicable.
- Your preferred exhibition space: Main Gallery, Back Room, or either.
SUBMISSION FEE
Peep Space requires a pay-what-you-can submission fee of $20–$40. All fees directly support Peep Space’s operating costs and programming. Applicants unable to afford the submission fee may request a waiver by sending an email to peepspaceny@gmail.com
Submit payment via:
Venmo: @peepspace
Zelle: peepspaceny@gmail.com
Please include the name used on your application with your payment.
IMPORTANT DATES
Application deadline: November 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET
Notification: December 2026
Questions may be directed to peepspaceny@gmail.com.
DIVINATION
CLOSED — Thank you to everyone who applied!
Congratulations to all the selected artists & oracles!
October 10 – November 15, 2026
Peep Space ∞ Back Room
Opening Reception (with tarot readings!): Saturday October 10th, 6-8pm
Image: Langdon Graves, Home Circle Oracle Deck, 2024-25
2026 Exhibition Open Call
CLOSED: Thank you to everyone who applied!
–Notification of acceptance by January 2026
Congratulations to the artists selected with shows upcoming in 2026!
2025/26 Flat File Program Open Call
Closed – Thank you to all the artists who applied!
Artists will be notified late November.
The Flat File Show
2025/26 Flat File Program Selections
December 13th, 2025 – January 24th, 2026
Opening Reception/ Holiday Party: Saturday, December 20th from 6-8 pm
PeepSpace presents our fifth iteration of the Flat File Exhibition and Program, featuring small works by twenty artists, representing various approaches to contemporary art making. Beyond the exhibition, works will be housed for one year in the gallery’s flat file, for visitors to peruse and purchase.
2025/26 Flat File Artists:
*Avani Patel * Christopher Moss * DW Zinsser * Jeff White * Jordan Buschur * Katya Grokhovsky * Liz Jaff * Lucia Korpas * Marie Gauthiez * Mehraveh Vahediyan * Rebecca Dunn * Robin Sherin * Sara Kramer * Sara Willadsen * Shanti Grumbine * Tielin Ding * Victor A. Saint-Hilaire * Vincent Pidone * Weiyuan Wang * Yu Kyung Chung *
Congratulations to the artists selected with shows upcoming in March & July 2025!
Grayson Cox: Nepo Maybe
July 17th – August 20th, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 17th from 6-9 pm
“In New York, if I want to see my friends, I have to work with them.” – Grayson Cox
Works by: Yasmeen Abdallah, Gregory Amenoff, Sarah Anderson, Imogen Aukland, Marguerite Bailey, Amanda Baker, Glen Baldridge, Itziar Barrio, Natalie Beall, Michael Berryhill, Daniel Bozhkov, Noah Breuer, Monica Carrier, Blake Marques Carrington, Jacqueline Cedar, Chloe Scout Nix, Angela Connant, Paloma Crousillat, Jeremy Dine, Kelly Driscoll, Courtney Dudley, Stella Ebner, Katherine Evans, Brad Ewing, Nadja Frank, Michael Gaillard, Mark Gens, Glenn Goldberg, Langdon Graves, Raphael Griswold, Eric Ramos Guerrero, Barry Hazard, Giorgio Handman, Volker S Hueller, Elizabeth Insogna, Aram Jibilian, Lou Joseph, Ayesha Kamal Khan, David Kennedy Cutler, Jon Kessler, Alison Kudlow, Marie Lorenz, Joshua McCall, Anne-Marie McIntyre, Donna Moran, Nazanin Noroozi, Wilhelm Neusser, Iviva Olenick, Lauren Pakradooni, Erin Perrazzelli, Ben Quesnel, Henry Rosenberg, Alex Russi, AV Ryan, Lara Saget, Emma Schwartz, Edgar Serrano, Jeremy Shaeffer, Steve Shaheen, Louise Sheldon, Dasha Shishkin, Mae Shore, Felix Shumba, Lior Shvil, George Skoufas, Jackie Slanley, Ujin Song, Jomar Statkun, Christine Stiver, Jacquelyn Strycker, Jess Blaustein, Kristen Jordan, R. Blair Sullivan, Molly Surno, Rachel Sydlowski, Dominic Terlizzi, Jesse Weiss, David Wells, Hollis Witherspoon, Rona Yefman, Asa Gauen, James Gortner, Gaberial Meldahl, Zefrey Throwell
Peep Space is pleased to present Grayson Cox: Nepo Maybe, a group exhibition curated by artist Grayson Cox. The exhibition explores the tension between earned opportunity and social proximity—what some might call nepotism—and reimagines it as a gesture of care, reciprocity, and magnetism.
Informed by Lewis Hyde’s notion of the “gift community,” the show proposes a space where the circulation of meaningful objects becomes a form of generosity and mutual recognition. Cox invites artists with whom he has recently shared moments of connection—some deep, others fleeting—to contribute artwork that carries personal meaning. These offerings may be small, poetic, transactional, or experiential. Some are for sale, some are for giving, and others are simply to be shown.
“Art must have generosity built in if it is to survive as useful,” Cox states. In that spirit, Nepo Maybe challenges the conventional dynamics of access and opportunity in the art world by framing friendship and shared curiosity as valid, even necessary, conditions for exhibition-making.
The show is as much about objects as it is about the magnetic forces that bring people together—the eros between artists, between object and viewer, and between communities in need of new forms of gathering. The opening will function as a meeting ground for storytelling, exchange, and quiet witnessing.
DW Zinsser: Good Grief
March 22nd – April 26th, 2025
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 23rd, 2-5 PM
Flat File Open Call
Closed – Thank you to all the artists who applied!
Congratulations to the 22 artists selected for this year’s iteration of PeepSpace’s Flat File program!
* Andrea Sanders * Anne-Marie McIntyre * Árón Ó Maolagáin * Beth Sutherland * Catie Dillon * Celeste Fichter * Diane Bertolo * Dustin London * Eleanor Conover * Elissa Swanger * Elizabeth Meggs * Jennifer Tazewell Mawby * Kassandra Palmer * Kelly Clare * Kim Sheridan * Kristen Heritage * Lynnette Therese Sauer * Sara Osebold * Steven Dana * Talia Shulze * Vivek Sebastian * Yasemin Kacker-Demirel *
FLAT FILE 2024/25
November 2 – December 7, 2024
Please join us for the Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9th from 7-9 pm
CLOSED DEADLINE: APRIL 1ST, 2024
Closed – thank you to everyone who applied!
EXTENDED TO APRIL 7TH, 2024
EXHIBITION OPEN CALL: artists and curators are invited to submit proposals for exhibitions. Proposals may be for solo, 2-person or groups. From the open call, one to two 5-6 week exhibitions to be held in 2024-2025 will be selected.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SELECTED EXHIBITION ARTISTS!
COMING IN JANUARY 2025: THE GREAT INDOORS
Featuring: Elizabeth Castaldo, Krista Dragomer, Matthew William Robinson, Rachel Sydlowski, Erin Treacy, Natalie Colette Wood & Yeon Ji Yoo
CLOSED DEADLINE: APRIL 7TH, 2024
Congratulations to artist Louis Chavez!!!
New Intimacies
opened with a reception on Saturday, May 13th from 6-8 pm
and ran from May 14th – June 24th, 2023.
Inkjet Print, 20 x 16 inches, 2022
Closed! Thank you to all the artists who applied!
2023 Spring Open Call
PeepSpace is now accepting submissions for our Spring Exhibition Open Call
Flat File 2023 – Application Deadline December 16, 2022
Closed: thank you to all the artists who applied & congratulations to the selected artists!
Flat File 2023 Exhibition
Images: (left to right) top: Jacquelyn Strycker, Sean Riley, Roberto Harrington, middle: Mia
Risberg, Furusho, Ariel Kleinberg, bottom: Anna Ortiz, Rachel Sydlowski, Lucia Rodriguez Perez
February 17th – March 31st, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17th 7-9 pm
PeepSpace is pleased to announce the 2023 Flat File Program Exhibition!
We begin the year long program with an opening reception celebrating the selected of works by this year’s flat file artists. The exhibition will run through March 31st, 2023. Following the show, the selected small works will be available to view and purchase both in person and online through December 2023. The works will be housed in PeepSpace’s gallery to be viewed by request during regular gallery hours and by appointment.
Thank you to all who submitted and congratulations to this year’s selected artists!
Link here to Flat File Artists’ Details
PeepSpace is pleased to release our 2023 Flat File Program Open Call. The 2023 PeepSpace Flat File Program will run from January – November 2023. Selected artists will be highlighted in an in-person exhibition at PeepSpace in early 2023, promoted on social media and on our website, and selected work will be available for sale and to view in person at PeepSpace. Please follow all the application guidelines on the form linked below and reach out to peepspaceny@gmail.com with any questions.
–Spring 2023 Exhibition Open Call:
application details coming soon
Spring 2022 Open Call – CLOSED!
Thank you to all the artists and curators who applied!
Congratulations to this year’s selected artists:
Beka Goedde, Rodger Stevens, Steven Pestana & Jeff White,
Thank you to everyone who applied to and participated in our inaugural and 2nd annual Flat File Programs!
Please see all the Flat File work here and come visit PeepSpace in person to view the 2021/22 Flat File Exhibition.
Beginning with an exhibition opening on Friday, November 19th, 2021 from 7-9 pm and running through January 2nd, 2022, the flat file works of art will be housed though October 2022. Beyond the exhibition, all works will be available for viewing and sale inside PeepSpace’s Flat File during regular business hours.
Thank you to all the artists and curators who submitted proposals to the 2021 Spring Open Call
We are thrilled to officially announce the selected proposals from the Spring 2021 open call:
Exhibition 1: March 12-26, 2021 – A solo exhibition featuring a collaged drawing installation, by Queens, NY artist Beth Livensperger
Exhibition 2: April 9-23, 2021 – A two-person exhibition of paintings by Debbi Kenote and sculpture by Alyssa McClenaghan, both from New York
Additional selection for 2022: We were also so taken by the work of Philadelphia artist Lauren Pakradooni, combining printmaking and sculptural techniques, that we invited her for a solo exhibition to be exhibited in January 2022.
PeepSpace in Tarrytown, NY is committed to maintaining low & no fee opportunities for emerging and established artists. However, as an artist-run space, we humbly request your donations.
As artists and curators you are aware that the standard fees for open calls typically range from $10-$50. PeepSpace needs your support to continue to offer opportunities for artists for whom fees may be a hindrance.
As you consider the open call, and if you have the means, please consider including a donation. A donation of whatever you can afford would make a difference in the success of our gallery and in support of our programming. No donation is too small.
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