Field Projects Gallery
Field Projects is an profitless, ethically driven, artist-run project space and online venue. We are dedicated to exhibiting unique artists with visions of their own. We don’t follow trends or chase collectors. We are not interested in your art market. We know art worth seeing is more complex and generous than a manipulated number made by opportunists. We don’t work with prima donnas, assholes, or over inflated egos. We do engage with community interested in imagining beyond our simple boundaries through research, community action, organizing and personal growth.
Centered on long-term curatorial projects, Field Projects presents monthly exhibitions at their Chelsea location in addition to participating in pop-up exhibitions in and around New York as well art fairs around the world. The gallery invites artists to submit their work for consideration twice a year through an open call submission process. We discover about 85% of the artist we show through our open call submission process.
Native Land Acknowledgement Statement
We acknowledge that Field Projects occupies the ancestral land of the Munsee Lenape homelands, and we recognize the longstanding significance of these lands for Lenape nations past and present. We are also conscious that New York City has the largest urban Native population in the United States. On February, 25, 1643 over 120 Lenape refugees fleeing Mahican invaders were massacred in their sleep by the troops of New Netherland Director Willem Kieft in Pavonia. This is now known as the “Pavonia Massacre” and is but one incident in the many atrocities that came to shape the character of Manhattan today.
Native Land in Manhattan and Long Island, according to the excellent native-land.ca/
People
Field Projects was founded by artists Jacob Rhodes and Keri Oldham in 2011 and is currently run by: Jacob Rhodes and William Chan.
Current Interns: Emiri
Previous Members: Lisa Schilling, Kristen Racaniello, Rachel Frank, Jason Mones, Blair Murphy, Alissa D. Polan, Keri Oldham
Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes17
Will Chan
GALLERY Identity STATISTICS.
In an effort to be aware of our role in an art world that is inclusive and transparent we have created gender charts of artists and curators who have shown with us from 2011 to the present and starting from January 2017 a self-identified ethnicity chart of artists and curators.
Our hope is that these charts will keep us and our community aware of the issues of inequality within us and around us. And give us all agency to do something about it.
Left side is SELF-IDENTIFIED gender. Right side is SELF-IDENTIFIED ethnicity. SELF-IDENTIFIED refers to the person choosing their own identification of gender and ethnicity.