FORECAST 2021

SF Camerawork’s Annual Survey Exhibition
Juried by Marcel Pardo Ariza, Adrian Burrell,
and PJ Gubatina Policarpio

Deadline: Friday, July 23rd, 11:59 PM PDT
Submission period closed

SF Camerawork invites artists working in photography to submit work for FORECAST 2021. This annual group exhibition and award program showcases the works of emerging artists with an eye toward current trends and concerns in contemporary photography. This year’s jurors - Marcel Pardo Ariza, Adrian Burrell, and PJ Gubatina Policarpio - will consider all forms of photography and lens-based work and curate the work of 5 to 15 artists into a Winter 2021 exhibition in San Francisco. The FORECAST 2021 exhibition will be blended - with jurors selecting work for a gallery show and for online viewing.  One finalist will be selected as the recipient for the Juror’s Choice Award, which carries a $1,000 cash prize. Recent FORECAST artists have included Adrian Burrell, William Camargo, Brittney Cathey-Adams, Johnnie Chatman, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, and Chanell Stone.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

ENTRY FEE:

• $35 for non SF Camerawork members*

• Free for SF Camerawork members**

* Membership included with $35 entry fee.
**Please email info@sfcamerawork.org to check membership status

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5 - 10 images from a single body of photographic work
  (jpegs or pngs minimum 1200 pixels on the longest side and no more than 10 MB)

• If you are submitting time-based work: a maximum of 15 minutes
  (1 video project to be hosted on YouTube or Vimeo)

• Project statement and artist bio

• Selected work must be delivered ready to hang

• Detailed guidelines available at the LensCulture submission link below

For questions regarding your submission, please visit our FAQ page or contact info@sfcamerawork.org.

MARCEL PARDO ARIZA

Marcel Pardo Ariza (b. Bogotá, Colombia) is a trans non-binary visual artist, curator and cultural worker. Their work explores the relationship of representation, intergenerational kinship and queerness through constructed photographs and site-specific installations. Through staging and collaboration, Ariza deploys sets as a site of possibility for (re)building a story, and materializing alternative and attainable present and future narratives. They enjoy playing with the arbitrary rigidity that is often present in the photographic medium and their work is invested in creating long term interdisciplinary collaborations and opportunities that are non-hierarchical, decentralized, and equitable. 

Ariza is the recipient of the San Francisco Artadia Award (2020), Alternative Exposure, Tosa Studio Award and Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award (2015). Ariza has worked with and exhibited at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, KADIST, Southern Exposure, SOMArts, San José Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, OCHI Projects, CULT exhibitions, Luggage Store Gallery, among others. Ariza holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is the co-founder of Art Handlxrs*

ADRIAN L. BURRELL

Adrian L. Burrell is a third-generation Oakland filmmaker who uses photography, film, and site-specific installation to examine issues of race, class, gender, and intergenerational dynamics. His work focuses on notions of kinship, diasporic narratives, and the gaps between place and belonging. Adrian’s series, It’s After the End of the World, Don’t You Know That Yet?, is a collective self-portrait that examines the normalized violence inflicted on Black lives in American society. The series was exhibited at SFMOMA March 7, 2021 through September 6, 2021. His series “Mama’s Babies” traces his family’s history through slavery, the Great Migration, the crack era, and the current displacement of Black people in Oakland through gentrification. Adrian won the 2019 SF Camerawork Juror’s Choice Award and is a 2021 YBCA creative cohort fellow. He has lived and worked on four continents and has exhibited work in spaces as varied as the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, Photoville in New York City, Pop-Up Magazine, and most recently, SFMOMA. A United States Marine Corps veteran,  Adrian earned a BFA in film from the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently earning his MFA from Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History, where he serves as the Black Graduate Student Community Outreach Chair.

PJ GUBATINA POLICARPIO

 PJ Gubatina Policarpio is an educator, writer, curator, and community organizer. He is the manager of youth development at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized exhibitions, publications, and public programs at Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, Asian Art Museum, and NURTUREart. Notable projects include Tarsal by Metatarsal (2021), First Made Into Language (2020), Solidarity Struggle Victory (2019), and Rally: Queer Art and Activism Now (2017). He has written for Art21 Magazine, Art Practical, and Independent Curators International (ICI). He serves on Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Council and SOMA Pilipinas Cultural District’s Arts and Culture Committee. Born in the Philippines, PJ moved to the United States in his early teens. He lives and works between San Francisco and New York City.