CALL FOR ARTISTS

2026 Juried Photography Show: Holding It Together

Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson NY

Entries are open through December 15th 2025!

Holding It Together: We invite photographers to submit work for an exhibition exploring the many ways we endure, adapt, and mend. We ask artists to show us work that speaks to emotional resilience or physical repair; to personal rituals for survival or to the fragile beauty of things patched, pieced, and reconfigured. From literal depictions of mending, stitching, to metaphorical expressions of holding on—this exhibition seeks to showcase the quiet power in persistence.  Whether yourwork captures everyday moments of strength, the tension of something at its breaking point, or the visible marks of things made whole again, we want to see how you interpret what it means to hold it together.  All photographic approaches arewelcome—documentary, conceptual, experimental, abstract, and everything in between. The exhibition will open on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at our gallery in Hastings-on-Hudson NY.

Guest Juror: Shilpi Chandra

Shilpi Chandra is a curator and art historian focusing on contemporary American Art and the Asian diaspora. She is currently an Assistant Curator at the Hudson River Museum where she curated Alvin Hollingsworth: All That Jazz (2024), co-curated Everything Has a Story: Reflections on the Collection (2025) and is adapting Hudson River Museum’s presentation of Modern Women/Modern Visions: Photographs from the Bank of America Collection (2026).

Shilpi has also curated exhibitions independently at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Pelham Art Center, Flushing Town Hall, and Queens Botanical Gardens where she worked with emerging artists and artist collectives. She was also awarded a 2024 Center for Craft Archive Fellowship where her archival research focused on Krishna Reddy’s printmaking practice in New York. This resulted in an exhibition and published article.

Venue: The exhibition will be at Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY fromJanuary 22nd to Sunday February 8th, 2026

Eligible Work :Artists from around the U.S. are invited to submit photographs in any technique. All work must be photographically based.

Specifications: All work must be suitably framed. Maximum framed size may not exceed 40 x 60 inches. Accepted pieces must be wired for hanging. The gallery reserves the right to reject poorly presented pieces.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Entries, Monday, December 15th at midnight. All entries must be made via Submittable.

Friday, January 16th, 2026 by 5 pm deadline for delivery of accepted work, if shipping

Monday, January 19th 10 a.m. to 2 pm: Local artists deliver artwork to gallery.

Thursday, January 22nd, Opening of exhibition

Sunday, January 25th Opening Reception 2-5 pm

Sunday, February 8th, Last day of exhibition

Monday, February 9th, Local Artists pick up work