SaveArtSpace is proud to present BLACK IS EVERYWHERE, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, opening July 10, 2026, curated by abreihona.

BLACK IS EVERYWHERE centers a Black artist whose work uses image-making as a space for representation and possibility. The open call focuses on how Black life appears through personal experience, rest, pleasure, and everyday moments, and highlights work that presents Black subjects as self-defined and expansive. This theme welcomes a range of practices, including portraiture, digital media, abstraction, and documentation. It values work that reflects presence, intimacy, and care while moving beyond narrow or fixed ideas of Black identity. Artists are encouraged to submit images that challenge dominant or limited representations of Black life and present its depth and range with clarity and intention. Presented on a billboard in New York City, the selected work will enter public space and shift what is seen and who is centered. BLACK IS EVERYWHERE expands the visual landscape to include an image of Black life grounded in lived experience and shaped by the artist’s vision.

We invite artists of all ages and talents to submit their artwork between April 13 and May 25, 2026 in order to be considered for the exhibition. This is an opportunity to have your work placed on billboard ad space in New York, NY.

The application donation fee is $10.99 per image. Fees support the production of the exhibition, including the purchase of billboard ad space. All fees paid to SaveArtSpace are 100% tax deductible donations.

Selected artists will be announced after June 8, 2026. Public art will be on view starting July 10, 2026 in New York, NY, and will be on view for at least one month.

Curator

abreihona (Pittsburgh, b. 1998) is a Chicago-based arts administrator, art historian, curator, and museum educator whose work centers Black visual culture and builds practical infrastructures for Black artists. She is a dual MA candidate in Arts Administration and Policy and Modern and Contemporary Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (’26), where her research engages Black ontologies in popular and visual culture.

Her interdisciplinary practice moves across curatorial research, writing, interpretation, administration, and appraisal, linking critical scholarship to institutional decision-making and artist support. She has held roles at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago) and the Carnegie Museum of Art, contributing to public programming, interpretation, administrative operations, and curatorial work. She is the inaugural Donna LaPietra Arts Fellow at the Millennium Park Foundation and a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Carnegie Museum of Art, where her research focused on Raymond Saunders.

Across her work, abreihona translates critical inquiry into accessible forms, from exhibition texts and interpretive tours to public programs and collection writing. Her practice is rooted in care, with a sustained focus on how Black art is presented, interpreted, and supported, and on the conditions that shape its visibility, circulation, and longevity.

Connect with abreihona at @abreihona.

SaveArtSpace

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a message of social change that benefits the working class. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.