Soo Visual Arts Center, founded in 2001, is a non-profit 501 (c)3 arts organization.
Mission: Soo Visual Arts Center is a nonprofit art space that connects our
community with fresh, under-represented and provocative art. Vision: Soo Visual Arts Center envisions a dynamic community in which artists and audiences challenge each other in an environment where art is
integral to everyday life.
We have exhibited over 2600 under-represented artists since opening our doors in 2001. As a leader in discovering new talent and with a strong focus on emerging artists from the State of Minnesota, SooVAC offers year-round exhibition programming coupled with educational support, artist talks, and workshops. Our curatorial focus promotes contemporary artists whose work challenges and expands conventional notions of aesthetics. Through this approach, we enable artists to explore and grow while fostering an environment that encourages artists to take risks in their artwork and to push themselves in new directions.
Take a look at our past and current shows HERE.
UNTITLED 20: SooVAC’s 20TH Annual Juried Show
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday December 15, 2025, 11:59 PM.
SooVAC is now taking submissions for Untitled 20, one of our flagship exhibition series. SooVAC invites guest jurors with local, national, and international reputations to select work from open submissions. Untitled offers artists the opportunity to work with a professional art space and influential art figures toward producing an exhibition with a highly regarded reputation. We accept all mediums from artists at any stage in their careers. The work will be selected from the submitted work samples, so make sure that the work is available for exhibition.
Soo Visual Arts Center provides equal opportunity and access to its facilities and programs to all individuals regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, beliefs, sexual orientation, or disability in admission, access, or employment. Upon request, accommodations will be provided to individuals who face barriers to participation in SooVAC services, programs, and activities.
GUEST JUROR: Tamara Khasanova, an independent curator, researcher and writer based in Brooklyn, New York originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
We accept all submissions through Submittable with a $25 application fee; if the fee is a barrier, contact Carolyn at carolyn@soovac.org.
IF you are a SooVAC member/donated within the last year. Your submission is free please follow THIS LINK.
ABOUT THIS YEAR’S JUROR: Tamara Khasanova is an independent curator, researcher and writer based in Brooklyn, New York originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan. She was a 2024-25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) and holds an MA degree in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts. Her research and curatorial work center emergent aesthetics, pedagogical and discursive practices, and forms of collective knowledge production, oriented toward questions of language, ecology, nuclear legacies and colonial histories. She has curated exhibitions, organized screenings, lectured, and contributed to projects across cultural, publishing, and educational institutions including e-flux, Protocinema, Davra Curatorial Lab, White Columns, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, The Clark Art Institute, the Queens Museum, and TransitoryWhite, among others. She currently serves as Studio Director for the artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and is part of the a multi-disciplinary publishing platform Bilna’es.
The following dates may be subject to change:
- ARTIST NOTIFICATIONS: Mid-January 2026
- WORK DROP-OFF DATES: February 5 - February 7, 2026
- Untitled 19 Exhibition Dates: February 21 - March 29, 2026
- OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, February 21, 2026 6 - 9PM
- Exhibition Closes On: Sunday March 29, 2026
- WORK PICKUP: April 3-5 times TBD
If you have any technical questions about uploading your submissions, contact Submittable. If you have donated to SooVAC in 2025, please use the application for members only where the cost is waived. PLEASE CONTACT Alison at alison@soovac.org for questions.
1. Application Form-Fill in all of your contact information on Submittable.
2. WORK SAMPLES-EXACTLY 5 IMAGES (FOR VIDEO SEE BELOW*) Group exhibitions or collaborative projects are also accepted, but the images cannot exceed 5. Digital Image Specifications: Images should be in a JPEG format no larger than 1000 x 1000 pixels @ 72 dpi. Format each jpeg file name as “Artist’s last name_Artist’s first name_1.jpg,” “Artist’s last name_ Artist’s first name_2.jpg,” etc. Each JPEG may not exceed 1MB and 1000 pixels in any direction. *Video Submissions are also accepted in .mov format, no larger than 200MB, and no more than 2 min clips for each video submission label the same as image files. Work samples cannot exceed five but can be a combination of video and image files.
3. IMAGE LIST- Fill out each Image description field with the following information: List the following information for each work (make sure your image number corresponds to the label on your JPEG images): -Title of work -Date completed -Medium -Dimensions (H” x W” x D”) PLEASE INCLUDE TITLE, MEDIUM, DIMENSIONS, AND DATE OR YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
4. ARTIST STATEMENT – doc, docx, txt, rtf, or pdf format accepted. Label this document: Artist’s last name_Artist’s first name_artiststatement.doc ex. Doe_Jane_Artiststatement.doc. No longer than 1 page.
5. RESUME – doc, docx, txt, rtf, or pdf format accepted. Label this document: Artist’s last name_Artist’s first name_Resume.doc ex. Doe_Jane_Resume.doc. Please provide a website if you have one. If you are applying as a group or collaborative team, include all participating artists' resumes in one document.
GOOD THINGS TO KNOW 1. Notification will be done by email or phone, so please include both on your application. 2. Paying for Shipping to and from SooVAC will be the artist's responsibility.
CHECKLIST: The following must be submitted by Monday, December 15th, 2025 at 11:59 pm:
___Application Form (Fill Out all of your information on Submittable Contact Info Box)
___5 IMAGES OF YOUR ARTWORK-JPEG format (.jpg)
___IMAGE LIST IMAGE LIST (Fill out Description box for each corresponding image please include; Title, medium, date, and dimensions – additional description optional)
___RESUME 2 Pages Max (doc, docx, txt, rtf or pdf format accepted.).
___ARTIST STATEMENT 1 page Max (doc, docx, txt, rtf, or pdf format accepted).
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY; INCOMPLETE OR INCORRECT SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
UNTITLED 20: SooVAC’s 20TH Annual Juried Show
APPLICATION DEADLINE: MONDAY, December 15, 2025, 11:59 PM.
If you have donated in 2025, YOUR SUBMISSION FEE IS WAIVED - IF YOU ARE NOT A DONOR OR HAVEN'T RECEIVED STAFF PERMISSION TO USE THIS FORM PLEASE USE THE OTHER FORM - the one with out the MEMBERS ONLY title.
SooVAC is now taking submissions for Untitled 20, one of our flagship exhibition series. SooVAC invites guest jurors with local, national, and international reputations to select work from open submissions. Untitled offers artists the opportunity to work with a professional art space and influential art figures toward producing an exhibition with a highly regarded reputation. We accept all mediums from artists at any stage in their careers. The work will be selected from the submitted work samples, so make sure that the work is available for exhibition.
Soo Visual Arts Center provides equal opportunity and access to its facilities and programs to all individuals regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, beliefs, sexual orientation, or disability in admission, access, or employment. Upon request, accommodations will be provided to individuals who face barriers to participation in SooVAC services, programs, and activities.
GUEST JUROR:Tamara Khasanova, an independent curator, researcher and writer based in Brooklyn, New York originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
ABOUT THIS YEAR’S JUROR: ABOUT THIS YEAR’S JUROR: Tamara Khasanova is an independent curator, researcher and writer based in Brooklyn, New York originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan. She was a 2024-25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) and holds an MA degree in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts. Her research and curatorial work center emergent aesthetics, pedagogical and discursive practices, and forms of collective knowledge production, oriented toward questions of language, ecology, nuclear legacies and colonial histories. She has curated exhibitions, organized screenings, lectured, and contributed to projects across cultural, publishing, and educational institutions including e-flux, Protocinema, Davra Curatorial Lab, White Columns, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, The Clark Art Institute, the Queens Museum, and TransitoryWhite, among others. She currently serves as Studio Director for the artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and is part of the a multi-disciplinary publishing platform Bilna’es.
The following dates may be subject to change:
- ARTIST NOTIFICATIONS: Mid-January 2026
- WORK DROP-OFF DATES: February 5 - February 7, 2026
- Untitled 19 Exhibition Dates: February 21 - March 29, 2026
- OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, February 21, 2026 6 - 9PM
- Exhibition Closes On: Sunday March 29, 2026
- WORK PICKUP: April 3-5 times TBD
If you have any technical questions about uploading your submissions, contact Submittable. If you are a current member of SooVAC, please use the application for members only where the cost is waived; your SooVAC membership is annual. PLEASE Alison at alison@soovac.org for questions.
1. Application Form-Fill in all of your contact information on Submittable.
2. WORK SAMPLES-EXACTLY 5 IMAGES (FOR VIDEO SEE BELOW*) Group exhibitions or collaborative projects are also accepted, but the images cannot exceed 5. Digital Image Specifications: Images should be in a JPEG format no larger than 1000 x 1000 pixels @ 72 dpi. Format each jpeg file name as “Artist’s last name_Artist’s first name_1.jpg,” “Artist’s last name_ Artist’s first name_2.jpg,” etc. Each JPEG may not exceed 1MB and 1000 pixels in any direction. *Video Submissions are also accepted in .mov format, no larger than 200MB, and no more than 2 min clips for each video submission label the same as image files. Work samples cannot exceed five but can be a combination of video and image files.
3. IMAGE LIST- Fill out each Image description field with the following information: List the following information for each work (make sure your image number corresponds to the label on your JPEG images): -Title of work -Date completed -Medium -Dimensions (H” x W” x D”) PLEASE INCLUDE TITLE, MEDIUM, DIMENSIONS, AND DATE OR YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
4. ARTIST STATEMENT – doc, docx, txt, rtf, or pdf format accepted. Label this document: Artist’s last name_Artist’s first name_artiststatement.doc ex. Doe_Jane_Artiststatement.doc. No longer than 1 page.
5. RESUME – doc, docx, txt, rtf, or pdf format accepted. Label this document: Artist’s last name_Artist’s first name_Resume.doc ex. Doe_Jane_Resume.doc. Please provide a website if you have one. If you are applying as a group or collaborative team, include all participating artists' resumes in one document.
GOOD THINGS TO KNOW 1. Notification will be done by email or phone, so please include both on your application. 2. Paying for Shipping to and from SooVAC will be the artist's responsibility.
CHECKLIST: The following must be submitted by Monday, December 15th, 2025, at 11:59 pm:
___Application Form (Fill Out all of your information on Submittable Contact Info Box)
___5 IMAGES OF YOUR ARTWORK-JPEG format (.jpg)
___IMAGE LIST IMAGE LIST (Fill out Description box for each corresponding image please include; Title, medium, date, and dimensions – additional description optional)
___RESUME 2 Pages Max (doc, docx, txt, rtf or pdf format accepted.).
___ARTIST STATEMENT 1 page Max (doc, docx, txt, rtf, or pdf format accepted).
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY; INCOMPLETE OR INCORRECT SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.