The ICON13 Gallery Show is a juried exhibition featuring work by ICON attendees—including your heroes, your peers, and you! This year’s exhibition, Viewfinder, explores perspective, and how we frame the world around us. A viewfinder is the tool you look through to compose an image. It’s a decision-making device: what to include, what to leave out, and how to shape what’s seen. It’s also a curated lens, like the handheld ViewFinder, offering a sequence of images shaped by a specific point of view.

For this exhibition, Viewfinder acts as a guiding idea rather than a strict theme.

We invite you to submit work that reflects how you see. Whether that’s personal, observational, political, surreal, quiet, loud, or somewhere in between. Show us something that feels like your specific lens on the world. And is open to interpretation.

The Gallery Show will be on Friday, July 17, from 8 PM to 10 PM at the Fanny Fox Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), located on the first floor of the Fox building, to the right of Cafe Doris.

Exhibitors will be shared here after final selections are made.

 

APPLY TO GALLERY SHOW HERE

 

Please fill out the submission form and upload your artwork for consideration.

  • You may submit up to 2 entries

  • Files must be 300 DPI, 24 inches on the longest side

  • Label files: Firstname_Lastname_Title (not final_final2_REAL.jpg)

 

Eligibility

Open exclusively to all ICON13 attendees and speakers

 

Deadline

Entries must be received by Jun 13, 2026

 

Selection & Judging

Work will be juried and reviewed by the ICON board.

Selections will be based on:

  • Strength of perspective

  • Creativity and originality

  • Technique and overall impact

 

Exhibition Details (For Selected Artists)

To make participation as easy as possible, all selected work will be professionally printed, framed, and installed by the ICON team. No shipping or framing is required on your end. A small production fee will be collected from accepted artists to cover these production costs.

 

Additional Information

ICON reserves the right to reproduce accepted entries for promotional purposes, including catalogs, press, social media, and web.