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[Critical Distance Centre for Curators 2026 Projections Program Call for Artists](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/3532) September 14, 2025 # Critical Distance Centre for Curators 2026 Projections Program Call for Artists ![view of projected slideshow at Critical Distance](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2025-06/2025CDCC_CLBanner_Artists.png.webp?itok=wrLMbhqQ) View of projected slideshow at Critical Distance featuring a rooftop screening of a film by Larissa Sansour curated by Noa Bronstein as part of Place Settings pt 2 (2022), in mid-crossfade with an installation view of an artwork by Ashna Jacob curated by Megan Gnanasihamany and Morgan Melenka as part of The Equivalence of Alloyed Gold (2022). rgb(255,255,255) #### **Critical Distance Centre for Curators 2026 Projections Program Call for Artists** **Application Deadline: Sunday, September 14, 2025, 11:59 PM ET** [**Click here to learn more about this opportunity.**](https://careerlaunchers.format.com/2026-cdcc-projections-artists) [**Apply via Typeform here!**](https://ocadu-cead.typeform.com/CDCCProjArtists) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. **Four (4) to five (5) selected emerging artists will each receive $690 to exhibit work in a single channel, projection-based screening program that will be displayed at the CDCC for six-weeks in January/February 2026.** An essay will be commissioned to accompany the work. Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC), a not-for-profit gallery, publisher, and professional network devoted to the support and advancement of curatorial inquiry in Toronto, Canada, and beyond. With a focus on critically engaged, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary practices, underrepresented-artists and art forms, and community outreach and education in art and exhibition-making, Critical Distance is an open platform for diverse curatorial perspectives, and a forum for the exchange of ideas on curating as a way to connect, engage, and inform people and publics across cultures, disciplines, geographies, and generations. The CEAD and CDCC are inviting emerging artists to submit **existing moving image and/or lens-based works** for consideration. Artists are asked to reflect on how their submission functions in a single channel, projection-based screening program context. Artists with a moving image practice will be prioritized, but digitized stills of other artwork will be considered. **Submissions should be 1920 x 1080 moving video or still images.** The Artists will be added to the CDCC’s [online database](https://criticaldistance.ca/programs/?sort=date&order=1&_cdprt=527) of artists, curators and writers. [To see examples of past programming, visit CDCC’s website.](https://criticaldistance.ca/programs/) #### **RESPONSIBILITIES & TIMELINE:** The selected emerging artists will: - Provide a digital file to the CEAD and CDCC by mid-November 2025. Digital files should be formatted to fit 1920 x 1080. They can be moving or still, with or without sound. - Meet with the selected Curator for the CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. Parties will be connected in October, 2025 - Be present for the opening reception in January, 2026 (optional) #### **SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:** Please provide the following information in **one PDF document**: - **Full contact information** (Name, phone, and email) - Current **resume** or **CV** - **Website** and/or **social media** - Artistic **statement/bio** (150 words max) - A **written response** about the submitted works and on how it functions in a single channel, projection-based screening program context. (100 words) - **1 -3 video links or images of existing artwork** to be considered, and a **corresponding image list** including: artist(s) name, title, year, medium, and and duration (if applicable) #### **PARTNER:** **Critical Distance Centre for Curators** [www.criticaldistance.ca](http://www.criticaldistance.ca/) 401 Richmond St. W, Suite 122 Toronto, ON, M5V3A8 #### **ELIGIBILITY:** - Current OCAD U undergraduate students in any discipline who have completed a minimum of 15+ credits graduating in 2026 - **or** current OCAD U Master's students - **or** recent OCAD U Alumni who graduated in 2025 or 2024 \*Priority may be given to applicants who have not previously received a Career Launcher opportunity \*\*If you have already received this opportunity in a previous year, you are not eligible to apply \*\*\*Collectives and groups are welcome to apply as long as the group consists only of eligible OCAD U students/grads. Please note: one (1) exhibition fee per group or collective (rather than each individual member). #### **QUALIFICATIONS:** - Artist must be able to provide a high resolution digital file of the selected artwork based on the specs provided. #### **RATE:** $690 Exhibition fee (In accordance with IMAA fee schedule) #### **SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION:** [**Apply via Typeform here!**](https://ocadu-cead.typeform.com/CDCCProjArtists) --- For more info about this and other Career Launchers visit [www.careerlaunchers.format.com](http://www.careerlaunchers.format.com/) ## Other Recent News [### 2027 Critical Distance Centre for Curators Projections Program Call for Artists OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. 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