wave hill sunroom project space

Located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades with the mission to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts. Contemporary art and programs are presented in Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill House, and across the Wave Hill grounds. The organization’s art-incubator programs—the Sunroom Project Space and Winter Workspace Residency—support emerging and mid-career artists with unique opportunities to conduct research and develop works at the intersection of nature, culture and site. Wave Hill’s year-round performances focus on creating a diverse and innovative series hosted in multiple locations both indoors and in the garden.

Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, the Sunroom Project Space is an open call opportunity for New York-area artists to research, develop and present a site-specific project as a solo exhibition in the Sunroom and Sun Porch at Glyndor Gallery. Wave Hill invites proposals for artist projects that thoughtfully respond to and engage with the site—its plant collections, history, design, and architecture—with a focus on the interconnected relationships between nature, culture, and the Bronx. For the 2026 season, Wave Hill is particularly interested in projects for the Sunroom and Sun Porch that center non-human life and offer new perspectives on the concept of nature, particularly as it challenges speciesism—the belief that humans are inherently superior to other living organisms, a view often reflected in how we treat non-human animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and other life forms. Proposals should consider the defining characteristics of living organisms—including energy use, growth and development, reproduction, responsiveness to stimuli, adaptation, homeostasis, and metabolism—as well as their complex behaviors and cognitive capacities.