2025 Jurors: Tom Keyes + Keith Fox | William Hathaway

Keith Fox retired in December 2024 after eleven years as CEO of Phaidon Press and Artspace. Previously, he served as President of BusinessWeek and McGraw-Hill Professional. Keith is the founding Chairman of the New York City AIDS Memorial. He holds a BA in History from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia University. Tom Keyes is a Principal and Portfolio Manager at Zweig-DiMenna, a New York City-based investment fund. Tom has been a member of the investment management team for over 20 years of his 30-year career on Wall Street. He is an avid collector of contemporary art and includes visual arts and animal welfare among his philanthropic interests. Tom holds a BSFS in International Political Science from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Graduate Business School at Columbia University.

William Hathaway is a Partner and Sales Director at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, where he has been instrumental in the gallery’s success for nearly a decade. Will’s previous experience includes roles at Gagosian Gallery, L.A. Louver, and Blum and Poe. A native of Mount Desert Island in Maine, Will maintains close ties to his home state and is committed to promoting Maine artists. This dedication led to Night Gallery’s partnership with DUNES Gallery in Portland. In August 2024, the two galleries presented “The Wrong Sea,” an exhibition at DUNES featuring historic and contemporary artists with ties to Maine, celebrating the state’s significant role in art history.

Submission Window: February 20 – April 20*, 2025 *Member deadline: April 27

Exhibition Dates: October 4, 2025 – January 11, 2026

Applicants will be notified of selections on or by July 20, 2025, via email.

2025 CMCA Biennial Submission Guidelines

Who May Apply: Artists with a strong connection to Maine (i.e., full or part-time residents, creating artwork or studying in Maine, alumni of Maine artist residency programs), working in any medium. Collaborative groups are welcome to apply together. However, artists cannot apply more than once. If you are applying as a member of a collaborative, your application as an individual artist will not be accepted.

Please note: As we receive many applications, preference will be given to artists who have not exhibited at CMCA within the past two years, including in the 2023 Biennial. 

How to Apply: Applications will be accepted online through CMCA’s Submittable form. Application to the 2025 CMCA Biennial is free of charge. You will be prompted to create a Submittable account before you complete the application. Be prepared to provide your contact information, including your mailing address, email, phone number, and website, as well as a brief description of your connection to Maine if your mailing address is outside the state. You will also be asked to submit PDFs of your current resume, artist statement, image list, and examples of your work, formatted correctly, in the Submissions section of the application.

Application Details:

● Current Resume: please do not exceed 3 pages. Your resume should be a PDF file, titled: lastname_resume.

● Artist Statement: please do not exceed 150 words. Your artist statement should be a PDF file, titled: lastname_statement.

● Image List: Please list your works numerically in the order in which you would like them to be reviewed, using zeros in front of each number of the listed work (e.g. 01, 02, 03). Your image list must use the aforementioned numerical system, followed by a thumbnail of each work and its credits: title, date, medium, and dimensions in inches (height x width x depth). You may also include a brief background description (50 words or less) related to the images and any special requirements for handling and installation. Please include photo credit, if applicable, for the images used. Please ensure that the order of your image list corresponds with your uploaded image files. Please note that table charts are helpful in the creation of this document. Your image list should be a PDF file, titled: lastname_imagelist.

● Submissions: Each general applicant is entitled to submit 6 artworks for consideration. Members of CMCA may submit 10 works and receive an extended application deadline of April 27th. Your submissions can include works of any medium created in the last two years: images, video, or audio clips, formatted as jpg, png, pdf, mp3, mp4, mov, and in instances when your file exceeds 10mb, url. Images must be 1920 pixels on the longest side. Up to two of your submissions may be details of a single work and should be labeled as such. Please title your submission files: 0#_lastname_title_year of work, or for details of your work 0#_lastname_title_detail_year.

● For video, performance, sound, or installation works: Please consider the physical layout and structure of the CMCA galleries and note any site specific, technical, or equipment requirements. Artists will be responsible for any technical equipment needed to display their work. Project proposals will be considered for new work, but the artist must have the means and financial resources to create the work and make it exhibition-ready in time for the exhibition. Please upload your proposal materials in one document in the project proposal section. Please note that a project proposal counts as 1 submission and will be factored into the final count of 6 or 10 submissions, depending on your membership status.

For any questions or other general inquiries, please contact Hannah Berta, Exhibitions and Facilities Manager, at hberta@cmcanow.org.

Works submitted for the Biennial must be available for the duration of the exhibition if selected, plus a week before and after for installation and deinstallation. Work must be exhibition-ready. Artists are responsible for the delivery and pick up of their work to and from CMCA.

To become a Member, visit: https://cmcanow.org/support/membership/. Artist Members receive unlimited free admission for one year, listing on our online Artist Directory, discounts on workshops, lectures, and classes, and 10% discount on CMCA Gift Shop purchases. Please note: membership login on the CMCA website is separate from the submission application.

Thank you, we hope to see you and your work soon!