Radius 250 2026

11th Biennial Regional Juried Exhibition

January 23 - March 21, 2024

Radius 250 2026 Artists:

Courtney Balson, Betsy Bannan, Gerry Bannan, Jim Black, Susan Bockman, Lizzie Brown, Oscar Campos-Valle, Arvid Choudhury, Luna Demarest, Hannah Diomataris, Vugar Guliyev, Lou Haney, Stephen Haske, William Hendricks, Laurie Hoen, Robert Hunter, Rosan Hunter, Wolfgang Jasper, Renee Kaelber, Catherine Kiser, Emma Knight, Jonathan Lee, Some Louis, Paul Norton, Mimm Patterson, Seda Pound, Avery Schoenberger, Sharon Shapiro, Andrew Sherogan, Susann Whittier.

ABOUT RADIUS 250:
Artspace presents Radius 250 2026, the 11th installment of its biennial regional juried exhibition. The opening, scheduled for Friday, January 23, 2026, 6-8 pm, will showcase work by artists selected from a group of entries by our juror Kristen Chiacchia, Executive Director & Chief Curator of Second Street Gallery, located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The juror’s statement and awards will be presented at 6:30 pm during the opening reception.  

Artspace began Radius 250 in 2005 to identify and help promote the high caliber and variety of artwork that is created in the Mid-Atlantic region. Work is accepted from artists who live or work within 250 miles of Richmond, VA. The radius purposely excludes New York City in order to focus on parts of the Mid-Atlantic beyond its scope. Every two years, Artspace selects a juror from somewhere within the radius and puts out the call for entries for artists in all media to submit their work for review. 

ABOUT THE JUROR:
Kristen Chiacchia is a curator, art historian, and arts administrator currently based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her research and curatorial practice focuses on the consequences of gender bias in the contemporary art market, the consumption of artworks produced by women and gender-nonconforming identifying artists, issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary art, and uncovering new approaches to critically examining toxic masculinity within the fine art industry. She has also curated multiple exhibitions exploring artists' connections to subcultural movements and expressions—including punk, metal, and gothic rock; death; self-mythology; and the occult—and the impact these subcultural engagements have on artists’ work. 

Chiacchia currently serves as the Executive Director & Chief Curator of Second Street Gallery, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit artspace located in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she has curated more than 58 single-artist exhibitions, 32 group shows, and published nine exhibition catalogs, in addition to creating new programs and forging new community partnerships for the gallery.