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PhotoPlace Gallery - Composed Deadline : Aug 03, 2026 - $500 Juror's Award $300 Director's Award $100 Honorable Mention x2 in Awards
☀️ SUMMER * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Ph... Deadline : Sep 17, 2026 - Innovate Grant awards: + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer + 18 x Honorable Mentions in Awards
CQ85 Call for Entries: H2O Deadline : Jul 31, 2026 - Best of Show, Merit, Runner Up in Awards
PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "Vision & Express... Deadline : Jul 20, 2026 - One curator’s choice and up to three honourable mentions will be announced. in Awards
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026 Deadline : Jul 17, 2026 - Over USD$77,000 in cash and prizes to be won (prize list still growing!), see the full list of prizes here: https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/prizes in Awards
 
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Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026

Deadline : Jul 17, 2026 Awards: Over USD$77,000 in cash and prizes to be won (prize list still growing!), see the full list of prizes here: https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/prizes

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It includes all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles fr...
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ARRIVAL Gallery Manila Open Call – August 2026

Deadline : Jul 18, 2026

ARRIVAL Gallery invites emerging and independent artists to be part of a month-long digital exhibition in Manila. Created for artists whose work deserves space, attention, and meaningful visibility, this open-theme opportunity welcomes a wide range of contemporary visual practices. Selected ar...
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SeeMe Gallery: Sense of Place - Open Call

Deadline : Jul 19, 2026 Awards: GPW and finalists will be featured in a New York City exhibition, receive custom social media promotion and promotional materials, and be invited to showcase their work within the SeeMe Digital Gallery and our Artsy.

A Sense of Place invites visual artists to explore the universal desire to locate oneself and how place shapes experience, identity, and belonging. We consider "place" not just as a physical location, but as an emotional and psychological landscape carried within an increasingly complex world. Acce...
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MANIFEST - THE SWEEP OF TIME: Beyond the Horizon

Deadline : Jul 19, 2026 Awards: Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original lens-based works that explore the orientation of time. Open to all traditional and non-traditional photographic and light-based genre and media. How does the photograph...
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PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "Vision & Expression: The Art of Photography" – A Curated International Photography Exhibition

Deadline : Jul 20, 2026 Awards: One curator’s choice and up to three honourable mentions will be announced.

Although photography initially emerged as a technological invention, it quickly evolved into an expressive artistic practice. Pictorialist photographs from the nineteenth century were crafted to resemble paintings, while proponents of straight photography in the early twentieth century aimed for a p...
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Arts to Hearts Project - The Big Book of Painters 2026

Deadline : Jul 20, 2026 Awards: A cash award of 500 USD A 4-page feature spread in the book A crystal trophy

The Big Book is a global publishing project created by the Arts to Hearts Project to celebrate the work of artists around the world through thoughtfully curated, professionally produced books. It exists for one reason: to make sure that artists at every stage of life, and across every kind of creati...
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Clio Art Fair September 2026

Deadline : Jul 20, 2026

Showcase your art at Clio Art Fair in New York. Clio Art Fair is now accepting regular applications for its September 2026 editions, taking place in Chelsea, New York from September 17–20, 2026 and September 24–27, 2026. Clio Art Fair is a curated contemporary art fair dedicated to supporting indepe...
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International Open Call - Dek Unu Magazine - September 2026 Edition

Deadline : Jul 20, 2026 Awards: Unique, solo-format publication in online and paperback editions in award-winning Dek Unu Magazine, extensive promotion via email, web and social media, 50% of print sales for the month. Ongoing professional and brand-building support from our permanent c

Open Call for Fine Art Photo Portfolio Projects Dek Unu Magazine Never a fee to submit. Deadline: July 20, 2026 Unique solo-format Dek Unu Magazine calls for photo portfolio projects for the September online and paperback issues. Open theme, all genres and techniques: analog, digital, contemp...
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CICA Museum - Call for Artists: “Art Is #3” The International Exhibition

Deadline : Jul 20, 2026

CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to participate in the International Exhibition “Art Is #3.” The exhibition will showcase various creative works such as photographs, prints, paintings, video art, sculptures, and installations that explore the questions of what Art is, why artists create Art, an...
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Surface Gallery - Street Art Open Call

Deadline : Jul 20, 2026 Awards: TBC

The annual Street Art Fest celebrates the best local, national and international street art. Join us this Summer for a refreshed look at Notts' vibrant alternative art scene, featuring guest speakers, creative workshops, and ground breaking street art. Up to 6 Pieces of work can be submitted per per...
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