Contests and Juried Shows

What does your city look like when it starts to glow? Neon reflections, streetlights on wet pavement, high-rise windows, night crowds, quiet corners, or the buzz of motion in the dark. City Lights invites artists and photographers worldwide (18+) to celebrate urban life, architecture, and the moment...
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Tartget Prize 2026: €90,000 in Awards and an Exclusive Pre-Deadline Advantage The second edition of the TARTGET PAINTING PRIZE is now open—one of the fastest-growing international contemporary painting competitions, recognized for its global reach, strong visibility, and significant awards. Follo...
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A portal is not simply an opening. It is a condition. We are interested in photographs that hold a viewer at the edge of something—where a shift is imminent but not yet complete. This may appear as a physical passage, but it does not have to. What matters is not the presence of a doorway, but the...
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Both through world travel and exploring the neighborhoods we live in, we come across the vast variety of botanicals both indigenous to local areas and, with controlled climates, those native to faraway places. We gain an appreciation for the variety of life that starts with a seed, whether it be the...
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Curatone.art invites artists to submit works exploring the theme of "Connections." We document the global impact of art through high-authority publications and expert curation. Free Submission: Open call for all artists with no initial entry fee. Expert Jury: Selection by international professiona...
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The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists is an annual no submission fees contest with cash prizes! Every year our contest coordinator selects ten finalists from a pool of submissions from artists around the world. Then our pair of judges choose three winners. In addition to their cash prizes,...
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PhotoPlace Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit work for Open Call: A Celebration of Contemporary Photography, a juried exhibition honoring the creativity, diversity, and evolving practice of photography today. Presented in celebration of World Photography Day (August 19th), this exhib...
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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce an open themed juried group photo show. Show us your favorite photographic shots! Open to all themes and ideas, all styles and genres, all perspectives on crafsmanship and photographic creativity. Great opportunity for landscape, architecture, portraiture, do...
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Oil Painters of America invites submissions for the 2026 National Salon, an exhibition of small-format representational oil paintings hosted by Cassens Fine Art in Hamilton, Montana, on view July 31–August 29, 2026. This juried exhibition will showcase approximately 180 outstanding works by Associat...
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IN NATURE is an juried international open call for work that engages with the natural world—its rhythms, forces, and quiet transformations. We invite you to share art that reflects on our connection to the environment, whether that experience feels intimate or expansive, observational or symbolic, g...
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