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NYC4PA CALL FOR ENTRY - URBAN SUBURBAN RURAL Deadline : Jan 04, 2026 - $4000 TOTAL PRIZES AWARDED in Awards
PH21 Gallery: Solo exhibition opportunity in Barce... Deadline : Jan 05, 2026 - solo exhibition opportunity in Awards
Willow Pond SLO - Capturing the Moment in Watercol... Deadline : Mar 06, 2026
Idaho Falls Arts Council & Willard Arts Center - 1... Deadline : Jan 14, 2026 - First place $750, Second place $500, Third place $250, Curator's Choice $125 in Awards
PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "Upside down" –... Deadline : Dec 08, 2025 - One curator's choice and three honourable mentions in Awards
 
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Fusion Art - Light & Shadow 2025 Art Competition

Deadline : Jan 05, 2026 Awards: Choice of a cash prize or complimentary one-year membership to Fusion Art's Members Gallery for Best in Show winners. Winners and finalists are provided with extensive worldwide publicity and promotion.

Fusion Art announces the Light & Shadow 2025 Art Competition. For this competition, both 2D & 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best artwork depicting light and shadow. Whether color or black and white, the artwork should focus on the dramatic placement and effects of light and sha...
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PH21 Gallery: Solo exhibition opportunity in Barcelona

Deadline : Jan 05, 2026 Awards: solo exhibition opportunity

PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for a solo exhibition opportunity in Barcelona. Please submit a cohesive portfolio suitable for a solo exhibition, along with an artist statement, and a short bio. The portfolio should include a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 35 images. Submiss...
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The Umbrella Arts Center -- Call for Vertical Gallery Proposals

Deadline : Jan 07, 2026

The Umbrella Art Center’s Galleries present contemporary art primarily featuring regional artists in our two gallery spaces, as well as select outdoor installations. We seek exhibitions and installations that are bold, engaging, fun, educational, and create opportunities for constructive cultural co...
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The Umbrella Arts Center -- Call for Art Ramble Proposals

Deadline : Jan 07, 2026

The Umbrella Arts Center presents an annual temporary outdoor public art installation called the Art Ramble, in collaboration with the Concord Natural Resources Division. This is a long-standing and beloved tradition in Concord, MA. The Ramble is usually located around the Fairyland Pond in the Hapg...
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Aperture Foundation - 2026 Aperture Portfolio Prize

Deadline : Jan 09, 2026

Celebrating its twentieth year, the Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition that spotlights new talent in contemporary photography. When choosing the first-prize winner and short list, our judges look for innovative bodies of work that have not been widely seen in major publi...
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Open Call — ArtSeen: Ride the Met

Deadline : Jan 10, 2026

On January 19, 2026, ArtSeen will showcase artists on a taxi circulating the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This moving gallery ensures your work is seen by curators, collectors, and art lovers in one of the world’s cultural capitals.
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The 6th National Unusual Frida Art Show

Deadline : Jan 10, 2026

Exhibition Location: CityArts, Downtown Orlando, Florida. Exhibition Dates: February 19 – March 15, 2026. Frida Kahlo lived and created with extraordinary honesty. She turned pain into power, identity into pride, and emotion into art. This exhibition invites artists to honor that spirit not by...
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Sony World Photography Awards 2026

Deadline : Jan 13, 2026 Awards: Sony World Photography Awards 2026

CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS! The Sony World Photography Awards are BACK for their 19th edition! No matter your level — beginner, student, or pro — there’s a category that’s perfect for you and your photography! Professional (series). Open (single images). Student (series responding to 2026 bri...
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Art on the River Call for Submissions

Deadline : Jan 16, 2026 Awards: $1,000 for Best in Show and $200 for People’s Choice

Stillness in the Driftless invites visitors to pause within the quiet beauty of the Mississippi River and the bluffs that cradle Dubuque. This theme reflects on the ways stillness allows us to listen to the landscape, to memory, and to one another. Featured works will explore presence, reflection, a...
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Vassar Review

Deadline : Jan 19, 2026

For our eleventh edition, the Vassar Review seeks to address an era of bearing witness. We live in an economy of believability, where testimonies are not taken at face value—they must be maintained through labor. A testimony can voice experiences of injustice; testimonial narrative can, as Cuban...
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