Contests and Juried Shows

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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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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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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Viridian Artists Gallery is proud to present our first Summer Juried Exhibition juried by Rebecca Ribeiro, curatorial assistant at the Neuberger Museum of Art. The exhibition will run from Tuesday, July 14, through Saturday, August 1, 2026. An Opening Reception will be on Thursday, July 16th from 6...
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Extended Deadline: June 14, 2026. Following the success of its first edition, the TARTGET PAINTING PRIZE returns as one of Europe's fastest-growing international painting competitions. With more than €90,000 in awards and distinctions, the competition offers artists worldwide the opportunity t...
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FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY proudly hosts the 30th iteration of our annual call for artists: NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. The call is open through 15 JUNE 2026 and the exhibition participants are selected by an ever-changing group of three prestigious arts profess...
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THEME- "Black and White" Sometimes a monochrome pallet can say more than a full spectrum of color and creates a striking contrast. We would like to see your work that is composed of black, white, and shades in between. PAY IT FORWARD- We will be donating 10% of all entry fees from this show to He...
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Years pass. People change. Places disappear. Entire parts of our lives quietly fall out of reach. And yet, some photographs remain impossibly close to us. Not because they are perfect, but because they continue holding something we were never fully able to leave behind. Decagon Gallery invites ph...
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