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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
PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "Motion" – A Cur... Deadline : Apr 27, 2026 - One curator’s choice and up to three honourable mentions will be announced. in Awards
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3 Square Art - CaRt26 | Contemporary Art in Realis... Deadline : Apr 20, 2026 - $3,500 in Awards
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ARC Gallery - Body Sovereignty

Deadline : Apr 18, 2026

Curator: Danni O’Brien. The body has always been contested territory. Legislated, pathologized, fetishized, disciplined — the body and its desires have rarely been left in peace, let alone in the control of the people who inhabit them. Body Sovereignty is an exhibition about who owns our body, i...
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MANIFEST - MASTER PIECES: 20th International Call for Works by Current or Recent MFA/MA Graduate Students

Deadline : Apr 19, 2026 Awards: Includes exhibitor honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and new 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 current visual art and design graduate students and MFA/MA degree recipients since January 2025 to submit works of art in any media, genre, subject matter, or content, traditional and non-traditional. Every year Mani...
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Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center - Winging It: Birds in Art

Deadline : Apr 19, 2026 Awards: Juror Award

Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to “Winging It: Birds in Art.” This exhibition aims to celebrate the beauty, diversity, and symbolism of birds as interpreted through artistic expression. Birds have long inspired artists wit...
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MANIFEST - SUB(SCAPE): A Call for Works About What Lies Beneath

Deadline : Apr 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 works that examine what underlies the visible: the structural, psychological, geological, social, mechanical, or conceptual systems that sustain, complicate, or destabilize the wor...
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NYC4PA CALL FOR ENTRY - LUMINOSITY - THE IMPACT OF LIGHT

Deadline : Apr 19, 2026 Awards: $4000 TOTAL PRIZES AWARDED

Light meters, backlighting, shadows and glare - photography is all about light – its presence as well as its absence. There is an iconic photograph of Grand Central Station with streams of sunlight filling the airspace as it reflects off dust particles in the air. Whether you are shooting in morning...
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MANIFEST - LAND(SCAPE): A Call for Works About the Space the Earth Provides

Deadline : Apr 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 works exploring engagement with landscape as condition, as the physical and perceptual space that holds human experience. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and medi...
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3 Square Art - CaRt26 | Contemporary Art in Realism, 3rd International Juried Exhibition

Deadline : Apr 20, 2026 Awards: $3,500

$3,500 in cash awards. In a world of digital abstraction and AI imagery, realism is surging back stronger than ever—celebrating the artist’s hand, technical mastery, and the tangible beauty of the everyday. Artists today approach their subjects with a keen eye for detail, employing innovative...
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AADK Spain - ON DURATION: Second round 2026

Deadline : Apr 20, 2026

ON DURATION is a curated residency founded by Dr. Raegan Truax, designed for artists exploring duration as artistic method, material and public praxis. Residents investigate time, endurance, body, and environment within Blanca’s mountains, river valley, orchards and semi-desert, developing research...
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Bowery Gallery 35th Annual Juried Competition - 2026

Deadline : Apr 20, 2026

Title: Bowery Gallery 35th Annual Juried Competition - 2026. Juror: Susan Lichtman. Dates: July 28 – August 15, 2026. Opening: Thursday, July 30, 2026. Entry Fee: $35 for 1-3 images, additional images $6 each, maximum 6 images. Online Application Deadline: April 20th, midnight. Address: 547 W....
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2026 ARTEFFECT COMPETITION ON UNSUNG HEROES

Deadline : Apr 21, 2026 Awards: $35,000 in prizes

ARTEFFECT invites submissions from young artists worldwide for the annual art competition. The competition accepts visual art submissions in 2D or 3D media from students in grades 6-12, and is focused on the creatively interpreting the inspiring stories of Unsung Heroes from history. Young artists s...
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