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TARTGET PRIZE - International Painting Contest Deadline : May 31, 2026 - over $100,000 in prizes 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
CQ84 International Call for Entries Deadline : May 01, 2026 - Best of Show, Finalists in Awards
ADC Fine Art: In-Gallery Exhibition - Radiance 202... Deadline : May 18, 2026 - Over $75,000 in Awards Available in Awards
A Smith Gallery | Photographic Performance 2026 Deadline : May 18, 2026 - online exhibition, GalleryTalk in online blog, exhibition catalogue in Awards
 
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SlowArt Productions / Limner Gallery - Strange Figurations

Deadline : Jun 30, 2026 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

Strange Figurations is an international, thematic group exhibition curated and hosted by the Limner Gallery. The exhibition is open to all interpretations of the concept, Strange Figurations, which would include surreal, visionary and generally all out of the ordinary figurative art. The show is ope...
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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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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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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery - 16th Annual “Animals” Online Art Competition

Deadline : Apr 27, 2026 Awards: Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize. Winners receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 16th Annual “Animals” Online Art Competition. The gallery invites both 2D and 3D artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best representational or abstract a...
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$4,500 & $1,000 Artist Grants | The Hopper Prize Spring 2026

Deadline : May 12, 2026

The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for Spring 2026 artist grants. They have recently increased grant amounts to $4,500. They will be providing 6 grants totaling $13,000 USD. 2 artists will each receive $4,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. This is an open call to visual arti...
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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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Art Fluent: Call for Art - HER.SELF

Deadline : Jul 17, 2026 Awards: 1250.00

Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our online exhibit, HER.SELF. The feminine spirit cannot be contained by a single definition. It is layered and luminous. We invite artwork that honors women in all their complexities… her presence, her resilience, her beauty, her becoming...
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A Call for Illinois Artists: Illinois Department of Transportation Coalfield Rest Areas Waggoner, Illinois

Deadline : Apr 29, 2026 Awards: $82,000.00

The Art-in-Architecture Program of the Capital Development Board is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Illinois Department of Transportation Coalfield Rest Areas in Waggoner, Illinois. The Coalfi...
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Arteles Creative Center: Fall into Focus - Residency program in Finland, Fall 2026

Deadline : May 07, 2026

FALL INTO FOCUS: Residency program for artists, writers and researchers.   // Periods: 1 month (29 days). // When: Oct / Nov 2026. // Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland. // Application deadline: 7th of May 2026. // Fall into Focus residency program is for artists, writers a...
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Manifest - The Measured Figure: Observation & Structure in Figure Painting with Joe Morzuch

Deadline : Apr 17, 2026

This intensive weekend workshop focuses on painting the figure from life with an emphasis on perceptual sighting, measuring, and spatial accuracy. Working in oil, participants will explore multiple strategies for analyzing the human form and translating three-dimensional space into balanced, dynamic...
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