Art Contests

Last Updated on July 18, 2020.

Recent Art Contests

Contest Name: Woon Foundation Painting & Sculpture Prize

Deadline: July 31, 2020 Rewards: 1st Prize: £20,000, 2nd Prize £9,000 & 3rd Prize £6,000 Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, jointly hosted by Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary offer an opportunity annually for students currently in the final year of their undergraduate study within the United Kingdom.

Contest Name: Scottish Portrait Awards

Deadline: July 31, 2020 Rewards: 1st Prize: £5,000, 2nd Prize £1,000, 3rd Prize £500 & Young Fine Artist (16-25): £500 Entry Fees: £10 per work (max 6)

The Scottish Portrait Award in Fine Art is open to anyone who born, living, or studying in Scotland and over 16 years. This Portrait Award for Fine Art is for portraits in any 2D or 3D medium – all painting formats, all sculpture formats, collage, printmaking, weaving, photography, digital art, or anything else – as well as powerful art and strong story-telling.

Contest Name: Jerwood/FVU Awards

Deadline: July 20, 2020 Rewards: £25,000(£6,000 artist fee and £19,000 for production budget) Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

Jerwood Arts and Film and Video Umbrella invite early-career artists to make proposals for ambitious new works in any form of the moving-image. Two proposals are selected each year by a panel consisting of practicing artists and arts programmers/curators, for the commission, production, exhibition and tour from November 2020 through to 2022.

Contest Name: skip/intro – Satellite

Deadline: July 20, 2020 Rewards: £3,500(£1,500 artist fee and £2,000 for production budget) Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

SKIP/INTRO, Satellite Films new commissioning programme calling for young and emerging filmmakers! New ideas and experiences that need to be heard, SKIP/INTRO provides a platform for emerging artist filmmakers to look beyond the horizon, and tell something about our shared world.

Contest Name: The comix competition “Nouveau talent 2020”

Deadline: June 30, 2020 Rewards:  1st prize CHF 2,000;  2nd prize CHF 1,500; 3rd prize CHF 1,000 & Special prize CHF 500 Entry Fees: No Entry fee.

The Nouveau talent competition is part of the International Comic Strip Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland. The theme for this year’s competition is SPAGHETTI. All interpretations of the theme are welcome. This competition is open to anyone over the age of 15, who has not yet been published.

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Contest Name: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

Deadline: June 24, 2020 Rewards: 1st Prize £8000, 2nd Prize £5000, Student Award £2000 & Working Drawing Prize £2000 Entry Fees: Standard Entry for 1 work £20, 2 works £30, 3 works £40 & Student Entry for 1 work £15, 2 works £20, 3 works £25

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is now open for entries for a milestone edition. In 2020, it will be the third year of support for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize by Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and the 25th consecutive annual open drawing exhibition since 1994.

Contest Name: Visual Art Open

Deadline: June 20, 2020 Rewards: Prize Fund Worth £8000 Entry Fees: £15 per work

The VAO competition is currently running in its fourth consecutive year and is open to both amateur and professional artists. The primary goal of the awards is to reveal and establish artists’ profiles in the contemporary art world.

Contest Name: XIII International Compostela Prize for Picture Books

Deadline: June 15, 2020 Rewards: 9,000 € Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

The competition is organised by Department of Education and Citizenship of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with ‘Kalandraka publishers’. Entrants are asked to submit a project of picture book: a book in which the story is told through images, or through images and text that complement each other.

Contest Name: Sir John Hurt Art Prize

Deadline: June 14, 2020 Rewards: First Prize: £1,750; Sworders Art Prize: £750 Entry Fees: £12 for 1 image, £21 for 2 images, £30 for 3 images.

The Sir John Hurt Art Prize is a major award and exhibition for artists in the east of England and beyond and the Sworders Art Prize for young artists is an excellent addition to the main prize.

Contest Name: Framed: Landscape and Architecture

Deadline: June 11, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: Entry Fee: $35 

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a landscape and architecture juried group photo show. What is the process and diversity of observation, interpretation and documentation of these two photographic genres? How do we look for and create compelling, significant and relevant photographic work that engages the aesthetics, craft, tradition and concepts of landscape and architectural photography?

Contest Name: 440 Gallery: Refuge

Deadline: May 08, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: $40 for 1-3 images & $5 for each additional image.

440 Gallery, announces an open call for an Artsy Online Exclusive exhibition. The topic for the 2020 national juried exhibition is REFUGE.

Contest Name:Grand for Artists and Photographers

Deadline: May 07,, 2020 Rewards: $550 Entry Fees: $25

Innovate Grant is a new initiative that supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. They simplify the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work.

Contest Name: NYC4PA: From a Seed – A World of Botanicals

Deadline: May 13, 2020 Rewards: $4000 Entry Fees: $35 for the 1st 3 images & additional images may be submitted for $10 each. 

NYC4PA Call for Entries worldwide to both amateur and professional photographers to submit images. They also invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate. Experimental and mixed techniques are welcome. Only 2-D work is eligible.

Contest Name: Food for Thought

Deadline: May 07, 2020 Rewards: $500 in Awards Entry Fees: 1 or 2 entries $35 (MFA members $20) & additional 4 entries $5 each.

Any piece that uses food as the medium or subject will be eligible for this inaugural online show. Entries are open to all original 2-D or 3-D artwork. A maximum of 6 original works created within the past 3 years may be entered.

Contest Name: 2020 EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN ART

Deadline: April 15, 2020 Rewards: $10000 in Awards Entry Fees: $10 per image

Red Clay Survey is recurring all media competition which open to artists over 18 residing in AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, and WV.

Contest Name: “YELLOW” Call for Entry – Online Art Show

Deadline: April 15, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: $20 for 1 or 2 pieces

Colors of Humanity Art Gallery announces a call to artists for an online art exhibition. All artists 18 and over may enter 2D works in all types of media.

Contest Name: 2020 Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition

Deadline: April 12, 2020 Rewards: $2500 in Awards Entry Fees: $30 up to 3 pieces

Waterloo Arts invites all artists residing in the US or Canada to submit artwork for the Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition 2020.

Contest Name: Portraiture: Photography Now

Deadline: April 10, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: $35 per entry includes up to 5 photos.

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photography exhibition on contemporary portraiture.

Contest Name: Left Coast – Summer National Juried Exhibition – Call For Entries

Deadline: April 02, 2020 Rewards: – $900 Total Awards Entry Fees: Non-members $35 for up to 3 entries or $50 for 4-5 entries. Artists of MarinMOCA members $30 for up to 3 entries or $45 for 4-5 entries.

MarinMOCA invites U.S. resident artists to submit up to 5 digital images of their original artwork which completed in the past 5 years.

Contest Name: 54th Annual Lewiston Art Festival

Deadline: March 15, 2020. Rewards: $6000. Entry Fees: Booth Fee $225 (10’ x 10’) &  Application Fee $15

Lewiston Council on the Arts announces a Call for Artists for a juried art and fine craft competition. Over 25,000 people will attend this much anticipated outdoor festival.

Contest Name: Awesome art prizes Spring Edition

Deadline: March 15, 2020. Rewards: 1 Platinum Prize $5000, 3 Gold Prizes $3000, 6 Silver Prizes $2000, 10 Excellency Prizes $1400, 10 Honorable Prizes $1000 & 10 Merit Prizes $800. Entry Fees: $15 for 1 entry & $30 for 4 extra artworks.

The awesome art prize organizes international competitions open to beginners and professional living artists. They accept entries from any country in the world and also understand and promote artists worldwide to art lovers, to private and professional art buyers and Galleries.

Contest Name: Taking Pictures: 2020

Deadline: March 11, 2020. Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: $35 per entry (an entry includes up to 5 photos)

Black Box Gallery announces an open themed juried group photo show. Open to all themes and ideas, all styles and genres, all perspectives on craftsmanship and photographic creativity.

Contest Name:  “Shades of Green” Online Juried Painting Competition

Deadline: March 08, 2020. Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: $18 for 2 paintings.

Every submitted work must have been created by the artist within the last 3 years. Artwork must be a painting in which the prominent color is green. Any subject matter & painting style allowed.

Contest Name: Call for Art – monochrome

Deadline: March 08, 2020. Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: Not Specified!

Las Laguna Gallery is seeking art that explores the values of one color. The term Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs or prints in one color or values of one color.