International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Art Residency in Denmark Deadline: 23 February 2020 Malt AIR is a new visual arts residency programme in Denmark. The residency is run in collaboration between The Danish Art Workshops, Kunsthal Aarhus and Maltfabrikken, and is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation. Malt AIR invites professional artists from all over the world to participate in a three-month visual arts residency programme at Maltfabrikken...

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Mail art Deadline: 1 April 2020 As one type of the Fluxus movement; Mail Art, opening its doors to everyone and bringing together different types of culture and art, is a world art which has an important place in today’s art and is based on participation by ”mail.” Mail Art is a platform where small-sized works are usually created by using different techniques...

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Video art festival Deadline: 1 March 2020 The International Video Art House Madrid is an initiative to support contemporary video artists and promote their work internationally. Only selecting works made after 1st January of 2019. There is no time limit for the submissions. Competition has no specific theme. No entry fee Details: http://ivahm.com ...

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Video art Deadline: 20 February 2020 We are looking for a range of VFX and Video artists to answer the question on their own terms, and present it through their art. Each video will be shown alongside music from up and coming DJs at a video art rave set to take place in the new year, therefore must be silent. Applicants must send...

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Textile design award Deadline: 30 March 2020 The World of WearableArt Awards is an internationally renowned wearable art competition that, each year, attracts entries from over 40 countries around the world. The Awards Competition is an opportunity for designers to create the unimaginable, to challenge the conventional, and defy creative expectations. For three weeks every year, the finalist garments in the Competition are...

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Art competition Deadline: 4 March 2020 The competition is open for Indian, Indian diaspora artists and artists residing in India at any stage of their careers. Artists are invited to submit in any of the following mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, mixed media, and print. The Indian Contemporary Art Competition (ICAC) aims to discover and promote talented artists from India, the Indian diaspora,...

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Art & design Award Deadline: 27 February 2020 There are two categories for which you can submit your masterpiece: the Rijksstudio Design Award and the Rijksstudio Young Talent Award (ages 21 and under) Rijksstudio Award is the biennial art- and design prize from the Rijksmuseum. With this competition the Rijksmuseum invites everyone to create their own masterpiece inspired by the Rijksmuseum's collection. All...

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Contest for illustrators Deadline: 14 February 2020 From Apila Ediciones we are committed to illustrators who try to make their way in the world of children’s illustration. Therefore we created the award PREMIO APILA PRIMERA IMPRESIÓN in 2013, aimed at illustrators who still do not have any children’s picture book published with ISBN (except for self-publishing). That way we want to give the...

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Exlibris exhibition Deadline: 14 February 2020 Over its many years, the International Biennial Exhibition of the Modern Exlibris has become one of the most distinct forms of activity engaged in by the Malbork Castle Museum. Ever since the first edition in 1963, it has been enjoying continued recognition of graphic artists from across the world, and of connoisseurs familiar and excited about this...

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Artist in Residency India Deadline: 20 February 2020 Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theatre, music, sound, performance art, writing, painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, culinary, photography, video/film, animation, architecture, sculpture (any material), ceramics, mixed-media / multi-media, interdisciplinary, installation, other new/alternative media, etc. Researchers, curators, and art critics are also welcome to apply. Open to emerging and...

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Artist Residency in France Deadline : 29 February 2020 Created in 2011, Artistes en Residence develops two residency programs: the Cross Residencies and the Intramuros Residencies. The three main goals are the studio work, the exchange between different contemporary art agents and the promotion of the international mobility. For 2020, Artistes en Résidence launches a new residency format: The Intramuros Residency – 100...

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Art award Deadline: 10 February 2020 Internationally renowned, Wildlife Artist of the Year brings together a wide range of artists and art-lovers from all over the globe to celebrate our planet’s wildlife through some of the world’s most exciting and diverse wildlife art. Since the competition began in 2008, it has attracted more than 10,000 entries, raising more than £1.2m to fund David...

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Print exhibition Deadline: 5 February 2020 The aim of this juried biennial exhibition is to promote the art of printmaking and to foster international cultural exchange with the participation of talented artists around the world. Through the competition and the exhibition, this event shall serve as a key platform for artistic exchange and cultural collaboration, and help contribute to the diversity and vitality of...

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Art and Design Residency Deadline: 2 February 2020 The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4-6 week McKinney International Art and Design Residency. An established artist or designer will be selected whose primary country of residence is outside the United States. Applicants should be actively engaged in a contemporary artistic practice and show evidence...

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Artists in residency in Germany Deadline: 15 January 2020 The Atelier Josepha invites visual artists/writers/composers to spend three weeks in fall 2020 in Ahrenshoop, Germany. There are two consecutive single residencies within the period of September to December. The Arts Residency Atelier Josepha promotes critical reflection on both historical and current circumstances of the Baltic Sea Region. The residency stands in a tradition...

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Artist grant Deadline: 5 February 2020 The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audio-visual installations. Each of the three grants will be awarded for the production of a new project in the area of media art. The grant is valid for...

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Artist in residency in Ireland Deadline: 3 February 2020 Trinity College is pleased to invite applications from artists for a 12 month artist‐in‐residence position commencing in March 2020. The artist will be based at TTEC (Trinity Technology & Enterprise Centre), Grand Canal. The aim is to enable the artist to develop new work through a collaborative process of engagement with communities which should...

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Residency for dance artists Deadline: 31 January 2020 Bora Bora Residency Centre welcomes proposals from professional dance artists for projects to be researched and/or developed in season 2020-21 (August 2020 to June 2021). There are 6 residencies open to professional dance artists or dance ensembles or stage directors with a strong choreographic idea from all over the world. In addition, it is possible...

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Design contest Deadline: 28 February 2020 The competition is open to all forms of commissioned, published, unpublished and personal work from professionals and enthusiasts created between March 2019 and February 2020 (but not entries that have been submitted into last year's competition). For newly-graduated professionals and/or Canadians working in smaller communities or smaller businesses there are the Young Blood and Community categories. Work...

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Exhibition in NY open call Deadline: 15 January 2020 THE BORDER is a project space that focuses on supporting, nurturing and showing talented immigrant artists and their siblings living in the United States along with a few locals. The open call is for everyone and not just immigrant artists. The Border Project Space was recently featured in Hyperallergic’s top 15 shows of 2018...

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Open call for papers and artworks Deadline: 15 January 2020 Economia – The Limited Edition is a conference taking place at Natlab, the former Philips physics laboratory, aiming to invent new avenues for playful and imaginative future developments in Economics. In the search for new economic insights and alternatives to the current model, why not start by treating the economy like any other...

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Drawing contest Deadline: 17 February 2020 Derwent, renowned pencil manufacturers, are proud to announce the fifth instalment of The Derwent Art Prize. Its aim is to reward excellence by showcasing the very best artworks created with any pencil (including water-soluble, pastel, graphite, charcoal or colouring pencils) by British and International artists. Artists are invited to submit up to 6 images. The works entered...

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Awards for illustrators Deadline: 18 February 2019 The World Illustration Awards promotes exceptional work by illustrators and presents illustration as a major force in global visual culture. The Awards are international and open worldwide to illustrators working across all sectors and in any medium. Categories:  Advertising  Book Covers  Commercial Publishing  Alternative Publishing  Children's Publishing  Design, Product & Packaging  Editorial  Exploration  Science & Technology...

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Artist in Residence in Japan Deadline: 31 January 2020 6–10 participants will take part in the Artist in Residency programme (Including two participants recommended by artist-in-residence host institutions outside of Japan) Residence period: You must select at least one and up to seven terms. 1．June 17(Wed)―June 30 (Tue) 2．July 1(Wed)―July 14 (Tue) 3．July 15 (Wed)―July 28 (Tue) 4．July 29 (Wed)―August 11 (Tue) 5．August...

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Art residency in Germany Deadline: 20 January 2020 The programme is aimed at international artists whose work relates to the historical disciplines represented at the Bauhaus and the subsequent developments of these core disciplines – among them painting, product design, textile design, music, theatre, performance, architecture and photography. The Bauhaus Residency comprises three different possibilities for participation: an Open Call, which is addressed to...

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Grant for research project in France Deadline: 10 January 2020 As a higher education institute, ésam Caen/Cherbourg trains creators in the fields of art, graphic design and edition. In partnership with the École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen and the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie within the ComUE Normandie-Université, ésam Caen/Cherbourg created the practice-led PhD program RADIAN. Besides, ésam Caen/Cherbourg developed...

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Art project in United Arab Emirates Deadline: 10 January 2020 The Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme broadens the possibilities for the production of art in the MENASA region (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region) by supporting innovation and excellence in artistic practice through the encouragement of experimentation and risk-taking. Placing artists at the core of its mission, the foundation offers grants and...

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Photography award Deadline: 27 March 2020 The Rebecca Vassie Trust is a charitable organisation supporting the art of long-form narrative photography, and promoting education in photography for both emerging professionals and the broader public. This is an award for British photographers, or photographers who are currently full-time resident in the UK. No entry fee Prize: A £2000 cash bursary, plus additional benefits, for a...

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Open call for video art Deadline: 12 January 2020 The Festival presents the most significant lines of research emerged in recent years in the international audiovisual arts. Over The Real aims to create an opportunity for meeting and promotion for video artists which favors visibility and contacts with the public, with curators, art critics and cultural institutions that already during the other editions...

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Artists in residency - Finland Deadline: 9 January 2020 Arteles Creative Center in Hämeenkyrö, Finland hosts more than 150 selected international artists and creative professionals per year. It is the lively headquarters for our residency programs, welcoming artists and creative minds from all around the world, from all the defined and undefined forms of creativity. Back to Basics residency program gives artists the...

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Printmaking contest Deadline: 31st January 2020 PrintCard Wroclaw Special Edition: "Uncanny Valley: the picture within us" This year PrintCard is going to Puerto Rico! We are accepted to present the PrintCard project in SGC International 2020 Puertográfico! For this occasion we organize a special edition of PrintCard. Topic: Uncanny Valley: the picture within us WHAT? HOW? WHERE? PRINTCARD - send us edition of...

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Photography awards Deadline: 31 January 2020 All About Photo invites photographers from around the world to enter the “All About Photo Awards 2020, The Mind’s Eye”. In reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photo essay, The Mind’s Eye competition which is in it’s 5th year, investigates the depth and thoughts behind each image. Entry fee $30/3 images, $5/each additional image Prizes: Grand prize is $5,000...

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Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Deadline: 9 February 2020 VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Hamburg is the first international Virtual Reality & Arts Festival. Since its first edition in 2018 VRHAM! has established itself as an important date in the international VR art scene. The festival is a platform for extraordinary national and international artists who are literally exploring new dimension via...

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Grants for artists Deadline: 11 February 2020 Innovate Grant is now accepting submissions for the Winter Cycle. Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. For more information and to...

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Mail art Deadline: 20 January 2020 The grim reality of the Climate Crisis and the Sixth Extinction is getting clearer every day. How do we dream, hope, act, care and love in spite of (and because of) this? Format: Postcard (148 x 105mm) on paper or with cardboard support. Original artwork; any technique. The artwork will not be returned or sold. The artist...

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Feminist Art festival 2020 Deadline: 27 January 2020 For more than twenty years Studio XX has been producing HTMlles, a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture. The festival has established itself as a socially-engaged space, addressing an urgent current issue with each edition. Every two years, HTMlles mobilizes local, national and international artists, theorists, and activists working at the intersection of...

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