International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

 

Deadline: 12 May 2021

Il Varco is glad to inaugurate the eight edition of Prisma Art Prize, a quarterly award with cash prizes for artists from all around the world that will become a collective exhibition for the first time in June 2021 in Rome.

Organized with the goal of creating a space for visual artists to share their work with hundreds of colleagues from all around the world, it offers 2000€ in cash awards every year, purchase prizes and packages of services worth 2500€ from Biafarin and Vivivacolors in four seasonal competitions and an online gallery where the artworks are put on display forever.

Jurors are qualified and esteemed painters, curators, mixed media artists and digital artists from different countries all around the world. The exhibition will take place at Atelier Montez, a contemporary art factory born in 2012 from the redevelopment of an urban wreck on a project by the Artist Gio Montez, that has already attracted international artists like Hermann Nitsch, Cheikh Zidor and Turi Sottile.

Visit our finalists gallery and submit on our official website.

Signing up is fast and you can do it entirely online.

Entry fee:

25€

Prizes & Awards:

Various prizes: 

Cash prize (500€), service prizes and interview every three months, live exhibition in a gallery in Rome every year

Details:

https://www.prismaartprize.com/

 

Deadline: 16 February 2021

PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to take part in a unique 24 hour online Photomarathon.

Entry fee

 $15

Prizes / Awards

1st Place:

3 online courses courtesy of ׳Magnum׳ Photos with the Agency’s World-class Instructors.

A mentoring program by one of Canon’s Ambassadors including five one on one sessions.

 A feature in Daylight digital magazine, a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing art and photography.

Global Leaders of Innovation online course courtesy of The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.

 A private Portfolio review session with Rocco Venezia curator for PHmuseum and co-founder of PHmuseum Lab, Bologna.

2nd Place:

3 online courses courtesy of ׳Magnum׳ Photos with the Agency’s World-class Instructors.

 A one-on-one session with Krzysztof Candrowicz, Curator and Researcher, Lodz Fotofestiwal, Ci.CLO Bienal Porto

 A one-on-one session with Michael Itkoff Photographer, Photojournalist and Cofounder of Daylight, a nonprofit organization dedicated to publishing art.

3rd Place:

3 online courses courtesy of ׳Magnum׳ Photos with the Agency’s World-class Instructors.

 A one-on-one session with Angélica Dass, Brazilian photographer based in Madrid and the creator of the project Humanæ."

Details:

https://www.photoisrael.org/international_marathon/en/

 

Deadline: 8 March 2021

Canada’s leading contemporary outdoor art fair is celebrating 60 years of of launching artists careers, and the #CallForArtists is now open! Visual artists and makers of all backgrounds are invited to apply for the hybrid online/outdoor 60th @torontooutdoorartfair in July 2021. Each year, a loyal following of Fair-goers spend $2 million on art purchases, providing an income to independent artists that contributes to their economic prosperity. The 60th Anniversary Fair will be one to remember with new special programs and awards!
Accepting applications until March 8. Get more info and apply now at www.torontooutdoor.art

Entry fee

$50 CAD

Prizes / Awards

$40,000 cash and in-kind awards, Biggest prize $6,000 to one artist

Details:

https://torontooutdoor.art/

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 print and print-related art.

The work must be completed in or after 2017

Each entrant is allowed to submit one piece of work only.


No entry fee

Prizes:
Gold Prize (1): NTD 400,000
Silver Prize (1): NTD 200,000
Bronze Prize (1): NTD 100,000
Special Jury Prize (2): NTD 80,000 (each)
Merit Prize (5): NTD 50,000 (each)
Honorable Mention (5): NTD 30,000 (each)

Detail:
https://printbiennial.ntmofa.gov.tw/print19/en/index.aspx

Call for experimental film and video

Deadline: 10 February 2020

Videoex invites you to submit your work for the International & Swiss Competition.

We are looking for: experimental, innovative and progressive cinematic works, moving image works that explore the possibilities of film as a medium, expanding the idea of film and cinema, experimental films (8mm / 16mm / 35mm (screened in original format), digital productions (experimental, videoart, essay, experimental documentary,…), innovative animation, experimental digital & graphic productions (to be screened), experimental documentaries, experimental music videos

Works must have been completed since October 2018

Participants may submit a maximum of three (3) works.

No entry fee

Details:
https://videoex.ch/videoex/callforentries/

Art prize

Deadline: 19 January 2020

The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2020 will be awarded to artists that show significant potential, interesting ideas, a relevant message and skillful execution. We understand that talented artists exist in many forms, so endeavour to appeal to emerging artists of all ages and career paths, whether student, graduate, full-time or part-time, and from any country.

You can submit up to 5 different artworks

Any medium

Accepted media include but are not limited to: paintings, drawings, original prints, photography, sculptures, digitally produced artworks, mixed media constructions, video, sound, digital applications and installations.

Entry fee
Entry fee is £20 for first artwork, then £10 per additional artwork.

Prizes:
The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Overall Award:

£3,000 cash prize award, and £500 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst Emerging Artists Gallery for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Sculpture Award:

£1,750 cash prize award, and £250 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Choice Award:

£1,500 cash prize award, and £250 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Photography Award:

£1,500 voucher of services with Genesis Imaging
Exhibition of a collection of your photographs in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize New Media Art Award:

£1,500 cash prize award
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Rich Mix Mezzanine Gallery for Nov-Dec 2020

Details:
https://www.artprize.co.uk/

Digital exlibris

Deadline: 18 November 2019

Ex DIGITALIS is a biannual international review promoting the latest techniques in bookplate production, known as consecutively numbered Salons.

This year’s Ex DIGITALIS Salon 2019 admits works dedicated to any subject matter or to the eminent Polish composers Stanisław Moniuszko and Fryderyk Chopin, the patrons of 2019. The bookplates selected by the Jury will be presented at an exhibition to be staged by the Centre of Contemporary Art in December.

Every Entrant may submit 4 to 10 works to the Review.

 Only digital techniques will be accepted. The Review will comprise works created within last two years.

No entry fee

Details:
https://csw.torun.pl/csw/ex-digitalis-salon-2019-miedzynarodowy-przeglad-ekslibrisu-cyfrowego-29903/

"Portrait" art contest

Deadline: 31 August 2019

International Art Competition “Portrait”

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 1st “Portrait” Online Art Competition for the month of August 2019. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. We invite artist and photographers to submit their best artworks related to the Portrait theme. A portrait may be a single person, a group, or self-portrait. A variety of interpretations of the Portrait theme can be submitted. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installation art) except sound and video art.


There is no limit to the number of images that an artist can submit.

Entry fee
$15 for 2 images of artwork.

AWARDS
All winning artists will receive a digital award certificate, First, second and third place will be largely displayed with an article  about the artist and  their work. Winning artwork (First place) will be on the poster of the show. Depending on the number and quality of all submissions received, Merit awards and Honorable Mention awards may also be presented.
All accepted works will be displayed with the artist name, title of work, and a link back to their website, or email address if they do not have a website. All Accepted artists will receive extensive online publicity and promotion on our website.

Details:
http://www.artroomgalleryonline.com/call_for_artists.html

Photo contest

Deadline: August, 29th 2019.


On July 20th, 1969, "the Eagle has Landed" - the Men conquered the Moon!


Or not?


The story of Apollo 11, during the last five decades, became "a mother to all conspiracy theories." Hundreds (or thousands) of people and organizations (nations even) denied the fact of landing on the Moon. Today, the story of this deny, is maybe even more thrilling, than the reality of Moon landing.

Your goal is to answer with photographs (up to five) or short film (up to 15 seconds). Everybody's invited, all is allowed - you can use any technique, submit images that are true or fake, real or manipulated, proving or denying the Moon Landing - it's all up to you - your idea and creativity!


No entry fee

Prizes:
The main prize in the Contest is a camera: Leica Q2
The works qualified for the finals will take part in the exhibition at the 6x7 Leica Gallery in Warsaw.

Details:
http://www.6x7award.com

Open call for illustrators

Deadline: 18th October 2019

Tapirulan’s illustration competition is celebrating its first 15 years, so it is no longer a normal competition, but we can consider it, rather proudly, a super competition, open to all superillustrators.

Any medium and technique is allowed.
Each artwork must be square-shaped, not smaller than 25×25 centimetres and not bigger than 40×40 centimetres.
If the artwork is applied on a panel or frame, it must not exceed 3 mm in thickness.

Each artist  may submit only one illustration.

Entry fee
The entry fee is €15.

Prizes
• First prize awarded by the jury: € 2,500
• Prize awarded by the registered subscribers of tapirulan.it: € 500

A jury will select 48 works to be published in the catalogue and to be displayed in the exhibition. Among the 48 works selected, 12 will also be published on the calendar.

Details:
https://illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it/en/rules/

Short comics story

Deadline: 31 July 2019

Organized since 1991, this prestigious short comics (up to 8 pages) competition features the following prizes: the Grand Prix, 3 main prizes and 3 special awards. All winners get cash and in-kind prize. The grand prix winner additionally get the Komiksus statue. All works are presented at the exhibition and the best, selected ones are printed in a catalogue.

The competition is open for everyone and there is no given theme of the works.

The allowed techniques are: drawing, painting, digital art and photography.

A participant can submit one complete and full story, up to 8 pages.

Entry fee:
10 Euros

Prizes:
Grand Prix – 7000 PLN
1st prize – 4500 PLN
2nd prize – 3500 PLN
3rd prize – 2000 PLN
three special awards – 1 000 PLN


Details:
http://komiksfestiwal.com/en/konkursy/miedzynarodowy-konkurs-na-krotka-forme-komiksowa/

Online exhibition

Deadline: 21 July 2019

STRUKTURA is a cross-disciplinary initiative for research and practice within the framework of media archeology and visual arts.
STRUKTURA. Time is looking for artists, researchers, scholars to join our online exhibition program.
STRUKTURA investigates methods of speculative temporalities and proposes alternatives for our shared futures, where time is plural, transformative and fluid. The participating scholars and artists examine the complex relationships between time and visual media, current modes of how we instrumentalize history, cultural techniques and infrastructures for temporal mediation. STRUKTURA explores ideas of a nonlinear spaces challenged by technologies, obsolescence, multiplicity of temporal regimes and synchronicity; where different places and different times intersect and coexist together. The program spans across a virtual environment and physical venues based in Oslo. It consists of public program, research lab, online exhibition and club night.
Curated by Lesia Vasylchenko.

No entry fee


Details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/340407160187839/
struktura.contact@gmail.com

Online and offline exhibition

Deadline: 31 July 2019

the wrong is the largest and most comprehensive biennale celebrating digital art today. a global event open to participation, aiming to nurture digital culture.

the wrong happens both online and offline.

the online happens in “pavilions”; virtual curated spaces in any online accessible media where selected artworks are exhibited.

the offline happens in “embassies”; institutions, art spaces, galleries and artist run spaces in cities around the world.

This Open Call invites artists to show their work in the What Do We Do Now? online Pavilion and offline Embassy, between 1 November 2019 and 1 March 2020.

For this call, we look at
energy
dataflow, optic signals,
stable systems, destabilised systems,
digital colonialism,
Imbalance, impermanence,
the intersection between the tangible and the virtual.

We are looking for works that can be shown both online and offline and that respond to some aspects of the following writing:

“Our increasingly electrified, electronic, and data-driven society places steadily rising demand on reliable baseload power - that is, on electricity available 24/7/365. Servers never sleep, nor does air conditioning during hot nights, and in Asia's megacities, subways and electric trains take only brief naps between midnight and 5 A.M.” Vaclav Smil

Crypto mining hubs are appearing in Arctic regions where energy is cheap and the ambient air temperature cools down servers. To mine the virtual pirate gold non-stop, without letting machines rest, one must consider the energy-intensive processes that occur in the background. At the other end of the continent, the southern crypto havens have been increasing their fibre internet connection speeds to attract the new digital colonial settlers and their energy consuming activities. They keep laying new underwater cables to increase connectivity, to ensure digital security and a stable growth. Crypto haven economies depend on light signals passing through a one-inch-wide fibre cable, which adds a vulnerability to the whole venture. The tangible meets the virtual in our decaying bodies. We fight against this decay with a gym membership or DIY bicycle-powered PCs. What happens to the body when we are engrossed in the virtual? Does time pass differently for our bodies when our minds are active in cyberspace? The energy consuming cyber exchange is also occurring in our bodies, where every interaction we have online slowly drains our resources. Maybe being able to upload our energy (our “self”) to the cloud is not such a bad idea, if that means that we can stop battling our physical decay?

#energy #data #crypto #cryptomining #digitalcolonialism #climatemergency #sun #sea #air #airconditioning #elements #glass #fibre #light #rust #humidity #deterioration #connectivity #body #embodiment

Send your submissions and portfolio links to
whatdowedonowww@gmail.com

No entry fee

https://thewrong.org

Awards for artists

Deadline:  October 15, 2019

Contest is open to illustrators, agencies, representatives, students and teachers all over the world.

Categories:
 Book
 Editorial
 Comics
 Commercial
 New Talent (Student)
 Self-Promotion
 Video Games Art

Entries first created or published from 2017 through 2019 are eligible. There is a limit of 5 works that each illustrator can submit for all categories, except Video game Art, that has up to 10 works.

Entry fees: 
20 USD for Single Image/Student Entry or 40 USD for Multiple Image Entry.

Details:
https://www.ijungleawards.com/

Deadline: 30th September 2019
(The online application form will be available from 2 September 2019)

The theme for this year's Bio-Art Contest is "The Beauty of Life".

Categories: Digital Photography, Microphotography, Computer Graphic, Video Clip.

No entry fee

Prizes
Grand Prize (1): KRW 3,000,000
Runner-up Prize (3): KRW 1,000,000
Participation Prize (10): KRW 200,000

Details:
https://bio-art.org/
https://bioart.biocon.re.kr/
https://biocon.re.kr/about-us/

open call - visual identity design

Deadline:  September 5, 2019

Now celebrating their 6th year, the International Visual Identity Awards is the first independent international design competition dedicated solely to visual identity. Their mission is to formally recognize and celebrate the world's best visual identity design.

Entries are judged in 21 categories, with a winner and two runners-up in each. One overall winner across all categories wins the prestigious title of International Visual Identity of the Year.

Entries must include not just a logo but also examples of its application across different items as part of a brand's visual identity system.

Concept or speculative work is not accepted, with the exception of the Student category. Student entries are only valid if the entrant is registered as a full-time student in a recognised educational institution.

The categories are:

• Media and publishing
• Transport and automotive
• Healthcare
• Financial services
• Food and drink
• Restaurants, hospitality, travel and leisure
• Retail
• Charity and non-profit
• Professional services
• Fashion
• Real Estate
• Manufacturing
• Destination
• Sport
• Entertainment
• Technology
• Telecommunications
• Energy/Utilities
• Consumer products
• Public sector
• Student

Entry fee:
£70 per entry + UK VAT
Student: £50 per entry + UK VAT

Details:
https://www.visualidentityawards.com/faqs-visual-identity-design-competition

Deadline: 7th March 2019



1st Edition of the International Prize and Exhibition of Contemporary Art,  the "VeniceLands ArtPrize"

All Italian and international artists can apply for VeniceLands Art Prize, especially emerging artists, who are at least 18 years old at the time of enrollment.

Artworks according to the following categories are eligible:

2D for artworks lying on a surface (such as painting, drawing, engraving…).
3D for artworks moving within space, designed to be viewed from various point of views (such as sculptures, installations…)
4D for artworks moving over time(such as performance and video…)


No entry fee


Awards:
The jury of experts will assign the following first prizes:

Best 2D artwork
Best 3D artwork
Best 4D artwork
Jury Special Prize
The popular jury will assign:

Popular Special Award
Other awards will be assigned depending to the availability of sponsors and organization, and will be announced on the webpage “Jurors/Awards”.

Indicatively, they would be:

Residency award, which consists of an art residency and the consequent exhibition of the artworks realized during the residency.
Gallery award, which consists of the artist’s participation at an Art Gallery
Critics award, assigned to an artist chosen by art critics attending the exhibition.
Enterprise award, which consists of an artistic collaboration with a company, applied to their products.




Details:
http://www.anonimasognatori.org/artprize/index.html

Deadline: 31 January 2019

Eligible to participate are works on paper by artists up to the age of 35.


All works on paper are admitted to the competition. Excluded is pure, graphically or digitally unprocessed photography. The maximum dimensions are 100 x 140 cm without frame and 110 x 150 cm with frame, with a maximum depth (thickness) of 15 cm. The participants must be up to max. submit three works in any technique.

There are no limits to the creative bandwith. There are no thematic guidelines.

No entry fee

Prizes:
€ 6.000 (1st place),
€ 4.000 (2nd place)
€ 2.500 (3rd place)

In addition, purchases with a total value of at least € 5,000 are planned by the organizer and sponsors. The final amount of the purchase budget will be set May 2019. The prize-winning works will be purchased for € 1,000 each (in addition to the prize money) and, like the purchased works,
will be transferred to the „Collection of the RC Wien-Albertina“.


Details:
https://www.koschatzkykunstpreis.at/index_en.html

Deadline: 2 February 2019


The objects of the competition are drawings, graphics and other works of fine arts and photography created with the use of optional techniques, being originals, completed within the recent two years (2018-2019)

WORKS AWARDED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS will be excluded from the SATYRYKON competition.


Categories:

I – Theme: STOP
II – SATIRE & JOKE


Prizes:

Grand Prix SATYRYKON 2019  – pure gold key and purse amounting to 8.000  PLN
2 gold medals and purses amounting to 6.000  PLN each
2 silver medals and purses amounting to 5.500  PLN each
2 bronze medals and purses amounting to 5.000  PLN each
and 4 special prizes amounting to 4.000  PLN each
Director of Legnica Culture Centre in amount of 4.000 PLN award for a photography work
Mayor of Legnica in amount of 4.000 PLN award

Entry fee: no entry fee


Details:
http://en.satyrykon.pl

Deadline: 1 November 2018

We are seeking artworks that explore the relationship between ourselves and the technology we use. Examples of topics could include:

- Social Media
- Avatars and online presence
- Internet
- Virtual selves vs reality
- Impact of technology on our lives
- Our reliance on technology
- VR and fictional worlds
- The act of monitoring others online and how online services monitor us
- And anything else that could fall into the overall theme.

This is free to enter; however artist must provide their own equipment. All art forms are welcome.


No entry fee

Details:
https://www.airgallery.space/opencalls?fbclid=IwAR3tvhTN0UiAqq9nBfn_zU5PjVu2fk50pxnoEPFU-_QlsK10u8IAwCCT9dQ