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PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "–scapes" – A Curated International Photography Exhibition, December 13, 2025 – January 6, 2026

Deadline : Oct 13, 2025 Awards: One curator's choice and three honourable mentions

There are various natural, artificial, and even staged scenes that seize the attention of photographers, compelling and inspiring them to pause, observe, and create an image to convey a personal interpretation of what they see. These types of photographs are known by a variety of names: landscapes, ...
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LACDA Call for Digital Art and Photography - Snap to Grid Open Exhibit (Every entry shown)

Deadline : Oct 27, 2025 Awards: Every entry shown

LACDA Call for Digital Art and Photography: Show your work in our un-juried exhibit featuring digital art and photography in this very popular program. All entries will be printed (8.5"x11" on heavyweight paper) and shown in our gallery arranged in a grid. Entrants submit JPEG files of original w...
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A Smith Gallery | Online Photographic Call for Entry: "portal"

Deadline : Oct 27, 2025 Awards: Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition as well as a solo online exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100.

portal: doorway, entrance, opening, entry, gate, egress, opening, aperture, porte, exit, hatch, mirror, passage, threshold, cut, entrada, hole, scuttle, window, approach, camera, breach, mirror…. Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme "portal" to A Smith Ga...
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Call for Artists: New York 2025!

Deadline : Oct 28, 2025

Be part of Art On Loop & New York Open Art—a global showcase for artists of all styles and mediums! From paintings to video art, poetry to sculpture, this is your chance to shine in the heart of NYC. No theme limits—just pure creative freedom. Show your work in-person or digitally via our cuttin...
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Decagon Gallery - Forgotten Architecture

Deadline : Oct 31, 2025 Awards: First Place: $500 cash prize and an online Solo exhibition Second Place: $300 cash prize Third Place: $200 cash prize Juror’s Awards and Honorable Mentions *All the above awards include a FREE exhibition catalog

Abandoned buildings are more than relics of the past—they are silent monuments to history, memory, and the passage of time. We are seeking images that engage with the theme of abandoned or neglected structures—buildings overtaken by nature, spaces weathered by time, or interiors echoing with...
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NYC4PA CALL FOR ENTRY - ANIMAL KINGDOM

Deadline : Nov 02, 2025 Awards: $4000 TOTAL PRIZES AWARDED

Our world is filled with animals. Whether your first thoughts are about lions, and tigers and bears, elephants working in the Asian lumber industry, or two/four legged pets there are so many options. And don’t forget the fish tank and reptiles. So, if life takes you on an exotic African safari...
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SlowArt & The Limner Gallery - Unexpurgated: Freedom in Form and Color

Deadline : Nov 08, 2025 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

This call is for art as a form of speech and expression, focusing on themes of personal truth, social commentary, identity, resistance and the uninhibited creative voice. Entry is open to all artists working in any media....
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PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "Silence" – A Curated International Photography Exhibition, January 10 – February 3, 2026

Deadline : Nov 10, 2025 Awards: One curator's choice and three honourable mentions

Silence is always juxtaposed against its opposites: sound, noise, and loudness. It is strongly associated with loneliness, alienation, the unknown and disturbing landscape on the one hand, and known tranquillity and peace on the other. Photographically, the contrast between deep darkness and dazzlin...
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The Hopper Prize - $4,500 Artist Grants

Deadline : Nov 11, 2025 Awards: 2 artists will each receive $4,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000.

The Hopper Prize | $4,500 & $1,000 Artist Grants. The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Fall 2025 artist grants. For this open call, we have increased grant amounts to $4,500. We will be providing 6 grants totaling $13,000 USD. 2 artists will each receive $4,500 and 4 artist...
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Black Box Gallery - Camera Work: Black and White

Deadline : Nov 13, 2025

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a Black and White juried group photo show. There is often a classic, nostalgic and dynamic translation to black and white photography. Black and White has an important tradition of luminous, well-crafted and thoughtfully composed imagery. Contemporary photogr...
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Soul of Artists - 3rd Online Juried Exhibition - Global Call for 2D Artists - $7,000+ in Cash Awards - All subjects and styles honored.

Deadline : Nov 14, 2025 Awards: $7,000+ in Cash Awards. 3 Winners - $2,000 each. 6 Runners-up - $300 each. All winners, runners-up and finalists will be featured in a full-year online international exhibition. Selected artists will be featured in curated publications.

Any subject. Any style. All honored. If you’re a 2D artist who has poured time and effort into building an authentic body of work that feels true and alive then we want to see it. Share your artistic vision with us. This is a global call. Artists from every country and culture are invited to su...
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ArtistGrant - $1,200 Grant for Visual Artists

Deadline : Nov 15, 2025 Awards: $1,200

Artist Grant awards an unrestricted $1200 USD grant to one visual artist three times each year. The next deadline is November 15, 2025. International artists, age 18 and older, may apply for a grant. Submissions are accepted in a wide range of media, including: Painting, drawing, photography, scu...
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Decagon Gallery - Sanctuary Online Photography Open Call

Deadline : Nov 30, 2025 Awards: Awards and Features: First Place: $500 cash prize and an online Solo exhibition Second Place: $300 cash prize Third Place: $200 cash prize Juror’s Awards and Honorable Mentions All the above awards include a FREE exhibition catalog

Decagon Gallery invites photographers from around the world to submit images for Sanctuary, an online exhibition exploring the spaces, places, and moments that offer us refuge, peace, and renewal. What does sanctuary mean to you? It might be a quiet corner of your home, a place of worship, a stre...
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Melbourne Open Art

Deadline : Dec 01, 2025

We’re inviting artists from around the world to submit their work for our upcoming exhibition in Melbourne! This is your chance to showcase your art in a vibrant gallery space in the heart of the city. THEME: OPEN. We welcome work in any medium—painting, photography, printmaking, video ar...
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FALL * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

Deadline : Dec 11, 2025 Awards: Innovate Grant awards: + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer + 12 x Honorable Mentions

FALL 2025 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00. ➡️➡️➡️ Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in...
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