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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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Call for Artists – First Street Gallery SELECTS 2026 Juried Exhibition

Deadline : Nov 07, 2025

First Street Gallery is pleased to announce its "SELECTS 2026” juried exhibition opportunity. We invite artists to exhibit a small body of work that explores a current or long standing artistic interest. The show opens on January 8, 2026 and runs through January 30, 2026 in our Chelsea Gallery lo...
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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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Colors of Humanity Art Gallery - "BLUE" 2025 Call for Entry - Online Art Show

Deadline : Nov 15, 2025 Awards: Cash, Membership

THEME- "BLUE" This color is symbolic for many different things and emotions. It is most commonly associated with harmony, faithfulness, confidence, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and sometimes with sadness. It can be expressed many ways and we look forward to seeing your interpretation. ...
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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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PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "Upside down" – A Curated International Photography Exhibition, February 7 – March 3, 2026

Deadline : Dec 08, 2025 Awards: One curator's choice and three honourable mentions

While photographs are valued for their depictive potential and representative content, the non-depictive, non-representational aspects of photographic works are also strongly related to their aesthetic significance. In this spirit, art photography has always aimed for the unity of form and content. ...
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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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Beam Camp Project Open Call

Deadline : Dec 29, 2025 Awards: $5,000

Beam Center seeks design proposals for an ambitious public artwork that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth, Beam Camp staff and the selected proposer. Projects will be realized by a community of more than 100 young people at Beam Camp in July 2026. Beam Camp is a specia...
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