Artist Opportunities

BRITISH PAINTING 3 is a curated open call exhibition for artists living and working in the UK who use paint as their primary medium. The exhibition offers the opportunity to show work in central London, adjacent to White Cube Bermondsey. Exhibition runs from 7 – 18 June 2022.

Eligibility: Open to any artist living and working in the UK who use paint as their primary medium. You may submit a single work up to 80 x 80cm in size – or up to four smaller works with a combined total area of no more than 80 x 80cm.

What you get: No commission on sales; experienced on-site sales team; the full BPS gallery promotion & marketing package (including GalleriesNow and ArtRabbit); inclusion in a fully illustrated catalogue with artists’ contact and website details; professional installation of works; specialist exhibition insurance via AXA Museum policy; VIP and Artists’ Launch Party. There is no fee to submit, but there is a subsidised facilities fee of £95 towards the fixed overheads.

Deadline 28 May 2022

We are seeking applications from emerging artists, makers, producers, researchers and writers of all generations to join the tenth year of Open School East’s independent, self-directed and outward-facing development programme. Working with lead artist Saelia Aparicio and a team of mentor practitioners, you will embark on the journey of arts practice, workshops, public programming and an end of year exhibition with a guest curator.

Eligibility: As an organisation committed to anti-racism, LGBTQIA+ rights and neuro-inclusion, we particularly welcome applications from individuals who identify with this ethos.

What you get: A shared workspace, accessible 24/7; Opportunity to develop education workshops and events with and for the wider school through our Young Associates and Despacito Art School; Weekly tuition and mentorship from internationally renowned practitioners, theorists and curators; Throughout the year Associates meet and work with invited guest artists, curators and other creative professionals; The tools and means to conceive and deliver a public programme of workshops and events around your practice and shared interests; Opportunities to showcase work; Critical, pastoral and practical support; Seed-funding to develop and create an end of year exhibition; Continued support and opportunities for OSE Alumni; budget for public programme and end if year exhibition.

Deadline 29 May 2022

Do you feel that you face barriers in having a creative career?

British Ceramics Biennial Talent Development programme is delivering a mentorship opportunity during 2022. The mentoring programme is for early-career creatives working in clay who feel that they face barriers progressing in their career and accessing a professional network in the field of contemporary ceramics.

Eligibility: We encourage applications from people who feel they face barriers, this may include: financial, ethnicity, education, social class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, neurodiversity, if you have long term health condition/s or due to other protected characteristics.

What you get: 4 to 5 mentoring sessions, training, a network of peers and support from the BCB team.

Deadline 29 May 2022

Locust Projects invites local, national, and international visual artists to apply for the opportunity to access the space and resources to create ambitious, large-scale new work in our 1,500 sq ft MAIN GALLERY. Proposals are reviewed by a rotating jury, comprised of local, national and international artists that have previously exhibited at Locust Projects and one local curator.

Eligibility: Local, national, and international visual artists.

What you get:

• $7500 Project Budget (may include but is not limited to: production/fabrication, equipment rental, materials, professional/technical support, installation/construction labor, assistants, shipping, de-installation) Final budget determined based upon dates, proposal scope and scale of project, feasibility.
• $2500 Artist Fee plus $30 per diem stipend for up to 10 days and $350 towards roundtrip flights and ground transport available to artists that live 150 miles away from Miami. (above and beyond travel expenses shall be applied to production budget). Artists may use the Artist Fee at thier discretion.
• Accommodation in a private room at the Locust Projects Residency, a 2-bedroom/1 bath house which is walking distance to Locust Projects. Note, one other artist may be in residence pending Covid safety limitations.
• Basic infrastructure provided by Locust Projects includes access to use existing tool and av equipment inventory, up to 20 hours preparator labor/assistance for install/de-install, signage, installation documentation, and promotional support.

Deadline 29 May 2022

Applications are now open for a new residency programme developed in collaboration with Jerwood Arts and defined to support three early-career visual artists over a period of 18-months.

Eligibility: Early-career visual artists within the first five years of their practice. Applicants must be UK based, over 18 and demonstrate that they meet the criteria of this opportunity. Artists should not be in formal education for the duration of the support (including part-time and post-graduate education). We are also interested in hearing from artists who have not progressed through formal art training routes. Applicants must be able to: share a minimum of three examples of public presentation of their work outline an idea / work they would like to develop clearly demonstrate how their practice would benefit from the opportunity.

What you get:

• £3,000 bursary per artist
• £3,000 project budget per artist to develop a new work
• Dedicated studio space for 18-months, shared by the three selected artists
• A mentor from the wider Somerset House Studios artist community
• £750 in-kind budget to experiment with in-house facilities such as our recording studio (unfacilitated), rehearsal studio, meeting rooms and project spaces.
• Access to Makerversity workshops at significantly reduced artist rates
• Support from the Studios team to set goals and objectives for your practice
• Access to wider development and social programmes
• Final presentation of works in the Somerset House programme
• Support for reasonable adjustments to assist with access requirements.

Deadline 29 May 2022

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is pleased to invite applications for 2022 MMCA International Research Fellowship.

The two selected participants conduct their individual scholarly research for 10 weeks from September 29 to December 8. At the end of the program, MMCA holds a seminar opened to the public in which they present research papers. The participants are paired with advisors who provide intellectual support and guidance throughout the program. They have access to all exhibitions, international conferences, and events of MMCA where they can engage in conversations with museum staffs, artists and intellectuals and discuss about the topics they are focusing on. The fellowship also includes visits to other museums, gallery shows, biennales, and residencies in Korea.

Eligibility: The program is open to art research professionals including curators, art historians, critics and museum staff, who are interested in developing and sharing their research ideas related to Korean modern and contemporary art. Applicants should be aged between 25-45, and fluency in English is required. As part of Cultural Partnership Initiative Project (CPI), MMCA International Research Fellowship is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea. Accordingly, only the professionals who hold citizenship of the ODA (Official Development Assistance) recipient countries (defined by the OECD) are eligible to apply. For the list of eligible countries, please refer to the following link. Applicants with other citizenship than mentioned above will NOT be considered.

What you get: The participants is provided with a round-trip airfare in economy class, an individual studio in the MMCA Changdong Residency with shared bathroom and communal kitchen, and monthly stipend of 900,000 KRW.

Deadline 31 May 2022

Melitta Nemeth, Winner of the Stand Up 2020 prize will co-curate and feature alongside two selected women artists in this upcoming exhibition at Artcore Gallery.

Shifting Terrain - Invites all women creatives to apply, responding to the gallery as a space for exchange with each other and the audience to create encounters that result in new and unexpected outcomes.

We hope this residency will act as a testing ground for diverse practitioners and practices. With concerns of crisis, conflict and climate encircling our lives many people look toward building new and adapting old structures to respond with urgency and find better ways of living together, implementing care for each other and the planet. We are interested in exploring these possibilities by recognising the multiplicity of women and embracing difference to connect and respond to each other, the wider community and environment.

Eligibility: This Open Call is inclusive of All Women across the East Midlands. We encourage applications from those who are currently underrepresented in the cultural sector including: Black and POC artists, individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions, those who have not engaged in formal arts education, are from lower socio-economic backgrounds or facing intersecting cultural or social barriers.

What you get: We are offering each artist: An Artist bursary of £1,000 to produce work for exhibition at Artcore Gallery and on-line assets. An Artist blog and digital platform throughout the residency to share the progress of the work. Residency space at Artcore Cabin. A chance to deliver artist talks at Artcore Gallery and online. A chance to collaborate with curators on Artcores 'Radical Reading Group' (to accompany the exhibition). Mentoring and curatorial support throughout. A catalogue – both digital and physical. Publicity and marketing support. Onsite Exhibition at Artcore Gallery.

Deadline 31 May 2022

Tactical Tech is looking for partnering individuals, organisations, or collectives to collaborate with the What the Future Wants (WTFW) project.

WTFW aims to put young people in the driving seat of their digital futures. Through education, co-creation and capacity building, we work towards increasing the data literacy of the next generation so that they can think critically and proactively about the digital environment they want to live in now and in the future. We have created the DATA DETOX X YOUTH ACTIVITY BOOK and the soon-to-be-released WTFW exhibition for young people.

Eligibility: In order to be eligible for this partnership call, individuals, organisations, or collectives must meet all of the below criteria:

• be currently working in at least one of the following regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), Asia, the Pacific Islands and Eastern Europe*;
• work with young people on some aspect of digital literacy;
• have access to an existing network of other local and national youth organisations and initiatives;
• have the capacity to carry out these activities between July 2022 until May 2023.

*Applicants from the following European countries are eligible to apply: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine.

What you get: Through partnering with Tactical Tech, you will have free access to:

• high-quality resources that you can adapt to reach your specific communities;
• support and advice on shaping your projects and plans through a co-development process;
• training and capacity building opportunities that will provide you with skills and tools;
• a global community of like-minded organisations;
• promotion within our networks (approx. 6600 monthly newsletter subscribers, 48000 Twitter followers, and more across social media).

*Honorarium available for partners depending on their specific needs and partnership scope.

Deadline 31 May 2022

Have you ever wondered if your art is good enough? There is no secret that most of the artists have this inner dialogue where they ask questions and compare their work with those of their idols and this brings a lot of confusion and anxiety- “Is My Work Good Enough, Is It Contemporary”? Well- any work of art in any style has the potential to become great even a simple line on a piece of paper and even the great artists that are now Legends had the same questions during their life.

The purpose of this exhibition is to create a dialogue between artists, artworks and the audience and to demonstrate that any form of art in any style can be successful. This exhibition will take place at our gallery space in Tower Bridge Area, Central London. The space is located in one of most iconic places in the world and the most visited place in the whole UK.

Eligibility: Open to artists in the UK and internationally. Eligible media include paintings, sculptures, photography, installations, prints, textile, illustrations, digital art, etc.

What you get: Exhibition | printed catalogs | printed posters | printed brochures | admin | graphic designer | champagne | caviar | professional photographer | hostess | security | bartender | printing and framing for the artists who opt for that.

Fee: To submit work is free, but we do charge a £165 fee for each participating artist as we only charge a 15% sales commission.

Deadline 03 June 2022

Down the Wire Live is a six-month collaborative project between B’sarya (Egypt) and Cryptic (UK). Both organisations will support artists, enabling them to participate in a collaborative research and development project resulting in a live performance/event in both Glasgow and Alexandria.

Eligibility: You must be a UK based artist to apply for this opportunity. You can be working across any discipline including music, AV, visual arts, and at any stage in your career.

What you get: Selected artists will have the chance to develop a collaborative work with an artist based in Egypt. The research and development project will be cultivated through 4 week long residencies in both Glasgow and Alexandria. The artists will be required to give public talks or workshops and share the outcome of the exchange (performance, installation etc) in Alexandria and Glasgow in early 2023. This is a chance for artists to share their working practice, be immersed in cross-cultural exchange, and establish artistic synergies across the globe with the support of Cryptic (Glasgow) and B’sarya (Alexandria). The final artists selected for the residency exchange will be given a weekly fee of £600 plus travel, visa costs, accommodation, and per diems will be provided.

Deadline 06 June 2022

20 collections, 20 commissions: We're working with 20 UK collection partners to invite 20 emerging or mid-career ethnically diverse artists of colour to take up paid residencies over the next 3 years.

Eligibility: The call is open to emerging or mid-career artists of colour, with a demonstrable track record of professional practice, and the right to work in the UK. You may identify as ‘emerging’ or ‘mid-career’ by your own criteria, which may include years out of college, employment breaks, career breaks or career changes. You may also choose to identify as a ‘person of colour’ or not, and/or prefer other terms of reference as suggested by the #BAMEover statement for the UK, which rejects acronyms and calls for the specific recognition of people from different diasporas and diverse cultures and heritages. We further note that the term ‘artists of colour’ fails to make explicit the complexity of lived experiences of inequality, for example where racism intersects with gender, class and disability discrimination. We acknowledge that ‘professional practice’ may not be continuous, and ‘relevant experience’ may be complexly defined.

What you get: Each participating artist will undertake a 15-month virtual residency with a host collection. The first cohort of artists will take up their residency in summer 2022. The second cohort of artists will take up their residency in spring 2023. Each artist will receive a fee of £10,000 (inclusive of VAT) to research, develop and produce a new work that engages with the host collection partner, in agreement with the 20/20 Director and host partner. The fee will include the commissioning and acquisition of a new work by the artist into the host collection, in conversation and agreement with the artist. This process will be facilitated by UAL and informed by the Advisory Group recommendations. The fee will also cover participation in public programme activities and end of project evaluation. Artists will also receive a research, development and production budget of up to £15,000 (inclusive of VAT). This will include up to £1,000 towards the production of a limited-edition print that will form part of 20/20 print portfolio to be gifted to each collection. Artists will be supported by the 20/20 team at the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute as well as named curatorial and collections staff at each partner institution. The 20/20 team will provide directorial, pastoral, project management and administrative support to the relationship between the artists and collections. While the residencies are largely virtual, collection partners welcome physical site visits and may be able to provide limited work and research space. The host collection will: Assign an institutional mentor and identify key organisations contacts to support the artist Introduce the artist to the organisation’s relevant key staff at all levels Check in regularly with the artist to address pastoral, research or collections access needs.

Deadline 06 June 2022

The BBA Photography Prize awards international photographers irrespective of their background with several Prizes incl. a solo show, cash prizes & more. The competition includes two exhibitions - one at Berlin Photo Week in September and one at Kühlhaus Berlin in October. Berlin Photo Week is a prestigious community event and industry fair. Kühlhaus Berlin is one of the city’s most favoured venues for cultural events.

A jury of experts debates the entries and ensures an unbiased evaluation and high quality standard. Photographers can enter between 1-15 images and compete for 5 Prizes. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd Prize, the One Shot and the People’s Choice Award are awarding photographers for their visual excellence, storytelling, conceptual thinking, technical craftsmanship and subject depth over a series of works. BBA Gallery will feature the best applications through their social media profiles and website.

Eligibility: Anyone working within Photography.

What you get: Online Promotion, 2 Group Exhibitions, Solo Exhibition in 2023, Arty Profiles, Cash Prize.

Fee: €39.

Deadline 06 June 2022

Sustainability First and National Grid are launching two art residencies focused on the UK’s North Sea, a world-leading centre for sustainable energy. We are seeking proposals that celebrate the cultural heritage of coastal communities and explore opportunities provided by sustainable energy.

Eligibility: The two artist residency opportunities are open to UK based artists, over the age of 18 years on 19 April 2022.

What you get: Artists will be paid £4,000, plus a £1,000 stipend, a space to work and an exhibition.

Deadline 08 June 2022

Exhibit globally and win cash prizes in 8th Exhibizone sales exhibition.

Eligibility: Visual artists working in any medium from anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply.

What you get:

• Group Exhibition: An international online group exhibition will present selected artworks by talented artists worldwide. All selected artworks will be exhibited online from June 15, 2022 to July 31, 2022.
• Artwork Sales: Selected artworks will be promoted to sell via an online exhibition link. Moreover, they will be placed in one online Biafarin partner art gallery worldwide for the duration of the exhibition.
• Exhibition Catalogue: All selected artworks and artists will be published in a stylish colorful exhibition catalogue available online. Artists can order the print catalogue via print-on-demand service from a partner website. The catalogue will be promoted internationally and circulated and available to thousands of viewers via popular publication gateways.
• Public Choice Awards: USD 600 for the 3 artists with the highest number of views in the exhibitions.
• Promotional Badges: A digital promotional badge for each artwork will be sent to each artist to share in the social media.
• Poster: A link to the digital version of the exhibition poster will be sent to each artist via email.
• Artwork Reviews: All exhibition visitors can submit their reviews and ratings of the exhibition and each artwork online. The reviews act as a bridge to visitors' minds and hearts and will be sent to each selected artist for exhibition by email.
• Exhibition Promotion: A promotion program including exhibition press release sent out, catalogue circulation and social media presentation, will be executed to boost the selected artists' exposure and increase the artwork sales during the exhibition period.
• Reports, Analytics and Insights: A report containing the number of views, reviews, artworks popularity, and engagement rate of exhibition viewers with artworks along with sales statistics will be sent to artists regularly.
• Publication: Some of the selected artworks might be published in various magazines and books in Biafarin art network for promotion purposes.
• Artist Profile Page: Each artist receives a free online profile page in Biafarin platform.
• Certificate: A digital certificate will be issued for all participants and selected artists. Each artist can print the digital certificate from Biafarin platform, after the submission is complete.
• Free Shipment: Selected Biafarin members with Gold and Platinum membership will use a free shipment of their artwork(s) in case of sales.

Fee: $40 for 3 artworks / $10 for each additional artwork (up to 10 artworks are accepted).

Deadline 09 June 2022

Call for artistic duos from Ukraine is now open. The residence will take place in September 2022. The call is addressed to Ukrainian artists, creators and theoreticians of broadly defined art (visual arts, theatre, literature and others). We invite duos to apply, consisting of: an artist, theoretician or researchers living in Poland or planning to move to Poland (including Wrocław or Lower Silesia) ; a creator, theoretician or researcher currently residing in Ukraine, who wants or needs to stay there (this person will do the residency in digital form, without coming to Poland).

The theme of the artistic residency are scenarios of the future of Ukraine. Through regular online meetings, the collaborative duo will develop an artistic activity that will be presented to the public during a hybrid artist talk in Wrocław Institute of Culture – Barbara (Świdnicka Street 8b).

Eligibility: Ukrainian artists living in Poland and Ukraine.

What you get: Money, mentoring, networking, accomodation and renumeration.

Deadline 09 June 2022

Three prizes of $50,000 will be given to young immigrant classical and contemporary musicians whose work demonstrates a significant contribution to the advancement of music in the United States.

Eligibility: Applicants must:

• Have been born outside the United States of America to non-American parents.
• Not be more than 38 years old as of December 31, 2022 (born on or after January 1, 1984). Exceptions will be made for applicants who were born on or after January 1, 1982 and experienced career interruptions due to medical, military, parental or caregiving leave.
• Have lived in the United States for at least four years (or immigrated to the United States on or before December 31, 2018).
• Be one of the following: a naturalized citizen or a permanent resident of the United States; a H-1B or O-1 visa holder with a valid visa stamp; a H-4 visa holder with a valid EAD card; a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) relief; an asylee or an asylum seeker who has applied for asylum and has a valid EAD card.
• Have at least five years of professional experience in music.
• Not be enrolled as a student (full-time).
• Have released at least 3 singles or albums on major or independent labels.
• Intend to pursue a career in the United States.
• Not be a past recipient of the Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in any category.

What you get: $50,000.

Deadline 10 June 2022

Send us your interpretations of Rural Impressions, Suburban Scenes and Urban Landscapes. Lots to see, lots to photograph.

Eligibility: International, no age, no expertise, photography only.

What you get: Prize package worth $4000, gallery exhibit on our website, gallery catalog.

Fee: $35 for the first three images. $10 for each additional image.

Deadline 12 June 2022

Fotografic Gallery, Prague Announces Two International Open Calls For Exhibition Projects For 2023!

Both open calls are meant for Czech and international artists, both individuals and art collectives. Fotografic focuses primarily on contemporary photography with overlaps and crossovers to other art fields and art experiments.

1. Open Call – Photography, New Media, Installation, Etc.

In this first open call, to enrich the exhibition program in 2023, we are looking for innovative approaches and new insights into photography, interactive media as well as painting and drawing.

2. Open Call – Moving Image

The second open call is focused exclusively on audiovisual projects, in the form of video art, short or experimental films and other formats for independent presentation in the newly emerging gallery “video art space” or in group exhibitions in the main gallery space.

Eligibility: International artists working with photography, video, new media of any age an any nationality.

What you get: Galerie Fotografic will provide:

• PR (printed invitation cards, social networks, newsletter, media)
• installation assistance
• organisation of an exhibition opening
• corresponding accompanying art events during the exhibition
• duration of the show 4-6 weeks, open to public Tue-Sat

Deadline 12 June 2022

We are now accepting submissions for our Virtual Exhibition WOMEN (only). Any female artist from any background can submit any of their work. There is no charge to submit your application. However, a small fee of £27 is applied once you have been selected for the exhibition. The team will review all applications, and the selected works will be announced in June.

Eligibility: Any female artist from any background

What you get: Virtual solo exhibition; introduction to our network of collectors and support via social media.

Fee: £27 if selected

Deadline 12 June 2022

Between November and December 2022, Kyber Teatro organises in Cagliari (Italy) the 9th Edition of the International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival called “The Wonders of Possible”.

Submit your project for the next edition with a Theater play or a Performance with the New Technologies. Focus theme: interaction between art/theater and new technologies.

Eligibility: We encourage applications from artists at all stages of their careers. The participation is open to:

• Artists and Companies of every nationality
• emerging companies and under 35 artists
• not emerging companies and artists
• to who works individually or in a group of maximum 4 people.

What you get: The winners of the Open Call will have guaranteed the full coverage of the costs for mobility (flight travels, board and accommodation in Cagliari) and an “attendance fee” for the presentation of their performance for 2 evenings. If possible, we will cover also any material required for the presentation of the performance / show / play (it will be subject to agreements with our technical director).

Deadline 15 June 2022

When talking about competitions and exhibitions dedicated to 21st Century Realism, The International ARC Salon is the largest in the world in terms of entries, and the most diverse in terms of categories and international participation. This makes the International ARC Salon Competition the most influential and far-reaching competition for Contemporary Realism in the world, with over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through partnerships with prestigious magazines, galleries, and museums, with live exhibitions and a strong online presence. Categories include: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Drawing, Landscape, Still Life, Plein Air Painting, Fully From Life, Sculpture, Animals, and a special category for teens.

*Over 180 awards and honorable mentions

*Works do not need to be available for sale or for the live exhibition to compete and win.

Eligibility: Any age, any country, fine quality representational based works of art, traditional methods.

What you get: Over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through partnerships with prestigious magazines, galleries, and museums, with live exhibitions and a strong online presence. Over 180 awards and honorable mentions.

Fee: $89 first entry (With free 16th ARC Salon Catalog), $68 for additional entries, $48 for same work in additional categories, $25 for teen category.

Deadline 16 June 2022

We invite artists, creators and performers to do a 10-15 minute online interview about their craft. The artist interview will be published on the FENIX 360 Youtube Channel. We will also create a FENIX360 free app profile. In return, you get USD 100 and 10,000 free FNX tokens.

Eligibility: Creators & Performers from All Crafts

What you get: We pay a fixed fee of $100 to each artist who completes the interview. The artist will never be required to pay anything.

Deadline 18 June 2022

Applications are now open for the second edition of the Architecture Photography Fund — a unique grant, mentorship, and exhibition initiative, aimed at making the architectural photography profession more diverse and accessible.

The Architecture Photography Fund is run by architectural photographer Luke O’Donovan in partnership with Gareth Gardner Gallery.

Eligibility: Aged 18–25 and interested in architecture and/or photography, from a background under-represented in the industry, and living in or close to London.

What you get: £750 grant to support your architectural photography project, one year of monthly mentorship sessions with Luke O'Donovan, solo exhibition at Gareth Gardner Gallery in Summer 2023.

Deadline 18 June 2022

Birmingham School of Art and Eastside Projects are seeking applications from visual artists for the annual Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship.

The 2022–23 Wheatley Fellowship will support an artist with time and resources to develop new work and ideas which will lead to a public project to be realised with Eastside Projects. Previous Fellows include Joey Holder, Harun Morrison, Sofia Niazi, Bridget O’Gorman, John Wood and Paul Harrison, and Kathrin Böhm.

The fellowship begins in November 2022 with a nine-month residency based at the Birmingham School of Art – home to over 350 students studying from foundation level through to PHD. In the second semester, between late January and May, you will work with a group of second-year undergraduate students from the BA (hons) Art & Design and BA (hons) Fine Art courses on a project negotiated between you and staff at the School. This teaching will not exceed 3 hours per week across the 12-week semester.

Eligibility: Visual artists. We particularly welcome applications from artists who have Black, Asian, or Global Majority heritage, who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, or who are disabled or d/Deaf.

What you get: Embedded in the School’s community the fellow will be supported by a £9000 tax-free stipend and access to workshops, space, and facilities. During this time they will develop research, ideas, and work which, in one way or another, draws on Birmingham as a site or context. We imagine the residency will lead to proposals, propositions, relationships, prototypes, and artworks that will be developed as a public project with Eastside Projects.

Realised in collaboration with Eastside Projects, and supported by up to £10,000 for production and an additional £1000 artists fee, the form the Fellow’s public project takes is not prescribed. Rather it will be defined during the residency, meaning it might emerge as a community project, public artwork, exhibition, events programme, performance, or online project (for example).

Deadline 19 June 2022

Tethered Publics is a curatorial project exhibiting digitally mediated site-specific art. We are building a mobile app that ties digital artworks to physical locations to create a hybrid experience of place and art. App users will have to visit locations in order to experience artworks. Users can seek out work via the app or get notified when there is one nearby in their daily travels.

This open call is inviting all artists to create an artwork in response to a chosen location within the South London boroughs of Southwark or Lewisham. All artwork proposals must be inseparable from the location they are responding to, that is the sole criterion for this project. The rest is up to you.

Eligibility: Any artist with a contemporary practice over the age of 18 can apply, including students. All proposals must be able to be mediated through an IOS mobile device. This includes media such as text, AR 3D Models, web views, audio, video, images, networked services and more.

What you get: If your proposal is accepted your work will be exhibited in our first exhibition within the app. Currently, we are looking to build collaborative relationships and unfortunately can only offer this as an unpaid opportunity. Depending on the needs and feasibility of your proposal, we may be able to provide technical expertise to help you realise your vision.

Deadline 20 June 2022

The AIR InSILo call for the round 2022/23 aims to meditate on the present state of technology. The task of the residence – which is a space, an entity, a future community that urges us to be aware of issues of consumption, energy, climate, and equality in a non-capitalist way – is to provide a proper environment that can maximally render the potential of the invited artists. But if we speak about technology, which strategy to choose? We focus on and put the clash of two approaches, degrowth and acceleration, in the centre of our discussion.

Eligibility: AIR InSILo is looking for artistic and curatorial contributions:

• Which work with, use, and critically discuss technology in an Anti-Promethean and anti-capitalist way, and in this sense, can bridge the gap between accelerationist and degrowth concepts;
• Have the idea of intensity at their core, in its meaning of work devoted to sustenance, reproduction, relations and the creation of a proper umwelt for playfulness;
• Which are based on or integrating awareness and care as a substantial part of artistic practice;
• Which intensify thinking and slow down the speed and purpose of labour, production and consumption;
• Which can disenchant economics and consider ecological, social, political, a.o. dimensions as a base of artistic practice;
• Which can contribute to the sustainability of the residency by involving different levels of socio-technical innovation.

What you get: AIR InSILo provides:

• Free stay in AIR InSILo;
• Travel costs from 100 Euros up to 600 Euros;
• Honorarium from 500 to 975 Euros;
• Production costs up to 525 Euros;
• Opportunity to come with partners or/and children;
• Per Diem 30 Euros/ day for the short-term residency;
• Transport costs from 75 to 150 Euros;
• Usage of the facilities provided by the AIR InSilo, an opportunity to make purchases up to 3000 Euros;
• Featuring in the InSilo Magazine;
• PR support by the digital means of AIR InSilo.

Deadline 20 June 2022

The RSA William Littlejohn Award grants £2000 for excellence and innovation in Water-based media. Funded by The William Littlejohn Bequest and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy, the award funds the research, development and production a new body of work in a water-based medium.

Eligibility:

• Entrants must be working in water-based media (any pigment mixed with water).
• Entrants must be born in Scotland or have been resident in Scotland for at least 3 years.
• In the case of students applying, entrants must either be graduating in 2022 or currently studying at postgraduate level at one of the following art schools in Scotland - Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art, Dundee, Edinburgh Collage of Art, Glasgow School of Art, and University of the Highlands and Islands.

What you get:

• A monetary £2000 award to research, develop and produce a new body of work in a water-based medium
• An exhibition of selected completed work at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2023
• Acquisition of work into the RSA Permanent Collection; ‘A Recognised Collection of National Significance to Scotland’.

Deadline 26 June 2022

The RSA Morton Award grants £5,000 for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland to research, develop and produce a new body of work. The award is funded by The Morton Charitable Trust.

Eligibility:

• Artists must be working in a lens-based media (includes digital & analogue photography, film and video)
• Artists must have either been born in Scotland, have studied at a Scottish art school, or been resident in Scotland for at least 3 years
• Current undergraduate or postgraduate students are not eligible.

What you get:

• A monetary award to research, develop and produce a new body of work in a lens-based medium.
• An exhibition of selected completed work at the Royal Scottish Academy at a future date.
• Acquisition of work into the RSA Permanent Collection; ‘A Recognised Collection of National Significance to Scotland’.

Deadline 26 June 2022

Call for North West graduates to exhibit at HOME Manchester and Rogue Artists' Studios.

MADE IT is a selected showcase of North West graduates from the class of 2021/2022 taking place at Rogue Artists’ Studios and HOME as part of Short Supply's 22-23 programme GOIN PLACES DOIN BITS supported by Arts Council England. Art graduates are invited to submit work for 2022 selectors Mariama Attah (Curator, Open Eye Gallery), Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad (The White Pube). Short Supply and the selectors will shortlist 25 artists from the applicant list to exhibit their physical works at Rogue Project Space through September - October 2022.

Work covering any subject or theme may be submitted, and we accept works of all media. This may include but is not limited to: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, live and performance art. Submitted work does not have to be a degree show piece, but the entry must be a recent work that reflects the artist's current practice, and must be ready to exhibit at the time of submission deadline. We are not accepting or funding proposals for new work as entries for this opportunity.

Eligibility: Artists applying must be graduating class of 2021 or 2022, either from a North West based university or now based locally in the North West having graduated elsewhere in the UK. We are accepting applications from both BA and MA graduates.

What you get: Artists will receive a fee of £150 each for their participation in this show.​

Awards offered are:

• Curator’s Choice: £200 no strings attached grant
• CASS ART Prize: Solo show at CASS ART Manchester in 2023
• Castlefield Associates Award: 3 Free 12-month Associate Memberships
• People’s Choice: Online studio visit with The White Pube and Spot in MADE IT 2023.

Deadline 27 June 2022

We are now accepting submissions for our physical exhibitions in our London art gallery.

Artists from all countries are welcome to submit their works for consideration. You are welcome to submit works in any medium. (painting, photography, printmaking, video art, installation, films, sculpting, mixed media, poems, illustration, etc).

There is no charge to submit your application, please feel free to share your work with us to review. Artists are advised to send their cards for us to display in the gallery or prints of the original works for sale at no extra cost.

Eligibility: Any artist from any background can submit any of their work.

What you get: Exhibition and sales opportunity in London, along with promotional and network support services.

Fee: £245 per artist (not per artwork) is chargeable to the artist once they have been selected for the exhibition.

Misc: There are various deadlines, depending on the exhibition you want to take part it. Please click through to the website for more details.

Deadline 28 June 2022

The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) is offering one student or recent graduate £4,500 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of your choice. The Studio Prize was established by ACS in 2017 to help artists with the costs of rising studio rents. It recognises the need for studio space and financial stability for emerging artists at the pivotal stage of beginning their careers. The Prize is open to all UK or EEA final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Fine Art and other creative courses. Artists who have graduated from such a course within the past four years are also invited to apply.

Eligibility: The Prize is open to all UK or EEA final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Fine Art and other creative courses. Artists who have graduated from such a course within the past four years are also invited to apply.

What you get: £4,500 for a studio space; marketing

Deadline 30 June 2022

The Living Summer School (LSS) is a yearly week-long educational program promoting social and territorial innovation in and around the city of Kortrijk, Flanders.

Our world is changing at an unprecedented rate. The network of social spaces that define our territories need to evolve to face increasingly challenging and complex circumstances.

Participants will reflect on and design modular and sustainable future blueprints of Kortrijk’s social spaces. They will also be required to bring them to life through different situated experiments. You'll be working in a team together with other students (artists, designers, scientist, architects, ...) and you'll have access to different makers spaces across the city as well as lectures, hands-on workshops and different forms of coaching.

The Living Blocks Summer School will end with an exhibition and an event where different communities in Kortrijk will be engaged in discussing the future of their territory with students.

Eligibility: The only requirement is to be between 18 and 30 years old, no previous education or level of expertise is required. You can be an activist, a scientist, an artist, a designer, an entrepreneur, an architect, everyone is welcome.

What you get: We provide a week packed with activities and networking opportunities, a final event and an exhibition. We offer all our students food and access to four makerspaces and workshops. We're currently working towards securing scholarships for all our students.

Deadline 30 June 2022

Festival: October 12th – 15th 2022, DOCK 11 Berlin

POOL 22 will present a selection of fascinating dance film productions from all over the world, making the event a meeting place for creatives involved in the fields of dance, film, fashion and advertisement.

The focus of the festival is on films that create independent filmchoreographies through the intense interplay between dance and cinematic tools like camera and editing. The curatorial team of POOL 22 will create a film program from all submissions, that will be presented during the festival. The selected films – our PEARLS – are on the same par and reflect the diversity of the genre.

Eligibility: All dancers, choreographers, filmmakers and artists are invited to apply with short filmchoreographies and dance animations. Films should not be longer than 30 minutes and not merely a documentation of a dance piece.

What you get: Selected artists will be awarded with the PEARLS ARTIST PRIZE that honours the continuous and unique work of the artists in the field of dance film. The available fee (6000 €) will be divided between the selected artists. Furthermore, POOL aims to collaborate with various venues and partners throughout the year, such as b12 Festival, presenting selected film programs around the world.

Deadline 30 June 2022

Visual arts have always been an integral part of Glyndebourne, on and off the stage, and the annual Tour Art Competition, which has been running since 2013, offers a platform for new artists to raise their profile. 2022's competition challenges new artists to submit an artwork based on the theme of 'Disguise'.

Eligibility: New artists, aged 16+ with less than five years' experience of showing their work, are invited to submit one artwork by midnight (UK GMT) on Sunday, 3 July 2022. Two-dimensional works in any medium can be submitted, including paintings, drawings, prints, photography and digital artworks. The artwork should either be presented in a square format or be successfully cropped to a square format when reproduced, with a maximum size of 50cm x 50cm. A panel of judges will consider the creativity and technical execution of the artworks and how well each piece interprets the brief before selecting a shortlist and the eventual winning entry.

What you get: The winning artist will see their artwork on the cover of the Glyndebourne Tour Programme 2022. Their work will also be part of a physical exhibition onsite at Glyndebourne's Gallery 94 and a digital exhibition with all shortlisted works this autumn. Works can be offered for sale during the exhibition with an upper price limit of £500. As part of the prize, the winner will receive four free tickets to The Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne during the Tour 2022. All shortlisted entrants will win two free tickets.

Header Image: Keren Golea Emergence

Deadline 03 July 2022

Designregio Kortrijk is looking for 3 highly motivated and recently graduated designer-makers or creative artists to join in a regional residency program in Kortrijk, Belgium.

The Designers in Residence Kortrijk program is a 3-month full time residency from September to December 2022.

Eligibility: The profile of the designers must correspond to the following criteria: recently graduated (minimum level: master or equal by experience) team player manual skills (conceptual, handy, production, fabrication) an international outlook.

What you get: Designregio Kortrijk provides for the selected Designers in Residence Kortrijk: accommodation monthly fee (400 €/month) usage of Budalab Open Makerspace experts in several domains and support of Designregio Kortrijk one-time travel expenses.

Deadline 04 July 2022

A Letter in Mind returns for the ninth year! This year’s theme is ‘A Sense of Movement’ and we’re hoping for some powerful and creative responses from artists, illustrators and designers.

Our ninth exhibition takes its inspiration from all that we have been missing over the last few years travelling to far-off places, experiencing new activities and moving through life in a stimulating world. Whether you are feeling that change is in the air or you prefer to take the theme literally, we hope that you’ll feel the need to express 'A Sense of Movement' as this year's focus for A Letter in Mind. All you need to do is to create your artwork/s on a simple envelope and the rest is up to you!

A Letter in Mind exhibitions have attracted many high profile artists and celebrities since it launched in 2014.

Eligibility: Artists must be over 18.

What you get: The artwork envelopes will all be priced at £85 selling via our online gallery and exhibited at London's 'Gallery Different' in November 2022. The works will remain anonymous until they are sold; the names of the artists will be revealed at the end of the exhibition. As always, all proceeds from sales will support vital neurological projects through the charity The National Brain Appeal (reg charity no. 290173).

Deadline 15 July 2022

The Dream ...The unconscious, the illogical, the irrational – what is it about dreams and their uncanny nature that drives us towards conjuring fantastical explanations and mystical reports on their meanings? The depths of the internet have become a repository for dreams, hopes, irrational thoughts and vents – but are we asleep or awake? Sleepwalking or stationary? Is this a dream or a nightmare?

Eligibility: Women and non-binary digital artists.

What you get: A group show in VR, application to the wrong biennale, possibility for an IRL physical exhibition.

Deadline 31 July 2022

Big Screen Plaza is now accepting submissions for #ArtOnScreen, a curated series of digital and artistic programming that will be displayed starting in Summer 2022. We’re eager to showcase work from many creative disciplines.

Eligibility: 18+, International, No level of expertise required.

What you get: Big Screen Plaza is a 10,000 sq. ft. public plaza in New York City located at the Kimpton Hotel Eventi which features a 30 ft. HD digital screen. Located between the Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, and the art galleries of Chelsea, the plaza’s central location provides an ideal venue for generating exposure for artists to engage the New York community.

Deadline 31 July 2022

Founded in 2012, the Faena Prize serves as a platform for a continued reflection on the present moment and its irreversible and heterogeneous changing nature. This new edition of the Faena Prize for the Arts will take place for the first time in Miami, a city that has been home to Faena Art’s programming for the past five years. We invite artists across genres, disciplines, and technologies to imagine temporary and site-specific projects to be installed at the Faena Beach. The selected proposal will be presented during Miami Art Week 2022.

Eligibility: International artists across disciplines.

What you get: The winning proposal will receive a US $100,000 prize – US $25,000 in unrestricted funds will be awarded directly to the artist, and the remaining US $75,000 will be allocated towards the production of the new commission to be installed temporarily at the Faena Beach during Miami Art Week 2022.

Deadline 01 August 2022

To honor this milestone, we are sponsoring a Tenth Anniversary, no theme, Call for Entry. It will include, in addition to our regular prizes, a live exhibition of the cash prize winning and juror’s selection images. For this show the size of framed images will be limited to 11x14 (or 14x11).

Eligibility: Open to any and all photographers worldwide.

What you get: $4000 in cash prizes, exhibition in gallery in Hell's Kitchen, NYC, gallery catalog, inclusion in online gallery.

Fee: $35 for the first three images. $10 for each additional image.

Deadline 07 August 2022

International cartoon competition on the subject of mathematics in cartoons - toonpool.com and the German Mathematical Society (DMV / Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung) are looking for the 3 most humorous and sophisticated math cartoons.

All submitted cartoons will be evaluated by a jury (representatives of mathematics, media and arts) to honor three outstanding artworks with the DMV Math Cartoon Prize 2022. The award ceremony will take place in September 2022 during the DMV annual meeting in Berlin.

Eligibility: Any artist.

What you get: The 3 most humorous and sophisticated math cartoons will be awarded with €1,000 - €500 - €250. Up to 100 of the best entries will be collected for a virtual exhibition to be displayed globally and in local presentations throughout the year 2022.

Deadline 31 August 2022

The leading European award championing new dialogues between the arts and audiences.

Open to all non-profit European cultural organisations, the European Award encourages new forms of audience engagement and participation in arts and culture, supporting innovative projects, across all art forms, that can be shared, replicated and scaled across Europe.

Eligibility: All non-profit European cultural organisations, across all art forms and sectors, with a venue open to the public.

What you get: 3 prizes of €50,000 each and 1 Audience Choice Award of €10,000 to support and stimulate best practices in audience engagement, participation and access to arts and culture in Europe; An annual publication and website to offer a platform for sharing and disseminating best practices; An annual colloquium to encourage international dialogue on audience engagement and participation among international arts professionals.

Deadline 31 August 2022

We are looking for artistic people of varying skill levels to help us carve thousands of, primarily, foam Jack O'Lanterns. Carve full time or part-time starting April 18th. It is going to take a lot of carvers, so whether you are:

• An artist looking for contract full time work.
• A student looking for part time work.
• A hobby artist looking for part-time work or looking to carve pumpkins after their normal job,

Please reach out to us during the day or in the evening.

We are located in Lake Zurich, IL! Please email Cindy at cindy (at) allcommunityevents (dot) com if you are interested in being one of our carvers.

Eligibility: 16+, any expertise in art or medium. Must be local to Illinois + be able to commute to carving location.

What you get: Pay varies depending on commitment.

Deadline 30 September 2022

Our partner La Pamplona Art Studio offers 30 minutes of free consultations for art galleries and institutions looking to expand their businesses in China.

Get in touch for:

• Collaborations with galleries;
• Event and party management;
• Build Chinese branch;
• Bring in local collectors base.

After the consultation, if you would like to work with us to expand your business into China, we will make a detailed offer with options (terms/prices) matching the galleries criteria. All contracts will be made and signed in the EU.

Eligibility: For emerging and established European galleries, including the UK, looking to branch out into the Chinese art market.

What you get: 30 minutes of free consultation and proposal for future collaboration.

Deadline 31 December 2022

National Lottery Project Grants supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations with arts, libraries and museums projects.

Eligibility: Individual artists and practictioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries.

What you get: Grants between £1,000 and £100,000.

Deadline 31 December 2022

Artist Residency Program, launched in 2008, is characterized by Chengdu and Bashu Culture for resident artists to do art research, experiment, creation, communication and display, as well as committed to make a diverse, interactive, creative and continual international artist in residence program.

Eligibility: Open to artists, designers, art students or groups, art lovers or craftsman from various disciplines all over the world.

What you get: No application fee and NY20+ provides: 1. Studio/ workspace 2. Accommodation 3. Technical assistance 4. Promotion and Events.

Deadline 01 January 2023