Artist Opportunities

The third edition of the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards has just launched. Open to filmmakers from around the world, the program offers privileged access to the inner workings of the film industry to the 30 shortlisted filmmakers.

Eligibility: Open to all

What you get: Flight to Los Angeles and accommodation, ceremony attendance, four-day workshop program at Sony Pictures Studios, camera plus lens, certificate, trophy, cash prizes.

Deadline 12 December 2024

Join Blowhammer’s Unfast Fashion Contest and help shape a new vision for the fashion industry. This global competition invites designers and creatives to present innovative, responsible design solutions that challenge fast fashion standards. Participants are asked to design a garment that embodies ethical values, environmental awareness, and forward-thinking creativity, establishing a new benchmark for sustainable fashion’s future.

Eligibility: Designer, fashion designer, professional and amateur .

What you get: The project selected as the best will receive €1,000 in recognition.

Deadline 15 December 2024

EXPO 44 International Juried Competition invites artists to submit their work under the discerning eye of Emily Olek, Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. We welcome submissions in all fine arts media, allowing artists to present up to six images and/or two videos. The selected works will be showcased in a virtual online exhibition on the gallery's website from February 1 through March 31, 2025.

Eligibility: EXPO 44 is open to all artists aged 18 and over.

What you get: If selected, your art images, name, voice, video, artist’s statement, and/or biography will be used to promote the exhibition on social media, in print, and through any other publicity channels to promote EXPO 44. Additionally, cash awards are available for 1st ($300), 2nd ($200), and 3rd ($100) place artists.

Fee: $35 USD

Deadline 20 December 2024

The FutureTense Awards 3rd Edition is calling for young new media art talents based in Asia, centred around the theme "Define Safe". The FutureTense Awards, a new media arts competition, targets emerging and young creative talents in Asia and beyond. The award promotes and showcases artistic excellence and innovation from new generations. With a global expert judging panel, we offer resources in art, technology, and design to nurture young creatives by showcasing their innovative concepts through various channels.

Eligibility: Aged below 30, based in Asia (The Asia region includes: Hong Kong, Macau, China, Taiwan, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia).

What you get: Up to HKD 15,000, exhibition opportunity and online exposure.

Deadline 31 December 2024

The TARTGET PRIZE is an international painting competition celebrating its inaugural edition, offering over $55,000 in prizes. It is sponsored by some of the world’s leading fine arts brands and features a distinguished jury comprised of prominent international painters, gallery owners, and collectors. This represents a fantastic opportunity for painters who wish to win substantial cash prizes, advance their careers, or simply open doors to new opportunities. The registration deadline is 15 February, but if you register before 30 September in our PRE-DEADLINE, you will enjoy additional benefits.

Eligibility: The competition is open to painters worldwide across all techniques and styles within the various categories. Tartget will award prizes in 10 categories, ranging from figurative art to abstract and conceptual art. Works from hyperrealism to impressionism, surrealism, and abstraction are accepted. You can submit as many works as you wish and in as many categories as you prefer. The theme is open. Artists can participate and win in one or multiple categories. There is no limit to the number of artworks you can submit. The same artwork can be entered in several categories. The works do not need to be for sale or available for the live exhibition to compete and win, except for the main acquisition prizes.

Prizes: Over $43,000 in cash prizes and another 50 prizes in painting materials, training, and promotion in galleries and specialised media.

After selecting the 200 finalists, the organisation, along with an additional panel of jurors, will determine which works will be included in the grand physical exhibition to be held in Madrid from 5 to 12 June at the historic Ateneo de Madrid, steps from the Prado Museum and the Thyssen Museum, where most of the winners will be announced.

Fee: The entry fee for the contest is €50 for the first artwork and €30 for each subsequent artwork or different category. For participants under 25 years old, the registration fee for the first artwork is €35 and €15 for each subsequent artwork.

Deadline 15 February 2025

The Puchi Award is open to the most unique book proposals in the fields of comics and illustrated books, as well as hybrid projects. The Puchi Award has launched its next call for applications with a renewed focus on graphic content and a biennial schedule. The financial prize has also been increased to €10,000. The award seeks audacious projects with a distinct personality and clear artistic interest, where images play a central role—never merely an accessory or complement—in the narrative or exhibition development of the work.

Eligibility: Any natural person of legal age, of any nationality, with an original and unpublished work, may participate.

What you get: The winner will receive a prize of €10,000 (VAT and other taxes included, as an advance payment for the publishing rights of the work), along with the publication of the work, which will be distributed by Fulgencio Pimentel.

Deadline 27 February 2025

Magmart | video under volcano is an international videoart festival, which over the years has seen the participation of more than 1400 artists from +80 different countries, with thousand submitted videos.

The Festival is open to all international videoartists. Participation is free. Between all submitted video, will be done a final selection based on vote of a Jury composed by experts. The 30 selected artworks will become part of CAM Museum permanent collection. All sended materials don't will be return, and will be stored in the Festival's archive like documentation.

Eligibility: Everyone

What you get: Exhibition opportunity

Deadline 31 March 2025