In Word Play, we are looking for artworks that creatively engage with text, whether through words, letters, phrases, or entire narratives. The text can serve as a message, a visual texture, a conceptual element, or even as the main subject. We encourage submissions that explore the interaction between words and image, spanning themes such as language, identity, culture, politics, and beyond.
Visual Arts
30th “Solo Art Series” – An Opportunity to Shine
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 30th “Solo Art Series” Online Art Competition. 4 Solo Exhibitions & 8 Artist Showcases will be awarded.
There is no theme for this solo art competition so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration. Both 2D & 3D artists (including photography & digital arts) are invited to submit their best representational and/or abstract art.
Extensive worldwide publicity & promotion, hundreds of press releases for winning artists.
Entry Fee: $26.00
Deadline to enter is May 5, 2025.
For further information and to apply online to this solo art opportunity here: https://lightspacetime.art/30th-solo-art-series-2025/
About Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery conducts monthly themed online art competitions and art exhibitions for new and emerging artists on a worldwide basis. It is the gallery’s intention to help today’s artists to successfully market their art to a worldwide audience.
15th Annual “Seascapes” Online Art Competition
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 15th Annual “Seascapes” Online Art Competition.
The gallery invites both 2D and 3D artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best representational or abstract art. The “Seascapes” theme is the artist’s interpretation and depiction of seascape art. Seascape subjects would include scenes of coastal living, any ocean activities, seaside vistas and any related seashore subjects.
Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize. Winners receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion.
Entry Fees: $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries / $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries. Early entry and art student discounts.
The deadline to apply is April 27, 2025.
For further information and to apply online: https://lightspacetime.art/15th-seascapes-2025-art-competition/
About Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery conducts monthly themed online art competitions and art exhibitions for new and emerging artists on a worldwide basis. It is the gallery’s intention to help today’s artists to successfully market their art to a worldwide audience.
$3,500 Artist Grants – All Media Eligible
The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2025 artist grants.
We are offering $3,500 and $1,000 grants to artists and photographers around the world.
The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists’ careers by providing them with unrestricted financial support that is coupled with a platform for increased visibility. We accept submissions twice a year via an open call.
We are currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2025 grant cycle.
Program Highlights
Total Awards: $11,000.00 USD for visual artists
— $3,500.00 – 2 artists will each receive a $3,500 (USD) grant
— $1,000.00 – 4 artists will each receive a $1,000 (USD) grant
— 30 artists will have their work archived at hopperprize.org
— A selection from the submissions will be featured on our Instagram feed @hopperprize
— Additional exposure will be available to winners through our Journal: Insights into Contemporary Art
Expand Your Network
Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators.
6 artists from our open call will each receive an unrestricted cash grant.
2 artists will win $3,500 and 4 artists will win $1,000.
30 artists will have their work archived at hopperprize.org.
Grant awards are unrestricted and may be used any way the recipients choose.
When submitting your work, you will have the option to opt-in to be considered for possible Instagram features on our feed @hopperprize, where we currently reach an audience of over 145k. Our editors will be featuring select submissions on a rolling basis prior to the application deadline.
In addition to grant awards, our shortlist, and Instagram reach, we will be providing an additional platform for exposure via our online Journal Insights Into Contemporary Art (https://hopperprize.org/journal/). We launched this digital publication to give artists a new channel to amplify their voice while providing an in-depth look at their work, practice, and background. Grant recipients and shortlisted artists will all receive the opportunity to publish an interview to include any work of their choosing as a means of providing continued support beyond the open call.
Eligibility
The Hopper Prize is open to all artists aged 18 and older working in any media. There are no restrictions on genre, subject matter, or media. We welcome entries in all media.
International artists are eligible to apply.
We are committed to supporting artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers. All artists are encouraged to apply.
Recent Winners
https://hopperprize.org/spring-2024-grant-winners-finalists/
We support artists working in all media, from diverse backgrounds, in wide-ranging geographic locations. Recent grant winners include:
— Alex Bex, Berlin, Germany
— Suzanne Clements, London, United Kingdom
— Liam Fallon, London, United Kingdom
— Liza Jo Eilers, Chicago, Illinois
— Nicole Economides, Athens, Greece
— Paree Rohera, Providence, Rhode Island
— Hai-Wen Lin, Chicago, Illinois
— Antonio Scott Nichols, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
— Ariana Gomez, Austin, Texas
— Derek Franklin, Portland, Oregon
— Ingmar Björn Nolting, Leipzig, Germany
— Abdulhamid Kircher, Los Angeles, California
— Allison L. Wade, Chicago, Illinois
— Andreia Santana, Lisbon, Portugal & New York, New York
— Anna Perach, London, United Kingdom
— Jimena Chávez Delion, Lima, Peru
— Krystle Lemonias, Phillipsburg, New Jersey
— Ville Kansanen, California
— Emily Kraus, London, United Kingdom
— M’hammed Kilito, Casablanca, Morocco
— Emily Weiner, Nashville, Tennessee
— Judd Schiffman, Providence, Rhode Island
— Mar Figueroa, New York, New York
— Eli Durst, Austin, Texas
— Britt Ransom, New Orleans, Louisiana
— Azadeh Gholizadeh, Chicago, Illinois
— Brittany Miller, Bronx, New York
— Galina Kurlat, Brooklyn, New York
— In June Park, Brooklyn, New York
— Rafael Perez Evans, London, United Kingdom
— Jazmine Harris, Chicago, Illinois
— Anya Roberts-Toney, Portland, Oregon
— Cathy Hsiao, Chicago, Illinois
— Julia Gutman, Sydney, Australia
— Sagarika Sundaram, New York, New York
— Abi Salami, Dallas, Texas
— Abigail Lucien, Baltimore, Maryland
— Hasani Sahlehe, Atlanta, Georgia
— Laura Berger, Chicago, Illinois
— Jennifer Sirey, Brooklyn, New York
— Cielo Felix-Hernandez, Richmond, Virginia
— Akihiro Boujoh, Utrecht, Netherlands
— Joey Solomon, Brooklyn, New York
— Lynnea Holland-Weiss, Cleveland, Ohio
— Susan Chen, Hartford, Connecticut
— Yannick Lowery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
— Andrea Ferrero, Mexico City, Mexico
— Christopher Desanges, Boston, Massachusetts
— Dominic Hawgood, London, United Kingdom
— Kira Dominguez Hultgren, San Francisco, California
— Vikesh Kapoor, Sunset Pines
— Adrian Coleman, London, United Kingdom
— Trish Tillman, New York, New York
— Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn, New York
— Elena Bajo, Los Angeles, California
— Vanessa da Silva, London, United Kingdom
— Mark Baugh-Sasaki, San Francisco, California
— Genevieve Cohn, Bloomington, Indiana
— Sydney Cook, Baltimore, Maryland
— Jinyong Park, London, United Kingdom
— Isabel Yellin, Los Angeles, California
— Alex Callender, Northampton, Massachusetts
— Alicia Eggert, Denton, Texas
— Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Minneapolis, Minnesota
— Juan Giraldo, New York, New York
— Maja Ruznic, Los Angeles, California
— Letitia Huckaby, Benbrook, Texas
— Tracy Kerdman, Saugerties, New York
— Lebohang Kganye, Johannesburg, South Africa
— Christopher Meerdo, Chicago, Illinois
— Erik Parra, San Francisco, California
Deadline
May 13, 2025
Simple Application
We made our grant application simple to reduce the stress of submitting your work and save you time. The application is short and can be completed in under 20 minutes.
To apply for a grant, you only need to submit this information:
— Name & Email
— Instagram Username (optional)
— Up to 10 Image or Video attachments
— Artwork captions
— Artist Statement & Biography (optional)
— $40 submission fee
Apply Now
Show us your work at https://hopperprize.org
Conceptual Matters group exhibition
CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium is looking for artists to complete the selections of “Conceptual Matters”, thematic group exhibition curated by Abramo ‘Tepes’ Montini that will be held at CTAO exhibition room in Lavagna, Italy.
Please send your application urgently to contemporaryartobservatorium@gmail.com and don’t wait the deadline, since we will close selections as soon as we fulfil the closed number of exhibiting artists showing quality and thematic coherence. Please understand that only pre-selected artists will get an answer.
Accepted artworks: bi-dimensional including video art, small objects.
THEME
The exhibition aims to offer a panorama on the actual developments and the evolution of Conceptual Art, how it is being interpreted by contemporary artists, analysing how the concept is crucial for an artwork in a society dominated by information.
Somebody may comment that all art has always been conceptual, since an artwork is born in any case from the artist’s will of creating it and how; but this consideration can be easily objected if we consider Surrealist Automatism, abstraction, Pittura Analitica, asemic writing and other genres of unconscious art that involve the estrangement from conceptualism and reasoning. Therefore, the artworks of this exhibition focus on the primacy of human conscience: the idea, expressed in a direct way or conveyed by the form.
Further details on http://ctao.eu/calls.html
Digital Art, Assemblage and Collage
Digital Art, Assemblage and Collage – This exhibition will focus on the various forms of digital art, collage and 3D assemblage. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from June 19 – July 12, 2025. Entry is open to all forms of digital art, collage, assemblages and combinations thereof. Traditional hand cut paper, digital and combined media collage are all acceptable.
