Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2026
The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2026, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is now accepting applications from emerging Australian artists aged 20 to 30 with an…
Common Ground
Our Space Brisbane is inviting emerging and established artists to submit work for Common Ground, a three-day exhibition celebrating the studio’s fourth birthday. Open to artists working across ceramics, 2D…
Audrey Gibbs Art Prize
Entries are now open for the Audrey Gibbs Art Prize 2026, presented by the Royal Queensland Art Society (RQAS). The annual prize celebrates genre painting and drawing, honouring the legacy…
UniSQ Biennial Art Award 2026
Entries are now open for the UniSQ Biennial Art Award 2026, a national acquisitive art prize celebrating outstanding contemporary Australian art. Launched in 2024, the biennial award has quickly established…
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2026, Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize for women artists. Presented annually by the S.H. Ervin Gallery, the $30,000 non-acquisitive award…
Urunga Small Sculpture Prize
Entries are now open for the Urunga Small Sculpture Prize 2026, a national sculpture award presented by Art Space Urunga. Established in 2018, the prize celebrates original small-scale sculpture and…
Calleen Art Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Calleen Art Award 2026, one of Australia’s longest-running acquisitive painting prizes. Established in 1977, the annual award celebrates originality, creativity and excellence in contemporary…
LOOKOUT @ QUT Art Museum
QUT Art Museum is inviting applications for LOOKOUT, an exhibition program showcasing the research and creative practice of QUT students. Open to projects across visual art, design, research and interdisciplinary…
Korean Cultural Centre Australia
The Korean Cultural Centre Australia (KCCAU) is inviting applications for its 2026–27 Exhibition Program, supporting contemporary visual arts projects that foster cultural exchange between Australia and Korea. Selected exhibitions will…
Mosman Art Prize 2026
Entries are now open for the 2026 Mosman Art Prize, Australia’s premier open painting prize and one of the nation’s longest-running acquisitive art awards. Established in 1947, the Mosman Art…
Clunes Ceramic Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Clunes Ceramic Award 2026, a prestigious biennial national award celebrating excellence and innovation in contemporary ceramics. First held in 2009, the award has become…
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026
Entries are now open for the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026, one of the world’s leading international awards celebrating excellence in representational visual arts. Now in its ninth year, the…
Evelyn Chapman Art Award 2026
Entries are now open for the Evelyn Chapman Art Award 2026, a prestigious biennial award supporting the professional development of emerging Australian painters. Presented by the S.H. Ervin Gallery, the…
Prisma Art Prize: 20th Edition
Prisma Art Prize has opened submissions for its 20th edition, inviting painters, illustrators, printmakers and traditional 2D artists from around the world to apply. Based in Rome, the international award…
2026 Banyule Award for Works on Paper
Entries are now open for the 2026 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, a prestigious national acquisitive art prize presented by Banyule City Council. Awarded biennially, the prize celebrates outstanding…
Trades Hall Art Prize
The Victorian Trades Hall Council is inviting artists from across Australia to enter the Trades Hall Art Prize 2026, a national exhibition exploring the legacy of one of the world’s…
Sculpture in the Garden Wollongong
Applications are now open for Sculpture in the Garden Wollongong 2027, one of regional Australia’s leading outdoor sculpture exhibitions. Presented by Wollongong City Council, the biennial exhibition transforms the Wollongong…
Basil Sellers Art Prize
Entries are now open for the 2026 Basil Sellers Art Prize, a major national acquisitive art prize presented by The Bas in Moruya, NSW. Celebrating excellence in traditional 2D practice,…
Southern Ocean Art Prize
Entries are now open for the Southern Ocean Art Prize 2026, inviting artists from across Australia to submit work in any medium for this non-acquisitive national art prize. The open…
BigCi Environmental Awards 2026
Applications are now open for the BigCi Environmental Awards 2026, inviting Australian and international artists working across visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, filmmaking and curatorial practice to…
Burnie Print Prize 2027
Entries are now open for the Burnie Print Prize 2027, one of Australia’s leading national printmaking awards, celebrating excellence, innovation and technical skill in contemporary print practice. Presented by Burnie…
Bindi Digital Art Prize
Entries are now open for the Bindi Digital Art Prize 2026, a national art prize celebrating digital and moving image practice by artists of all abilities across Australia. Presented by…
Fisher's Ghost Art Award
Entries are now open for the 2026 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, one of Australia’s longest-running and most prestigious regional art awards, presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre. Now in its 64th…
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio Residency
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio welcomes applications for its ongoing artist residency program, offering self-funded residencies of up to three months in one of Japan’s leading public art centres. Located within…
Metropolitan Fukujusou Artist Residency
Applications are open for the Metropolitan Fukujusou Artist Residency, a Kyoto-based international residency offering artists the opportunity to live and work within a 200-year-old traditional Kyo-Machiya townhouse. Designed for artists…
Ongoing AIR
Art Center Ongoing is inviting applications for its Ongoing AIR residency program, a two-month international residency based in Kichijoji, Tokyo. Open to artists and curators from Japan and overseas, the…
Drawing Festival
The Drawing Festival returns to Queensland Art Gallery for a weekend of creativity, exploration and fun, featuring more than 50 free events across two days. Expanded in 2026 due to…
trenarren HOUSE Artist Residency
Applications are open for the 2025/2026 trenarren HOUSE Residency Season, inviting artists from all creative disciplines to immerse themselves in a unique rural residency centred on the theme Community. Located…
L’AiR Arts International Arts Research Residency
Applications are open for the L’AiR Arts International Arts Research Residency, offering artists and cultural practitioners the opportunity to live and work in the historic Atelier 11 Cité Falguière in…
Mudhouse Residency
The Mudhouse Residency invites visual artists, writers, musicians and performers to undertake a two-week creative residency on the island of Crete, Greece, surrounded by the historic mountain village of Agios…
Venuvana Artist Residency
The Venuvana Artist Residency, presented by ABARI, invites artists, architects, writers and interdisciplinary practitioners to immerse themselves in the landscapes of Nepal through nature-based creative research and making. Hosted on…
Life Drawing & Painting at Vacant Assembly
Join a welcoming weekly life drawing and painting session at Vacant Assembly, open to all skill levels and all mediums. Bring your own materials—charcoal, oils, acrylics, pencils—and settle into a…
John Leslie Art Prize 2026
Entries are now open for the John Leslie Art Prize 2026, one of Australia’s most established landscape painting awards. First presented in 2000 and named after John Leslie OBE, the…
E.SUN International Art Prize
Black Door Gallery invites painters to apply for the E.SUN International Art Prize, a global painting award established by E.SUN Bank in Taiwan, offering a total prize pool of approximately…
Redland Art Awards 2026
The Redland Art Awards is a biennial contemporary painting competition open to Australian citizens and permanent residents aged 18 and over. The award celebrates innovation and excellence in painting, with…
Paddo Sculpture Prize
The Paddington Art Prize introduces the inaugural Paddo Sculpture Prize, a national, non-acquisitive award offering $10,000 for a 3D free-standing sculpture inspired by the Australian landscape. Open to artists across…
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025
Deadline:
20240308
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is calling for applications from local and international artists for their 2025 edition, to be held from 8 to 19 January 2025. The Festival focuses on contemporary, cutting-edge and socially engaged performing and live art works. They are calling for proposal that are concerned with in…
Galang Residency
Deadline:
20240211
Powerhouse Parramatta and the Cité internationale des arts (Paris) are proud to announce the galang residency program 2024 supporting Australia-based First Nations creative practitioners. It offers an opportunity for two Australia-based First Nations creative practitioners to travel to Paris for a fully supported 12-week residency hosted by Cité internationale des arts. RESIDENCIES OFFERED…
IN | SITE PROGRAM
Deadline:
20240322
IN | ARI are looking for experimental, contemporary projects for their 2024 IN | SITE Destabilise Program. These can take the form of exhibitions, performance, installations, film screenings, participatory practice, sound works, or interdisciplinary collaborations. Have a project that doesn’t fit neatly into these categories? We want to hear from…
George Town Festival: Artist-in-Residence Programme
Deadline:
20240211
George Town Festival (GTF) 2024 is calling for applications from artists from any creative discipline to participate in a unique one- to three-month residency programme in George Town, Malaysia, between 15 March and 15 June 2024. The residency offers artists a dynamic and culturally vibrant environment to delve into their…
Seeing the Soul: Hoofbeats Sanctuary Art Prize and Exhibition
Deadline:
20240308
Hoofbeats Sanctuary is a mental health charity on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The sanctuary is a safe, restorative space that brings people, animals and nature together to improve the emotional well-being of some of the most vulnerable members of our community – women and girls living with mental health challenges…
YUI-PORT: Artist-in-Residence
Deadline:
20240216
YUI – PORT is calling for applications from Japanese and international artists for their Artist-in-Residence programme in 2024 near Niigata City, Japan. The purpose of Artist in Residence project is to host and support artists from Japan and overseas who conduct creative activities while residing at the Niigata City Centre…
Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize 2024
Deadline:
20240331
The Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize is offered by the Fleurieu Art Foundation and is a non-acquisitive South Australian art prize open to all Australian visual artists (aged 18 years of over) who create two or three dimensional artworks. There will be two prizes awarded by the judges in 2024. The…
Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival
Deadline:
20240331
The 9th edition of the Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival is calling for applications for the festival, which will take place from 6 to 19 May 2024. In this edition, the media art festival will be organised under the theme ‘Seeing is Believing’ in collaboration with German curator Inga Seidler.…
Making of Taloi Havini
Deadline:
20240229
Join us for the first of the ‘Making of’ artist series, an in-depth talk with guest artist Taloi Havini. ‘Making of’ is a platform different artists and perspectives within the arts world, to share their early career explorations, and walk us through the opportunities and decisions significant in their journeys.…
Accessing Art through Cultural Mediation with Dr Carol Masel
Deadline:
20240305
This professional development webinar for artists and arts workers will discuss different approaches to visitor engagement through Cultural Mediation practice. Cultural mediation is a visitor engagement practice that sees museum staff and volunteers’ journey alongside the visitor in an act of mutual exchange. In this webinar, you will learn about…
Mandorla Art Award
Deadline:
20240313
Open to artists across Australia working in any medium. Mandorla is a contemporary fine art award and Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize. 2024 Theme: Refocus: Let all that you do be done in love (1 Cor. 16:14) Entries close 13 March 2024 Finalists exhibited at Holmes à Court…
Social Drawing Session with Studio Maverik
Deadline:
20240321
Dive into a night of creativity like never before at our LIFE DRAWING PARTY with Studio Maverik! Join us on Thursday, March 21st, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at The Station on 16 School Street for a Social Drawing Session that promises to be a vibrant and unique experience.…
QUANTUM: Science Gallery Bengaluru
Deadline:
20240227
Science Gallery Bengaluru, India, is calling for project proposals for the upcoming hybrid exhibition-season on the theme QUANTUM, held from June 2025 to March 2026 in Bengaluru and online. Science Gallery Bengaluru invites proposals for exhibits as well as ideas for public programmes that respond to the QUANTUM Season. Proposals that may be…
Blaklash Internship - UQ Art Museum
Deadline:
20240225
As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world. Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision…
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Deadline:
20240303
The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Telstra NATSIAA) is an annual art competition that celebrates the exceptional talent and cultural significance of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists from across Australia. As the longest-running and most prestigious Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the event…
Maitri Cultural Partnerships
Deadline:
20240308
The Centre for Australia–India Relations is calling for applications from Australia-based individuals, organisations or government bodies for the 2023–2024 Maitri Cultural Partnerships grants. The Maitri Cultural Partnerships support greater exchange and collaboration between Australian and Indian creative industries. This grant opportunity requires applicants to develop, implement or deliver collaboration activities, events,…
Abundant Art - Creativity in an Era of AI
Deadline:
20240302
Join Jessie Hughes and John Swinson for a big day of AI! In this full-day workshop, we delve into the shifting realm of generative AI and how to bring these new tools into your art practice. Discover how fresh evolutions with AI are intersecting storytelling, production, prototyping and artistic processes,…
The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
Deadline:
20240110
Inaugurated in 2006, the Prize is named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry (1891-1973) who taught Visual Arts at PLC Sydney from 1930 to 1962, the Prize attracts submissions from around the country. With the enduring and generous support of the Parents and Friends’…
Artisan Residency Program
Deadline:
20240220
Applications are now open for artisan’s exciting new career-changing residency programs. Offering fully-funded residency opportunities for 2 outstanding Queensland craft and design practitioners! Established Queensland Artist Residency: Collaborating with a national craft and design network, this program sends a Queensland-based established artist to a major facility. The inaugural residency at Canberra Glassworks…
Optical Sound Workshop with Ross Manning
Deadline:
20240120
Have you ever wondered what light sounds like? Join Ross Manning at Redcliffe Art Gallery for some school holiday fun! Learn how to turn light into sound at this wild and wacky workshop. The workshop starts in the gallery where Ross will introduce you to his artwork in the 15 Artists exhibition.…
Hidden Gems
Deadline:
20240117
We are now accepting entries for our first 2024 exhibition, Hidden Gems. This is an open-themed exhibition which will allow entrants to show work in any style and media; the exhibition will be on show from Wednesday, 24th January to Sunday 4th February, 2024. Show your recent creations or any…
Sculpture Bermagui
Deadline:
20240115
Sculpture Bermagui brings diverse three-dimensional art to the public for 10 days every Autumn. It showcases the skill and imagination of sculptors by gathering works from established and renowned artists, along with emerging talent, from across the country. Passion for visual arts and cultural growth is driving this uniquely placed…
MGLC Švicarija critic-in-residence
Deadline:
20240115
MGLC Švicarija, a creative and residential centre, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, invites international art historians, art critics and cultural journalists to apply for a fully funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 1 to 31 October 2024. The aim of the international residency…
PASSEPARTOUT PHOTO PRIZE
Deadline:
20240118
Passepartout Photo Prize aims to support the development of talented photographers from all over the world by awarding 1,000 euros in monetary prizes every year, organizing exhibition in a fine art gallery in the heart of Rome, publication in our partners’ magazines, and providing other opportunities for international exposure. What…
The John Villiers Outback Art Prize
Deadline:
20240124
This is a prize for painting, drawing, print and sculpture – but no photography or digital media accepted. Artworks must correspond to the theme “Outback: A Sense of Place”. The John Villiers Outback Art Prize is an annual art competition open to all Australian artists and presented by the Outback Regional…
The Un[contained] Arts Festival
Deadline:
20240121
The Un[contained] Arts Festival increases the cultural vibrancy of the area, expands, and challenges the ideas of what ‘art’ is, allowing it to break free from the traditional gallery space, and letting it take over the streets, as well as give a platform for local artists to showcase their works.…
Harden Landscape Art Prize
Deadline:
20240216
Harden Art Prize is in its third year and has gained a following across Australia after its successful inaugural exhibition held in the rural twin towns of Harden Murrumburrah in NSW in 2022. The acquisitive prize of $10,000 is open to all artists who are resident in Australia with our…
The Alice Prize
Deadline:
20240131
The Alice Prize is a national contemporary art prize and welcomes artists from around Australia to submit their works in any medium or on any theme. Coordinated by the Alice Springs Art Foundation, The Alice Prize is held in Alice Springs biennially at the Araluen Arts Centre. The Foundation is…
National Photographic Portrait Prize
Deadline:
20240207
We are excited to announce that entries to the 2024 National Photographic Portrait Prize are now open. Now in its 17th year, the National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) is a staple of the Australian art prize landscape. Each year, finalists are selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia’s…
Muswellbrook Art Prize
Deadline:
20240209
Since 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize has grown and evolved and is today one of the richest prizes for painting in regional Australia. Finalists for the Muswellbrook Art Prize vie for a total of $70,000 prize money across three prize categories: Painting ($50,000 acquisitive), Works on Paper ($10,000 acquisitive), and Ceramics ($10,000 acquisitive). Astute…
DESENZANO FILM FESTIVAL: POSTER DESIGN
Deadline:
20240215
Desenzano Film Festival invites artists from all over the world to participate to the call for the realization of the Official Poster for the 6th Edition of the Desenzano Film Festival. The identity of the festival is described as follows: “Cinema as a mirror of human reflection. Diving deeply in…
PRISMA ART PRIZE
Deadline:
20240111
Il Varco Creative Hub presents the thirteenth edition of the Prisma Art Prize, which inaugurates the fourth year of the prize. Prisma Art Prize is a quarterly art competition with €2000 of annual prize money, over €3000 of service prizes and the possibility of participating in the collective exhibition in…
Sony World Photography Awards 2024
Deadline:
20240112
With its unparalleled reach, the Sony World Photography Awards elevate the careers of photographers to the next level. Since the beginning, the Awards have championed inclusivity and access by being free to enter. Acting as an insight into photography today in all its diversity, the Awards spotlights photographers telling the…
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair: EOI
Deadline:
20231222
CIAF presents a range of opportunities for First Nations creative practitioners to participate in CIAF 2024 while developing your skills and career along the way. From fashion design development programs to art fair and art market stall inquiries and many more opportunities, click on the information tiles below to…
Fondation Fiminco: Curatorial Residency
Deadline:
20231210
Fondation Fiminco is inviting curators to apply for a 3-month research, creation and production residency in Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis). The residency program is open to curators from France and abroad, with no age limit, who can demonstrate an emerging or significant professional career. This residency is part of the dynamic artist residency…
Creative Sparks Grants
Deadline:
20231211
The Creative Sparks Grants Program is an arts and cultural grants program that assists artists and not-for-profit community arts, historical and cultural organisations to create and present work. The purpose of the program is to create jobs, aid economic growth, attract tourism and improve social cohesion by supporting the creative…





























































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