UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES

Deadline 9/8/25 Booooooom, Tomorrow’s Talent 5. Booooooom is looking for fine artists and illustrators creating bold, unique work—whether in paint, pencil, ink, or pixels. Tomorrow’s Talent 5 is scaling up with more pages, more artists, and for the first time ever, a larger format. This opportunity is memebers-only, click HERE to learn more about membership and HERE for more information on TTV.

Deadline 9/10/25 Innovate Grant, Summer Cycle 2025. Innovate Grant awards two $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer from around the world. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Click HERE for more information.

Deadline 9/15/25 Monson Arts, Winter 2026 Residency Application. Monson Arts’ residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. During each of our 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year, a cohort of 5 visual artists and 5 writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life at the edge of Maine’s North Woods and focus intensely on their work within a creative and inspiring environment. Click HERE for more information.

Deadline 10/3/25 Booooooom, Array 4 — Art & Photo Zine. Array 4 will showcase a selection of fine artists, illustrators, and photographers making bold, memorable images. Alongside the digital zine, select submissions will be highlighted in articles on our site and feature them on Instagram. This opportunity is memebers-only, click HERE to learn more about membership and HERE for more information.

Deadline 11/14/25 Arch Enemy Arts, Open Call 2026. Philadelphia, PA. This show has no themes or direction in subject matter, allowing applicants to focus on their best personal work. Arch Enemy Arts is a gallery dedicated to new contemporary genres with a strong focus on representational, dark surrealism, magical realism, post-graffiti, pop-surreal, illustrative, representational, and figurative work across a range of artistic mediums. Artists can submit up to three individual pieces of art per submission application. Click HERE for more information.

Deadline 1/13/26 Gallery@OXO, Derwent Art Prize. London, UK. The Derwent Art Prize celebrates and rewards excellence in contemporary pencil art, inviting artists to submit the very best in 2D and 3D artworks created in any pencil, including color, water-soluble, pastel, graphite and charcoal pencils. Click HERE for more information.

ROLLING DEADLINE SUBMISSIONS

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, PKF Grant. The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist's professional work and personal expenses and amounts range up to $50,000. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces. Click HERE for more information.

Visionary Art Collective Artist Interviews. VAC interviews contemporary artists from all over the globe, providing a wide range of creative individuals with a platform to share their journeys and discuss the evolution of their work. All interviews are promoted and shared to their social media platforms. Click HERE for more information.

SHRINE NYC Submissions Portal. New York, NY. SHRINE Gallery’s NYC location has opened up a portal for submissions on a rolling basis. Emerging, Mid-Career, and Established Artists are now invited to submit their work for consideration to the gallery. Submissions will be considered for exhibitions and other programming opportunities. They also invite curators and galleries interested in collaboration to apply with proposals. Click HERE for the submissions portal.

The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. This is one of the most prestigious grants for emerging representational artists. Click HERE for more information.

Mineral House Media Digital Residency Program. Remote Residency Program. The residency includes a 2 week Instagram takeover, your artist statement and bio being highlighted in a landing page feature, a written interview, and an invitation to show work in a group exhibition. Click HERE for info & to submit a proposal.

Cycladic Arts Residency 2023. Paros, Greece. Cycladic Arts is an artist run space which aims to facilitate artistic creation in a newly renovated space in Alyki. Click HERE for more information.