Depending on your eligibility, it’s possible for you to try for these annual awards year after year.
Ready to show off your art to the world?
Check out our guide to some of the best art contests to enter this year.
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Painting Competitions
13th Annual PleinAir Salon Competition Grand Prize Winner, Camille Przewodek.
PleinAir Salon Art Competition
Prize:$50,000 in All Cash Prizes.
Winners are announced on the last day of the month following the competition.
13th Annual PleinAir Salon Competition Grand Prize Winner, Camille Przewodek.
The Annual Competition closes on March 15th, 2025.
PleinAirmagazinehostsmonthly painting competitionsthat award artists across a variety of painting mediums.
Winners works will be featured inArtists Magazine.
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The contest guidelines are relatively loosethe only requirement is that the submitted artworks must somehow engage with technology.
Illustrators are invited to submit work created or published since January 2018 to 8 different categories.
The contest is open to artists working in a variety of soft pastel.
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Top winners and honorable mentions will appear in a spring 2026 edition ofPastel Journal.
Winners and select finalists will also exhibit their work with Homiens.
The overall winner will also receive a solo exhibition.
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It accepts submissions in three different groups, each with a different deadline.
After the final deadline in September, eight artists from each group will be named finalists.
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