Below you will find a list of the top artist residencies, international open calls, artist grants, exhibition opportunities and art competitions that we believe will benefit artists in 2023!
This year, we added another new feature! You can now save the important deadlines for your favorite opportunities right in your Artwork Archive account.
When you find a call that interests you, simply click ‘Add to Schedule' and the call's deadline will be automatically added to your Schedule. You'll also receive weekly reminders to keep you on top of your game.
We will be updating this list throughout the year, so make sure to bookmark the page, check back often, and let us know if there is an opportunity that should be listed!
Are you in the US and looking for the best opportunities in your region?
You can find Artwork Archive’s guides to the artist opportunities in your region using the guides below:
Midwestern United States Guide
Southwestern United States Guide
January 27, 2023
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces an art call for the gallery’s 12th Annual “All Women” Online Juried Art Competition. The gallery invites all 2D and 3D women artists only (including photography and digital arts) from around the world to make online submissions for possible inclusion in the Gallery’s February 2023 online group art exhibition.
The gallery invites women artists, regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best representational or abstract art. There is no theme for this competition, so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration.
January 27, 2023
The U.S. Global Change Research Program, in collaboration with Smithsonian Institution, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, invites artists to engage in the development of the Fifth National Climate Assessment by creatively visualizing climate change in the United States: its causes, impacts, and manifestations; our shared vulnerabilities; and the strength of our collective response.
January 30, 2023
Every month we will choose 3 artists to win $100 cash, a published interview with our Art Director & Founder Chantal Boynes, a winner’s certificate and a feature in our Newsletter going out to almost 40,000 artists and art lovers.
For those artists who appreciate the world around them, from beautiful landscapes
made by Mother Nature to those made by (Wo)Man, and everything in between. Now is your time to shine, as this month is dedicated to you and your landscape works.
Submissions close 30th January, 2023
January 30, 2023
The PrattMWP Gallery, located in the renowned art museum, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY, awards exhibitions to emerging and mid-career artists working in a range of media. Throughout the year, the selected exhibitions support the PrattMWP College of Art & Design students education and provide cultural enrichment to the surrounding community.
January 31, 2023
Art of Possibilities Art Show & Sale is a project of the Allina Health Foundation and Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute (CKRI). It is one of only a handful of juried art shows in the world exclusively featuring artists with disabilities. Held every year since 1963, the Art Show & Sale is a much-anticipated celebration of fine arts attracting hundreds of artists and thousands of visitors from Minnesota and around the world. The Art of Possibilities Art Show & Sale provides a forum for artists with disabilities to sell their work, promotes the talents of artists with disabilities, and creates a cherished and inclusive community event for people of all abilities.
January 31, 2023
Old Town Square is nestled snuggly amongst historic buildings in the heart Fort Collins, Colorado and is home to weekly concerts in the summer and year-round festivals, shopping, and dining. The goal is to expose the citizens of Fort Collins to quality art and artists, compensate our artists well, and help promote their talents.
Six sculptures will be chosen for the year-long, outdoor exhibit that will be installed on Saturday, April 22, 2023, and remain for one year.
January 31, 2023
ASLD’s Visiting Artist Series (VAS) brings notable artists to Denver from across the world. These artists complement existing ongoing courses and workshops, diversify our programming to include new artistic perspectives and media, and broaden teaching practices to enrich and enliven our faculty.
The Visiting Artist of Color Residency is a new facet of the Visiting Artist Series, born of the recognition that artists of color have historically been excluded from many formal art spaces, including artist residencies. Building on this knowledge, ASLD’s VAC residency seeks to take an active role in fostering equity and supporting diversity in the Colorado arts community. Selected artists will be representative of the racial diversity within the Denver metro area and open to participating in activities (workshops, exhibits, community conversations) that address specific themes and issues affecting communities of color and artists of color. Each 6-9 month long residency offers the artist access to dedicated studio space at ASLD; the opportunity to lead workshops, lectures, and community engagement programs; and culminates with an exhibition of work created throughout the residency (this may be a solo or group exhibition, as determined by the artist). Each residency is tailored to the artist’s expertise and discipline.
January 31, 2023
Calling all California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii fine art visual artists! Sanchez Art Center invites you to enter the 2023 Left Coast Annual, juried by Renee Cyla Villasenor, inaugural Program Manager + Curatorial Associate, at the new Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco.
January 31, 2023
SFA’s 27th annual juried competition and exhibition provides emerging artists an opportunity to have work juried by artist Adriana Corral.
January 31, 2023
The 19th Annual Sculpture Garden exhibit at the Kemp Center For The Arts in Wichita Falls, Texas is now open for entries. All forms of outdoor sculpture will be considered, provided it meets the requirements of the prospectus (please read specs carefully). The juror for this event is Chad Plunket, Director of the Charles Adams Studio Project in Lubbock, Texas.
January 31, 2023
Textile and fiber artists worldwide are invited to contribute images of their work for a permanent online public exhibition project and catalog called I Choose, Therefore I Am. The project will help draw awareness to the recent events concerning women's rights. It will also give artists working in fiber and textile-based techniques a place to show their best work by expressing themselves through their perspective on how these changes affect their lives. A limited selection of works will be chosen to participate in a gallery exhibition from March 11 - April 30, 2023, in Houston, Texas. Artists can submit up to 3 works in 2D and 3D. They must include fiber and textile-based materials, methods, and techniques, including rug hooking, tufting, punch needle, woven, quilted, embroidery, and knit.
January 31, 2023
An Exhibit by West Virginia University Art in the Libraries Program. The hacker ethos in the positive sense is about the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct information systems. You are invited to highlight the intersecting values that shape our libraries through your own lens reflecting on how YOU library.
Who can submit? Community members, artists, practitioners, students, classes and scholars are invited to submit art, photography, collage, book art, poetry, painting, drawing, or other creative projects.
January 31, 2023
The PleinAir Salon $33,000 Art Competition is a monthly online competition consisting of 19 categories. We award over $33,000 each year for this competition. The Annual Grand Prize winner receives a check for $15,000 and is featured on the cover of PleinAir Magazine. We award an additional $6,500 to the annual winners and award $1,100 monthly to the top three winners of each competition as well as a People’s Choice Award. Each of the 23 monthly winners will be automatically entered into the Annual Competition. The annual awards are presented live at the Plein Air Convention & Expo each spring.
Because this competition is created by PleinAir magazine, which features not only plein air paintings, but also studio paintings, all types of paintings are eligible and do not need to have been completed in plein air. As we know, many studio paintings start with plein air sketches, and many plein air painters paint figures and still life. Our interest is in rewarding great paintings.
Annual Awards
$21,000 in CASH Awards
1st place
$15,000 cash prize plus the cover of PleinAir magazine!
2nd place
$3,000 cash prize plus a feature in the digital edition of PleinAir magazine
3rd place
$1,500 cash prize
Three finalists: $500 cash prize each — total $1,500
Plus, all winners will be showcased in PleinAir magazine!
Monthly Awards
$1,100 in Cash Awards EACH month
1st Place Overall
$500
2nd Place Overall
$300
3rd Place Overall
$200
People’s Choice
$100
Check out PleinAirSalon.com/Awards to see what else is offered to the winners
February 1, 2023
February 1, 2023
The City of Olympia is seeking up to 18 loaned sculptures from Washington and Oregon state artists for temporary outdoor display on Percival Landing a waterfront park at the southernmost end of the Puget Sound in view of the state capital located in Olympia, WA. Selected artists receive a $1,000 honorarium for the one-year loan of their work and are eligible for consideration for the Peoples’ Prize purchase award of up to $10,000.
February 1, 2023
The Colorado AHEC MURALS Program in partnership with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities is accepting applications for an artist to create a digital work of art that will be turned into a large format vinyl mural for the exterior of the Fulginiti Pavilion on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. The project theme is, "The Plight of Children in Migration." Illustrators, Graphic Artists, Photographers and Mural Artists with whom this subject matter resonates are strongly encouraged to apply.
February 1, 2023
A call to artists! Sitar Arts Center is excited to announce its 13th Annual Juried Exhibition. The theme this year is Unity and the Environment.
Sitar Arts Center’s Cafritz Gallery celebrates not only the artwork of our students, faculty, and staff, but the community as well. The Gallery Series aims to educate the Sitar Arts Center community about the visual arts from both the artist and viewer’s perspective, while giving young emerging artists the opportunity to exhibit professionally.
February 1, 2023
The Jones Gallery, located in the nationally recognized Kansas City Crossroads Arts District, invites you to apply for our March Group Art Show.
The Jones Gallery is in a 100-year-old historically registered warehouse, having 9000 sq. ft. of display space. In business over 10 years, and open full time six days a week.
February 1, 2023
Fusion Art invites submissions for the 8th Annual Landscapes art competition for an online exhibition during the month of February 2023.
For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art depicting natural scenery and the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, valleys, deserts, farmland, trees, rivers, lakes, ponds, forests, wilderness, polar regions, rainforests, islands and tropical landscapes.
February 1, 2023
Once Upon Water is a two-week art residency to create artworks about the material and magical notions of water. Water is in constant flow and yet may present itself as still ~ a mirror that mesmerizes. In this state its reflective surface invites gazing at our physical selves, but also beyond our bodies to contemplate both our inner experiences and relationships with the outer world. Water gushes from deep below earth’s crevices, falls from elevations and hovers in misty formations. It traverses time, shape-shifts as it slides through various spaces, and is one of Mother Nature’s greatest Sculptors. At once, water pours out of taps in developed countries as a banal occurrence, while women in developing countries trek miles to fetch it clean. Alarmingly, earth is under threat of losing all its sea ice this century, while future wars are predicted to be fought over water rather than oil. Yet, the world’s greatest religions say water holds the power to purify and renew.
February 1, 2023
The 37th Annual LowellArts West Michigan Art Competition highlights outstanding artwork by Lower West Michigan artists who reside in a 25-county region. Artwork in any visual art media can be submitted by artists 18 yrs. and older. Five equal cash awards totaling $3000 are presented. Artists may submit one piece for consideration by the juror.
February 1, 2023
A three-month visual arts residency in the heart of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focusing on the role of cultural tradition in the arts.
Misk Art Residencies aims to support artistic development and practice by promoting the possibilities of meaningful exchange between the local community and the global cultural landscape. The Masaha Residency is designed to cultivate the art sector by facilitating discourse, research, and experimentation around themes that concern the local community.
February 1, 2023
The Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program at Weir Farm NHP selects artists to spend up to one month living and working at the park. Visual artists apply for residencies in all media and diverse artistic points of view from traditional to experimental.
Duration: 2 weeks to 1-month long residency
February 1, 2023
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation established the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant in 1988 so that a ceramic sculpture or sculpture artist may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of their work. Each year, the Virginia A. Groot Foundation offers three grants (up to $60,000, $30,000, $20,000) to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture. Artists may be at any stage of career development, from emerging through mature.
February 1, 2023
Located in the small historic village of Montegiovi, Italy, in southern Tuscany, Cultivate’s La Baldi Residency is open to artists, writers, and researchers. The multi-disciplinary, international residency expands Cultivate’s investigative platform centered on land, place, and the commons. Individuals and collective teams are free to experiment, develop ideas and projects, rejuvenate, and explore the land and culture of this special area for two-week or one-month stays. Two month-long residencies are awarded each year. The residency awards cover all fees.
February 2, 2023
Superfine combines the passion for producing and selling art with the desire for owning it. The fairs connect artists and collectors worldwide and teach hand-picked artists how to sell their art at locations in New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, and Savannah. Miami is where it all started and is now home to the largest annual fair, during peak February winter season. Show and sell your work in the center of the action during Art Wynwood, the Miami International Boat Show, and the greater metro area.
February 3, 2023
Open to all currently enrolled Champlain College Art Students.
The Juried Student Art Show welcomes submission in a variety of mediums, including video, audio, 3-D model, sculpture, graphic design, photography, digital & manual painting, drawing, and illustration.
Jurors are made up of faculty, alumni, and industry professionals.
Work will be selected for an in person Spring 2023 Exhibition in The Champlain College Main Gallery. Dates TBD.
The Art Gallery supports and fosters innovative and experimental contemporary art in all media through exhibitions, events, projects, and residences. The Art Gallery is a catalyst for interdisciplinary collaboration and learning at the intersection of art and technology, and features the work of national, regional, and cultural contexts of the art of our time. Students also have the opportunity to learn more about the creative process and to think critically about the works presented.
February 3, 2023
The Virginia Beach Art Center (VB-AC) presents a nation-wide showcase that gives artists an opportunity to submit their very best pieces without begin bound by a theme. Artists from Alabama to Wyoming and all US territories are invited to show off their personal best. What will you choose?
February 3, 2023
Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our online exhibit, SHE. Throughout the ages, women have held the world on their shoulders. Females are the essence of life, representing softness, unconditional love, strength, courage, resilience, and hope- the world would not be what it is today without them. Femininity conjures up deep emotions and feelings that are just as vast and varied as there are people. And, in all the roles a woman symbolizes, she has been a constant source of inspiration to artists since the beginning of time. Show ‘SHE’ from your perspective.
February 3, 2023
The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) seeks the best in contemporary watercolour and watermedia painting for the RI 211th Exhibition.
The show, in spring 2023, offers the opportunity to win prizes & awards worth over £7,500 and have your work seen by thousands of visitors to Mall Galleries.
The exhibition is the largest of its kind in the world, featuring over 400 of the finest contemporary water-based media paintings from around the globe. Since its founding in 1831, the RI has become universally recognised as one of the leading art institutes.
February 3, 2023
The Bonnaroo Works Fund in partnership with Arts at the Airport, are seeking proposals for 4 temporary public artwork Bonnaroo-themed displays at BNA, in Nashville, Tennessee. The display, which will be suspended from the ceiling June 5, 2023– April 7, 2024, encompasses 4 skylights located in the airport concourses on the secure side of the terminal. Each selected artist will receive an honorarium of $4,500 and 2 General Admission Weekend Passes + 1 Car Camping Pass to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival June 15-18, 2023. The ideal project will be of highest artistic quality (any media) and should be inspired by the principles of the Bonnaroovian Code.
February 3, 2023
Artist Entrepreneurial Grants support opportunities that will benefit artists’ careers and small businesses, including the development of business skills, participation in programs to raise the level and quality of their art, and participation in programs that will bring their art to the widest possible programs. Individual professional New Hampshire artists, makers, and creatives, 18 years of age or over, who devote a majority of their time to practicing, performing, and/or teaching an arts discipline. Applicants must also have been in New Hampshire for one full year and still be residents at the time grants are awarded may apply.
February 3, 2023
The word kinetic relates to motion. Motion in space or agitation, in flux or changing. Kinetic energy is the energy an object has because of its motion. For over a century, artists have been incorporating movement into art – to explore the possibilities of movement, to introduce the notion of time, and to bring a different kind of life and energy to art.
The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, a non-profit arts organization located in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to the "Kinetic" exhibition.
February 3, 2023
Northglenn Arts is conducting an open entry competition to select six sculptures ─ valued at no more than $32,500 each ─ to be part of Northglenn’s “Art on Parade” on-loan outdoor sculpture program. The selected pieces will be installed for a period of one year at E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park surrounding Webster Lake in Northglenn, Colorado.
Each of the six finalists will receive a $1,000 honorarium to help offset their expenses. In addition, $1,000 will be awarded to the artist who is the recipient of the annual “People’s Choice Award.”
February 4, 2023
Artists across the country are encouraged to submit their work for the 2023 Arkansas Quail and Turkey Stamp Art Competition. Accepted works will be exhibited March 18 - April 22, 2023 at the Historic Cane Hill Gallery in Canehill, AR. The grand prize winners in each category will receive $2,500 and see their work featured on the state Turkey and Quail Stamps. First and second runners-up will each receive $500 and $250 respectively. Open to all U.S. residents 18 years of age or older. Original, hand-created artwork only.