Justin Ross

Every month we work together with 3 international curators to seek out exceptional artistic talents from around the world who will become ArtConnect Artists to Watch for 2021.

You’re an emerging artist with something to say — and you want to get noticed?  That’s what drives us at ArtConnect. 

We make it our mission to showcase exceptional contemporary art by up-and-coming artists so that you can take your work to the next level. Because we believe fresh artistic voices like yours deserve a chance to be heard.

Take part in our open call for Artists to Watch for the chance to win exciting prizes that are sure to get you noticed.

Boost your Art: 
Your work will be featured right at the top of the art page and stay there for 7 days.

Solo Magazine Feature: 
Winners will receive a dedicated page in our magazine to feature your artwork and a short artist interview there too   

Curatorial Review: 
One of our exciting international guest curators will provide a short review of your work and give their take on what made you stand out as an artist to watch.

Social Media: 
We announce each of the winning artists on all our social media channels, where they will reach an enthusiastic international art community of over 50,000 followers.

Dedicated Newsletter: 
Winners are presented in a dedicated newsletter that goes out to more than 26,000 subscribers.

Digital Permanent Collection: 
Have your work included on ArtConnect's own profile page as part of our digital permanent collection. 
  
Remember, your ArtConnect profile is your key to applying. 

Use your profile to introduce yourself, describe your artistic approach and create a portfolio of your work. 

Join ArtConnect's professional plan for artists to unlock even more ways to show off your work, and apply to this open call for free. 

Submit your work for a chance to become one of ArtConnect's Artists to Watch 2021

Sophie Arni

Lesia Kulchynska

Devanshi Shah

Elinor Sahm

Kaija Hinkula

Jia-Jen Lin

Romeo Alaeff

Meaghan Gates

Anne-Marie Giroux

Lisa McCleary

Laura Hart Newlon

Dorsey Kaufmann

Ayin Es

Artists to Watch 2021

Chianciano Biennale

The Chianciano Biennale is a contemporary art exhibition organised by the Chianciano Art Museum located in the heart of Tuscany. The Chianciano Biennale provides an unmissable opportunity for artists to further their career in an international setting; showcased across a network of 13 distinct art galleries and museum spaces. 

The Chianciano Biennale is taking place from Saturday 6th - Sunday 28th August 2022. The Chianciano Art Museum has been showcasing thousands of international artworks for over a decade, making this 2022 exhibition the 7th edition of the Biennale. Since this birthdate of 2009, the Chianciano Biennale has had a universal appeal and is recognised for their cultural connections by critics, artists and collectors alike.

The Chianciano Biennale is a part of a network comprising the thirteen Clancianum Galleries and the Art Museum in the town of Chianciano, all coordinated by Gagliardi Gallery. During the 2022 Biennale, artists and attendees alike will roam through the galleries to soak up the permanent collections, the Biennale and other summer exhibitions on display in Chianciano. The cluster of galleries are located up on the hill of the Medieval Old Town, falling back on stretches of the rich green and gold landscape that Tuscany breathes.

Encompassing over 100 artists and artworks, the Chianciano Biennale artworks will be meticulously hung across a cluster of the Clancianum Galleries and the Art Museum. The remaining walls of the Clancianum Galleries and the Art Museum will glow with a showcasing of seven other exhibitions ranging from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Savoy Gallery to Giorgio Armani at the Chelsea Gallery. The full list of exhibitions and their details can be found on the Chianciano Biennale website. 

There are no submission requirements for the Chianciano Biennale, the applications are open to all living artists without discrimination and wholly on the basis of the artwork itself. Great art has never been limited to established powers, therefore our application process is the same- no requirements, just submit the artwork you feel best represents you. 

The selection process is rigorous and allows critics and collectors to admire works of excellent quality both in the Art Museum and in the Clancianum Galleries, where contemporary art creates a magnificent contrast with the historic architecture of the medieval town.
 
To truly honour the dynamic talent of contemporary artists, the Chianciano Biennale offers sixteen awards. A grand total of €2500 will be prized to the artist with the judged best work. Others include being exhibited at the prestigious London Art Biennale 2023, Chianciano Biennale’s sister exhibition, or an artist critique written by the organisation International Confederation of Art Critics. 

Longevity and influence are married at the Chianciano Biennale and provide an unmissable platform for artists to further their career in an international setting. The hundreds of attendees are made up of critics, international artists, collectors and above all, a new audience and atmosphere to let your artworks expand in. 

To participate in the Chianciano Biennale please visit the Artist Submission page on the Chianciano Biennale website.


Transportation of your artwork and flights if you wish to attend the exhibition in Italy.

Gagliardi Gallery 

Chianciano Art Museum

Chianciano Biennale 2022

$39 for 1-3 images, $45 for 4 images, $51 for 5 images (Entry fee is non-refundable)

Craig McKee

The Art of Still Life 3rd Bi-Annual International Exhibition will be held this January 2022 at the 3 Square Art Gallery! Artist through the ages have be interested in depicting innate objects to convey religious themes, familiar surroundings, educational programs, and benchmark the skill of the artist. Common items portrayed by Still Life Artists of the past include everyday objects such as fruit, flowers, coins, food items, wine glasses, and dinnerware.

Kumiko S. McKee

Amanda Gress

Jim Benest

The Art of Still Life 3rd Bi-Annual Exhibition

Becky Vincer

Artist Call Out for a community/digital/light artist to work in Folkestone, Kent with Year 10 pupils between January – February 2022. The total fee for this project is £4,600. See https://peopleunited.org.uk/creative-opportunities/bright-lights/ for full details and creative brief.

Year 10 students from Turner Free School

To cover all costs including artist fee, materials, production, installation, equipment, travel etc. We anticipate the artists fee to be a minimum of 12 days at £200-250 per day depending on experience. Payment will be made by invoice, 50% at the beginning and 50% on completion of the project. 

People United: Bright Lights Open Call

Mahfuzur Rahman

Obscure Artists is a social media-based artistic group from Bangladesh. It has entered into its 2nd anniversary. On this occasion, we are accepting paintings in our Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/388572135356260/) for showcasing their paintings.

Obscure Artists 2nd Anniversary Painting Contest

MMMAD

Landscape is, by etymological definition, a part of a territory that can be observed from a certain place. This implicitly names the existence of two antagonists: someone who looks and something that is looked at. Landscape is also one of the most important pictorial genres in the History of Art, with infinite works, techniques and authors who have attempted to encapsulate the territory, the eco-political relations that construct it and its inhabitants over time. These landscapes require an observer, but also a 'creative someone'.

In contrast to the pictorial landscape, the digital landscape is ubiquitous. It can be in one or thousands of places at once. Its territory is 'the cloud'. Its creation can be individual or collective. These landscapes do not depend on gravity or physical forces that manipulate it, but on the code that constructs it. Digital art opens up infinite possibilities to create new landscapes in perpetual transformation, either present or future, either real or imagined. It opens windows to other worlds to explore not only aesthetically, but also politically and socially, all the spaces we inhabit.

In our post-digital society we need to address the relations between digital, biological and cultural systems, between virtual and physical spaces, between the virtual and physical space, between technological and tactile experiences, between virtual and augmented reality, between roots and globalisation, between autoethnography and community narrative. In this context, we are looking for works that explore the creation of new post-digital landscapes.

The landscape of the city of Vigo has been transformed by the construction of Vialia Vigo, a new 122,000 m2 macro-building designed by American architect Thom Mayne, which acts as a new 'gateway' to the city. A train and bus station, a shopping centre, a park and, now, a digital art exhibition space.

It is in this new location where five innovative large-format screens, new communication devices created by SMTH, will host a new digital art exhibition programme from today.

SMTH with the collaboration of MMMAD and the sponsorship of Nhood, launch the first international open call for digital artists on the screens of Vialia Vigo. Under the theme 'Post-digital Landscapes', we are looking for works that reflect on territory, landscape, city and space in the post-digital era.

Post Digital Landscapes Open Call

The Wendy’s Subway Residency Program supports a variety of projects at the intersection of literature, the arts, and publishing. This stipended residency provides artists, writers, independent publishers, and small-scale arts organizations with focused time to research, experiment, and develop creative projects, public programs, and publications over three months. Residents receive a $600 stipend as well as an additional stipend of $1,000 to produce public programs and further funds and in-kind resources to develop a publication. 

Residents become key-holders at Wendy’s Subway during the course of their residency with 24/7 access to the library and workspace. Beyond this time, residents receive yearlong Supporter-level membership to Wendy’s Subway. 

Residents are invited to develop projects that manifest through three key areas of Wendy’s Subway programming. These include: 

*****Developing 2-3 public programs, including talks, workshops, screenings, performances, and more (in accordance with COVID-19 safety guidelines).

*****Conceiving and developing a publication with Wendy’s Subway during the residency period. Past publications have taken the form of annotated bibliographies, quick zines, edited transcripts stemming from public programs, commissioned reflections, and ephemera and research undertaken over the course of the residency. Each publication is printed in an edition of 150-300 copies and distributed by Wendy’s Subway.

*****Exhibiting a special collection of printed matter and producing creative interventions in the reading room. The collection on display is acquired by Wendy’s Subway as part of the Residency Archive.

Pinko Collective

DOMAIN

NYC Trans Oral History Project

Radiating Black ~ Puerto Rican ~ Feminist Studies at CUNY

The Free Black Women’s Library

Makhzin

Kaf Collective

Reading Zimbabwe

Pilipinx American Library - P A L

GenderFail

unbag

Erizo: A Journal of the Arts

Collective Question

Gato Negro Ediciones

Mochila/diSONARE

Residents receive a $600 stipend as well as an additional stipend of $1,000 to produce public programs and in-kind resources to develop a publication.

2022 Residency - Call for Proposals

Pierre Bongiovanni

The Maison Laurentine and the Sakura Endowment Fund have joined forces to develop a center for research and artistic creation, located in the heart of the Parc National Forest Park (between Champagne and Burgundy), by welcoming in residence, each year, 5 artists or groups of artists working in all fields of fields of artistic creation in connection with environmental and societal issues.

The purpose of these residencies is to
- to accompany the experimentation and the research artistic research,
- to allow the artists to benefit from facilitating conditions of reception and production facilitating,
- to link environments that are too often separated by associating and local actors of the territory to artistic action. 

Duration and conditions of reception: 3 to 6 weeks, spread over the year or not.


Françoise Colas

Rachel Deghati

Jean Pallière

 Marie Solange Dubès

The place of residence includes 2 rooms, living room/kitchen, shower room, WC, meeting room, with supplies : Wifi, water, electricity, heating, computer equipment if needed.

The winning projects will receive support of a variable amount from 3000 € to 6000 €. including : - the payment of an artistic fee, - a professional artistic accompaniment, - the allocation of production resources (equipment, technical assistance), - the provision of workshops, - the assumption of responsibility for travel and living expenses travel and accommodation expenses, - networking with the inhabitants and the local actors.

Au-delà des Murs -  Research Residency

Benkku Andersson & Renja Leino

Welcome to apply for 1 - 12 months residency!
Even shorter visits possible depending on timing.
 
We are looking for Art Professionals artists / researchers from all disciplines for whom the archipelago nature and the surrounding seaside could be an interesting area to contemplate or a theme to work on. We can offer time for thinking and for experiments without a pressure to produce a new work. Artistic process needs often time to develop. Longer stay offers time to make deeper connections even with our local community.
Mark clearly how long stay you apply 1-12 months.
 
NEW: 1 year residency "Four Seasons"
Longer residency gives a great possibility to live on the island and experience the change in nature: light summer months towards quiet dark winter and then towards lighter times again!
 
We encourage a dialog between the visiting artists, both national and international quests and a dialog with local people and the environment.
Our special area is the unique archipelago nature, with the nearby Archipelago National Park and biosphere area. We have light summer nights May-July. Autumn deep darkness, star nights and possibly ice at winter time often Feb-March and frozen sea when a heavy winter – AARK has something specific with nature around the year. Our location is by the seaside and nearby forest.
Our residency can offer a quiet retreat as well a more social setting – depending on the artists needs and other art professionals visiting.

AARK residency has 5 studio apartments each with bedroom, private kitchen, shower/wc. Also a ruff basement studio 30m2 for what ever use.

Islands Sea 2022

Taikabox Team

ODH is a unique opportunity to meet like-minded artists and technology specialists who are interested in creative risk-taking and collaborate in an easy-going and supportive atmosphere. Together we explore the relationship between dance and technology to kickstart the future of performance.

ODH22 takes place from 7th – 11th February in Oulu. We are looking for artists from any background to participate.

ODH22 is a safe space for exploration. Participants will work in groups to explore the provided technology within a performance context, guided by experienced mentors. The programme will result in an informal sharing of ideas on the final day, including a small invited audience. This year’s hack features MiMU gloves, projection, moving head lights/lasers, robot dogs and automated platforms, 3D printing/CNC/vinyl cutting/wearable electronics, various sensors and interactive sound.

The residency is free of charge. TaikaBox is working towards making Oulu Dance Hack a carbon neutral event and hence it aims to support participants’ slow travel and to cover their accommodation expenses. 

OULU DANCE HACK 22

KÜNSTLERGUT PRÖSITZ

One-Month-Scholarship for Sculpture, Installation and Object Art
 
The Saxon artist residence "Künstlergut Prösitz" invites applications for four-week participation in the Europe-wide unique symposium within May to October annually.

The aim of the symposium is to enable professional artists to work sculpturally / installatively during the four working weeks at the Künstlergut.

Unique and special is that the scholarship is addressed to female artists who are also mothers. The Prösitzer Symposium allows them to bring their children with them. Childcare will be provided for the children (maximum age 12 years) at the Künstlergut Prösitz during the four-week residency. This allows the women to devote themselves to their artistic work, to exchange ideas with colleagues in the same life situation and also to network ideally.

The jury is composed of the previous year's scholarship holders and a curator (art historian). Thus, the jury remains independent and the scholarship holders gain (further) jury experience through their participation.

Artists can reside in a former three-sided farm in a small Saxon village on the A14 highway between Dresden and Leipzig.  A room with a small bathroom is available for each artist with her child/children.

Symposium Künstlergut Prösitz

Mag. Martina Greil Bakk.

The Department of Culture, Education and Knowledge of the City of Salzburg offers the following working residency abroad for visual artists in 2022.

The city of Salzburg grants a scholarship (incl. travel expenses) in the amount of € 800,--. Of this amount, 2/3 will be instructed before the start of the trip and 1/3 after the stay has been completed and the work report has been sent. The city of Dresden provides accommodation in the Hotel Raskolnikoff free of charge and grants a subsidy for the printing costs in the graphic workshop in the amount of € 250. The offer is primarily aimed at artists who already have printmaking experience.

The city of Dresden provides accommodation in the Hotel Raskolnikoff free of charge.

The city of Salzburg grants a scholarship (incl. travel expenses) in the amount of € 800,--. Of this amount, 2/3 will be instructed before the start of the trip and 1/3 after the stay has been completed and the work report has been sent. 