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Art Prizes & Awards

Karen Kjærgaard, curator, Head of Exhibitions and Secretary of the Jury

Photo Of The Year is an international photo competition for architecture students in celebration of the significance of architectural photography for the development of architecture. This marks the third installment of the annual competition, which is supported by Dinesen and the Dreyer Foundation. 

In 2019, Aarhus School of Architecture launched an international architectural photo competition for architecture students. The competition, Photo Of The Year, is a parallel to Drawing Of The Year, the school’s other big international competition, which annually receives hundreds of entries from architecture students all over the world.

Like architectural drawing, architectural photography is a specialized discipline closely associated with the development of architecture. The best architectural photographs approach photography from an architectural point of view and bring out the potential of photography – also as an artistic discipline – to challenge how we see and work with architecture. In a world that is constantly being flooded with images, it is more important than ever to address the medium from a critical perspective.

Louise Wolthers (DK), research manager and curator at the Hasselblad Foundation

Christina Capetillo (DK), PhD, architect, photographer and editor of the Danish landscape architecture journal Landskab

Trine Berthold (DK), architect, senior consultant at Kongelundens Sekretariat and former pro-rector of Aarhus School of Architecture

Torben Nielsen (DK), rector of Aarhus School of Architecture and photographer

Photo Of The Year | Aarhus School of Architecture

Fondation Carmignac

The 12th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to Venezuela and its hardships at the individual, social and ecological levels.

This Latin American region was once an El Dorado bordered by the Caribbean Sea, which operated under a rich and prosperous democracy in the 1960s-1970s. It still holds the world’s largest oil reserves—ahead of Saudi Arabia—and vast mined resources (including gold, iron, steel, and coltan).

Twenty years after the Bolivarian revolution—led by Hugo Chavez and his radical socialist reforms—the country is struggling to extricate itself from a deep economic crisis, marked by the plummeting price of oil, endemic corruption and hyperinflation (3000% in 2020).

In under seven years, its GDP has fallen by 80% and importing has been slashed tenfold. In the face of this unrelenting recession, an informal shadow economy is growing.

While the results of the latest elections have gone unrecognized by the international community, the power struggle between the ruling Chavista regime under Nicolás Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido is dividing Venezuelan society. These institutional blockages, as well as accusations of electoral fraud or political imprisonment, generate frequent demonstrations and clashes.

These tensions, combined with problems of instability, only worsen the living conditions of Venezuelans, 80% of whom live in extreme poverty and suffer from severe shortages of running water, food and medicine. To date, 5.4 million Venezuelans—one in six inhabitants—live in exile in Colombia, Peru or Ecuador: the most significant migratory crisis in the world behind Syria.

Finbarr O'Reilly

Tommasso Protti

grant to carry out a 6-month field report with the support of the Fondation Carmignac

Carmignac Photojournalism Award

Manifest Gallery

Open to works of any media, any genre/style, any size... One work will be selected for the award, featured in the gallery, and published. Ten semi-finalist works will also be recognized and published.

In 2015 we were excited to announce that our non-profit board of directors approved an increase in the annual Manifest Prize (ONE) award amount to $5,000. This underscores our organization's strong desire to reward, showcase, celebrate, and document the most exceptional artwork being made today, and to do this in a tasteful non-commercial public context. Further, it is to incentivize the creation of excellent work and to support individual artists in meaningful, career-impacting ways. Manifest's mission is centered on championing the importance of quality in visual art. This project is one aspect of the realization of that mission.

Artist fee for 10 artists selected for exhibition

THE MANIFEST PRIZE

Art Room Gallery

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 2nd "Contemporary" Online Art Competition for the month of October 2021. This is the open subject theme with an emphasis in contemporary art. 

Contemporary Art Competition

The SKM International Photography Contest was thus established as a dedicated photographic visual arts platform for professional “photographers” and the starting point from which you can make your dreams come true. The event is a contest for entries of five photographic images that tell a story, with themes established by the photographers themselves. This allows participants to adopt a perspective of deconstructing visual art anew and thinking about how they describe their work and process, breaking down the unique visual image into elements within the frame that convey a personal and complete creative concept and visual art style. By challenging oneself, contestants allow their participation to be the starting point for making their dreams come true.

Natan Dvir

Ray Chin

Kengo Kobayashi

SKM International Photography Contest

Allard Prize

The bi-annual Allard Photography Competition, which recognizes photographic excellence reflecting the ideals of the Allard Prize, is adjudicated by the Allard Prize Committee and Maxe Fisher, Associate Professor, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media, Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Photographers are encouraged to submit entries year-round. Entries should reflect themes of courage and leadership in combating corruption, especially through promoting transparency, accountability, the rule of law, and of human rights and/or anti-corruption generally. We also particularly welcome entries that depict corruption and human rights violations in the developed world.

Robert W. King

Geoff Lyster

Richard Olson

Maxe Fisher

STÉPHANE DE ROUVILLE

JAVIER CLEMENTE MARTINEZ

BUKBIS CANDRA ISMET BEY

PHILIP OBAJI

TOM LAW

AUNG CHAN THAR

Allard Photography Competition

The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artists, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art.

The Foundation 

The Luciana Matalon Foundation was established in the year 2000. Inspired by Luciana Matalon, the foundation was created to provide an international space for innovative ideas and to create an opportunity of artistic visual, emotional and mental enrichment. 
In its headquarters, the foundation hosts historical and contemporary exhibitions of paintings, sculpture and photography. 
It also organizes meetings, conferences and cultural events such as; book fairs, chamber music concerts and theatrical performances. 
In recent years, the Luciana Matalon foundation has built relationships with the East, by welcoming exhibition projects from Japan (Tokyo & Yokohama), Korea and China (Hong Kong) by promoting its exhibitions. 
The museum area also guarantees a space-time continuity of the work of Luciana Matalon (a multifaceted artist, painter, sculptor & jewelry maker). A complete documents’ archive which dates more than 50 years of Activity in America, Europe and Japan is also available. 
The museum itself is a work of artfully designed by the artist, its main characteristic is the flooring which consists of a pictorial intervention that uses resins and optical fibers that welcome the author’s reflections..

YICCA 21/22 - International Contest of Contemporary Art

Hopper Prize

The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Fall 2021 artist grants. 

We are offering 2 grants in the amount of $3,500 and 4 grants in the amount of $1,000.

Grants will be awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators.

The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists' careers by providing them with unrestricted financial support that is coupled with a platform for increased visibility. We accept submissions twice a year via an open call.

We are currently accepting submissions for the Fall 2021 grant cycle.
Grant awards are unrestricted and may be used any way the recipients choose.

Tyler Blackwell - Associate Curator, Blaffer Art Museum

Caitlin Julia Rubin - Associate Curator & Director of Programs, Rose Art Museum

Christopher Meerdo, Chicago, Illinois

Erik Parra, San Francisco, California

Abi Salami, Dallas

Abigail Lucien, Baltimore

Hasani Sahlehe, Atlanta

Laura Berger, Chicago

Jennifer Sirey, Brooklyn 

Cielo Felix-Hernandez, Richmond 

Akihiro Boujoh, Utrecht

Joey Solomon, Brooklyn

Lynnea Holland-Weiss, Cleveland

Susan Chen, Hartford

Yannick Lowery, Philadelphia

Andrea Ferrero, Mexico City 

Christopher Desanges, Boston

Dominic Hawgood, London

Kira Dominguez Hultgren, San Francisco

Vikesh Kapoor, Sunset Pines

Adrian Coleman, London

Trish Tillman, New York

Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn

Elena Bajo, Los Angeles

Vanessa da Silva, London

Mark Baugh-Sasaki, San Francisco

Genevieve Cohn, Bloomington

Sydney Cook, Baltimore

Jinyong Park, London

Isabel Yellin, Los Angeles

Alex Callender, Northampton

Alicia Eggert, Denton

Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Minneapolis

Juan Giraldo, New York

Maja Ruznic, Los Angeles

Letitia Huckaby, Benbrook

Tracy Kerdman, Saugerties

Lebohang Kganye, Johannesburg

$3,500 Artist Grants

Early Bird = 15% off until August 31, 2021

Chantal Boynes

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme.

Call For Entries | Boynes Emerging Artist Award 5th Edition

Keely Badger

Future Art Awards 2021: Ecosystem X
An arts-based reimagining of life on planet Earth. Hosted by MOZAIK Philanthropy.

About The Awards: Democratizing art to honor the outstanding artistic talent of the day. The 3rd edition of MOZAIK Philanthropy’s Future Art Awards will present 10  U.S. artists from across the country with a $5,000 cash prize and a showcase in a curated virtual exhibition.

Awards Theme - Ecosystem X: How can artists help us vision the future by illustrating the principles, processes, or practices of a just world, where the complexities between living organisms, their physical environment, and all their interrelationships represent harmony, sustainability, justice and freedom? What are the key elements of these new ecosystems for people and planet, markets and movements? What would such a world look like from the perspective of 21st Century artists as catalysts for new futurities and planetary change? Ecosystem X is an open call to artists across the country looking to express an aspirational vision of life on planet Earth.

Selection:
MOZAIK’s mission is to democratize philanthropy by exploring and modeling new practices with disruptive, creative, and catalytic potential. In the arts, this work means inviting artists as social visionaries to help govern our grantmaking decisions, democratizing access to our philanthropic equity while championing new modes of participatory, inclusionary, and socially innovative grantmaking. This approach is aimed towards advancing a new, just economy and raising the bar on diversity, equity, inclusion, access and participation across the arts industry.

All art submissions to the 2021 Future Art Awards: Ecosystem X will be assessed by an independent jury of artists and art professionals in a blind review, including several featured and special mention artists of the 2020 & 2021 Future Art Awards.


Future Art Awards 2021: Ecosystem X