Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
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The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. With $76,000 USD in cash and prizes to be won, the Art Prize includes all static mediums including Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles including realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, surrealism, dark art, pop surrealism, super flat, lowbrow etc.
The Prize seeks to inspire creatives from around the world to pursue a life and career in the arts, and to help careers grow through funding and increased exposure of their work to galleries, collectors and media globally.
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize has seven award categories: Digital Art Award, Photography Award, Painting Award, Drawing Award, Sculpture Award, Emerging Artist Award, and our new Imaginative Realism Award. Artists working across mediums are welcome to enter more than one award category. From the Finalists selected in each award category, a Grand Prize Winner will be chosen by the Jury Panel. The People’s Choice Award will open for public voting on 2 September 2026.
Entry fee is US$40 to cover administrative costs.
If you have any questions about the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, please don’t hesitate to contact us at artprize@beautifulbizarre.net.
Entries Close: Midnight 17 July 2026 [Los Angeles, USA time]
The winners of the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize (1st, 2nd & 3rd Prize Winners of the Painting, Drawing, Digital Art, Imaginative Realism, Sculpture and Photography Awards; and the 1st Prize Winner of the Emerging Artist Award, along with the Grand Prize Winner of the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize) will be invited to participate in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition ‘Glimmer’ at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, CA, United States, alongside 100+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists!
Winners may exhibit their prize winning entry if it was created within 12 months of the entry date, and not hung in any other exhibition or prize previously. Work already exhibited or hung in a prize will not be accepted to the ‘Glimmer’ exhibition. If the prize winning work is not eligible to be exhibited in the exhibition, or if the artist chooses, they may create a new work for the exhibition.