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title: "2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize"
organization: "Beautiful Bizarre Magazine"
category: prize
deadline: 2026-07-17
valid_through: 2026-07-17
disciplines: ["painting", "drawing", "sculpture", "photography"]
entry_fee: "US$40"
award: "Over $70,000 USD in cash and prizes across seven award categories: Digital Art, Photography, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Emerging Artist, and Imaginative Realism. Includes funding and increased exposure to galleries, collectors, and media."
eligibility: "Open to artists working across various static mediums including Traditional Art, Digital Art, and Photographic media, and all styles including realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, surrealism, dark art, pop surrealism, super flat, and lowbrow."
source_url: "https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/?v=7885444af42e"
canonical: "https://opencallradar.com/open-calls/2026-beautiful-bizarre-art-prize-beautiful-bizarre-magazine-edfd6b31"
status: open
last_updated: 2026-05-25T06:43:01.256073
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# 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize

**Organization**: Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
**Category**: prize
**Deadline**: 2026-07-17
**Discipline(s)**: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography
**Entry fee**: US$40
**Award**: Over $70,000 USD in cash and prizes across seven award categories: Digital Art, Photography, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Emerging Artist, and Imaginative Realism. Includes funding and increased exposure to galleries, collectors, and media.
**Eligibility**: Open to artists working across various static mediums including Traditional Art, Digital Art, and Photographic media, and all styles including realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, surrealism, dark art, pop surrealism, super flat, and lowbrow.

## Description

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize celebrating diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It welcomes artists working in all static mediums, including Traditional Art, Digital Art, and Photographic media, and across various styles such as realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, surrealism, dark art, pop surrealism, super flat, and lowbrow. The prize offers over $70,000 USD in cash and prizes, aiming to inspire creatives and help grow their careers through funding and increased exposure to galleries, collectors, and media globally. There are seven award categories, and artists can enter more than one. A Grand Prize Winner will be chosen from the finalists, and a People’s Choice Award will also be determined by public voting.

## Apply / Verify

- Official source: https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/?v=7885444af42e
- OpenCall Radar listing: https://opencallradar.com/open-calls/2026-beautiful-bizarre-art-prize-beautiful-bizarre-magazine-edfd6b31