RSA RESIDENCIES FOR SCOTLAND
The RSA Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme which provides valuable research and residency opportunities for artists. It forges important networks with centres of artistic excellence acro …
a-n Artist Bursaries 2019
a-n The Artists Information Company is offering 50+ bursaries of £500 – £1,500 to Artist and Joint (Artist and Arts Organiser) members wishing to undertake self-determined professional development in …
Malt Air: 4 Month Residency Open Call
MALT AIR is a new visual arts residency programme in Denmark. The residency is run in collaboration between The Danish Art Workshops, Kunsthal Aarhus and Maltfabrikken, and is supported by The Danish …
PRAKSIS’s 13th residency, Painting Project: Outwards Looking Inwards
Applications are now welcomed to join PRAKSIS’s 13th residency, Painting Project: Outwards Looking Inwards. By focusing on the idea of “inside” and “outside” in painting, residency conveners Robert Bo …
Women Make Sculpture: theCoLAB Commission
The inaugural Women Make Sculpture: theCoLAB Commission will award a female sculptor £15,000 towards the research, development and making of work(s) to be exhibited at one of three possible outdoor si …
London Creative Network Open Call
London Creative Network (LCN), delivered by SPACE with Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion, is offering a wide range of professional development opportunities for visual artists, designer-maker …
Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop – Solo Residency
Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop is currently accepting applications for the Solo Residency, taking place from February to May 2019. The gallery is offering one artist access for three months to one of its s …
12th Muir Trust Artist Residency 2019
The Muir Trust invites applications from established, mid-career, UK-based studio artists who wish to develop their creative practice by working with the Buckinghamshire County Museum collections. The …
13th Arte Laguna Prize
The call for artists of the 13th Arte Laguna Prize has officially opened. Arte Laguna Prize is an international art contest that has been promoting contemporary art for thirteen years. There are 10 Co …
Wellcome Photography Prize 2019
Photographers and other image makers from all disciplines are invited to enter the Wellcome Photography Prize, which celebrates compelling imagery that captures stories of health, medicine and science …
Taipei Artist Village Residency
CFCCA are delighted to present an open call opportunity for contemporary visual artists based in the UK to apply for a fully funded 3 month artist residency at our partner in Taiwan –Taipei Artist Vil …
Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture – Bauhaus Artist in Residence open call
2019 marks the centenary of the Bauhaus movement, one of the most influential art, design and architecture movements of the 20th Century and is also the year that Waltham Forest becomes the first ever …
Cove Park Visual Arts Residencies 2019
In 2019 Cove Park will award a minimum of three funded Visual Arts Residencies of between one to three months each for UK based artists. With support from the Bridge Awards, Cove Park will also offer …
British Ceramics Biennial’s AWARD
The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) announces the call for entries for AWARD, inviting UK-based artists to submit proposals for this £10,000 prize and exhibition. AWARD is the headline exhibition in B …
Public Art Commission in Southampton
‘a space’ arts are seeking expressions of interest from contemporary visual artists for a new public art commission at Cumberland Place in Southampton. The new development, to be known as ‘Southampton …
FLAMIN Productions
Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), FLAMIN Productions is major artists’ film commissioning scheme which aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving im …
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2019
Now open for entries, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize welcomes outstanding creative examples of representational painting from both amateur and professional artists in the UK over the age of 18. Creat …
European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2019
Applications are now open for European Media Artists in Residence Exchange programme (EMARE) 2019. The new European Media Art Platform offers residencies for media artists in the fields of digital med …
Wirksworth Arts Festival – The Lodge Project
The Lodge Project will enable an established UK artist to undertake a funded 3 month residency, in a cottage in Wirksworth in the Derbyshire Dales, from July to September of 2019. They are looking fo …
Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Stuart Hall Foundation announce the third Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency commencing in March 2019. The residency is a funded opportunity for …
ASC Studios Free Studio Competition
Artists’ Studio Company and Brent Council are excited to announce an incredible opportunity for an Artist, Designer or Maker who lives in Brent. They are inviting applications for their free studio sc …
Mother Art Prize 2018
The Mother Art Prize: an international open call for self-identifying women, non-binary visual artists with caring responsibilities. The prize is aimed at artists working in all media and with no them …
Creekside Artists Graduate Studio Award 2019
Creekside Artists is proud to offer its second annual Graduate Studio Award. The recipient will receive a free desk space and access to their project space at Creekside Artists in Deptford, for a fixe …
Artist in Residence at HMP Grendon
Ikon is inviting artists to apply for a three-year residency at HMP Grendon. Funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, this is an exciting opportunity for an artist to work with the …
Sculpture in the City Ninth Edition
Sculpture in the City is an award winning urban sculpture park which launches at the end of June. A cultural initiative delivered by the City of London in partnership with 13 local businesses, it is s …
The Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize was established to increase recognition of the work of visual artists. They seek to advance the careers of visual artists by providing unrestricted financial support in the form of in …
Art/Work residency with Finnish Institute and Block 336
In conjunction with the Finnish Institute in London, Block 336 invites applications from artists (or collaborative duos) who are currently living in Finland for a 5 week residency culminating in the p …
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards
The third national Jerwood/Photoworks Awards seek proposals from outstanding artists using new approaches to photography who are within 10 years of establishing their practice. They encourage applicat …
apexart – NYC 2019-20 Open Cal
apexart is accepting exhibition proposals for its NYC Open Call, three winning proposals will be presented at apexart’s NYC space as part of its 2019-20 exhibition season. Curators, artists, writers, …
ArtWorks Open 2018
Now in its tenth year, ArtWorks Open 2018 will be selected by Tai Shani and Emma Talbot. Submissions are welcome from artists in UK and Europe. 2D and 3D works may be submitted, however, only works wi …
Waltham Forest – Make it Happen: Fellowship Funding
Waltham Forest has opened applications for the London Borough of Culture Fellowship Funding scheme, which will offer grants to support ambitious cultural activity and projects to be delivered across t …
londonprintstudio Professional Development Residency
londonprintstudio are looking for 3 people to join their 6 month long flexible residency programme which starts at the end of November 2018. This residency is designed for people wanting to sustain a …
Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award 2019
The third annual Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award is now open for entries. The award offers a £2000 bursary for a professional photographer to undertake a narrative photography project in 2019. In additi …
Born Digital – new short grant for filmmaking talent
Born Digital is an exciting opportunity for new and emerging filmmakers to realise their first broadcast project, with grants to be awarded to fund, or partly fund, up to 12 short films. The BBC, in p …
SpallArt Prize Salzburg
The Salzburger Kunstverein announces the SpallArt Prize Salzburg. This international award for excellence in contemporary art is a rotating prize. For the years 2019 to 2021, the focus will be on cont …
William Morris Gallery – Artist in Residency Programme 2018/19
Now in its sixth year, the William Morris Gallery is inviting applicants for its 2018-19 Artist in Residency programme. This is an opportunity for an artist to immerse themselves in the Gallery’s worl …
Artists Projects: London Borough of Culture
Waltham Forest, the London Borough of Culture 2019 has announced an open call to artists from across the world to take part in a major new series of seven funded projects and be part of the creative p …
Brunel University – Artist in Residence
Brunel University is seeking an Artist in Residence for a project beginning this autumn that aims to creatively explore the University’s physical location on the outskirts of London, while valorising …
Science Gallery Lab Detroit – DEPTH Exhibition
Science Gallery Lab Detroit seeks interactive, participatory works for DEPTH, a free exhibition that explores the power and complexities of water and its many roles in the physical and social world. T …
The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary
The 2019 Shape Arts Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary (ARMB), an annual award set up in memory of sculptor Adam Reynolds to support mid-career disabled artists, is now open for applications. The ARMB off …
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018 is open for submissions. Artists of any age and nationality, presently living and working in the UK (except for CBP artist members) may submit work. Twelve …
Art Worlds
Interested in writing for Artquest about your local art scene? Art Worlds gives an insider, day-in-the-life view of the current realities of living and working as an artist in different places around …
Evening Standard Art Prize in association with Hiscox
The Evening Standard Art Prize in association with Hiscox returns for a second year, this time with the theme of ‘progress’, aiming to inspire artists around the UK to create original works. Submissio …
YICCA 2018 – International Contest of Contemporary Art
YICCA is an international call for artists, open to professionals from any country in the world. All kinds of contemporary artworks are allowed in the art contest. From the 18 artists that will partic …
Jerwood Makers Open
Jerwood Makers Open is a biennial opportunity encouraging ambitious and/or radical proposals from UK-based makers and collaborators within 10 years of beginning their practice. Launched in 2010, it fo …
Artists Access to Art Colleges
The AA2A project (Artists Access to Art Colleges) is offering over 50 placements, giving artists and designer-makers the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project using art co …
Open to Art ceramic award
Applications are now open to the third Open to Art ceramic award. This award is promoted and organized by Officine Saffi with the aim of enhancing and promoting the use of ceramics in contemporary art …
pic.up prints open call
pic.up prints is one of the pop-up events run by pic.london. It is a rare opportunity for emerging artists from any background, age and nationality whose practice concerns the photographic image, to s …
Lewisham Art House Graduate Studio Scheme 2018
Lewisham Arthouse are pleased to announce the 9th round of their Graduate Studio Award Scheme and invite all recent London-based (or those relocating) graduate visual artists to apply. The award offer …
Hothouse
Applications are now open for Hothouse, a Crafts Council Talent and Business Development Programme that supports talented makers at the start of their career. The programme includes group workshops, a …
Social Art Summit – Call Out
Calling artists working in social art, socially-engaged art, community arts, collaborative arts and social practice at all stages of your careers to come together and share work at the Social Art Summ …
LCB residency and exhibition bursary
LCB Depot in Leicester is offering four Artist Development Bursaries, funded by Arts Council England, to be delivered between September 2018 and February 2019. LCB’s Main Bursary is a residency-based …
Aesthetica Art Prize 2018
Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their w …
ColabNowNow Open Call
British Council #SouthernAfricaArts invites young digital creatives aged between 18 and 35 to take part in the second edition of ColabNowNow hosted with Maputo Fast Forward in Mozambique. ColabNowNow …
ING Discerning Eye 2018: Call For Entries
Artists are invited to submit up to six works in a variety of media: painting, print, sculptures, drawing and photography are all accepted. These works must be for sale, and should not exceed 20” (50 …
Developing your Creative Practice (Arts Council England)
Developing your Creative Practice is Arts Council England’s (ACE) new development fund for individuals, and Round 2 will open for applications at 10am on 12 July 2018 and close at 12pm (noon) on 16 Au …
PRAKSIS’s 12th residency, Taking Hold – The Double Bridge
Applications are now welcomed from anyone with relevant interest and experience to join PRAKSIS’s twelfth residency, Taking Hold – The Double Bridge. This residency will be led by artist Phoebe Davies …
COAL Prize 2018
The COAL Prize is open to artists throughout the world who dare to imagine and experiment, to transform territories, lifestyles, organisations, and production methods. This year, the COAL association …
Extreme Views Artist-in-Residence
Art Gene are pleased to offer a great opportunity for experienced and enthusiastic visual artists for the Extreme Views Project 2018. The successful applicant will have an understanding of working wit …
Tenderflix 2018 – Future Responsibilities
Tenderflix is an international experimental film and video competition initiated by Tenderpixel Gallery in London. In its 11th year in 2018, the theme is ‘Future Responsibilities’. We are mainly looki …
Curatorial Practice Award 2018
This is an open call for people looking to develop their practical curatorial skills via a year-long placement at Film and Video Umbrella (FVU). During this period you will work to develop and realise …
Norwich Film Festival 2018
Submissions are now open for Norwich Film Festival 2018 – a British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) qualifying short film festival. Win £1000 for each category, software prizes worth £1500, plus a chan …
Crate Curatorial Open
CRATE is inviting proposals from artists and curators to research, test and create a new curatorial project using Crate’s project space for a four week period. All proposals must have a strong public …
Art Licks Weekend 2018: Peripheries
Applications are now open to take part in the sixth year of the Art Licks Weekend festival. For 2018, the Art Licks Weekend takes on the title, Peripheries, to explore how participating projects activ …
RAW Labs – Artist Residency
Bow Arts are inviting expressions of interest for the 5th RAW Labs residency at Royal Albert Wharf, Newham, in partnership with Visions in the Nunnery. The residency takes place from September/October …
Artist in Residence at the National Memorial Arboretum
The National Memorial Arboretum is inviting applications from artists who wish to develop their practice by working with the site’s collections, landscape and knowledge. The 2018 residency programme f …
Cubitt Education’s Community Studios Programme
Cubitt Education is seeking artists to take residence in a brand new set of four community studios based at Arts and Media School Islington (AMSI), a secondary school in north Islington with excellent …
RSA Morton Award
The RSA Morton Award is for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland. The award is funded by The Morton Charitable Trust and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy and consists of: A £500 …
Refiguring the Feminist Future – Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM
This is a call for artists, activists, poets, writers to propose Web performances, web sculpture, various forms of Net art and online interactions that challenge existing histories and speculative fut …
The ACS Studio Prize 2018
The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) Studio Prize 2018 is offering an artist the chance to win £6,000 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in the UK. The Studio Prize was established by AC …
Future Generation Art Prize
PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) announces the 5th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. The Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognise and gi …
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018
Artists are invited to submit entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018, the largest and longest running annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK. Previously known as Jerwood …
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is the largest and most prestigious prize for contemporary watercolour painting in the UK. Whether it be through abstract or figurative, contemporary or tradit …
PEER FORUM at Camden Arts Centre 2018
We are now accepting applications for Artquest’s Peer Mentoring programme at Camden Arts Centre. Through the Peer Forum programme, Camden Arts Centre creates space for artists to instigate dialogue, d …
PRAKSIS’s 11th residency, Monumental-Temporal
PRAKSIS and Fellesverkstedet invite international, national and local applications from anyone with relevant interest and experience to participate in a residency developed with artist Gereon Krebber. …
Live Art Development Agency – DIY15: 2018 – Call For Participants
DIY 15, coordinated by the Live Art Development Agency, is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to take part in unusual training and professional development projects conceived and run by ar …
Stanley Picker Fellowships Design & Fine Art 2018
The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is currently seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2018. Each Fellowship provid …
BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduate Show
BBZ has joined forces with sorryyoufeeluncomfortable to create The BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduation Show .This is a call for artists who identify as queer womxn, trans & non-binary artists of Bl …
Near Now Fellowship
Near Now is Broadway’s (Nottingham) studio for arts, design and innovation. They invite applications for the Near Now Fellowship, their artistic and professional development programme, which, through …
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018
Entry is now open for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018, the leading international photographic portrait competition, celebrating and promoting the very best in contemporary portrait …
Visions in the Nunnery 2018
Visions in the Nunnery is a renowned showcase of recent moving image and performance work, Visions aims to offer an international overview of the challenging and thoughtful uses of these ever shifting …
Stuart Croft Foundation Awards 2018
Applications are now open for the 2018 Stuart Croft Foundation Awards. The Stuart Croft Foundation enables artists, filmmakers, researchers, and exhibitors working in and between the gallery and the c …
V&A Ceramics Residency
The V&A is inviting applications for a UK-based studio ceramicists who wish to develop their practice in new ways by working with the V&A’s collections and developing public engagement activit …
The Axisweb Artist Award Round #05: Call for Applications
The Award offers £1,000 cash, a personalised support package, an artist film produced by Axisweb plus editorial and promotion on their website and social media platforms. In addition to the Artist Awa …
Secret Art Prize
The winner of Secret Art Prize 2018 has the opportunity to showcase their works within a dedicated space at Moniker Art Fair with curatorial support from both Moniker Art Fair and Curious Duke Gallery …
Lumen Prize
The Lumen Prize is an international award that celebrates artists working with digital technology. The 2017 prizes are: – Gold Award ($4000) – Moving Image ($1000) – Still Image ($1000)- AR/VR ($1000) …
PEER FORUM at Peckham Platform 2018
We are now accepting applications for Artquest’s Peer Mentoring programme at Peckham Platform. Peckham Platform is a creative and educational charity and as an orgnaistaion they believes that communit …
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award , facilitated by FotoDocument and supported by Olympus, is granted annually to a professional woman photographer towards the initiation or completion of a docu …
ScoglieraViva. Sculpting the Sea
Entries are open to “ScoglieraViva. Sculpting the Sea”, international outdoor sculpture prize. The competition, features the direct intervention of sculptors on the cliffs in the town of Caorle, near …
Tower Bridge Artist in Residence
Tower Bridge is happy to announce that the application process for the 2018 Artist in Residence programme is now open. They are looking to invite data artists inside Tower Bridge to reveal new perspec …
Derwent Art Prize 2018
The Derwent Art Prize is now open for entries – seeking artworks in pencil by British and International artists. Approximately eighty works will be selected for display at the Mall Galleries, London …
PEER FORUM at The Photographers’ Gallery 2018
We are now accepting applications for Artquest’s Peer Mentoring programme at The Photographers’ Gallery (TPG). The Peer Mentoring programme links with TPG’s commitment to supporting photographers by o …
PEER FORUM at Cubitt 2018
We are now accepting applications for Artquest’s Peer Mentoring programme at Cubitt Gallery. Cubitt provides an open remit for emerging curators at pivotal points in their career to stage dynamic, amb …
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018 Call for Entries
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) one of the UK’s leading festivals for new cinema and artists’ moving image, is now open for entries. Entries will be considered for all areas of the prog …
Gasworks International Fellowship: URRA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gasworks’ International Fellowships Programme offers UK-based artists the opportunity to undertake a residency at one of Gasworks’ partners abroad. This opportunity offers A three-month (11 weeks) fu …
Gasworks International Fellowship: Britto, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gasworks’ International Fellowships Programme offers UK-based artists the opportunity to undertake a residency at one of Gasworks’ partners abroad. Gasworks are now accepting applications from designe …
ARCUS Project 2018 Artist in Residence Program
Artist-in-Residence Program of ARCUS Project in Ibaraki, Japan aims to support the artistic activities of emerging artists. ARCUS Project Artist-in-Residence Program has focused on the “process” of ac …
PRAKSIS Residency no. 10
Applications are now being accepted for PRAKSIS’s tenth residency, The Collective Subject of History. For this residency, selected local and internationally based residents will have the rare opportun …
Artist Residency with VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities)
Applications are now open for a nine-month artist residency with VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities) at Highgreen in remote rural Northumberland. This is a unique and magical opportunity for a vis …
Green Man Commissions 2019
Green Man has been taking a new approach to ‘site-art’ at the festival since 2016 to bring international and early-career artists into the festival environment to consider an art experience which goes …
Cubitt Curatorial Fellowship 2018-19
The Cubitt Curatorial Fellowship –now in its 12th edition- is a unique opportunity for research and curatorial experimentation in the field of visual arts. The Fellowship provides an opportunity for l …
JERWOOD/FVU AWARDS 2019 ‘Going, Gone’
Applications for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2019: Going, Gone are now open. The Jerwood/FVU Awards are an annual open call opportunity, awarding two £20,000 moving-image commissions to artists within the …
Artsadmin’s Artists’ Bursary Scheme
Applications to Artsadmin’s Artists’ Bursary Scheme are now open. This year the Bursary Scheme will offer eight awards to UK-based artists working in live art and contemporary performance who have be …
RPS INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 161
Applications are now open for the Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition. Now in its 161st edition, the IPE is a celebration of photography today and continues to offer insigh …
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize offers an opportunity annually for students currently in the final year of their undergraduate study within the United Kingdom. The first prize is …
The Horniman Museum and Gardens Artist Studio Commission 2019
The Studio is an exciting, new contemporary arts space at the Horniman, as well as a collaboration between the Horniman, artists and local community partners. The successful artist will join the Colle …
The 4th Annual ON PAPER International Printmaking Contest 2018
ON PAPER presents its annual printmaking contest to promote the art of printmaking and the connection between printmakers around the world. Artists can submit one piece of work on a paper size of 300m …
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2018-19
From January 1st, applications are invited to The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. This offers an emerging sculptor an £8,000 award to produce new work and a solo exhibition at Standpoint. Standpoint wi …
SOLO Award 2018
The SOLO Award™ is an annual contemporary art prize open to artists of all ages, working in all media. The finalists are exhibited in a group show each spring and the overall winner receives a …
Eastleigh Borough Council – Public Art Commission
Woodside Avenue Development LLP, a joint venture between Eastleigh Borough Council and Vivid Housing Limited, is looking to appoint a public artist to create a high-quality permanent public art featur …
The Collyer Bristow Award
Leading law firm Collyer Bristow is now inviting submissions from artists for the Collyer Bristow Graduate Art Award. All students who graduated between 2015 and 2017 (BA or MA) from participating art …
Gasworks International Fellowship: Kiosko, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Gasworks’ International Fellowships Programme offers UK-based artists the opportunity to undertake a residency at one of Gasworks’ partners abroad. This opportunity offers a 7-week fully funded resid …
London Creative Network Open Call
London Creative Network (LCN), delivered by SPACE with Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion, is offering a wide range of professional development opportunities for visual artists, designer-maker …
DIY 15: 2018
Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists. DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual research, training and professional development projects for …
Jackson’s Open Painting Prize
The Jackson’s Open Painting Prize exists to recognise and appreciate original, 2-dimensional fine art works in any painting, print-making or drawing media. Submissions are welcome from any country by …
Animation 2018
In 2018 BBC Four, BFI and cinemas across the UK are celebrating British animation. Up to 12 individuals or teams will be given the opportunity to have their film selected by a panel and If successful, …
STARTS Prize 2018 Open Call
Appointed by the European Commission, Ars Electronica, BOZAR and Waag Society are issuing a prize to select the most pioneering collaborations and results in the field of creativity and innovation at …
British School at Rome – Augusta Scholarship
The British School at Rome invites applications for the Augusta Scholarship. The scholarship is an exceptional opportunity for an early-career artist for whom the use of paint and/or drawing is centra …
The Axisweb Artist Award Round #04: Call for Applications
The Award offers £1,000 cash, a personalised support package, an artist film produced by Axisweb plus editorial and promotion on their website and social media platforms. In addition to the Artist Awa …
Apexart International Open Call 2018-19
Apexart is accepting proposals for its International Open Call for exhibitions, three winning proposals will be presented as part of Apexart’s 2018-19 exhibition season, and can take place anywhere in …
McKinney International Art + Design Residency 2018
The School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4-6 week Fall 2018 McKinney International Art and Design Residency. The residency will select an e …
Exeter Phoenix – South West Artists Moving Image Commission 2018
The 2018 Exeter Phoenix Artists Moving Image Commission aims to develop a new single screen moving image based artwork for screen, installation or online display. The work may originate in any format …
Women’s Vote Centenary: Grant Scheme
The Women’s Vote Centenary Grant Scheme is a £1.5 million government fund that will support local and community groups across England in celebrating the centenary of women gaining the right to vote. T …
Residency 108
Residency 108 are seeking applications to their 4 week long residency occurring 30 April – 28 May 2018, located in Claremont (NY, USA). It is open to emerging and established artists of any age, work …
Waterside Open
Waterside Open is returning for a sixth year and invites submission from artist working any medium except live art. This national exhibiting opportunity will showcase a wide range of high quality and …
Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries
The Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is offering two Leadership Bursaries for artists and/or arts workers of colour as part of Live Art UK’s Diverse Actions programme. The bursaries will offer award …
Collide International residency award
Collide International Residency award is a major international residency programme as part of the CERN and FACT Partnership Framework (2016-2018). This Residency is a unique opportunity for artists to …
PRAKSIS’s 9th residency, Adornment and Gender: Engaging Conversation
PRAKSIS and Norwegian Crafts are pleased to work with designer, curator, and writer, Benjamin Lignel to develop Residency No. 9, Adornment and Gender: Engaging Conversation. This residency will resear …
Open Call for Residency at Stryx, Birmingham
Stryx’s residency programme, SOUP, awards artists in the UK the opportunity to work for 2 months (June – August 2018) in Digbeth, Birmingham. Selected artists will receive: 24/7 access to large, shar …
Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art
The British School at Rome invites applications for The Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art. The fellowship is an opportunity for an early-career artist, working in any discipline, who has a significa …
Future SPACE: Open Call
In 2018 SPACE will be celebrating 50 years of supporting artists in London. To help mark this anniversary, proposals are invited from artists for small exhibitions and displays relating to the theme F …
Oriel Davies Open 2018
Oriel Davies’ biennial, open submission exhibition, ODO, is now live with a call for entries. Professional artists and those studying art are invited to submit entries of recent work in order to be co …
a-n Artist Bursaries 2018
a-n is offering 65+ bursaries of £500 – £1,000 to Artist members wishing to undertake a self-determined schedule of professional development in 2018. Now in its sixth year, the bursaries programme ha …
The Haven Commissions
Three new separate commissions are available for artists and architects to apply for as part of “The Haven Commissions” – a series of redesigned buoys and a minimum of three new structures, constructe …
Lucy Art Residency
The Lucy Art Residency announces its second open call to its short residency program and commission for visual artists. This is an opportunity for an artist based in Europe or the Mediterranean, whos …
The World Illustration Awards 2018
Illustrators in any country working in any medium or content can enter work created between January 2017 and February 2018. Submissions must be made into the eight categories as either a New Talent (s …
Festival of Thrift: call for public artwork proposals
Public artwork proposals are invited for the wider programme around Festival of Thrift, which takes place in September 2018. The festival itself will take place in Kirkleatham, Redcar, these commissi …
64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Oberhausen is accepting submissions to its 64th International Short Film Festival. There are a range of competition categories – International, German, NRW, International Children’s and Youth Film – …
Chaiya Art Awards 2018
The Chaiya Art Awards are calling for submissions in any medium around the theme: Where is God in our 21st century world? Prizes range from £1000 to £10,000 and successful entries will be exhibited at …
Goethe at LUX Residency 2018
LUX and the Goethe-Institut London are offering a residency for artists based in Germany and working with moving image to to be undertaken in London over May to July 2018. Applicants should propose ho …
Visual Art Awards at the British School at Rome
The British School at Rome has a number of fellowships open for application. The Bridget Riley Fellowship is an opportunity for artists at an early to mid point in their career, whose work has a signi …
a-n Visual Arts Coaching Course with RD1st 2018
a-n is offering 14 fully funded places on the a-n Visual Arts Coaching Course with Relational Dynamics 1st (RD1st). The RD1st accredited coaching course, is a highly interactive, practice based progra …
New Geographies Public Art Commission
New Geographies is an Arts Council England funded project to create a new map of the East of England based on personal thoughts, reflections and stories of unexplored or over-looked places, rather tha …
Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize
The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize is open for entries. The prize is open to artists working across all genres, styles and from any background. The prize offers awards between £1,000 and £3,000, art ma …
Residency Opportunities at The Art House, Wakefield
The Art House seeks proposals from artists who would like to take up one of three supported residencies at their purpose built studios in Wakefield to help them develop and extend their practice. The …
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
DEADLINE EXTENDED. New Contemporaries is now open for applications. This year New Contemporaries will accept submissions from a number of non-degree awarding programmes, as well as Fine Art students …
BP Portrait Award 2018
The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait painting competition in the world and represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £35,000, and a total priz …
I-Park 2018 Artists-in-Residence Program
I-Park is accepting applications for its 2018 artists-in-residence program. Forty-four fully funded and self-directed residencies in rural East Haddam, Connecticut (U.S.) are available between May and …
Hospitalfield Residencies: Summer and Autumn 2018
Hospitalfield invites applications for its Summer and Autumn residencies, which will take place over 4 weeks in July and September 2018. Selected artists will receive a £1000 research and development …
Curatorial Scholar Awards
The Yale Center for British Art invites curators from museums in the UK to apply for short-term residential fellowships. Applications from curators at municipal and regional museums, and those with a …
Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival
Crafts Council are calling for entries for Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival. Now in its third year, it is the first UK festival dedicated to craft and moving image. Real to Reel will be held in L …
Artist Residency with V&A Research Institute: Opening The Cabinet Of Curiosities
The Victoria and Albert Museum is seeking applications for a 3-month residency (February – April 2018) at the Museum. They are looking for artists who are keen to engage with the histories of slavery …
Roman J. Witt Residency University of Michigan
University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design invites applications for the Roman J. Witt Residency Program. The program awards one residency per academic year for a visiting artist/designer …
The DARE Art Prize
The pioneering DARE partnership between the University of Leeds and Opera North is seeking applications from creative practitioners in all media for the second DARE Art Prize. The £15,000 Prize is aim …
LUX Emergent Producer/Curator Desk Residency
LUX is offering an emerging producer (of film or events) and/or curator involved with moving image a desk residency for a one year period. The selected applicant(s) will work independently throughout …
Collaborative Doctoral Award offered by Kingston University and the Crafts Council
Applications are open for a Collaborative Doctoral Award starting in September 2018, offered by Kingston University in collaboration with the Crafts Council and supported by LDOC. The focus is ‘Diver …
Public Art Showcase: The Liverpool Plinth Sculpture
Sculptors living or working in the north of England are invited to submit existing work to be displayed on The Liverpool Plinth from April 2018 to March 2019. The successful artist will receive £1000 …
Royal Society of British Artists Rome Scholarship 2018
The Royal Society of British Artists are calling for entries for their Rome Scholarship 2018. The prize aims to offer an enriching learning experience for a young emerging artist and includes four wee …
V&A Danish Ceramics Residency
The V&A invites applications from Danish ceramic artists who wish to develop their practice in new ways by working with the V&A’s collections and developing public engagement activities. This …
Artquest & ACAVA Lifeboat Award Residency
Open exclusively to artists who completed an MA at one of UAL’s colleges in 2017. The successful artist will have a year long studio residency in ACAVA’s Limehouse Studios from February 2018 to Februa …
V&A Illustration Awards 2018
The V&A Illustration awards are now accepting submissions across three categories: Book Cover Design Book Illustration Editorial Illustration (newspapers and magazines) The winner in each category …
Arte Laguna Prize 2017
International art prize offering selected artists a range of awards including, participation in an exhibition in the Arsenale of Venice, € 35,000 prize money, 11 art residencies worldwide, solo shows …
Berwick Visual Arts: Moving Image Residency
Berwick Visual Arts (BVA) and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) are open for applications from moving-image artists to their annual artist’s residency, which runs for 6 months beginning i …
Hustle: Science Gallery Lab Detroit
Science Gallery Lab Detroit seek proposals to their exhibition Hustle, which will take place over June – August 2018. Applications are invited for new or existing works in any form, particularly tho …
RAW Lab – Artist Residency
Bow Arts are inviting expressions of interest for the 3rd RAW Lab residency at Royal Albert Wharf, Newham, taking place from February to May 2018. It is open to fine artists, designers and makers. T …
2018 Residencies at Wysing Arts Centre
Wysing Arts Centre are inviting applications for 2018 Residencies from visual artists, musicians, dancers, choreographers and writers, or those working in other disciplines that have a strong connecti …
Solitude
The Festival Belluard Bollwerk International and Migros Culture Percentage are looking for new, interdisciplinary artistic projects in any medium on the theme of « Solitude». An international jury wi …
AER 2018 Residency at the RAW Lab, Bow Arts, London
In 2018 the Nunnery Gallery will host the first exhibition of works by participants of the Art for the Environment Residency Programme (AER). To celebrate this showcase, AER are partnering with Bow Ar …
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize is awarded by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation to encourage creative representational painting and promote the skill of draughtsmanshi …
Public Sculpture Commission for Barking Town Centre
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham are inviting applications from UK based artists for the opportunity to design a bronze sculpture of Bobby Moore for the Barking Town Centre. Three shortlisted ar …
Maynooth University Open Call for Data/Media Art Proposals
Maynooth University invite artists to create a digital artwork using open data from their Dublin or Cork dashboards (dublindashboard.ie and corkdashboard.ie). This is an open competition for media art …
Handmade Oxford 2018
Opportunity to exhibit and sell craft and design works at Handmade Oxford 2018, which will take place in Oxford Town Hall across Friday 18 – Sunday 20 May 2018, with a private view on Thursday 17th Ma …
North Lands Creative Artist in Residence
North Lands Creative are currently considering applications for 2018-19 residencies located in Caithness. Residencies are open to those wanting to make the best use of their glass-making facilities an …
The London Open
The London Open is Whitechapel Gallery’s triennial exhibition open to all artists aged 26 or over living or working in London. The exhibition features painting, sculpture, moving image, photography, d …
Whitechapel Gallery Artist Residency Opportunity
Whitechapel Gallery invites London artists who have graduated in the last 3 years to apply for a residency with the Gallery’s Youth Forum: Duchamp & Sons. Over four months, a socially-engaged arti …
LADA at Mansford Street Commission
The Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is inviting proposals from artists for a new project that will respond to the physical, cultural and social context of LADA’s new base in Mansford Street, East L …
Gasworks & Bag Factory Fellowship in Johannesburg
Gasworks’ International Fellowships Programme are calling for UK based artists to apply to undertake a residency at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa in February-March 2018. This program i …
Carter Preston Prize
Applications are now open for the Carter Preston Prize. UK based artist designer makers in their first 5 years of graduating or completing training are eligible to enter. Work in any medium must have …
Artist’s Book Residency Grant
Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY invites applications for the Artist’s Book Residency Grant. The Artist’s Book Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition …
McColl Center Artist-in-Residence Program
McColl Center in Charlotte, NC, USA annually awards residencies to approximately eighteen artists. The Artist-in-Residence Program is open to artists working in architecture, drawing, painting, sculpt …
Society of Scottish Artists Open
Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland invite artists to apply to be part of a show of contemporary art in Scotland. All artists are invited to submit work for consideration. There are …
b-side Festival Commission
b-side Festival is offering commission opportunities to create new, temporary, site-responsive work in any media for the next festival off the coast of Dorset from 8 to 16 September 2018. The festival …
AaBKC Spring Curator Residency 2018
Aarhus Centre for Visual Art (Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, AaBKC) invites applications for their AaBKC Curator Residency for Spring 2018. One international curator will be chose to live and work in Aarhu …
CONNECT Photography Commissions
Open call for three £6,400 photography commissions for the art programme of Brighton’s major hospital redevelopment. Photoworks in partnership with Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, …
Thalie Lab Residency
Based on an examination of artisanal practices and new forms of food production, Thalie Art Foundation invites visual artists, curators, designers and chefs to submit a project on the theme of deceler …
Megalo Artist in Residence
Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, based in Canberra, Australia, is a professional open-access printmaking studio providing facilities in screen printing on paper and fabric, etching, lithography and reli …
Trajectories
Trajectories is a three-year programme of thematic events – including exhibitions, workshops discussions and talks – exploring the role, importance, and value of art, design and technology in educatio …
Analogica Performance
Analogica Performance is an open space for experimental performance projects dealing with analogue technology. An Analogica Performance is by nature performed live and should involve one or more disci …
SPACE Digital Public Artwork Commission
Space, working with the London Borough of Redbridge, is commissioning a temporary Digital Public Artwork which aims to change the perception of art and culture in Ilford. A fee of £150 each will be av …
Upland & WWT Caerlaverock Artful Migration Artist Residency
Upland are presenting a residency opportunity at WWT Caerlaverock, open to artists based in or with a connection to Dumfries and Galloway. This pilot programme will give an artist the chance to study …
Camargo Foundation Residency
The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, is a residential center offering programming in the Arts and Humanities. The Camargo Foundation welcomes applications from all countries, nationaliti …
Collusion Commissions
Collusion is seeking to commission four to six UK artists from all disciplines to create immersive, interactive new works that explore the impact of technology on society for a showcase that will be h …
VIA Arts Prize
The Embassy of Brazil to the UK, in partnership with ACALASP (the Association of Cultural Attachés of Latin America, Spain and Portugal), People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London) and …
Shape Open
Submissions are now open for the 2018 Shape Open, to be held in London during March and April 2018. The Open is Shape’s annual exhibition of artwork by disabled and non-disabled artists created in res …
Jon Schueler Scholarship, Visual Artist in Residence
Applications are now being welcomed for the sixth Jon Schueler Scholarship, Visual Artist in Residence, a residency opportunity to take place in Skye in the summer/autumn of 2018. The successful appli …
Dialecty
Dialecty is a new project conceived by writer Maria Fusco, and developed with The Common Guild, considering the embodiment and uses of vernacular forms of speaking and writing, exploring how dialect w …
Lighthouse Works’ Fellowship
The Lighthouse Works’ Fellowship invites applications for its artist-in-residence program. The program accepts artists working in a wide range of disciplines, but is best able to accommodate visual ar …
Bristol Music Trust/Colston Hall Commission
Bristol Music Trust seeks an artist or artists to help devise, create and run a community-based project with an artistic output to explore Bristol’s relationship with the name Colston and Bristol Musi …
Women Photographers Grant
PHmuseum presents a new annual grant aimed at supporting women photographers. The PHM 2017 Women Photographers Grant invites applications from female and female-identifying professionals of all ages a …
Lab Central Schools Residency
SPACE and Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure are working together to develop a commissioning programme as part of the Lab Central initiative in Redbridge Central Library. The first commission for …
The Elephant Trust Grants
The Trust was set up in 1975 to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and …
Hereafter Exhibition
Bow Arts are looking for artists to take part in a group exhibition in their Project Space in Wapping this Winter. This opportunity is open to those who have graduated with in the last 2 years. The ex …
Open School East Associates Programme
Open School East are seeking applications from emerging artists to join its independent, self-directed and outward-facing artist development programme. The Associates Programme is free, non-accredited …
Making Places Commission
Making Places is an arts and cultural programme, funded by Waltham Forest Council, aiming to revitalise the area with artwork. Making Places invites artists, architects, designers, collectives and cre …
Research Bursaries
This scheme supports individuals working on small and medium-scale research projects that focus on library or archive collections supported by the Wellcome Trust. Research Bursaries are for academic r …
Litmus Residency and Commission
Litmus is an exhibition and development programme offering curatorial and practical support for five early career artists based in Wales and the Welsh Borders to research, develop and present new work …
Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award
Applications for the 2017 Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award are open. The award offers a grant of £1,250 to complete a photography project, support from industry professionals, plus £1,150-worth of printi …
Whitstable Biennale
Whitstable Biennale is a festival of contemporary visual art. They commission experimental work focusing on film and performance. They are inviting proposals for a new work to be part of the programme …
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize offers a British artist a first solo show at a gallery in Tokyo, Japan and a participation fee of £5,000. The triennial prize is open to British artists resident in the UK w …
Light Installation Commission
Telford & Wrekin Council are looking to commission an artist, artist(s), or technicians to create a series of temporary light installations within the borough of Telford & Wrekin. These instal …
Women at Work Artist Residency
ACAVA and Building BloQs are calling for proposals from a women artist for a residency as part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Women at Work: Then and Now project in Enfield. Artist must show competenc …
Public Art Residency Grant
Women’s Studio Workshop invites applications for the Public Art Residency Grant. The Public Art Grant is a four-week residency for women artists to create new public art projects along the Wallkill Va …
Contemporary Talents Competition
Through the competition “Contemporary Talents” competition, François Schneider Foundation wishes to support creative artists by acquiring their works and showing them at the Foundation’s center of ar …
Arts Catalyst / S-AIR Residency
Arts Catalyst has partnered with NPO S-AIR to offer a fully funded residency opportunity for an artist or curator in Sapporo, Japan for 20-30 days, between January and March 2018. This opportunity off …
Corridor8 Art Writing Residency
The online platform for critical art writing, Corridor8, invites proposals for an early career writer-in-residence at Humber Street Gallery, Hull. The residency offers a fee, inclusive of travel costs …
The Rising
The Rising is a programme by ]performance s p a c e [ with Live Art UK’s Diverse Actions, which gives selected artists the time, space and required resources to try out new work and explore the edges …
Archisle Photographer in Residence
Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise (Jersey Society) in the British Channel Island of Jersey aims to promote contemporary photography through an on …
MMCA Residency
MMCA Residency run by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (MMCA), offers an open call for the International Artists/Researchers Residency Program 2018. They are now receiv …
Ingram Collection Purchase Prize
The Ingram Collection annual Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize Exhibition is open to artists who have graduated from a UK art school within the last three years. Successful finalists will have …
Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Stuart Hall Foundation announce the second Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency commencing in February 2018. The residency is a funded opportunity …
FLAMIN Fellowship
Film London, Arts Council England and The Fenton Arts Trust present The FLAMIN Fellowship, a new scheme for early career artist filmmakers living in England. Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image …
London Creative Network
London Creative Network is a professional development programme for artists and creative practitioners in London. Delivered by SPACE, with Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion. SPACE supports vi …
International Awards for Art Criticism
The Fourth Edition of the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC 4) of 2017 is open to candidates from anywhere in the world, writing in Chinese or English about any contemporary art exhibition …
Columbia Threadneedle Prize
A first prize of £20,000 and a solo exhibition is awarded for a work of figurative and representational art. A further prize of £10,000 is awarded by visitors to the exhibition, which takes place at M …
Buckley Memorial Public Art Commission
Flintshire County Council is commissioning a public art work at the Buckley War Memorial site, north Wales. The commission is open internationally to both professional artists or groups of artists tha …
Horizon Public Art Commission
Beam, on behalf of Wakefield Council, is seeking to commission a new permanent site specific artwork for a key gateway to the City Fields urban extension just East of Wakefield city centre. The commis …
Travelling Fellowships
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust awards Travelling Fellowships for research projects which involve overseas travel. Two important criteria for Travelling Fellowships are that they could not be carried …
Media Arts Residency
This residency program is part of the “Project to Support Nurturing of Media Arts Creators” organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Bunka-cho). Emerging artists in Media Art …
Fake Exhibition
Science Gallery Dublin is seeking proposals for up to 20 works for Fake, a free exhibition that asks if life is better when we embrace the artificial. Proposals may be new or existing works, and will …
Princeton Fellowships
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University offers two artist fellowship opportunities. Both are designed to support artists, in all artistic disciplines, who demonstrate great promise. Prin …
Crossing Borders Commission
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire is looking to commission a contemporary arts practitioner to deliver a series of arts workshops with an Asian women’s group in Rugby to explore recent migration stori …
Artist-in-Residence-Programme
In co-operation with KulturKontakt Austria, the Austrian Federal Chancellery makes available 50 residencies in Austria (Vienna and Salzburg) for the year 2018. The residency is designed to offer an op …
RAUM Makers-in-Residency
RAUM invites applications for its makers-in-residency programme for 2018. RAUM will be based at Berlijnplein in Utrecht, the Netherlands, an open square that is part of a new housing project, Leidsche …
Welcome to the Anthropocene
‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ is an art/science collaboration between Constance ARI, The Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS), The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and The Commonwealt …
WimmelResearch-Fellowship
The »WimmelResearch-Fellowship« will be awarded as part of a joint project between Robert Bosch GmbH, Akademie Schloss Solitude and Wimmelforschung. The purpose of the fellowship is to support encount …
Biennial of Digital Art
Digital Art Festival opens registrations for the Digital Art Biennial 2018 that will have editions in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The theme of the festival is “Hybrid Languages”. The fe …
Artists in Residence at Tadeusz Kantor House
Tadeusz Kantor Foundation and Adam Mickiewicz Institute are announcing an open call for artists for an autumn Artists in Residence programme in Tadeusz Kantor House in Hucisko. The residency programme …
British Seaside Photography Exhibition
Call for photographic work to be included in a major photography exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Summer 2019. The exhibition will examine the relationship between photographers, photography and t …
Research Fellowships
Annually, the Canon Foundation in Europe grants up to 15 Fellowships to European and Japanese researchers. European Fellows are expected to pursue a period of research in Japan whereas Japanese Fello …
Muralism
The city council of Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) is launching a public competition to paint a large mural (400m2), with artistic residence. This intervention is part of the full remodeli …
Large Objects Moving Air
Large Objects Moving Air 2018 is a one day conference exploring the presence, agency and materiality of air from the microscale to macroscale, through both literal and figurative interpretations. The …
Raw Materials: Textiles Residency
Bow Arts is looking for makers / designers / artists for two residencies that will form part of Raw Materials: Textiles. The residencies are research-based – with no working / studio space provided – …
Left Overs: Exhibition and Mother Art Prize
Procreate Project is inviting visual artists and live art performers to respond to the theme of ´Left Overs’ – What is left of our sanity, bodies, sexuality, time and identities when mothering? What r …
South London Gallery Post-Graduate Residency
The South London Gallery Post-Graduate Residency is an open submission six month residency opportunity available to artists completing an MA, MFA, PGDip, MRes or an equivalent programme of study (incl …
East Bristol Contemporary
East Bristol Contemporary welcome submissions for ebc015. This is an open call for works of painting and drawing only, but they are interested in expanded painting / drawing practices. ebc015 will run …
Bettws Lifehouse Artist Residency
Oriel Davies is seeking a creative practitioner with a background in participatory practice to take on a six-day residency in Oriel Davies’ pop-up project and event space The Kitchen, working with a g …
LUX London Critical Forum
The LUX Critical Forum is a free monthly discussion, development and support group for artists who work with the moving image. The aim of the group is to develop a new mutually supportive environment …
Bauhaus Residence
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites international artists to live and work in the Schlemmer house in Dessau. The programme is catering to artists with an overall interest in the areas that are histo …
Settlers Commission
Oxford University Museum of Natural History announces an artist commission to coincide with their new exhibition, Settlers, opening in February 2018. The Museum would like to commission up to two piec …
Artist Commissions: Creative Consultation
Gloucester Culture Trust and Festivals and Events International are seeking ideas from artists & creatives in order to better understand what the people of Gloucester think of Festivals and Events …
Kostka Gallery
MeetFactory, a centre for contemporary art in Prague, announces an open call for the submission of projects to complement the Kostka Gallery 2018 exhibition program. Kostka Gallery is characterized by …
Bridgeman Award
Bridgeman Images announces this year’s Bridgeman Studio Award competition. They are calling artists to submit artworks of any medium, on the theme of ‘Dark Summer’. One entrant will be selected to win …
ICAF Lagos Artist-In-Residence
ICAF (Iwaya Community Art Festival) Lagos 2017 is calling for works and artistic ideas from artists that explore issues in the area of spiritual, economical, sociological, ecological and marital dimen …
Axisweb Artist Award
The Award offers £1,000 cash, a personalised support package, an artist film produced by Axisweb plus editorial and promotion on their website and social media platforms. In addition to the Artist Awa …
Design Residency & Exhibition
The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art invites proposals from designers to develop a new body of work for exhibition, through a residency at Plymouth College of Art, making use of their workshop facil …
FiLiArt: Feminism, Class and Art
Call for artists and filmmakers for an exhibition that will be part of the FiLiA (Feminism in London) Conference at the Institute of Education, London, October 14-15th. They are looking for films and …
A Grand Exposition
Cornbrook Creative announce an open call for artists and scientists to be part of ‘A Grand Exposition’ – a four day event exploring the blending of art, science and technology to take place in Manches …
Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival
The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival series offers artists the opportunity to have their films screened in a cinema setting where they will be watched in their entirety. They welcome single-channel f …
Practice Makes Practice Residency
Practice makes Practice ~ A Social Residency is a 1-month residency at The NewBridge Project. It will provide artists with time & space to reflect on their practice through interaction & colle …
William Morris Gallery Artist in Residence
The William Morris Gallery is inviting applications for a three month residency to take place in the autumn/winter of 2017 (timing negotiable). The opportunity is aimed at emerging and mid-career arti …
Emergency 2017
Emergency is an annual platform for live art and contemporary performance. In 2017 the eighteenth Emergency takes place on Saturday 30 September, at Z-arts, Manchester. Artists working in live art and …
National Trust Commission
Call out for Expressions of Interest from artists/designers/architects. National Trust Castle Drogo wishes to appoint a socially engaged creative practitioner to work with them in 2017-2018 during the …
Chronus Art Center Research and Creation Fellowship
Chronus Art Center (CAC) invites applications for a 3-month research and creation fellowship. This program is designed to host one international artist and researcher of in the area of new media art i …
Standpoint Futures
Standpoint Futures visual art development residencies are for emerging/mid career artists, based outside Greater London. Standpoint Futures awards artists a 6 week residency, working at residency part …
Harvest Short Film Competition
Harvest Film Festival is hosting the competition of short films on the themes of farming, food and land. A selection of submissions will be showcased at the festival, to be held at Lower Hewood Farm i …
Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary
The 2018 Shape Arts Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, an annual award to support mid-career disabled artists is now open for applications. The award offers the successful recipient an award of £10,000 a …
Firecracker Photographic Grant
The Firecracker Photographic Grant is an annual award providing funding for a female photographer to aid with the completion of a documentary photographic project. The Grant fund is a minimum financia …
aceartinc Exhibition Program
aceartinc. in Winipeg, Canada exhibits 5 exhibitions a year by contemporary visual artists. They encourage applications from all contemporary artists and curators, groups and collectives in all visual …
New Light Prize Exhibition
Entries are now open for New Light Prize Exhibition, with prizes including the £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award, Emerging Artist Award and Printmakers’ Prize. Shortlisted works will be exhibited in the Bow …
Akiyoshidai International Art Village Residency
The residence program at Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Japan invites applications for a residency to take place in January – March 2018. The theme of the residency is The Future of This Land. …
EVA International Curatorial Scholarship
Applications are invited for the 2017–2019 EVA International Curatorial Scholarship: MA Practice-Based Research in Curatorial Studies at EVA International in partnership with Limerick School of Art an …
Public Artwork Commission
Trafford Council are seeking expressions of interest for new permanent site-specific public artworks to be suited in Sale, Greater Manchester, commemorating 200 years since the birth of physicist Jame …
Matieschön Residency
Matieschön, visual arts team at Club Cultural Matienzo, independent cultural venue in Buenos Aires, invites artists who live outside Argentina –active in visual or audiovisual arts, new media, context …
Tenderflix 2017
The submissions are now open for the 2017 edition of Tenderflix. Tenderflix is an experimental film and video competition organised by Tenderpixel. In 2017, the theme is ‘Daydreaming’. They are mainly …
Bloomsbury Festival In A Box
Bloomsbury Festival and the University of London are seeking to commission an artistic response to materials associated with their ‘Festival in a Box’ project. This artwork will be programmed during t …
Blueproject Foundation Residency
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, opens a call for artists-in-residence, a public programme open to all types of formats, ideas, artistic and cultural proposals. Submissions should be for original an …
East London Group Commissions
The Nunnery Gallery is looking to commission three contemporary in-situ artworks on and around Bow Road, London. These works will be the focus of walking tours of the local area that will run alongsid …
Watershed Artist in Residence
Watershed’s Artist in Residence call is an invitation to research and make work at the intersection of art and technology. It is open to all artists of any discipline, who have been practising for two …
The Horniman Residency
The annual research residency from Artquest in partnership with the Horniman Museum and Gardens is now open for applications. The 2017 residency is focused on the museum’s music collection. One select …
Pier-2 Art Center Photographers-in-Residence Program
Pier-2 Art Center is located in Taiwan’s second largest city, Kaohsiung. During October 2017-December 2017, PAIR will host a residency for photography. At the end of residency, selected artist will ha …
COAL Prize
The COAL Prize, created in 2010 by the COAL Art and Ecology Association, invites submissions from artists working on environmental issues in the field of visual arts. The prize-winner receives an awar …
Residency for European Media Artists
The European Media Art Network offers residencies for Media Artists in the fields of digital media including Internet and computer-based artists, filmmakers, and those working in media based performan …
Frieze Writer’s Prize
The Frieze Writer’s Prize, an annual award to discover and promote new art critics, is open for entries. The winner will be commissioned to write a review for frieze magazine and will be awarded GBP£2 …
Spare Parts
The Spare Parts season at Science Gallery, London explores how medical practice and research are increasingly akin to engineering and design, investigating the mobility of human organs, the generation …
Impakt Festival
Impakt is calling for curatorial proposals for the Impakt Festivals in 2018 and 2019. The Impakt Festival is the annual culmination of Impakt’s activities as an organisation that focuses on critical m …
Making Neighbourhood Mobilities Residency
Jiwar announces a call for the selection of two projects which relate to the theme of “Making neighbourhood_5_Mobilities” for a research, creative and production residency at Jiwar (Barcelona) from th …
The Pier Commission
the exchange invite proposals from practitioners for a contemporary arts installation at the 360m long pier in the Thamesside town of Erith for the period of Totally Thames. A budget of £8,000 is avai …
Fountain
For AirSpace Gallery’s exhibition as part of, and in partnership with, the British Ceramics Biennial 2017, they are seeking proposal responses from artists for a new fountain for Fountain Square in St …
The Wheatley Bequest Fine Art Fellowship
Birmingham School of Art is seeking applications from contemporary visual artists for its annual Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship. The £9,000 tax-free stipend fellowship is intended to give a practitioner …
WetlandLIFE Bursaries
WetlandLIFE is seeking to commission new artworks relating to the three case study areas: the Somerset Levels, Humber Levels and Thames Estuary. They are open to artists from any artform working in a …
EIKON Award
EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art announces an open call for women photographers and media artists 45 years and older. The award winner will receive € 5,000 in cash, in addi …
National Open Art
National Open Art competition is open for submissions. The categories for submission are paintings, drawings, photography, original print, wall hung installations, digital art, and moving image. Final …
Photoworks Annual
The next issue of Photoworks Annual will explore how photography and visual culture can be used to foreground LGBTQ+ rights. The Editors are currently looking for fully-resolved projects responding to …
CRIPTA747 Residency
Cripta747 announces its Residency Programme to support artists, curators and researchers, from any field of contemporary culture, without any geographical or age limit. The Residency Programme takes p …
VARI Embedded Residency
The Victoria & Albert Museum Research Institute (VARI) is inviting nominations and applications for a yearlong embedded residency at the Museum for practitioners working with data as their medium. …
Griffin Art Prize
The Griffin Art Prize 2017 is an exhibition and studio award for emerging artists in painting and drawing. The Griffin Art Prize will be offered to one UK based candidate at their location of choice. …
West Dean College Artist in Residence
Co-ordinated alongside the full-time Visual Arts programmes at West Dean College, the Artist in Residence Open Call is designed to support contemporary practitioners in developing research projects an …
Cultural Institute Cultural Fellowships
The University of Leeds’ Academy of Cultural Fellows invites applications from artists working in the area of arts and science/hybrid arts. Cultural Fellows support the exploration of an art/science p …
For A Rainy Day: Publishing As A Site Of Collectivization
PRAKSIS invites applications for Residency No. 7, For A Rainy Day: Publishing As A Site Of Collectivization with artist Iz Öztat (Turkey), in collaboration with non-profit bookshop and publisher Torpe …
FLACC Residency
The call for a residency at FLACC, located in Genk, Belgium is open for all visual artists. The application is open for projects in various media and disciplines. Projects with interest in artistic la …
Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program
Artists selected for the residency program are invited to live in Syracuse, USA for one month. They receive a $5,000 stipend, an apartment to stay in, a private digital studio, a private darkroom, and …
Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Prize
The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that administers intellectual property rights on behalf of visual artists. ACS is offering an artist the chance to …
National Disability Arts Collection and Archive Grants
Applications are now open for the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA)’s new Research and Development mentoring grants for emerging disabled artists. NDACA, the Disability Arts Move …
Institut Potemkin Residency
Institut Potemkin announces a call for entries and residencies for Begehungen arts and culture festival, to take place at Kulturpalast Rabenstein, a former recreation centre and TV studio in Chemnitz …
Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral Residency
Residential fellowships in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems, Germany are awarded to international visual artists. Residencies last 3 or 9 months. The topic for the Balmoral residential fel …
Artist in Residence/Britain to Brazil
British Council Brazil and People’s Palace Projects are launching a year’s programme of three residencies for 3 UK based emerging artists in Brazil to take place between September 2017 and March 2018. …
UK/Ukraine Artist Residency Programme
The British Council in Ukraine and the Liverpool Biennial announce the second iteration of SWAP: UK/Ukraine Artist Residency Programme, aiming to connect artists from Ukraine and the UK and support th …
Jerwood Drawing Prize
Artists are invited to submit entries for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017. The Jerwood Drawing Prize is open to all artists who are based in the UK to submit their drawings. Up to 70 drawings will be s …
HIAP Residency Programme
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme is seeking applications from artists worldwide for residencies taking place at HIAP Suomenlinna and HIAP Cable Factory in 2018. The programme focuses on …
Deep Adaptation Commission
The NewBridge Project in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking to hear from artists, activists and collectives interested in collaborative projects that engage with ideas and themes connected to the Deep Ada …
32° East Ugandan Arts Trust Residency
Gasworks are accepting applications from artists based in the United Kingdom for a fully funded, two-week residency at 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust, Kampala, Uganda. The focus of the residency is KLA …
AirSpace Graduate Residency
AirSpace Gallery announces the return of its Graduate Residency Programme and invites students graduating from BA Fine Art courses in summer 2017 and MA Fine Art courses in autumn 2016 to apply. The P …
Curatorial Development Bursaries
ENGINE is the professional development programme for artists and curators in West Midlands. They are currently offering two curatorial opportunities: a bursary of £2,000 to support an artist/curator t …
Pytheas Research Institute / Calanques National Park / Camargo Foundation Program
The Pythéas Research Institute, the Calanques National Park, and the Camargo Foundation invite artists to submit applications for an art & science residency, in order to think, create and work on …
Smart Oxford Playable City Commission
The Smart Oxford Playable City Commission is a commission to produce an idea for the city of Oxford. The Commission invites artists to propose ideas which respond to the theme Shared City. Applicants …
Sidney Nolan Trust Artist Residency
Sidney Nolan Trust invites applications for a group exhibition at the Rodd, Herefordshire and an international residency for UK artists. Artists of any age or stage of their career are invited to appl …
Stanley Picker Fellowships Design & Fine Art
The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is currently seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2017. Each Fellowship provid …
Exeter Contemporary Open
An annual, open submission exhibition that presents work from emerging and established artists from the UK and beyond. The submission process for the 2017 exhibition is now open and artists working ac …
Gefail yr Ynys Artist in Residency
Addo are inviting applications from artists and makers with a collaborative/ participative approach to undertake a residency based at the forge at Gefail yr Ynys in Caernarfon, Wales. This residency i …
Audio-visual Project Residency
Tabakalera announces an open call for a residency for artists who are developing an audio-visual project within the practices of the contemporary field. The residency, which will last between four and …
HOME Slough Town Centre Artist Commissions
HOME Slough wants to animate the town centre with one or more artist commissions that will connect and express Slough’s people and inspire a sense of pride in the town. The outcome may be a permanent, …
Lucie Foundation Scholarship Program
The Lucie Foundation is offering three cash grants to support the work of emerging photographers – one $2,500 scholarship with an open theme and two $1000 scholarships for photographers working in the …
Light Night Leeds Commission
Leeds City Council is looking to commission a new projection mapping and soundscape for the city’s annual Light Night Leeds event. Light Night Leeds is a multi-arts and light festival which takes plac …
Curatorial Open
Applications are open for the Lewisham Arthouse Curatorial Open Call 2017. Based in Deptford’s former library Lewisham Arthouse provides access to artist studios, workshops, exhibitions and learning. …
Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries
The Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is offering two Leadership Bursaries for artists and/or arts workers from culturally diverse backgrounds (BME: Black and Minority Ethnic) as part of Live Art UK’ …
Guest Projects
Guest Projects is an initiative conceived by Shonibare Studio to offer an opportunity for projects of any artistic discipline (dance, visual arts, music, film screenings, seminars and talks on any su …
Exhibition: Robotics & A.I.
QUAD, Derby’s centre for contemporary visual art, are seeking submissions from artists, collaborators and collectives who utilise Robotics or Artificial Intelligence in the production of their artwork …
Kuldīga Photography Residency
The residency programme will provide three photography artists an opportunity for concentrated personal work in Kuldīga, Latvia. The residency period is from 15 September to 15 October 2017. The artis …
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is open for entries. Entries are welcome from any genre, and in any format and on any subject. Submissions will be considered for all areas of the programme incl …
Creekside Artists Graduate Studio Award
Creekside Artists is offering its inaugural Graduate Studio Award. The recipient will receive a free studio with Creekside Artists in Bermondsey for a fixed period of 6 months, from 1st July 2017 – 31 …
The Spur / ETACEC 16-18 Residencies
As part of the call for Euroregion and Creative Europe – Cooperation Projects, The Spur / ETACEC 16-18 project is launching a second selection process for European artists from a member state of the E …
Finnish Museum of Photography Project Space Exhibitions
The Project space is intended for exhibitions and projects that use photography or other lens-based media as tools for art or research. Photography professionals and students as well as visual artists …
Environmental Bursary
The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle offers two, one-year bursaries to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness. Applications are i …
Bibliothek Andreas Züst Residency
Bibliothek Andreas Züst, Switzerland, offers three studio residency stipends. The length of the stay can vary from one to four weeks according to the needs of the stipendiaries. Application for the St …
Prosper
Applications are open for Prosper, a business support programme for the arts. Prosper offers the opportunity for arts and cultural organisations, companies or individual entrepreneurs in England to pa …
bb15 Residency
The call is open to artists who work at the interface between sound, music and auditory research / practice. bb15 (Linz, Austria) are looking for exhibition concepts that explore the specific artistic …
Gleis70 Residency
The Cooperative Gleis70 together with the Cultural Department of the State of Zurich and Pro Helvetia, Swiss Cultural Foundation provide a residential artist studio, including a living/working space a …
Writer in Residence
Jerwood Visual Arts is seeking applications for the Writer in Residence programme, running from June – December 2017. It invites resident writers to engage with the programme as they choose and with t …
Berwick Visual Art and Centre for Rural Economy Artists Residency
Berwick Visual Arts announces its fifth annual residency opportunity for visual artists, in partnership with the Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) at Newcastle University, which specialises in teaching a …
Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award will be granted annually to a professional woman photographer towards the initiation or completion of a compelling and cohesive documentary photo essay which a …
Photography Residency
The residency is an opportunity for an artist or photographer to work with individuals and communities in Stoke-on-Trent, to lead participatory workshops and to create an artwork for public display du …
Great Exhibition of the North Commission
The Great Exhibition will celebrate the North of England’s art and culture, design and innovation. NewcastleGateshead is creating an exhibition across the city. Beginning with an exhibition hub at Gre …
Litmus Commission and Residency
Litmus is an exhibition and development programme offering curatorial and practical support for five early career artists based in Wales and the Welsh Borders to research, develop and present new work …
Alchemy Film & Arts Exhibitions Programme
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival invite proposals of moving image installations for their exhibition space on Hawick High Street, to take place year-round from August 2017. Proposals of artist …
VR Arles Festival
VR Arles is a festival of virtual reality, designed to discover cinema, documentary and artistic creation, part of the program of Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles. The selected movies will be …
Michael O’Pray Prize
Michael O’Pray Prize is an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image. The recipient of the Michael O’Pray Prize will receive £500 and their submitted text will be pub …
The New Gallery Main Space
The New Gallery (TNG) in Calgary, Canada, provides opportunities and venues for artists that foster social and political creative practices, while engaging and educating audiences through contemporary …
Engine and Grain Bursary
Engine and Grain are jointly offering a bursary of £1,000 to an artist living and working in the West Midlands region. Photography should be an integral element of the artist’s practice. The bursary s …
Artist Inspiration Days at Battersea Arts Centre
Battersea Arts Centre is looking for 30 disabled and non-disabled visual artists and makers from a variety of backgrounds who work with different fabrics and materials to take part in a paid 1 day dev …
Research Residency and Exhibition
A is for Apple is an art project that looks at how Brexit will affect apple farming in England and artists are invited to respond to what is happening. The project is open to up to 4 artists who work …
The Happy Hypocrite – Tolstoyevsky
Issue 10 of The Happy Hypocrite – Tolstoyevsky will be published by Book Works in October 2017. They are now issuing a call for text or image submissions. The call invites a response to the guest edit …
MK50 Canal Residency
Gongoozler is an open call residency, exhibition, and professional development opportunity on the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes taking place between July – November 2017. Gongoozler has been crea …
British Council Aarhus Residency
The British Council, in partnership with the Creativity World Forum 2017 (CWF), is seeking applications from practitioners to participate in a residency programme in Aarhus, which will culminate with …
Venice Agendas: The Contract
Live artists are invited to submit proposals for pop-up performances in Margate and Folkestone as part of Venice Agendas 2017: The Contract. Responding to the theme of The Contract, proposed performan …
Aomori Artist in Residence
The Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori Public University, Japan, opened in December 2001 as an artistic institution centered on an ‘Artist in Residence’ (AIR) program. They invite to their …
3-Phase
An exhibition and development opportunity offering curatorial and practical support for early career artists to make and exhibit new work at three UK locations. Open to artists within 10 years of esta …
Contemporary Drawing Research
Drawing Room invites proposals that examine critical issues around contemporary drawing. This offers postgraduate students and scholars the chance to field test and peer-review research, and to networ …
Screen Archives Residency
University of the Arts London announces a new residency opportunity, supported by the British Board of Film Classification. The Screen Archives Residency is an opportunity for an artist to be in resid …
Braunschweig Projects
The Braunschweig University of Art/The Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (HBK) invites applications for Braunschweig Projects scholarships for artists in Sound Art and Fine Art. This program …
Heritage Open Days Commissions
Heritage Open Days are looking for 4 artists or artistic collaborations to work with local organisers to respond to the history of towns, cities and places through art inspired by LGBTQ heritage. Open …
Stuart Croft Foundation Awards
The Stuart Croft Foundation enables filmmakers, researchers and exhibitors working between the gallery and the cinema to undertake and complete small-scale projects, where other funding options may be …
London Creative Network
London Creative Network is a London-wide development programme for creative practitioners with a focus on innovative technologies or processes. The emphasis is on developing new products and services …
Inter/sections Commission
Inter/sections is a symposium organised by students in the Media and Arts Technology (MAT) programme at Queen Mary, University of London. In September 2017, Inter/sections discusses issues of Politics …
Contemporary British Painting Prize
The Contemporary British Painting Prize is now accepting applications. From the submissions 12 artists will be invited to bring three works chosen by the selectors to form The Contemporary British Pai …
Hidden Lines of Space
Hidden Lines of Space is an artistic and curatorial research project focussing on the floor plan as medium of depiction as well as conception. HLOS is interested in the potential of its artistic use a …
Artangel Everywhere
Artangel Everywhere is an open call for new ideas. Over the past two decades, through a number of open calls, Artangel has commissioned works in performance, film, installation, and radio, each situat …
Embassy of Foreign Artists
The Embassy of Foreign Artists is a Geneva-based residency program for creators and researchers involved in artistic and cultural projects. Given Geneva’s global role as a city with many NGOs and inte …
Micro Residency Programme
Applications are invited from artists working in any medium for the 2017/18 Micro Residency Programme at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. The Micro Residency programme is a research and development oppor …
Bitamine Faktoria Residency
Call for artists from any country and nationality (excepted Spanish) who do not live in Spain and wish to stayin the region of Bidasoa (Irun, Hendaia and Hondarribia), located on the French/Spanish bo …
Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Studio Award
Lewisham Art House is an artist cooperative providing access to artist studios, workshops, exhibitions and learning. They are inviting recent London-based fine or applied arts graduates to apply for t …
Women’s Beat League Study Week
Women’s Beat League is a Portland, Oregon collective dedicated to teaching and co-learning DJing and music production skills. Women’s Beat League hosts workshops, lectures and parties focused on repre …
John Ruskin Prize
The 4th John Ruskin Prize invites applications from artists and makers. This year’s theme: Hand & Eye: Master of All Trades in The Age of Jack refers to the Artist as Polymath. The selection panel …
Assembling Newtown Commission
Artist with skills and experience in public engagement and event design to work in Newtown, Powys. The Global-Rural Project is based at Aberystwyth University’s Department of Geography and Earth Scien …
Digital Art Commission
The British Science Festival and Brighton Digital Festival are looking to co-commission a new digital artwork that will be presented in a gallery space at the University of Brighton, Edward St Campus …
Medialab Prado Madrid Artist-in-Residency
Medialab-Prado announces an open call directed at audiovisual artists, asking for their participation in a collaborative production residency at the Medialab-Prado headquarters. The residency period w …
Idle Women Residency
idle women are inviting women to join them in an open boat invitation – women are welcome to express an interest to stay on board the Selina Cooper to work with them to generate an offer for other wom …
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize offers a £10,000 prize, and the chance for work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next collection. One-hundred and twenty works will be selected for the Ruth …
Arcus Project Artist-In-Residence
Artist-In-Residence Program of ARCUS Project in Ibaraki, Japan aims to support the artistic activities of emerging artists. ARCUS Project Artist-In-Residence Program has focused more on the “process” …
Aarhus Center for Visual Art Residency
Aarhus Center for Visual Art (Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, AaBKC) invites international visual artists to apply to AaBKC Residency’s Fall 2017 program. The aim of AaBKC Residency is to introduce internat …
Algorithms that Matter Residencies
Algorithms that Matter is an artistic research project hosted by The Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. It aims at understanding …
Lucy Art Residency
The Lucy Art Residency announces an open call for its first short residency program and commission for visual artists. The programme offers the opportunity for an EU/EEA based artist whose main practi …
Pete Lloyd Lewis Studio Award
Applications are now open for the 2017/18 Pete Lloyd Lewis Studio Award, which offers a free studio to one artist for one year from 1st June. The award is open to applications from Fine Art MA/MFA gra …
The Artist Entrepreneur Residency
PRAKSIS, Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS) and The Moving Museum are working with artist Jeremy Bailey(CA) to develop PRAKSIS’s summer 2017 residency The Artist Entrepreneur. Artists are invited to apply …
Race Relations Acts Residency
The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art seeks applications to be the House of Commons’ Artist-in-Residence, tasked with exploring and celebrating the legacy of the 1965, 1968 and 1976 Race Re …
Sensory Atelier Artist in Residence
Attenborough Arts Centre is seeking proposals from experienced visual artists and musicians with experience and specialism of working with SEN schools and children with complex needs and disabilities …
Public Art Residencies
Mayo County Council and Aras Inis Gluaire/Erris Arts Centre invites submissions for three public art projects/residencies in Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. This is an opportunity for artists to work wit …
Chisenhale Studios Summer Residencies
Chisenhale Studios are inviting proposals for Studio4 Residencies. Residencies will take place between July and September 2017, ranging between one and two months depending on project needs. The resid …
Jerwood/FVU Awards: Unintended Consequences
The Jerwood/FVU Awards are an annual opportunity for moving-image artists in the first five years of their practice. The open application programme invites artists to make proposals for new works, two …
Near Now Fellowship
Near Now is Broadway’s (Nottingham) studio for arts, design and innovation. They invite applications for the the Near Now Fellowship, their artistic and professional development programme. The Near No …
Woon Foundation Prize
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize offers an opportunity annually for students currently in the final year of their undergraduate study within the United Kingdom. The first prize is …
Friday Island – Power
Friday Island is looking for artists working in any medium (performing arts, fine arts, video/film, literature, etc.) for its next event, taking place in May 2017 in Luxembourg. The theme of the event …
Queen’s Hall Online Commission
This is an ongoing programme to commission a regular new artwork for the Queen’s Hall Digital site. Currently they are looking to commission 3 artists. This call is open to all UK based artists, techn …
Aberdeen Fishing Memorial Commission
Aberdeen City Council is seeking to appoint an artist, craftsperson, maker or creative practitioner to develop a design for a new artwork which will commemorate the major contribution fishing has made …
Jon Schueler Scholarship, Visual Artist in Residence
Applications are now being accepted for the fifth Jon Schueler Scholarship, Visual Artist in Residence, an international residency opportunity to take place in the Isle of Skye, Scotland in the summe …
BigCi Environmental Awards
Australian and International Artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, film making, curating – are invited to submit entries for …
On Paper Award
The On Paper Award first prize is 1000€. The second prize is The Awagami Paper Award – 100 sheets of Awagami editioning paper worth 500€, sponsored by The Awagami Factory, Japan. The shortlisted arti …
ENLIGHT Residencies
Four funded residency opportunities for mid-career artists across Europe to take part in new international partnerships developing installations that combine light and sound. Curated Place with SPECTR …
Griffin Gallery Project-Based Residencies
Griffin Gallery invite proposals from any practising artist for ad hoc, project based residencies. Artists will be offered space, materials and specialised knowledge to develop projects focussed on th …
Call for Exhibition Proposals
Exhibition proposals for 2017 and beyond are invited from art practitioners and curators, for the Alison Richard Building (‘ARB’), a new exhibition space at the University of Cambridge. They are looki …
Daiwa Foundation Grants
The Foundation awards grants to individuals and institutions in the UK and Japan in all areas of the visual and performing arts, the humanities, the social sciences, science and engineering, mathemati …
SOLO Award
The SOLO Award is an annual contemporary art prize open to artists working in all media. The finalists are exhibited in a group show each spring and the overall winner receives a £1000 cash prize and …
Waterford Healing Arts Trust Artist-in-Residence
Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) invites applications from artists of all arts disciplines for a six month residency based at University Hospital Waterford in Ireland. The focus of this residency w …
Experimental Studio Residency
Based at Abject Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, The Experimental Studio is a 3 week in-gallery residency to create new work, culminating in a 2 week exhibition. The residency will take place between J …
Roberto Cimetta Fund Valletta 2018 Mobility Funding
Applications are open for the Roberto Cimetta Fund and the Valletta 2018 Foundation travel grants. Artists and cultural operators living and working in the Euro-Arab region who wish to undertake colla …
Young Masters Art Prize
Artists working in any medium and from anywhere in the world are invited to apply for the Young Masters Art Prize – an international prize for emerging and established contemporary artists who pay hom …
Eyebeam Residency
The Eyebeam Residency is an for artists engaged with technology and technologists working in the arts. Residents work in Eyebeam studios in Brooklyn for one year on experimental, interdisciplinary pro …
Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation invite artists to submit films for their spring programme. They welcome single-channel film and video works up to 7 minutes, although videos up to 15 minutes in length …
Connect/Exchange Residency
Connect/Exchange artist’s residency involves exchange/research/networking residencies for artists with a screen-based practice. Northern Film & Media are looking for early and mid-career artists w …
Peer Forum at Cubitt
Applications are open for PEER FORUM 2017 at Cubitt. This opportunity will provide selected artists with £1,800 of funding to run their own peer mentoring group at Cubitt. Cubitt welcomes applications …
PACT Zollverein Residency
PACT is as a developmental working and presentation space for contemporary performance art at the interface between science, technology and society. PACT is launching a new long-term research and deve …
Collusion Artists’ Labs
Two opportunities for artists to apply to take part in specialist week-long labs working with Collusion in Cambridge. Lab A: Virtual, augmented & mixed reality will take place in May and Lab B: Ar …
Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition
The Society of Women Artists invites submissions for its annual exhibition, which will take place at the Mall Galleries, London in July 2017. Categories of work which are acceptable: painting, pastels …
Peer Forum at The Photographers’ Gallery
Peer Forum, Artquest’s annual Peer Mentoring programme aims to assist artists by providing them with the funding, space and resources necessary to establish their own peer mentoring groups. Calls for …
DIY Cultures
DIY Cultures 2017 is a day-long festival of zines, artist books, comics, talks, films, exhibitions and workshops at Rich Mix, London. They invite applications to participate in the event. They are off …
alt.barbican
The Barbican and The Trampery are looking for artists working at the intersection of art, technology and entrepreneurship to take part in a new project. The six-month programme for up to five artists, …
Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art
The British School at Rome invites applications for The Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art. The fellowship is an opportunity for an early-career artist, working in any discipline, who has a significa …
Development Lab
Metal are looking for disabled & non-disabled practitioners to take part in an intensive research & development LAB. These four day workshops are aimed at artists (from all artforms) that work …
Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale Residency
Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale/Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale (NKD) invites visual artists, designers and architects to apply for a residency of two or three months duration in 2018. Curators are eligible t …
DIY 14
DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual research, training and professional development projects for themselves and other artists. DIY is about creating space …
Textile Artist Commission
An opportunity has arisen for a textile creative who has the experience of delivering an engaging and accessible project, with a mixed age group, to produce a banner for the Model Village whilst explo …
COLLIDE International Award
COLLIDE International Award welcomes proposals from artists from any country who are inspired by the research environment at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. One artist …
Belfast Photo Festival
Belfast Photo Festival is offering artist’s/photographers the opportunity to exhibit their work in the Festival gallery. The winners will be eligible for an award of £1,000. Submissions must be photo …
Henry Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowships
Henry Moore Institute offers Fellowships to enable researchers of different backgrounds and disciplines to develop their work. Research Fellowships are intended for artists, scholars and curators work …
Creative Schools Project Commission
artsdepot is looking for artistic collaborators to work with them to devise, create and deliver a workshop programme for five schools in the London Borough of Barnet (two x Primary, two x Secondary, o …
British Ceramics Biennial Award
The Award exhibition will take place during the fifth British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent in autumn 2017. Artists are asked to submit proposals, outlining what work they would seek to present …
Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is a media arts competition. Winners are awarded the Golden Nica statuette, prize money ranging up to € 10,000 per category and an opportunity to show their work at the Ars El …
STARTS Prize
Appointed by the European Commission, Ars Electronica, BOZAR and Waag Society are launching a prize for collaborations and results at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. Two prizes, …
Croome Park Commission
Croome is looking for an emerging artist, maker or designer to develop and make new work responding to Robert Adam’s vision and designs at Croome. The work(s) will be designed in collaboration with fo …
Litmus Commission
Open to emerging artists based in Wales and the Border counties. Litmus is a 12-month programme of new artists’ commissions at Oriel Davies between May 2017 and April 2018. Litmus – Part 1 is the firs …
Quarry Bank Artist in Residence
The National Trust is offering a two-month residency and commission opportunity at Quarry Bank, Cheshire for an emerging to mid-career contemporary visual artist to make new site-responsive artwork. B …
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award offers a combination of financial support towards the production of new work and a solo exhibition to an emerging sculptor. The financial award to assist in the product …
Creekside Open
The Creekside Open 2017 is a visual arts open competition run by the Art in Perpetuity Trust. Work for two exhibitions will be independently selected from one anonymous submission. Both exhibitions wi …
Crofters’ Memorial Commission
Atlas Arts, working in partnership with Staffin Community Trust (Urras An Taobh Sear), invites applications from artists interested in researching and developing a contemporary memorial to acknowledge …
Apexart Franchise Exhibition Program
apexart’s Franchise Exhibition Program is an open call for group exhibitions to be presented anywhere in the world outside of New York City as part of apexart’s program. Curators, artists, writers, an …
SEA Foundation Residency
SEA Foundation invites visual artists, art critics and curators to apply for a residency in 2017 in Tilburg, Netherlands. Candidates can apply for one term. Either April – June or September – November …
Edith-Russ-Haus Grants for Media Art
The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany will award three Grants for Media Art 2017 of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (€10,000 each). The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Edith-R …
Intersection Commission
Intersection is a commission opportunity created by Fabrica, centre for contemporary art in Brighton & Hove, and Project Art Works, Hastings. They wish to co-commission an artwork for Fabrica’s sp …
McKinney International Art and Design Residency
The School of Art and Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4-6 week Fall 2017 McKinney International Art and Design Residency. The residency is open to artists at all le …
The Cultures of Machine Participation
The research group for the design of information systems (DESIGN) at the University of Oslo (UiO) invites up to 10 European artists and designers for a 2-day workshop on the 3rd and 4th of April 2017 …
La Ira de Dios Residency
Residency at La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 27/March – 29/May 2017 for UK-based artists. Supported by a partnership with British Council. The selected artist will participate in the Apr …
Fujifilm Residency
Open call to photographers regardless of nationality, for a one-month residency to take place between April and May 2017 in Viseu, Portugal. The challenge is to look at the neighboring parishes of Vis …
MOSTYN Open 20
MOSTYN, Wales UK announces the call for submissions for MOSTYN Open contemporary art exhibition, to be shown from July 2017. The exhibition of selected works takes place at MOSTYN, with a cash prize o …
Alternate Realities Commission
Sheffield Doc/Fest and FACT announce an opportunity for an artist to create an interactive or immersive documentary work for Sheffield Doc/Fest in June 2017, with a second opportunity to exhibit at FA …
Milton Keynes University Hospital Commission
Artists are invited to submit applications to undertake the design and production of artwork/s for a side room on Ward 2 at Milton Keynes University Hospital. The commission is managed for the hospita …
Summer Academy Paul Klee
Call for applications to a new two-year Summer Academy for artists, hosted by the Berne University of the Arts HKB and the Zentrum Paul Klee. The Summer Academy Paul Klee is a program for artists work …
Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Artist Fellowship
The National Trust is offering a 3-month artist residency and commission opportunity at Acorn Bank through its annual Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Artist Fellowship award. Artists at any stage in their profe …
PHmuseum Grant
The PHmuseum Grant is an annual grant to support photographers. Applicants are invited to submit visual projects centred around a specific theme, narrative or concept. The first prize is £ 7000 and th …
Artlink Residency
Artlink are seeking four Visual Artists to take part in paid artist residencies in Fort Dunree, Donegal, Ireland, in 2017. Applications are open to professional visual artists working in any disciplin …
Frieze Artist Award
The Frieze Artist Award is an international open call for an artist 25–40 years of age to realize a site-specific work at Frieze London. Proposals should be new, site-specific works, which respond to …
AaBKC Residency
Aarhus Center for Visual Art (Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, AaBKC) invites international curators of contemporary visual art to apply to AaBKC Residency’s Spring 2017 program. The aim of AaBKC Residency i …
A Global State Of Pareidolia Praksis Residency
PRAKSIS and Fotogalleriet invite international, national and local applications from interested individuals to participate in a residency led by artist Lindsay Seers (UK) between 24 March and 24 April …
The Morning Boat Residency
The morning boat is an international artist residency on the island of Jersey that aims to generate a discourse on issues and practices that are central to the island’s economy, social fabric and way …
East Street Public Art Commission
We Made That has been appointed by Southwark Council to carry out a series of improvements in the East Street area of Walworth, London. They wish to commission an artist or designer to deliver a perma …
Spectral Paradigms
Spectral Paradigms is a contemporary art exhibition taking place as part of As The Wandsworth Arts Festival 2017. They are currently seeking submissions from artists over the age of 45, working within …
Guest Artist at Art City
Art City in Winnipeg, Canada invites local, national, and international professional artists to submit proposals to lead collaborative art workshops at our studio in 2017/18. Most participants are ele …
Intermedia Gallery
Intermedia is an independent gallery space funded by Glasgow City Council and managed by the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in partnership with Glasgow Life. Proposals for exhibitions at Intermedi …
Woman’s Hour Craft Prize
The Woman’s Hour Craft Prize is a BBC, Crafts Council and V&A initiative. It will be awarded to a craft practitioner or designer-maker resident in the UK. A shortlist of 12 craft practitioners wil …
Commission: Visual Art Installation created with Young People with Disabilities
artsdepot is looking to commission the creation of a visual art installation that will be presented at TogetherFest on Saturday 22 July 2017. The work will be made over a 7 week workshop programme wit …
MDP Summer Design Residency
The Media Design Practices (MDP) program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA invites Designers, Filmmakers, Architects, Artists, and Makers to submit a proposal for design-driven research …
British School at Rome Fellowships
The British School at Rome has a number of fellowships open for application. The Bridget Riley Fellowship is an opportunity for artists at an early to mid point in their career, whose work has a signi …
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam Light Festival invites artists, designers, engineers and architects to submit interpretations of the theme Existential. The festival presents two exhibitions, following two routes in Amsterd …
EVA International Ireland’s Biennial
EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial announces the Open Call for artists’ proposals for the 38th edition in 2018. For EVA 2018, the revision and selection process of the Open Call is a call to respo …
McKinney International Art and Design Residency
The School of Art and Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4-6 week Fall 2017 McKinney International Art and Design Residency. The residency is open to artists at all le …
Groundwork Residency
Groundwork is looking for two (inter)national Site Artists, and one Milton Keynes associated Citation Artist to participate in Groundwork 2017. Site Artists adopt the position of artist-in-research to …
Institute of Imagination Commission
The Institute of Imagination is inviting artists, scientists, technologists, makers and those who work across disciplines to create an installation that can live interactively within their new space, …
Dublin City Gallery Commission
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and Create the national development agency for collaborative arts in Ireland announce this opportunity for a collaborative artist(s) to research and deliver a new com …
Fellowship Program For Art And Theory
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 2017–2018. Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, located in Innsbruck, Austria, is …
Hospitalfield Residencies
Hospitalfield invites applications for its Summer and Autumn residencies. Selected artists receive a £1000 research and development bursary. The residencies also provides full board catering. The Res …
Ridges & Furrows Public Art Commission
artsNK are seeking artists for new contemporary public art commission for Waddington, Lincolnshire. Ridges & Furrows is an arts and heritage project involving the community in the development of n …
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 is open for applications. Applications are welcome from final year undergraduates and current postgraduates studying Fine Art at UK art colleges, as well as those who …
Artists’ Pavilion Venice Biennale 2017
Artquest are calling for proposals from London based artists for a window based commission to be exhibited in Artquest’s Artists’ Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. One artist will receive a £3,000 …
Holding Space
Holding Space is a one-year programme of research and support for eight UK based artists. The group will meet for a series of seminars in London and visit cultural organisations across the UK and Eur …
National Trust LGBTQ Residency
The National Trust has planned a programme exploring LGBTQ heritage represented at its places, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England in 2017. They …
Wysing Polyphonic Residencies
During 2017 Wysing will be exploring ‘many voices’ across their programmes under the title Wysing Polyphonic. They are inviting artists, musicians and writers to apply to be in-residence within the Wy …
Connect/Exchange Residencies
Connect/Exchange is a national UK residency scheme led by Northern Film & Media for artists with a screen-based practice. Artists are supported with the initial research & development of a new …
Terra Summer Residency
The Terra Summer Residency invites applications from doctoral scholars of American Art and emerging artists worldwide for a nine-week residential program in the village of Giverny, France. The program …
Pacific Contemporary Art Commission
Royal Museums Greenwich invite applications to create a contemporary art installation for the ‘Pacific Encounters’ gallery, part of a new gallery development at the National Maritime Museum in London. …
Stanford University Arts Research Fellowships
The Stanford Arts Institute, invites applications for one-year visiting fellowships. Fellows are expected to conduct interdisciplinary research on the theme “Creative Cities.” Each Fellow will be affi …
Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursaries
The Artist Bursaries support UK-based artists within 10 years of beginning their practice. They support experimentation and activity that may be hard to find specific funding for elsewhere, specific p …
V&A Ceramics Residency
The V&A is inviting applications from mid-career and established UK-based studio ceramicists who wish to develop their practice in new ways by working with the V&A’s collections and developing …
City & Guilds Art School Artist Residency
Early career artists whose main practice is based in either painting, sculpture or installation are invited to apply for an artist residency running from February to September 2017 at City & Guild …
Art, Cities & Landscape Festival
Maison de la Culture d‘Amiens is organising the Art, cities & landscape – Amiens Hortillonnages Festival in France, which will take place from June to October 2017. Maison de la Culture d’Amiens i …
Royal British Society of Sculptors Public Art Award
The Royal British Society of Sculptors announce that the 2017 FIRST@108: Public Art Award is now open for entries, providing an opportunity for sculptors to extend their practice into competing for pu …
Collyer Bristow Graduate Art Award
The Collyer Bristow Award is a biennial competition for graduates 2013-2016 (BA or MA) to apply for the opportunity to be part of a curated group exhibition at Collyer Bristow Gallery (22 February – 1 …
Home Made Commission
Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, is leading a programme of work, Home Made, that brings together a multi-disciplinary team of local people, artists, designers, architects and policy experts to colla …
Public Feature Commission
Leading Link invites Expressions of Interest for a commission to create a new public feature for Bedlington, Northumberland. The artwork must acknowledge the heritage of the town, whilst looking to th …
Barbican Concert Hall Wall Commission
Barbican are inviting artists, collectives and designers across all disciplines, including those working with digital technology and new media, to respond to the phrase: What’s going on here, then? Th …
Passen-gers Exhibition
Passen-gers – a site specific exhibition series based at the Brunswick Centre, London – is seeking submissions from London based artists working in any medium for a solo presentation of work. They are …
Stuart Hall Library Research Network
The Research Network is Stuart Hall Library’s public programme of monthly talks and events. It is a space for researchers, artists, academics, curators, students and activists to meet and discuss aspe …
Artistic Strategies in Psychiatry Residency
The Van Abbemuseum and the GGzE (Mental Health Care Institute Eindhoven, Netherlands) invite national and international artists or artist groups working in the fields of socially engaged art, communit …
Berlin Feminist Film Week
Submissions for the Berlin Feminist Film Week 2017 are open. They are interested in feature films, documentaries and short films which deal with the topic of gender and feminism in some way, have str …
CUT Festival
CUT Festival – The Art of Barbering is a 10 day multidisciplinary arts festival that explores how artists, barbers and activists use barbering to creatively explore the themes of race, gender and comm …
Hotel Elephant Small Commissioning Program
Hotel Elephant is launching its first small commissioning program for recent graduates. This program will commission 6 new pieces of artwork from emerging artists who have graduated in last 3 years. T …
WMA Commission
The WMA Commission invites entries for proposals from artists and photographers from both Hong Kong and the international community, to create new research based photography work in Hong Kong, focusin …
Camac–Ténot Fondation Bursary
Camac Art Centre and Fondation Ténot invite applications for a residency bursary. The bursary offers a 1 month residency at Camac in 2017, with board, lodging, and a studio. Camac is a multi-disciplin …
ArtCenter/South Florida Residency
The MFU: MIAMI is the pilot semester of ArtCenter/South Florida’s Fellowship Program. The program provides residents interested in working outside traditional disciplinary boundaries with the resource …
Digital Artists Residency
Coventry City of Culture Trust invite an artist to produce a piece of work reflecting on the architecture, subculture and people of the city. The call is for a digital artist, but they are open to pro …
Collusion Data-Culture Lab
Collusion is looking for artists to take part in their data-culture lab in January 2017, a week long development session that will explore ideas and ways in which artists can engage with mass data cul …
Priors Hall Park Public Art Commission
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art invite artists with experience of working in the public realm to develop a series of site-specific artworks. The artwork must create a visual or narrative link between th …
Belluard Festival
Festival Belluard Bollwerk International and Migros Culture Percentage are looking for new or nascent artistic projects happening in unexpected places. The selected projects will be realized at outdoo …
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Residency
Applications are open for the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival annual artist’s residency. The residency is for a six month period beginning in April 2017 and is an opportunity for an artist with …
Meet You at The Green? Research Residency
Meet You at The Green? Research Residency is a two month residency to take place between February and May 2017 at Callan Workhouse Union, Ireland. They‘re seeking an artist/designer/architect who wish …
Exe Riverside Valley Park Commissions
Two opportunities for artists to work within Exeter over the next 12 months on socially engaged and action research led projects. For the first opportunity, West Exeter Riverside Artist Residency, Eas …
Community Orchard Commission
The Whitchurch and Hengrove Community Orchard is a public art project by UK artist David Thorpe. The work is located in Hengrove, South Bristol and was commissioned as part of the Future Perfect publi …
Window Project
Gazelli Art House invites graduating students and recent graduates to show a body of work in an allocated space within the gallery with its own street frontage, as well as the windows of the first flo …
Rising Stars at New Ashgate Gallery
Rising Stars is a curated platform for students and recent graduates from BA and MA crafts, design and applied arts programmes across the UK. The programme will consist of the Rising Stars exhibition …
Artist Development Programme at SPACE
The London Creative Network (LCN) at SPACE is a professional artist development programme that delivers mentoring and project-specific support for professional artists in London. LCN at SPACE respond …
Art on the Tideway Commission
Tideway are looking to commission an artist to develop an integrated artwork, or series of artworks, for a new area of public land that will be created by the construction of the Thames Tideway Tunnel …
Tower Bridge Artist in Residence
Tower Bridge Exhibition will be hosting its first Artist in Residence from January to March 2017. They are looking to appoint a visual artist, with a strong background in school and community engageme …
In Context 4 – In Our Time Commissions
South Dublin County Council through its public art programme for 2016 – 2019, IN CONTEXT 4 – IN OUR TIME, invites applications from artists and arts practitioners to become a part of this programme of …
Cove Park Residencies
In 2017 Cove Park will award a minimum of three funded Visual Arts and three Crafts Residencies of between one to three months each. National (UK) and international artists and designer/makers are we …
Trans Atlantic Artists’ Residency Programme
This opportunity will enable two UK based visual artists, art critics or curators to undertake a fully funded practice or research-based residency in Jamaica and Trinidad for two months, from March 1 …
Atopic Art Micro-Residency
ASCUS announces a micro-residency within the School of Medicine and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. They are offering two artists the opportunity for an eczema based art-science residency and commission b …
Philosophy and Visual Art Residency
King’s College London’s Centre for Philosophy and Visual Art (CPVA), in partnership with Kunsthuis SYB (the Netherlands), is inviting artists to apply for their joint residency programme. This two-sta …
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowships
Akademie Schloss Solitude is granting approx. 70 residency fellowships of three to twelve months in duration. International artists up to 35 or if older, who have completed a university or college deg …
Muir Trust Residency
The Muir Trust invites applications from established, mid-career, UK-based studio artists who wish to develop their creative practice by working with the Buckinghamshire County Museum collections. The …
Hors Pistes Residency
During a month long residency, designers and craftsmen share their respective skills and explore a crafted technique. Hors Pistes will invite 6 designers and an editorial team composed of 2 members fo …
Vilém Flusser Residency
With the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research Transmediale are calling for artistic research projects that explore the capabilities and limitations of transdisciplinary and transmedia …
Peninsula Arts Film Commission
Peninsula Arts commissions new work from filmmakers and visual artists annually in support of working and emerging artists. The commission for 2017 will offer two distinct prizes for filmmakers and cu …
Camargo Foundation Residency
The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France is a residential center offering programming in the Arts and Humanities. The Camargo Foundation welcomes applications from all countries, nationalitie …
The Baron Ash Project Commission
Packwood, Warwickshire would like to work with a visual artist to explore and present a new way of looking at and thinking about Graham Baron Ash, who restored Packwood house and collected textiles an …
Baltic 39 Figure Four Exhibition
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announces BALTIC 39 FIGURE FOUR, an open submission exhibition held at BALTIC 39. The exhibition is an opportunity for artists working across all media to test works …
NXT Residency
As part of the NXT project – Making a Living from the Arts (co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union), ELIA – European League of Institutes of the Arts is organising a residenc …
IMéRA: Laboratory for Cross-disciplinary Exploration Residencies
A foundation of Aix-Marseille University, IMéRA is an Institute for Advanced Study, a research centre aimed at fostering cross-disciplinary projects. It receives scientists and artists of all discipli …
Bar Tur Photobook Award
The Bar Tur Photobook Award offers an emerging photographer the opportunity to work with The Photographers’ Gallery and independent UK based publisher Bemojake, to produce their first book to a value …
Inhabitant Zero Residency
Inhabitant Zero is a call for proposals for a research residency in the suburb of Jarfalla in Stockholm. The proposal could be for a study of the surrounding area, a diary of their stay, a research on …
Artist’s Book Residency Grant
The Artist’s Book Grant at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work. The grant includes a stipend of $350/week, up …
The Spur Artists in Residence
The THE SPUR / ETACEC 16-18 project, which the Euroregion takes part in, offers 6 grants for 6 artists in residence to carry out research work with particular emphasis on working and creative processe …
Warwick Stafford Research Fellowship
Northumbria University are accepting applications to the Warwick Stafford Fellowship 2016/17. They invite early-mid career practitioners in fine art to apply to the fellowship which offers a £20,000 b …
idle women artist in residence
idle women is an organisation that initiates and creates contemporary art with and by women. They are seeking a socially motivated artist with collaborative practice to live and work with them for thr …
Art on the Tideway Commission
As part of its Art on the Tideway programme, Tideway announces a series of commissions for the Thames Tideway Tunnel for London. This commission is for an artist to develop designs of the 15m-high bes …
2 Degrees Festival
2 Degrees Festival is Artsadmin’s biennial festival of art, environment and activism, with a programme of performance, debate and public installations based in and around Toynbee Studios in East Londo …
Unlimited Commissions
Unlimited is a commissions programme, delivered by Shape Arts and Artsadmin, funded by Arts Council England with additional funding from Arts Council Wales, British Council and Spirit of 2012. They ar …
Fashion Space Gallery Residency
Fashion Space Gallery announces its third annual residency for 2017. The residency was created to support designers working within fashion or associated fields, in particular those whose practice is e …
Loewe Craft Prize
The Loewe Foundation invites applications for the Loewe Craft Prize, an annual international prize recognising a work of craftsmanship that pairs an original artistic concept with a modern application …
Tabakalera Residencies
Tabakalera is a centre for contemporary culture in San Sebastián, Spain. They invite applications for their residency programme. The aim of this call is to offer a residency to contribute to the produ …
WWF Cymru Earth Hour Public Art Project
WWF Cymru invites proposal for artists for the WWF Cymru Earth Hour 2017 Public Art Project. WWF’s Earth Hour is an annual international event when people turn off their lights for one hour on the sam …
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a commissioning opportunity for UK-based artists and photographers within ten years of beginning their practice. They support early career artists who are approaching …
Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale
I-Park, East Haddam, CT (U.S.) announces that it will be hosting its sixth international, multi-disciplinary Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale. The three-week residency begins on Monday, Ma …
Apexart Unsolicited Exhibition Program
apexart’s Unsolicited Exhibition Program is an open call for group exhibitions to be presented at apexart’s New York City location as part of the season program. Curators, artists, writers, and creati …
Open School East Associate Artists
Applications are invited from emerging artists to join Open School East. Open School East will be based at Resort Studios, Margate. Associates at Open School East are emerging practitioners with or wi …
Künstlerhaus Lauenburg Residential Fellowships
Künstlerhaus Lauenburg in Germany is a society for fine art, literature, and composition and offers emerging artists the possibility to create new projects and to present them to an interested public. …
Helsinki International Curatorial Programme
Helsinki International Curatorial Programme (HICP) offers curatorial residencies in Helsinki for international curators of contemporary art. The programme is co-organised by HIAP – Helsinki Internatio …
Beyond the Frame and Tactical Interventions
The International Curators Forum, in partnership with University of the Arts London, have launched two projects aimed at tackling the under-representation of people from racially and culturally divers …
FLAMIN Productions Commissions
FLAMIN Productions is a two-stage commissioning fund for artist filmmakers. This year up to three projects will be commissioned with production support of £30,000 each, following an initial developmen …
Open Online Seven – “Can You Hear Me?”
Fermynwoods is seeking proposals from artists for new or past artworks to be presented online from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2017 and inspired by the way in which coded transference of data can br …
OverFlow Conference
Performance Studies international Annual Conference invites submissions. The conference theme “OverFlow” takes a reverse view on the political tropes customary in “times of crisis” – “OverFlow” focuse …
The White House Residency
Create are looking for an artist living in Barking & Dagenham to take part in a paid, three-month residency at The White House, a new public space for art and social activity on the Becontree Esta …
Ibero-American Arts Award
The Embassy of Brazil to the UK is inviting entries for its Ibero-American Arts Award. Following the pre-selection process conducted by the curatorial committee, up to 30 artworks will then go on disp …
‘A Romance with Revolution’ Residency
Artists from around the world are invited to apply for the International Studio Program of the ACC Galerie Weimar and the City of Weimar on the theme of “A Romance with Revolution”. Three selected ar …
Hooked Exhibition
HOOKED is the first international, open-call gallery exhibition and event programme at Science Gallery London, opening in 2018 on the Guy’s Campus at London Bridge. It explores the neuroscience, psych …
KulturKontakt Artists in Residence
In co-operation with KulturKontakt Austria, the Austrian Federal Chancellery makes available 50 residencies in Austria (Vienna and Salzburg) each year. The residency is designed to offer an opportunit …
Lighthouse Works Fellowship
Lighthouse Works invites applications for its fellowship program. Artists at any stage of their career are welcome to apply. Fellowships are six weeks in length and occur year-round. The Lighthouse Wo …
Artist Film Festival
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation invites submissions of films for their Autumn Film Festival to take place in November 2016. They welcome single-channel film and video works that seek to expand, redefi …
Extra City
Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp, Belgium is launching an open call for project proposals to be realised during 2017-2019. Applicants can submit a proposal for a project-based collaboration: the realisa …
Creative Wales – British School at Rome Fellowship
The Creative Wales-British School at Rome Fellowship is an opportunity for artists at a significant juncture in their careers (usually at early- to mid-career stage), who live in Wales, to undertake a …
Philip Jones Griffiths Award
Applications are open for the inaugural Philip Jones Griffiths Award from The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation. The award is for documentary photography and must be used to complete a body of work, r …
Creative Fellow – The Workhouse, Southwell
The Creative Fellowship scheme is an annual programme of residencies with The National Trust at The Workhouse, Southwell. The scheme is intended to support the production of new creative work, in coll …
Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award
Applications are now open for the Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award. The award is a £1,200 bursary, plus printing, exhibition and mentorship, for an emerging photographer in or from the UK to complete a n …
Horniman Museum Commission
The Horniman Museum and Gardens would like to commission a visual artist interested in South Asia, its environmental issues and the interactions between people and nature in the region, to produce an …
HeARTland Commissions
HeARTland is a collaboration between the National Trust, Shropshire Hills AONB Partnership, Arts Alive, Ben Osborne Photography and the Stiperstones & Corndon Hill Country Landscape Partnership Sc …
Exhibition at Half Moon Theatre
Half Moon Theatre is collaborating with New Contemporaries to source artists who wish to present their work at Gallery @ Half Moon – a space specialising in exhibiting work of mixed mediums and scale …
Shape Open
The Shape Open is Shape Arts’ annual exhibition of artwork by disabled and non-disabled artists created in response to a disability-centred theme. This year’s theme is ‘Power: The Politics of Disabili …
Fondation des Treilles Photography Prize
The Photography Prize of the Fondation des Treilles provides the means for the production and the promotion of photographic works related to the Mediterranean world. The prize is open to all professio …
Harpo Foundation Emerging Artist Residency Fellowship
The Harpo Foundation’s Emerging Artist Residency Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) provides an annual opportunity to an emerging visual artist 25 years and older who needs time and space …
Dover Prize Fund
The Dover Prize is a 2-year bursary of £10,000. The bursary will be awarded to an artist or artists to provide them with time to think, research, reflect and/or experiment with new ideas that will cre …
Time and Space Residencies
Metal’s Time and Space Residencies are open opportunities for artists working in all disciplines to access Metal’s spaces, the support of its staff and its local, national and international networks. …
MMCA Residency Changdong
MMCA Residency Changdong, run by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (MMCA), is now receiving applications for the International Artists Residency Program 2017. Visual Art …
Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize
Mountridge Art Foundation is holding its inaugural Purchase Prize exhibition at the Cello Factory in London during November 2016. You are eligible to apply if you have graduated from a UK Art School w …
Experimenta Speed Pitch
For this speed pitching event BFI London Film Festival teams up with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) to offer a chance to win the Experimenta Pitch Award of £1000 towards developmen …
Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and the Stuart Hall Foundation announce a new collaborative artist’s residency opportunity commencing in January 2017. The Stuart Hall Library Artist’s R …
International Awards for Art Criticism
The third edition of these Awards for an exhibition review, in English or Chinese, is open for submissions. The Awards are open to candidates from anywhere in the world, writing in Chinese or English …
Jerwood Makers Open
Jerwood Makers Open is a biennial opportunity encouraging ambitious and/or radical proposals from UK-based makers and collaborators within 10 years of beginning their practice. It focuses on makers an …
AA2A Project
The AA2A project (Artists Access to Art Colleges) is a national set of schemes, providing visual artists and designer makers with the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project …
Princeton University Fellowships
The Lewis Center for the Arts, in collaboration with other Princeton University departments, offers two artist fellowship opportunities. Both are designed to support artists, in all artistic disciplin …
Gasworks Participation Residency
Gasworks invites applications for a 6 month participation residency for a London-based artist. Gasworks is seeking to appoint an artist whose practice is concerned with the advancement of participatio …
Archisle Photographer in Residence
Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise (Jersey Society) in the British Channel Island of Jersey aims to promote contemporary photography through an on …
Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Residency
Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen Foundation supports writers, visual artists, artists in the field of new media and and interdisciplinary projects as well as composers by the way of artist in residence stay …
Into the Wild
Into the Wild is a free artist development programme led by artist members of Chisenhale Studios, which aims to support and inspire artists in the early stages of their career by providing practical a …
English Folk Dance & Song Society Exhibitions
The English Folk Dance and Song Society’s (EFDSS) visual arts exhibition programme at Cecil Sharp House focuses on exhibitions about the culture and community of folk arts and art that takes folk arts …
Project Pressure Nepal Expedition
Project Pressure and The Glacier Trust invite proposals from artists using photography and video to contribute to Project Pressure’s archive. This opportunity will see an artist travel to the Nepalese …
FORMAT Photography Festival
FORMAT photography festival in Derby is looking for submissions that explore the theme of Habitat. They are looking for a wide variety of works for presentation in the festival, from long term researc …
Standpoint Futures Residencies
Standpoint Futures visual art development residencies are for emerging/mid career artists, based outside Greater London. The residency’s aims are to provide opportunities to develop the artist’s pract …
Bauhaus Residency
The foundation Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau invites applications from international artists to live and work in the Muche/ Schlemmer duplex house. The programme is catering to international artists with an …
Hayward Touring Curatorial Open
Hayward Touring invites proposals for an exhibition of contemporary art to be shown in four UK galleries in 2017/18. The exhibition will open in MAC, Belfast in autumn 2017 and then tour to DCA, Dunde …
Tate Exchange Residency
Nine Elms on the South Bank and Tate Exchange are looking for an artist or arts collective to create new work with three local art organisations (Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Gasworks and Pump House …
The Sustainable Arts Foundation Grants
The Sustainable Arts Foundation is a non-profit foundation supporting artists and writers with families. They provide financial awards to parents pursuing creative work. The foundation offers awards i …
Tapestry Commission
West Dean Tapestry Studio announces an open call tapestry commission in the UK for 2016. Artists working in any medium are invited to propose a design or concept for a tapestry to be woven by Master W …
Thalie Art Foundation Residency
The Thalie Art Foundation’s mission is to support various forms of socially-engaged contemporary art, accompanying socio-artistic projects as well as promoting intercultural exchanges. The residency w …
Aesthetica Art Prize
The Aesthetica Art Prize is presented by the international art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine and is open to entrants of all ages and nationalities. It includes a £5,000 main prize and a …
Villa Ruffieux Residency
The residence at Villa Ruffieux in Switzerland is open to all professional artists working in the field of visual arts, music, literature, theatre or cinema, with no distinction made on the basis of …
Saari Residence
The Saari Residence in in Mynämäki, Finland, offers Finnish and non-Finnish artists, critics, curators and translators the chance to work intensively for a period of two months from September to April …
Socially Engaged Commission at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool opens the call for collaborative socially engaged artist/s born in or resident in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Finland, Hungary or Germany, (partner countries within the Collaborative Arts P …
Participatory Artist In Residence
Photofusion invite expressions of interest for 90-day residencies for emerging participatory lens-based artists. Residents on the programme will have access to the residents’ studio space; access to p …
Curator-in-Residence Program
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, USA is now accepting applications from national and international curators for its inaugural Curator-in-Residence Program. Starting in Januar …
South London Gallery Graduate Residency
This year the South London Gallery Graduate Residency is an open submission six month residency opportunity available to artists completing a postgraduate MA, MFA, PGDip, MRes or equivalent programme …
Wimbledon College of Arts – Artist in Residence
Wimbledon College of Arts is looking for an artist to be in residence in the Painting pathway for six weeks in the autumn term. The resident will solely occupy two adjoining spaces within which to mak …
Media Arts Residency
This program, as a part of the “Project to Support the Nurturing of Media Arts Creators” organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Bunka-cho), is an artist in residence progra …
Wschodnia Residency
Foundation In Search Of… together with Wschodnia Gallery are launching a short term international Artist-in-Residence program in Lodz, Poland. The term of the residency is up to 1 month. The specific …
Faena Prize
Faena Art invites international artists across disciplines to submit proposals for the Faena Prize. The prize will awarded to winning proposals for the creation of new site-sensitive work that engages …
The Drawing Room Residency
Oriel Davies Gallery in Wales invites artists and makers with a background in participatory practice to take up residency in The Drawing Room between 22 October and 25 February 2017. They are seeking …
OpenART
OpenART is a public art biennial and takes place in Örebro, Sweden. This call is open to both individuals and groups in various disciplines. They welcome projects “in situ” that respond to our city. N …
The Horniman Residency
Applications are now open for a new Artquest research residency hosted at the Horniman Museum and Gardens. One selected artist will received an award of £3000 and privileged access to develop their pr …
Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary
The annual Shape Arts Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, set up in memory of sculptor Adam Reynolds to support mid-career disabled artists, is now open for submissions. This year’s successful recipient w …
Punto y Raya Festival
Punto y Raya Festival invites submissions of short films built up entirely with non-representational imagery. They invite authors to focus on the expressivity of all the constituent elements of audiov …
Guest Projects
Guest Projects is an initiative conceived by Shonibare Studio to offer an opportunity for projects of any artistic discipline (dance, visual arts, music, film screenings, seminars and talks on any sub …
Firecracker Photographic Grant
The Firecracker Photographic Grant is an annual award providing funding for a female photographer to aid with the completion of a documentary photographic project. The Grant fund is a minimum financia …
Magdalen Road Studios Residency
Magdalen Road Studios in Oxford are seeking applicatons for an artist residency opportunity. The residency would be held in their project space Filament 14 with an exhibition of work to be held at Wol …
Public Art Commission, Merthyr College
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council wish to appoint an artist or artists to create public artworks for two recently created public spaces in front of Merthyr Tydfil College. This commission is for t …
Exhibition Commission
artsdepot is commissioning one exhibition and/or installation to be presented in the Apthorp Gallery. The week long exhibition will take place during the October Half Term (Sunday 23 – Sunday 30 Octob …
Modern Body Festival
Modern Body Festival will take place at the beginning of December in The Hague, the Netherlands. The festival will present works filling the spectrum of intermediality, seeking the modern body within …
Kirkstall Public Art Commission
The Tetley is working in partnership with Leeds City Council to commission a new public artwork in the community of Kirkstall in Leeds. It will be sited on an area of landscaping in front of the Kirks …
European Light Expression Network Residencies
Four funded residency opportunities for mid-career artists across Europe to take part in new international partnerships developing installations that combine light and sound. The project invites four …
Bridget Riley Fellowship
The British School at Rome announces a new residency funded by the Bridget Riley Art Foundation. The Bridget Riley Fellowship is an opportunity for artists, at an early to mid point in their career, w …
Frieze Writer’s Prize
Frieze Writer’s Prize is now open for entries. The winner will be commissioned to write a review for frieze and will be awarded GBP£2,000. This year the prize will be judged by frieze assistant editor …
Penrhyn Castle Residency
The National Trust, through a partnership with Arts Council of Wales is engaging in a 3-year programme of creative residencies at Penrhyn Castle. Applications are now invited from an artist/collaborat …
Blueproject Foundation Residency
The Blueproject Foundation is a multidisciplinary arts centre in Barcelona. Applications are open for a residency in 2017. This call is open to any artist interested as an individual or on behalf of a …
Curatorial Research Residencies
Hangar Barcelona in association with Curators’ Network is offering two fully-funded one-month-residencies in Barcelona, Spain. The is open to all curators and researchers who currently do not live and …
Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Summer Salon
Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes invites submissions for its second annual Summer Salon exhibition. The exhibition will open on 23 July and continue until 14 August. Selections will be made by looking at artw …
Uncertain States
Uncertain States invites new submissions via Open Call 2016. The work is curated by a panel of selectors and exhibited at Arts Pavilion Mile End, London. Each judge will select their own best of show …
Live Art Development Agency Residencies
LADA (Live Art Development Agency) are inviting proposals for two artist residencies. The Privilege and the Displaced residency is a two-week research-based residency in LADA’s Study Room exploring Li …
Watershed Artist in Residence
Watershed invites applications for its artist residency programme at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol, to explore ideas at the point where art and technology meet. The residency is aimed at artis …
Craft Emergency
Aspex invites emerging craft artists, designers and makers working in all media to apply for their open submission exhibition Craft Emergency. A maximum of fifteen artists will be selected for a group …
Tenderflix
Tenderflix is an international film and video competition open to all moving image works. In 2016 the theme for submitting to Tenderflix is Better Living. The shortlisted 10 films will be screened in …
Newcastle University Artist in Residence
Fine Art at Newcastle University and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art invite artists who use clay in their practice to apply for the Norma Lipman Trust & Baltic/Fellowship for artists. This …
MK City Club Digital Commission
Bletchley Park, working with Milton Keynes’ arts and heritage organisations along with the Open University, is inviting artists to submit proposals to create a site specific or time based public realm …
Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism
Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism is a bi-annual research event initially established in 2012 as a network for researchers, artists and performers working within intersectional fields of sound, gender …
Flux: Beach Huts for Southend Pier
Metal have been commissioned by Southend Borough Council to create ten Beach Huts for Southend Pier as a visitor attraction for the summer of 2016 and beyond. One of these huts will be a Gallery Hut w …
Brighton Photo Fringe Open16
Brighton Photo Fringe OPEN16 is an open submission solo exhibition opportunity for an early-career photographer, as part of the Brighton Photo Fringe festival during the Brighton Photo Biennial. One a …
Workweek Prize
Art Licks Weekend began in 2013 to support and promote artist-led and small-scale exhibitions and projects in east and south-east London. From its first year, Artquest has awarded the Workweek Prize t …
Hidden Civil War Commission
Hidden Civil War is a month long programme of activity in Newcastle upon Tyne, commissioned by The NewBridge Project. This programme will include artworks, performances, public-realm interventions, ta …
Videonale
Videonale – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts will include an exhibition and festival programme at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and in the city of Bonn. With PERFORM! as its subject, Videonale invites ar …
Griffin Art Prize
The Griffin Art Prize 2016 is an exhibition and residency award in painting and drawing. An exhibition of 6 short-listed artists will be held at Griffin Gallery in November. The winner of Griffin Art …
Research Residency
S-AIR in association with Curators’ Network is offering a fully funded residency opportunity for curators in Sapporo, Japan, from August 9 – September 13, 2016. The successful candidate is expected to …
Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program
Each year Light Work invites 12-15 artists to participate in its residency program. Artists selected for the residency program are invited to live in Syracuse for one month. They receive a $5,000 stip …
Unseen Dummy Award
The Unseen Dummy Award is open to all designers and photographers. The winner will have their photobook dummy published by Lecturis and a selection of 50 photobook dummies will be exhibited during Uns …
Northern Artist Film Programme
Quays Culture invites artists and filmmakers based in the North of England to apply for the Northern Artist Film Programme. The programme will include two strands for entries: a General Open Call stra …
Koumaria Residency
Artist collective Medea Electronique organizes an annual 10-day experimental artist residency, Koumaria, near Sparta in Greece (the village of Sellasia), focusing on improvisation and new media practi …
Luxembourg Art Prize
The Luxembourg Art Prize is open to any artist, amateur or professional, with no limits on age, nationality or place of residence. The Prize is aimed at artists working in one or more of the following …
Digital Solitude
As part of the Digital Solitude program, each year Akademie Schloss Solitude will be awarding a total of 24 months of fellowships to two to four people in 2016 and 2017. The fellowship program is inte …
Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral Fellowships
Residential fellowships in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems are awarded to international visual artists. Two 3-month fellowships and four 9-month fellowships are available. The focus of th …
Artist in Residence – Headway East London
Headway East London is a charity supporting people affected by brain injury in London. Their Hackney-based Day Service is home to Submit to Love Studios, a community of self-taught artists who are bra …
William Morris Gallery Residency
The William Morris Gallery is inviting applications for a three month residency to take place in the autumn of 2016 (timing negotiable). The opportunity is aimed at emerging and mid-career artists and …
Searching for the centre
Confluence is seeking to appoint an artist or artists’ collaboration, with a process based practice and an interest in place-based narratives, to produce a work for publication in a multiple edition f …
Jerwood Drawing Prize
Artists are invited to submit entries for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016. The Jerwood Drawing Prize is open to all UK based artists working with drawing. The selectors will bring together up to 70 ori …
Cockpit Arts Artist-Maker Residency
The Residency is a development opportunity for an artist-maker whose practice is based in craft and explores ideas and concepts. Cockpit Arts will provide a support structure for the selected artist-m …
SWAP: UK/Ukraine Artist Residence Programme
The British Council Ukraine announces its new artistic residence programme, connecting artists from Ukraine and the UK and supporting their professional development and internationalisation. They are …
London Creative Network
London Creative Network (LCN) is a new London-wide development programme for creative practitioners with a focus on innovative technologies or processes. The emphasis will be on developing new produc …
International Print Biennale Awards
The awards are open to all British and international artists working with print in its widest interpretation, from traditional to contemporary print processes, including 2D, 3D, video, installation an …
Stanley Picker Fellowships
The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is currently seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2016. Each Fellowship provid …
Imagine 2020 Summer Lab – Art, Ecology and Possible Futures
The Imagine 2020 network of European arts organisations, of which Artsadmin is a founding member, run a continuing programme of international Summer Labs for artists. This is an opportunity for a UK-b …
GRAIN and IED Madrid Residency
GRAIN and IED Madrid are seeking submissions from artists, photographers and curators from the West Midlands, UK, to apply for a residency in Madrid, Spain. The applicant must have a photographic prac …
Artraker Biennial Award
The Artraker Biennial Awards are for contemporary artists / organisations that shape how people and organisations understand, engage and respond to violent conflicts and its effects. In 2016 Artraker …
Airspace Graduate Residency
AirSpace Gallery invites graduating students from BA and MA Fine Art courses to apply for their graduate residency scheme. Any fine art or related practitioner graduating from a UK BA or Masters cours …
Artists’ International Development Fund
The Artists’ International Development Fund offers early stage development opportunities for individual freelance and self-employed artists and/or creative practitioners (including, for example: produ …
European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation Residencies
LABoral and the nine artistic and cultural institutions that take part at the European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (ENCAC) have launched its second open call addressed to artists/dev …
Visiting Guest Artist Fellowship
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice invites applications for its Visiting Guest Artists Fellowships. Each fellowship lasts 6 weeks and is offered to established, as well as emerging printmakers …
IdeasCity Athens
The New Museum and NEON announce an open call for participants in the residency program for IdeasCity Athens, which explores the future of cities with arts and culture as driving forces and will take …
Visions in the Nunnery
Visions in the Nunnery is an exhibition of recent performance and moving image works by emerging and established artists at the Nunnery Gallery in Bow, London. Artists from all over the world are invi …
Off The Shelf Commissions
An opportunity for 5 x artists to produce an outdoor sculpture or installation on the themes of books and freedom to be commissioned by the Freedom Festival Arts Trust and Hull Culture and Leisure Lib …
EUPORIAS | Met Office | Kaleider Commission
EUPORIAS, the Met Office and Kaleider are seeking an individual or group to create an experience that will take place during the EUPORIAS General Assembly at the Met Office in October 2016. The succe …
Evolve Artist in Residence
Aspex is inviting applications for an artist-in-residence with a disability. As a part of the ‘Evolve’ pilot project, this residency will form part of a summer season of events taking place at Aspex a …
Berwick Visual Arts Residency
Berwick Visual Arts announces a residency opportunity for visual artists, in partnership with the Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) at Newcastle University, which specialises in teaching and research on …
WimmelResearch-Fellowship
The »WimmelResearch-Fellowship« will be awarded as part of a joint project between Robert Bosch GmbH, Akademie Schloss Solitude and Wimmelforschung. The collaboration is based on the development of Pl …
art&science Residency
Artists above the age of 18 from all countries are invited to apply for a residency at ESA – the European Space Agency. The winning artist is subject to obtaining clearance to work on site at ESA-ESTE …
Derwent Art Prize
Applications are invited for the Derwent Art Prize for artworks created in pencil. Artists can submit 2D and 3D works created with any pencil or coloured pencil as well as water soluble, pastel, graph …
Hotel Maria Kapel Residency
Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK) is an artist-in-residence, exhibition space and cinema for contemporary visual art in Hoorn, the Netherlands. The studio/exhibition space of HMK is located in an early 16th cen …
Lumen Prize
The Lumen Prize is an annual award for digital art. Any art created by a digital device using proprietary, open-source or creatively-coded software is eligible. Entries using animation techniques, CGI …
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival invites submissions and proposals in response to X – this year’s Festival theme. Entries will be considered for all elements of the Festival, including its main …
Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Commissions
The 2016 Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival will be an eight-day festival opening with a weekend of free outdoor events throughout the town. Venues for the 2016 festival encompass Bournemouth’s gard …
Gasworks International Fellowships
Gasworks’ International Fellowships Programme offers UK-based artists the opportunity to undertake a residency at one of Gasworks’ partners abroad. The Programme enables artists to spend between 4 and …
Chimera Art Award
Chimera-Project invites applications for the Chimera Art Award. The prize is a solo exhibition at the Chimera-Project Gallery (Opening: October 28, 2016). The prize includes an exhibition budget, trav …
Royal Photographic Society’s International Print Competition
The Royal Photographic Society is calling for entries to the International Print 159 competition. 100 selected prints will be mounted and framed by The Royal Photographic Society and will tour to six …
Environmental Bursary
The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle offers two, one-year bursaries to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness. Anyone can apply w …
V&A Ceramics Residency
The V&A is inviting applications from early-career UK-based studio ceramicists (around 2-5 years since MA, or 5-10 years since BA) who wish to develop their practice in designing and making cerami …
MAP Creative Residency – Transcultures
In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes’ MAP programme, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary centre for digital and sound cultures, together with the City of Mons (Belgium) invites …
Curatorial Open Call
Lewisham Art House is offering free use of their project space to an artist, curator or collective for a period of 4 weeks. They are inviting proposals from an artist/curator interested in working bey …
COLLIDE International Award
Arts@CERN announces the COLLIDE International Award, an international residency programme and a new collaboration between CERN and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool). The com …
Artist Film Commissions at EEFF
The East End Film Festival (EEFF) presents a programme of artists’ filmmaking work and events in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery. The EEFF invites artist filmmakers to submit proposals for sh …
East Tower Residency
At the end of August, the East Tower of the former BBC Television Centre will be demolished. As part of their work in White City, White Noise are offering an opportunity for creative residencies to oc …
The Artists Fund
The Artists Fund is a community interest company led by Artquest, DACS and a-n the Artists Information Company to provide small grants to visual artists based in the UK: in England, Scotland, Wales an …
INSIDE: Disabled Artist Commission
QUAD and D-Lab in partnership with LEVEL and Junction Arts, supported by DASH, seek to commission a disabled artist or disabled led collective/company to produce new work focusing on the broad theme o …
Transfer North Residencies
Applications are open to curators, writers and thinkers interested in pursuing research, curatorial and critical writing opportunities in the northern regions of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Northwest-Rus …
bb15 Residency
bb15 is an alternative, non-commercial location for the arts in Linz, Austria. The call is open to artists who work at the interface between sound, music and auditory research / practice. They are loo …
Remote Intimacy Commission
Remote Intimacy is a commission opportunity created by Fabrica, Brighton & Hove’s centre for contemporary art. They will commission one artist (or a pre-existing artist group), with a strong track …
neo: printprize
neo:printprize 2016 invites artists to submit works across the full range of printmaking techniques from the traditional to the digital, including 3D prints, printmaking related video, monoprints and …
1215 Today Film Commission
1215.Today invite a filmmaker, animator or artist/maker/practitioner working with moving image to work with them in the development of a new artistic digital commission. Filmmakers / artists do not ne …
Finnish Museum of Photography’s Project Space
The Project space is intended for exhibitions and projects that use photography or other lens-based media as tools for art or research. The space shows exhibitions by both fresh talents and more estab …
Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grants
The Fundación Botín invites applications for its new program of 8 Visual Arts Grants. Grants can be awarded for study,individual projects and artistic (non-theoretical) research and are open to artist …
You Must Locate A Fantasy
Book Works invites artists to propose a project that engages creatively and critically with either Chelsea College of Arts Library & CHELSEA space or Glasgow Women’s Library special collections/ho …
Book Artist In Residence
Maine Media invites applications for its Book Artist in Residence Program. The program is open to emerging and practicing book artists and letterpress printers working on a project that combines words …
Contemporary British Painting Prize
Artists of any age and nationality,presently living and working in the UK are invited to submit work to The Contemporary British Painting Prize. The winner will receive a solo exhibition at Swindon Mu …
Fondazione per l’Arte Fellowship
Fondazione per l’Arte invites applications for a fellowship for a one month residency in Rome. Fellowships are open to visual artists, curators, architects, designers, performing artists, writers and …
Frankfurt LAB Residencies
The Frankfurt LAB is a rehearsal and performance space for experimental work in the performing arts and music with two performance halls. The residency is meant for artists from every discipline. It o …
MAC International
MAC International 2016 is an open arts prize,based at the Metropolitan Arts Centre in Belfast, that will present contemporary visual art practice across all disciplines. Shortlisted artists will be se …
Photoworks Annual
Photoworks invites submissions for the next issue of its annual photography and visual culture journal, which will be themed on the politics of fashion and style photography. They welcome new or previ …
Chronotopia: Centralen and Olskroken
Public Art Agency Sweden and the Swedish Transport Administration are launching Chronotopia: Centralen and Olskroken. Artists will get the opportunity to make large-scale artistic designs for the West …
KARST Curatorial
KARST, an independent, artist-led contemporary art venue in Plymouth, is announcing an international open call to curators, collaborators and artists to submit exhibition proposals for 2017/18. They a …
Elysiumgallery Residency
From the Station to the Sea and elysiumgallery are offering an artist residency opportunity at their High Street venue in Swansea to begin in July 2016. From the Station to the Sea is an Arts Council …
East Street Arts 130 Vicar Lane Commission
East Street Arts are working in collaboration with Hammerson, Leeds College of Building and Leeds City Council Skills & Employment to offer free workshops and a project space targeted at 18 – 30 year …
Sculpture Symposium
ForumArts invites UK based and international artists to participate in an outdoor Sculpture Symposium for 11 days during the summer 2016. The Symposium is a residency opportunity for artists to make a …
SOLO Award 2016
The SOLO Award is an annual contemporary art prize established by WW art gallery in London in 2012. The winner receives a £2000 cash prize and a solo exhibition at London Art Fair 2017. The prize is o …
Random String Fellowship
Ludic Rooms are inviting artists from across disciplines to apply for the Random String Fellowship. It is a development programme based in the West Midlands to explore interactive technology, involvin …
Wild Card Award
In Between Time (IBT) in partnership with Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), Fierce Festival, Trinity Centre, supported by Arnolfini, seek to commission an artist to make new work to pr …
studio das weisse haus Curator Residency
studio das weisse haus in Vienna offers a curatorial residence of one month, which is accompanied by a public event, in order to introduce the proposed curatorial project to a wider audience. The sele …
Venice-Cardiff Residency
Arts Council of Wales, Glandŵr Cymru (the Canal & Trust in Wales) and the curating agency Addo invite UK and international artists to submit short proposals in response to a residency opportunity on w …
Kuldīga Photography Residency
Association ISSP is an education and networking platform for photographers in Latvia and internationally. Its residency programme organised in co-operation with Kuldīga Artists’ Residence will provide …
Photobook Dummy Award Kassel
The Fotobookfestival Kassel invites photographers to submit their unpublished photobooks. 50 books will be shortlisted by a pre-jury and will be exhibited at international photo events amongst others …
Braunschweig Projects Scholarships
The Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Braunschweig University of Art) in Germany invites applications for scholarships for artists to be awarded in 2016. Three scholarships for artists of S …
Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Studio Award
Lewisham Arthouse is an artist-run co-operative based in an Edwardian ex-library in Deptford. They run studios,a gallery,classes,workshops,community activities and events. Applications are now welcome …
Interactivos?’16 Residencies
Medialab-Prado in collaboration with the Banco Sabadell Foundation is launching an open call for projects to be developed during a three-week residency at Medialab-Prado in June and July. The aim of t …
Beyond Words
Beyond Words seeks proposals for artist’s publications responding to the theme of Freedom. Beyond Words open call for proposals is an opportunity to produce an artist’s publication on the theme of Fre …
As Above So Below – Artists’ Residencies
Allenheads Contemporary Art is offering residency opportunities for artists to join its current arts, research and education programme, As Above So Below (AASB). The inspiration for AASB stems from th …
Art360
Applications are now open for Art360,a major action research project from DACS Foundation supporting the development and sustainability of artists’ archives. Over a period of three years,Art360 will s …
SPILL National Platform
SPILL invites applications from artists or companies at the start of their career and living in the UK or Ireland who make experimental performance, sound, film, video, installation, new media or digi …
Jackson’s Open Art Prize
The Jackson’s Open Art Prize invites submissions from contemporary and traditional visual artists,both emerging and established,working in any 2D media (except photography,unless used as a component o …
Hatton Gallery Offsite Commission
The Hatton Gallery has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England to develop a programme of offsite activity whilst the gallery is closed for significant redevelopment,fr …
Core Residency Program
The Core Program at the Glassell School of Art,Museum of Fine Arts,Houston,USA awards residencies to visual artists and critical writers who have completed their undergraduate or graduate training and …
Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues
The Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues is a collaboration between the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago and Heartland Alliance,a global anti-poverty orga …
Kim Fielding Award
The Kim Fielding Award (KFA) invites submissions to its annual award. The Award provides financial and artistic support and critical engagement,for the Awardee/s to advance their artistic and professi …
Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize
Submissions are open for the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize. The Prize is open to all UK undergraduate Fine Art students who are in their final year of study,graduating in summer 201 …
KALEID 2016 Call for Submissions
KALEID editions represents a collection by European-based artists who do books. Submissions of artists’ books are invited from European-based artists. KALEID 2016 Oslo is sponsored by the Kunsthøgskol …
Documentary Photography and Film Grants
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation announces the opening of the 2016 call for documentary photography and film grant entries. All proposed projects and submissions must be works of non-fiction and must be …
Het Nieuwe Instituut Fellowship
Het Nieuwe Instituut announces an open call for three research fellows to work in residence from June to December 2016. Alongside the institute’s exhibitions,lectures,publications,and archives,the fel …
Jerwood Visual Arts Writer in Residence
The Writer in Residence engages with Jerwood Visual Arts’ programme of exhibitions and Project Space commissions,with the aim of opening up wider contextual debate around the enquiries and themes of e …
Video Mapping and Facade Projection Competition
Artists are invited to submit their concept ideas for the Genius Loci Weimar Festival in Germany. Submitted concepts will be displayed in a public exhibition in Weimar in Spring 2016. The three winnin …
DIY 13
DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists. DIY projects can take any form,can be based anywhere …
Pete Lloyd Lewis Studio Award
Chisenhale Art Place seeks applications for the Pete Lloyd Lewis Studio Award,which offers a free studio to one artist for one year from 1st June 2016. The Award commemorates the work and life of Pet …
Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University Artist in Residence Fellowships
The Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University (IAS CEU) invites applications for its Artist in Residence Program for the academic year 2016/2017 under the annual theme of ”Space and …
The Marmite Prize for Painting
The Marmite Prize for Painting is a biennial open submission painting exhibition in the UK and Ireland. UK and international submissions are welcome. Shortlisted artists will participate in the exhibi …
Foam Talent Call
Foam is an internationally operating organisation in the field of photography,based in the Foam museum in Amsterdam. Foam Magazine is its photography magazine that appears three times a year,each issu …
Art Language Location
Proposals are invited for this year’s Art Language Location (ALL2016),the fifth festival of art,text and place being staged in locations at Anglia Ruskin University and across Cambridge. ALL2016 will …
Green Festival Commission
Peterborough Environment City Trust is looking to commission six artists (open to all disciplines) to create new works for their annual Green Festival. The artists will work alongside PECT and an Arti …
Art in the Dockyard
Art in the Dockyard invites submissions for The Historic Dockyard Chatham’s annual open art submission competition. Open to emerging and professional artists,the competition will culminate in an exhib …
Artist Residencies La Box
The École Nationale Supérieure d’Art (National School of Art/ENSA) in Bourges invites applications for residencies for young artists,with the financial backing of the Regional Cultural Affairs Offic …
PhD Scholarship on Artist Live / Work Scheme
East Street Arts,Leeds in partnership with the University of Huddersfield are offering a PhD scholarship based on research into artist-led Live/Work space. The aim of Live/Work is to provide good qual …
Speke Hall Makers Residency
Speke Hall,a National Trust property in South Liverpool,is offering a two month residency for a contemporary maker between June – July 2016.This will culminate in a presentation of new work at Speke H …
Residency at Triangle Arts Association, New York
Gasworks’ International Fellowships Programme offers UK-based artists the opportunity to undertake a residency at Triangle Arts Association,New York for 2 months. Triangle Arts Association is a NYC ba …
Visual Art and Climate Change Commission
As part of an art science research project examining the effectiveness of visual language on perceptions of climate change,Climart in Trondheim,Norway seeks to commission an artist to collaborate with …
Amsterdam Light Festival Call for Concepts
Amsterdam Light Festival invites artists,designers,engineers and architects to submit ideas for artworks to be staged at the festival’s 2016 – 2017 edition. The festival will include two themes which …
Jerwood/FVU Awards
The Jerwood/FVU Awards are major awards for moving-image artists in the first five years of their practice. The open application programme invites artists to make proposals for new works,two of which …
British Council Residency Programme at FLORA
FLORA ars+natura is a space for contemporary art in Bogotá,Colombia,that specializes in the relationship between art and nature. Escuela FLORA is its Independent Study Programme. The guest professors— …
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Residency
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute School of Art Artists-in-Residence Program consists of two emerging artists from different disciplines recruited via an open call to live and work on the MWP …
Nene Park Artist Commissions
Vivacity Culture and Leisure Trust,‘Peterborough Presents’ (the Creative People and Places programme for the city) and Nene Park Trust are seeking to commission five artists to create new temporary ar …
LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award
Live Works is a platform dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance,following the current evolution of performance and its styles. Nin …
Call for Exhibition Proposals 2017
The Kunsthalle Exnergasse (KEX) in the WUK Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus in Vienna is a platform and exhibition space for the presentation and realization of contemproary art projects in its different f …
Interfaces Monthly
Interfaces Monthly is a get-together for people working at the junction of art and technology, organised by the Barbican and The Trampery. Each event includes selected artworks, presentations and disc …