Emerging artists, it’s time to take your career to the next level! Showcase your skills on a global stage, connect with curators and collectors + win big with $77,000 USD in cash and other fantastic prizes up for grabs.
We are excited to share more of the amazing entries that we’ve received so far in the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Sculpture award category!
Exclusive Interview with, Brian Bailey 1st Prize Winner of the Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award, 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.
Artists and Photographers, it’s time to take your career to the next level! Showcase your skills on a global stage, connect with curators and collectors + win big with $77,000 USD in cash and other fantastic prizes up for grabs. To inspire you to submit your own work, we are excited to share more of the amazing entries that we’ve received so far in the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, MPB Photography Award category!
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize closes next week! We’re showcasing many of the incredible entries before the deadline - so don’t miss your chance to be seen. Submit your work now for the opportunity to have it reviewed by our Editor-in-Chief, Danijela Krha Purssey, the curator behind every issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Plus, your entry could be featured across our social media channels and blog while submissions are still open! To inspire you to submit your own work, we are excited to share more of the incredible entries that we’ve received so far in the RAYMAR Painting Award category.
Mauricio Gonzalez of ARTDATAintel, one of our partners in the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, explores art collecting - and which artists keep cropping up in the annual Art Prize.
We have the best intentions every year to close entries on time. But once again we have humbly bowed to your wishes, and are extending the deadline to midnight 31 July [Los Angeles date/time]. Just to give you all a little more time to enter your amazing art and photography.
Last week we announced that the deadline to submit your work has been extended – the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize now closes on Friday 31 July 2026 at midnight [Los Angeles, USA time] / 5pm 1 August [Sydney, Australia time]. No more extensions after this date – we promise! Take a peek at more of the Drawing, Painting and Imaginative Realism Award Entries.
Entries to the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have officially closed, and the judging process is now underway. Our sincere thanks to all of the artists and photographers that entered. We are super excited with the array of entries and have already discovered a host of new creators!
Entries to the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have officially closed, and the judging process is now underway. Our sincere thanks to all of the artists and photographers that entered. We are super excited with the array of entries and have already discovered a host of new creators!
Entries to the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have officially closed, and the judging process is now underway. Our sincere thanks to all of the artists and photographers that entered. We are super excited with the array of entries and have already discovered a host of new creators!
The unveiling begins - and what a year it has been for the BearWolf Books Emerging Artist Award category! Open to all mediums, we saw an amazing and diverse selection of entries. Our Jury Panel - including esteemed Arts Champions Catherine K. Gyllerstrom of BearWolf Books and Vicki Fox of Quirky Fox Gallery - have been going through the entries and making the incredibly difficult decisions. Once again, the overall quality of entries was exceptional; we are deeply honoured by our community's interest in the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.
