The countdown has started! Less than a month left to submit your work to the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. Don’t let this incredible opportunity slip away. Show the world your talent!
If you would like to have your work published in Beautiful Bizarre art magazine, win $10,000 USD cash, see your work exhibited alongside 70+ of the best contemporary artists in the prestigious annual Beautiful Bizarre exhibition at Haven Gallery later this year, win advertising packages, and of course receive worldwide exposure for your practice. Don’t miss this chance to elevate your visibility and share your art with a global audience – enter now!
$77,000 USD in cash & prizes to be won
Submit your work today!
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts, in all static mediums including Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow.
Get Inspired!
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 Digital Art Award category below.

Grand Prize Winner will receive $10,000 USD cash!
Entry by: Andrea Corsini, “Beyond the Horizon”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Wacom 13hd tablet / Photoshop.
The Prize seeks to inspire creatives from around the world to pursue a life and career in the arts, and to help careers grow through funding and increased exposure of their work to galleries, collectors and media globally.

“I Love Sushi”, Photomanipulation, Nikon D750, Photoshop. Model: Annaliese McGuire.
Digital Art Award
The Digital Art Award 1st prize winner will receive:
- $1,250 USD cash generously donated by Platinum sponsors.
- $1,250 USD cash generously donated by 3dtotal, an industry-leading art-book publisher. Renowned for creating high-quality, inspirational, and practical art books and tutorial books, 3dtotal works with some of the world’s best artists.
- A US$375 gift card to use at GelaSkins.com, and the opportunity to have a collection with the brand, all generously donated by GelaSkins. GelaSkins create artist-designed premium cases and skins, supporting independent artists since 2005.
- Artist Pro 22 (Gen 2), generously donated by XPPen. Founded in 2005, XPPen is a leading global brand in digital art innovation under Hanvon UGEE. XPPen focuses on the needs of consumers by integrating digital art products, content, and services, specifically targeting Gen-Z digital artists. XPPen currently operates in 163 countries and regions worldwide, boasting a fan base of over 1.5 million and serving more than ten million digital art creators.
- Creative Package Pro (containing Rebelle 7 Pro, Flame Painter 4, and Amberlight 2), plus 1x Rebelle full-colour paper set, generously donated by Escape Motions. Empower your artistic skills with Rebelle painting software known for its true-to-life wet and dry media behavior, accompanied by Flame Painter painting software offering exciting particle systems, and Amberlight, a unique art tool that creates beautiful computer-generated images and animations.
- A beautiful, specially commissioned glass art award trophy.
- The opportunity to exhibit in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition at Haven Gallery in Northport, NY, USA, alongside 70+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists.
- Exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work.
- 3 month social media advertising package (Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: 2 million+ followers across all social platforms).
- Winning artwork printed in the December 2025 issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize editorial.
- Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
- Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
- A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
2nd prize winner will receive:
- $1,000 USD cash generously donated by Platinum sponsors.
- Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) generously donated by XPPen. Founded in 2005, XPPen is a leading global brand in digital art innovation under Hanvon UGEE. XPPen focuses on the needs of consumers by integrating digital art products, content, and services, specifically targeting Gen-Z digital artists. XPPen currently operates in 163 countries and regions worldwide, boasting a fan base of over 1.5 million and serving more than ten million digital art creators.
- Rebelle 7 Pro, Flame Painter 4, plus 1x Rebelle full-colour paper set, generously donated by Escape Motions. Paint digitally with Rebelle, an award-winning, hyper-realistic painting software with phenomenal oils, acrylics, watercolors, and other wet and dry media. Or pick up Flame Painter and paint with life-like particle brushes. Its groundbreaking Particle Systems open a whole new world of possibilities, nowhere to be found in other software.
- The opportunity to exhibit in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition at Haven Gallery in Northport, NY, USA, alongside 70+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists.
- Exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work.
- Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
- Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
- A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
3rd prize winner will receive:
- $500 USD cash generously donated by GelaSkins and Platinum sponsors.
- Magic Drawing Pad generously donated by XPPen. Founded in 2005, XPPen is a leading global brand in digital art innovation under Hanvon UGEE. XPPen focuses on the needs of consumers by integrating digital art products, content, and services, specifically targeting Gen-Z digital artists. XPPen currently operates in 163 countries and regions worldwide, boasting a fan base of over 1.5 million and serving more than ten million digital art creators.
- Rebelle 7 Pro, plus 1x Rebelle full-colour paper set, generously donated by Escape Motions. Rebelle is an award-winning, hyper-realistic painting software with phenomenal oils, acrylics, watercolors, and other wet and dry media. Paint pigments color mixing, oil thickness, watercolor diffusion, and NanoPixel technology, convincingly mimic the way natural media interact with the canvas and itself.
- The opportunity to exhibit in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition at Haven Gallery in Northport, NY, USA, alongside 70+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists.
- Exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work.
- Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
- Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
- A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
Grand Prize Award Winner
The Grand Prize Award Winner will receive:
- $10,000 USD cash, donated by our Platinum sponsors Catherine K. Gyllerstrom, MPB, RAYMAR, Yasha Young Projects, Victoria Olt Gallery, and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seibert.
- A beautiful, specially commissioned glass art award trophy.
- The opportunity to exhibit in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition at Haven Gallery in Northport, NY, USA, alongside 70+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists.
- Exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work.
- 10 page in-depth interview editorial published in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine December 2025 issue.
- Winning artwork printed in the December 2025 issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize editorial.
- Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
- Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
- 12 month social media advertising package (Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: 2 million+ followers across all social media platforms).
- A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
2025 Award Categories
- Digital Art Award – $4,500 USD cash + prizes
- MPB Photography Award – $4,500 USD cash + prizes
- Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award – $4,500 USD cash + prizes
- Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award – $4,500 USD cash + prizes
- Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award – $4,500 USD cash + prizes
- RAYMAR Painting Award – $4,500 USD cash + prizes
- Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention – $3,000 USD cash + prizes
The Grand Prize Award Winner will be selected by the Jury Panel from any Award category. The People’s Choice Award will open for public voting on 22 August 2025.
Entries Close: Midnight 17 July 2025 [Los Angeles, USA time]
Entry fee is US$40 to cover administrative costs. Enter the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize today!
Take a peek at some of the wonderful entries we have received so far in the Digital Art Award category below.

“Freedom of soul”, Digital 3 Dimensional, Blender 3D, Bambu Lab. Photoshop, Lightroom. Photos by: Julia Badurska.

“Rapunzel’s Mother”, Photoshop, Cintiq, Macbook Air.

Nénuphars, Procreate.

“The quintessence”, Digital Painting & Drawing, iMac / Wacom Intuos pro / Photoshop.

“Winter Walk”, Procreate.

“Protector II”, Photoshop.

“The River Fairy”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Pencil on paper, Scanner, Adobe Coloring.

“He Was Feeling Mighty Skitterish These Days”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Procreate, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil.

“Cellophane Cacique”, Photomanipulation, Sony A7riv/200-400mm/ Macro/ Strobes. Lightroom/PhotoShop.

“I Will Follow You to the Ends of the Earth”, Photomanipulation, Sony a7riii, Lensbaby Velvet 56, Photoshop.

“··-· ··- · –· — (Fuego)”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Procreate.

“Voice of Reason: The Enlightening”, Digital Collage, Apple / Photoshop.

“Self-doubt”, Procreate.

“Bin Chicken”, Photomanipulation, Canon 5R, Adobe Photoshop.

“Beauty of our struggle”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Samsung Tab S10+.

“CTRL+ALT+DEL (Control+Alt+Delete)”, Photomanipulation, Photoshop.

“The Tree Fairy”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Pencil on paper, Scanner, Adobe Coloring.
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is administered by Australian based, international contemporary art magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
The 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is proudly sponsored by:
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