Last week we announced that the deadline to submit your work has been extended. To give you all a little more time to enter your art and photography, the new deadline is midnight 31 July [Los Angeles date/time]. For your chance to win amazing cash, product, and service prizes in this year’s $77,000 USD prize pool – enter today! This will be the final deadline – there will be no further extensions.
Already entered? Now you can enter a few more works. More entries means more chances to win! Don’t forget you can also enter both the Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award and other award categories if you fit the Emerging Artist Award entry criteria.
It’s super easy, just enter the best work from your portfolio, whether it is sold or not – there is no need to create a new work. Just complete the relevant entry form in one of the six award categories: Digital Art, Photography, Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, or Emerging Artist.
Each year is a brand new art prize: a new jury panel, and a new chance to win!
Entry by: Michael P Carson [RAYMAR Painting Award]
“Verðandi”, Oil on Panel.
Still unsure if entering the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is the right choice for you? You may want to read this handy little article we put together on The Bigger Picture: Why Entering Art Competitions Is A Smart Career Move. The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize has been changing the lives and careers of artists for the last 8 years – don’t miss your chance to take your career to the next level, and join the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Alumni!
With an easy submission process you can guarantee that your work will be seen by the Editor-in-Chief of Beautiful Bizarre art magazine, Danijela Krha Purssey. Why is this important? Because it isn’t just about winning (although that would be amazing) – the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is also our fountain of inspiration. Every year we discover many new artists through our Art Prize, who then go on to be published on our website, our print magazine, and are also invited to participate in our curated exhibitions. It is the best way to get on our radar!
Giving the practices of representational artists validation and visibility, particularly in the commercial gallery and museum sector where it is still hard to get representation, is what the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize aims to achieve.
DANIJELA KRHA PURSSEY ~ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE MAGAZINE
“Yugo”, [Mixed Media (pencil, conte, gouache, pigments, texture)]
The Grand Prize Award Winner will receive $10,000 USD Cash & additional Prizes!
Entry by: Robbie Erskine [RAYMAR Painting Award]
“Metamorphosis of the Monarch”, Oil on canvas
2025 Award Categories
- Digital Art 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
- MPB Photography 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
- People’s Choice Award Winner: $1,000 USD + prizes [public voting opens in August]
See below some of the wonderful entries we have received so far in the Painting & Drawing Award categories. A separate blog has been published sharing more of the amazing Photography, Sculpture, Digital Art & Emerging artist Award entries that we have received so far.
RAYMAR Painting Award
Check out the full list of Prizes for this Award here.
“Offering”, [Oil on canvas on panel]
“La Rosa Benedetta (The Blessed Rose)”, [Oil on aluminum panel]
“Bloom”, [Acrylic paint on wood]
“Insomnia”, [Oil, human teeth, eyelashes, resin, garnet, glitter, on stretched canvas]
“L’autre | The Other”, [Acrylic on canvas]
“Quietude”, [Oil on linen panel]
“Brindle”, [Acrylic on wood panels]
“Thirteen”, [oil on canvas]
“Carnival Ride”, [acrylic on canvas]
“Tention of nymphes”, [Oil on canvas]
“Matriarch”, [Acrylic on canvas]
“Stairway to Heaven”, [Oil on Canvas]
“Continuum’, [acrylic on canvas]
“Cycles”, [oil paint]
“May We All Get To Heaven Before The Devil Knows We’re Dead’, [Oil on Linen]
“The Presentation”, [Oil]
“Applecart”, [oil, acrylic and pencil on plywood panel]
“In a whirlwind of emotions’ [watercolor on watercolor paper (300g)]
“Bowl of apricots and cherries”, [Oil on canvas]
“Heathen Chemistry 19”, [Oil and Gold Leaf on Panel]
“Tangerines And Star Machines’, [Oil on canvas]
“The devil is in the details”, [Oil on canvas]
“Heart Transformation”, [Acrylic on canvas]
“Tempus Amoris XVIII”, [Acrylic on Panel]
“Matri”, [Pittura ad olio]
“Sentient”, [Acrylic on canvas]
“Neon Ascent”, [Acrylic]
“A bone to pick”, [Oil on Linen]
Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award
Check out the full list of Prizes for this Award here.
“Old Soul”, [Graphite on paper]
“We Could Be Heroes”, [Graphite and Pastel]
“Water”, [Graphite and carbon pencils on paper]
“Le Ciel, he answered”, [Black ink pen on paper]
“The Graces”, [Charcoal]
“Bedesman”, [Colored-pencil]
“Pearls”, [Graphite on paper]
“Residents of Candy Canyon: Honey Clementine”, [Colored Pencil on Stonehenge mounted on Birch Panel]
“The Pandas”, [24×19 100lb Bristol drawing paper, graphite pencil]
“A blooming flower for the Venus of Eternal Spring”, [Mixed media watercolours, inks and colored pencils on paper]
“The Hardest Goodbye”, [Graphite on Paper]
“Cupid”, [Graphite on watercolour paper]
“Holle”, [charcoal on paper]
“Neon Whiskers”, [Alcohol Marker and Colored Pencil on Bristol Paper]
“Judith”, [Colored pencil, graphite, alcohol ink, acrylic]
“The Creator”, [Charcoal and graphite on paper]
“Mother and Cub”, [Conté and gold paint on paper]
“Petals of Silence”, [Charcoal and graphite on paper]
“Vulnerable”, [Graphite and Charcoal]
“Sentient at The Edge of Abismo”, [Charcoal and graphite on paper]
“Surya mudra & Ahamkara mudra”, [Crayon de couleur]
“The Companian”, [Stippling on paper}
“Adjusting to our pace”, [Black ballpoint pen on paper]
“Echoes of my Father’s Past”, [Gesso and acrylic ink on panel]
“Extinguished (the sky has gone out)”, [Graphite on paper]
“Odalisque”, [Graphite, vernis, oil]
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 31 July 2025 [Los Angeles, USA time]
Entry fee is US$40 to cover administrative costs. Enter the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize today!
$77,000 USD IN CASH & PRIZES TO BE WON
Submit your work today!
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is administered by Australian based, international contemporary art magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.