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News 2025 Art Prize
The 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is open for entries, and this is your chance to win the Grand Prize Award of $10,000 USD cash (plus amazing prizes) and have our Editor-in-Chief Danijela Krha Purssey – who curates each issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine – see your work.
This year we split the previous Traditional Art Award into two independent categories: Drawing and Painting. And what a first year it has been! The Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award received an impressive number of entries, all demonstrating remarkable skill and artistic vision.
Congratulations to the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award Winners: Max Leiva, Jessica Murtagh & Forest Rogers!
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 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Victoria Olt Drawing Award category!
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! 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 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Digital Art Award category!
We are proud to announce the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Jury Panel, comprising influential figures in the art world, including gallerists, curators, artists, and commercial and philanthropic arts champions. Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Co-Founders Danijela Krha Purssey & Richard Purssey, Owners & Directors of Haven Gallery, Erica Berkowitz & Joseph Weinreb; representatives from our major sponsors, and five esteemed contemporary artists: Jana Brike, Annie Murphy-Robinson, Nicolas Bruno, Amber Cowan & Matthew Stone, along with Gallery Owner & Curator Vicki Fox. Each Jury member excels in their field of expertise and is making waves around the world with their exceptional work. Get your work in-front of this respected Jury Panel, enter today.
Last week we announced that the deadline to submit your work has been extended – the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize now closes on Wednesday 31 July 2025 at midnight [Los Angeles, USA time] / 5pm 1 August [Sydney, Australia time]. No more extensions after this date – we promise!
With just 2 months left to enter the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, we are excited to share more of the wonderful entries we have received so far! 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, Sculpture, and Photographic media; and all genres from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow.
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025: Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award Finalists Announced
The unveiling begins - and what a year it has been for the Catherine K. Gyllerstrom 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.
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.
Entries to the 2025 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 very excited with the array of entries and have already discovered a host of new creators!