We do have the best intentions every year to close entries on time. But once again we have received many emails and DM’s requesting that we extend the deadline again this year. So of course, we are here for you!
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 the Emerging Artist.
Each year is a brand new art prize: a new jury panel, and a new chance to win!
Entry by: Alexandra Laffitte [MPB Photography Award]
“EMPREINTE”, Digital photography. Model: @servais_oph, Make-up: @ludocadeo, Stylist Design: @kevinjacotot, Hair Stylist: @kevinjacotot
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
“Static”, Found Sculpture: CRT T.V., Oil on Linen Board
Catherine K Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist award entry
The Grand Prize Award Winner will receive $10,000 USD Cash & additional Prizes!
Entry by: Madeleine Cunliffe [Catherine K Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award]
“The Inheritance of Silence”, Graphite on paper drawing
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 Photography, Digital Art, Sculpture and Emerging Artist Award categories. A separate blog will be published shortly sharing more of the amazing Drawing and Painting Award entries we have received so far.
MPB Photography Award
Check out the full list of Prizes for this Award here.
“Clementine”, digital photography.
“TENEBRIS”, digital photography
“Gabriella”, digital photography,
“Never let me go”, digital photography. Model Adele Cammarata , MUA Lavinia Vieceli.
“Birth”, digital photography
“Artificial Identity”, digital photography. Model: Nicole Koch.
“Do you See Her Now”, Digital photography. Model: Brooke Art
“Slut Royale: A Feminist Reclamation”, Digital photography. Model: Karie Holst, Designer: Brandon Bermudez, Makeup: hiwendychu
“Immutable Taboo ECCF12”, digital photography.
“BloomandDecay”, digital photogaphy.
“Souveraine des Ténèbres”, digital photography
MPB Photography Award entry
“Horrified B-Movie Victims”, digital photography
“The Beheading of Medusa”, digital photography. Medusa’s head was photographed, modeled and edited by myself – RedsReferences while Perseus and all other background characters were modeled, photographed and edited by Donnie o’Brien, @treeblight on Instagram.
“Youth”, digital photography
“Lid Off A Daffodil”, digital photography
“Gens, វង្សាវញាណ, 门第”, digital photography
Digital Art Award
Check out the full list of Prizes for this Award here.
“Scene of life”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Mac studio / Photoshop.
“Hoodoo Woman”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Procreate / IPad Pro / Apple Pencil
“Sleeping Drowned”, Digital Painting & Drawing, iPad, Procreate, Photoshop
“The Night”, Digital Painting & Drawing, iPad Pro / Procreate
“Knight”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Procreate
“Sister Simmelin”, Digital Painting & Drawing, iMac, Photoshop.
“Veil Of Nature”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Photoshop , graphite and charcoal on paper
“V the silver”, Digital Painting & Drawing, iPad pro 3rd gen / Procreate
“Yoni and the Cosmic Egg”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Photoshop
“The End of Eden”, Photomanipulation, Photoshop, Canon 5d Mark IV with various lenses
“Symbiosis”, Digital Painting & Drawing, Photoshop
“The sun embracing the serene moon”, Digital Painting & Drawing, iMac, Wacom Intuos Pro, Photoshop
Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award
Check out the full list of Prizes for this Award here.
“The man with the phoenix”, Stoneware, 70 x 60 x 40cm
“Carnaval”, polymer clay, acrylic paint, 71 x 40 x 40cm
“Becoming”, Clay to be cast into bronze, 74 x 51 x 20.
“Poppy”, Ceramic, 35 x 30 x 30cm
“Among The Wildflowers”, Faux fur fabric, clay, wire, cotton calico, wool, 16 x 10 x 10cm
“Nexus”, Bronze, 55 x 14 x 14cm
“Of Sea and Sky”, hand cut layered paper with gilded details, 12 x 12 x 1″
“Plenty More Fish in the Sea”, Reclaimed/used chopsticks and plastic soy sauce fish, HO scale figures, acrylic dome, frame, MDF backing, paint, 36 x 36 x 16cm
“Fertile Grounds”, Avex Apoxie Sculpt, Sculpey Premo Polymer Clay, pastels, acrylic paint, 52 x 34 x 35cm
“Piety”, Resin, 60 x 24 x 24cm
“Tribal Revision”, Paper clay, plaster bandage, wire, wood fiber, 14 x 6 x 5″
“Desire for Permanence”, Kato polyclay, cosclay, aves apoxie sculpt, vellum, acrylics, mica, 13 x 10 x 4″
“Allure I”, Bronze, 28 x 10 x 10″
“Sandra”, Mixed media, wire, mesh, epoxy, chain, found objects, 29 x 31 x 13″
“Recovery”, Sandblasted Steel, 29 x 21 x 18cm
“At the Heart of Grief”, Mixed media: textiles, cardboard, plaster, embroidery, embellishments, 18 x 12 x 5″
“Octogirl Humandress Victoria”, Porcelain, china paint, wool, glass beads, prehnite stone in silver, 31 x 7 x 6cm
“Saran”, Cardboard, paper mâché, paper, , rope, natural fibres, 90 x 40 x 35cm
Catherine K Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award
Check out the full list of Prizes for this Award here.
“You Don’t Own Me”, Oil on canvas painting
“Neither here nor there”, Oil on ACM panel painting
“Prey”, Acrylic, gouache and coloured pencil on raw wood panel painting,
“Life After”, graphite pencils, Copic markers, artificial flowers, mounted in an acrylic-front MDF shadowbox
“Intertwine”, oil + pencil on wooden panel painting
“Recovery Window”, oil on canvas painting
“Mixtec rabbit”, Oil on linen painting
“Fortune Teller”, Plaster, patina and steel base sculpture
“Lovers Daydream”, Oil on aluminium panel painting
“Glow”, Oil on linen painting
“Hylas and The Water Nymphs”, Oil on Canvas painting
“Mille Foglie (A Thousand Leaves)”, Brass (oxidised), tourmaline, onyx, coal, obsidian, sterling silver (oxidised). sculpture
“BloomandDecay”, Digital self-portrait photograph
“Garden Renaissance”, oil on aluminum panel painting. Model: Nicole Gonzalez
“Ni Una Más: Feminicide and its relation to Catholicism”, Polymer clay, acrylic paint, wood base sculpture
“Pieta”, Oil on panel painting
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.