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!
Discover the evocative work of Victor Wang, 1st Prize Winner of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, in an exclusive interview by Richard Purssey for Issue 48 of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine!
With thoughtful composition, Jon Ching paints a blend of magical realism that speaks to us of the importance of caring for habitat loss and the precious species that exist beyond the frenetic pace of our contemporary society.
We are proud to announce the Winner of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize: Musonium Grand Prize Award + Catherine K. Gyllerstrom People’s Choice Award & Honourable Mentions Announced!
With just 2 months left to enter the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, we would love 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, and Photographic media; and all genres from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow.
Exclusive Interview With Markus Åkesson, 1st Prize Winner of the RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize by...
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.
This year we have two new individual award categories: Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award & RAYMAR Painting Award! Read to learn more.
Caroline Nelson: RAYMAR Honourable Mention, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize RAYMAR Traditional Art Award Winners: Victor Wang, Haejin Yoo, and Jon Ching!
Exclusive Interview With Stephanie Rew, 3rd Prize Winner of the Raymar Traditional Art Award, 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize by...
Markus Akesson is the 1st Prize Winner RAYMAR Traditional Art Award 2023, lives and works in Nybro, Småland, Sweden. He has been participating in a large number of exhibitions at galleries, art fairs and institutions in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, London, Vilnius and Sweden. Åkesson had an early focus on the French art scene and has made several solo exhibitions at Galerie Da-End in Paris (the most recent in the winter of 2022-2023, with the solo exhibition “The Roses of Heliogabalus”) and the French art fairs Galeristes, Art Paris and YIA Art Fair.











