Deadline: April 29, 2025
Location(s)
Online United States of America
Overview
The Competition is an ideal way to exhibit your talent to a wider international audience. With a distinguished panel of jurors and more than $70,000 in valuable prizes, it is open to visual artists from around the world at any stage of their careers. Painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, mixed media, and print are the accepted mediums.
Details
The competition is open to visual artists from around the world at any stage of their careers. Artists are invited to submit in any of the following mediums: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, mixed media, and print. Art submitted to the competition will be reviewed by a panel of expert jurors, each representing a different field in the art world, ensuring a fair and balanced judgment process.
Competition Calendar
- Opens: 1st OCT 2024
- Deadline: 29th APR 2025
- Results: 3rd JUN 2025
Accepted Media And Topics
Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital, printing, and mixed media are eligible. Video art, film, performance art, jewelry, and crafts are not eligible.
Please note:
- All submitted artwork must be available for sale.
- It is allowed to submit images of several artworks or multiple views of the same artwork, both options are acceptable.
- Two-dimensional artwork dimensions cannot be larger than 75 x 85 inches (192 x 218 centimeters)
- Three-dimensional artwork (i.e., sculptures) cannot be larger than 72 x 72 x 24 inches (184 x 184 x 61 centimeters)
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Eligibility - The competition is open for all artists of 18 years of age or older whose use of agora-gallery.com does not and will not violate any applicable law or regulation, or any agreement to which they are a party. Employees of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition and sponsors are not eligible to enter.
Dates
Deadline: April 29, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
2025 Competition Awards – Valued at More Than $70,000
This year’s Chelsea International Fine Art Competition awards offer participating artists a wide range of opportunities and prizes specifically chosen to promote the selected artists and enhance their careers. The 39th competition is proving to be one of the biggest yet and an opportunity artists should not miss.
The 2025 competition exhibition is scheduled to take place at one of our New York spaces, located in the heart of the Chelsea art district. The sprawling and elegant street-level space attracts hundreds of visitors with its striking exterior.
Collective Exhibition
Thirty artists will be selected to exhibit in the collective exhibition, which will take place at Agora Gallery:
- Artwork Display: Your work will be displayed at the gallery.
- Press Release: A unique press release will be written for each individual artist by one of the gallery’s highly talented public relations writers.
- Public Relations: The gallery’s PR department will invite many attendees to the exhibition, including private art buyers, art consultants, corporations, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and members of the media.
- Display Ad: An advertisement for the collective exhibition will be placed in a publication of the competition’s choosing.
- Opening Reception: An opening night reception will be organized for the artists, their invitees, and the New York art community at large. The event will be photographed and promoted on the gallery’s various social media channels.
- Invitations By Email: Invitations promoting the exhibition and your artwork will be emailed to our extensive mailing list.
- Gallery Listing: The exhibition will be announced in a NY art magazine (such as Gallery Guide, M Magazine, etc.), as well as on our website and on various other art-related sites.
- Catalog: An image of your artwork will be published in a color catalog specifically produced for the collective exhibition. The catalog will be distributed to the artists and art enthusiasts.
- Social Media: Your artwork will be promoted on various social media channels, including Agora Gallery’s Facebook page, which has over 100,000 fans.
- Agora-Gallery.com: Your artwork will appear in an exhibition page which will be part of the Agora Gallery website, and in addition, photos from the opening reception will appear on Agora-Gallery.com and on Facebook.
Cash Prizes
Five artists will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 each.
Online Promotion
Five artists will be awarded one year of exposure on ARTmine.com which includes assistance by our talented art writers with composing a professional artist statement.
Honorable Mention
Ten artists will receive an Honorable Mention and a complimentary entry to the 39th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition (July 2025).
Online Art Workshops
Three (3) artists will be award with an online art class by ARTiClass.com.
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.