Future Generation Art Prize

$100,000 for artists 35 and under, awards, grants, exhibitions, art jobs and opportunities

Jan 25, 2023

Hi folks. This week’s issue leads with The Future Generation Art Prize, a free to enter biennial global contemporary art prize from Kyiv, Ukraine. Open to artists aged 18 - 35 working in any medium. First prize is $100,000 with up to $20,000 in other prizes. An international jury will select 20 artists to be commissioned to create new works for display at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv before presenting them at the Future Generation Art Prize exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2024. (closes 30th April)

New Art Competitions

Newly opened on MoMa & elsewhere…

20/20 Commissions - £10,000 fee + £15,000 research for 20 emerging artists of colour to take on 15-month paid residencies at museums& galleries. Each artist will produce a commissioned artwork that will become a permanent piece in their collection. Open to emerging or mid-career artists of colour with the right to work in the UK. (6 Feb)

New Contemporaries - Exhibition of emerging and early career artists, final year students & recent graduates from UK art schools, £25 entry (20 Feb)

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award - £10,000 prize for UK based artist to create new work for solo show at Standpoint Gallery, London, £15 entry, see last year’s winner (18 Mar)

Innovate Grants - 2 x $1,800 grants for Artists & Photographers, $35 entry (23 Mar)

The Pastel Society - £1,000 1st prize, ‘the best in contemporary pastel and dry media’, 124th Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, £20 fee, UK & Int (24 Mar)

RSA Student Travel Awards - £10,500 split between 4 awards for Scottish art students graduating this year (26 Mar)

Embracing Our Differences - $3,000 of prizes, billboard size art on theme ‘enriching lives through diversity and inclusion’, outdoor show in South Florida, UK & Int. (5 Oct)

Sadly The Holly Bush Prize will be no more.

UK Art Competitions - 40 prizes open

New watercolour paintings by the multi talented John Maclean (former Beta Band member, Slow West director) showing at The Approach, London (to 18th Feb)

Kids Competitions

Newly opened on MoMa & elsewhere…

Unique Art Awards - art competition with £15k prize fund for disabled children age 7–15 and youths age 16–21. £750 1st prize and £5,000 for school. (29 Mar)

Write on Art - £500 1st prize, write about an artwork, teenagers in UK (30 Jun)

Children’s Art Competitions - 14 open.

Photo Competitions

Newly opened on MoMa & elsewhere…

Dmitry Kokh | House of Bears (NPTOY Overall Winner 2022)

Nature Photographer Of The Year - €25,000 of prizes, €29 entry, UK & Int (21 May)

Innovate Grants - 2 x $1,800 grants for Artists & Photographers, $35 entry (23 Mar)

Photo Competitions - 8 open

The Art of Protest: What a Revolution Looks Like won the Children's Trade 9-16 category at this years British Book Awards. "Start making. Start being the change you want to see in this world." Guided by activist, lecturer and speaker De Nichols’ powerful own narrative and stunningly illustrated by a collaboration of young artists from around the world, including Diana Dagadita, Olivia Twist, Molly Mendoza, Raul Oprea and Diego Becas.

"Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work." – Andy Goldsworthy

Reading List

Join Lebanese artist Joumana Medlej as she ‘relearns the forgotten artistic legacy of the medieval Islamic world’ in her beautifully designed Substack Caravanserai.

Just bought Nick Cave’s ‘Faith, Hope and Carnage’ on the strength of this piece from The Marginlian: Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness.

Creative Resources

Student Art Pass - £5 annually for ‘entry to hundreds of the UK’s best cultural destinations for less, plus 50% off major exhibitions.’

How to create better photographs of your art and write an artist bio and statement.

Hemingway Editor - Craft better sentences with this AI copyeditor. Just paste your text into the page and the robot will show you how each sentence can be improved.

Tiny Wow: Image Tools - upscale images, remove backgrounds, lots of free tools.