Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. With $77,000 USD in cash and prizes to be won, the Art Prize includes all static mediums including Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles including realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, surrealism, dark art, pop surrealism, super flat, lowbrow etc.

The Prize seeks to inspire creatives from around the world to pursue a life and career in the arts, and to help careers grow through funding and increased exposure of their work to galleries, collectors and media globally.

The 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize has seven award categories: Digital Art Award, Photography Award, Painting Award, Drawing Award, Sculpture Award, Emerging Artist Award, and our new Imaginative Realism Award.

Artists working across mediums are welcome to enter more than one award category. From the Finalists selected in each award category, a Grand Prize Winner will be chosen by the Jury Panel.

The People’s Choice Award will open for public voting on 2 September 2026.

The winners of the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize will be invited to participate in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition ‘Glimmer’ at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, CA, United States.