The 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is Open For Entries
Grand Prize Award Winner Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024 Andrea Kowch
Ready to level up your creative career? This is your moment to shine! Create! Magazine is pleased to share the announcement that the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is open for entries. Submit now through July 17th, 2025.
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 8th year, is administered by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. This annual non-acquisitive international 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 styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow. 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 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Jury Panel comprises influential figures in the art world, including gallerists, curators, artists, and commercial and philanthropic arts champions. It includes Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Co-Founders Danijela Krha Purssey & Richard Purssey, Owners & Directors of Haven Gallery, Erica Berkowitz & Joseph Weinreb; representatives from their major sponsors, and five esteemed contemporary artists: Jana Brike, Annie Murphy-Robinson, Nicolas Bruno, Amber Cowan & Matthew Stone, along with Gallery Owner & Curator Vicki Fox. Each Jury member excels in their field of expertise and is making waves around the world with their exceptional work.
For 2025, the number of Honourable Mentions has been increased from three to eight to provide additional recognition to exceptional entries. What was previously the Traditional Art Award, has now been split into two individual award categories: the Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award & the RAYMAR Painting Award.
If that wasn’t enough, all Finalists will also have the opportunity to win $1,000 USD in the People’s Choice Award. This additional award will see the Winner voted for by the public, to further promote all of the Finalists and give the global arts community a voice. Public voting will open on 22 August 2025.
Finalist Theo Polymorphos
2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Award categories:
Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award – $4,500 USD cash + prizes
Digital Art 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
Click here for a full breakdown of the prizes for each award.
The Beautiful Bizarre Magazine team guarantees that they review every single entry, so this is a great way to get on their radar for future opportunities too. Additionally, they share many of the entries on their social media and in online blogs from now until entries close on July 17th - so the sooner you enter, the higher the chance that your entry will be shared.
Excited to enter? For full submission guidelines and prize details, visit beautifulbizarreartprize.art