Awards & Grants with Huge Cash Prizes
We’ve gathered a list of international art awards that generate public recognition on top of the always valuable, cash prize!
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant — Grant for Artists
Provides grants to painters, sculptors, and artists working on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for one year and can be up to $50,000, depending on the artist's circumstances and professional exhibition history.
Rewards: up to $50,000 in funding
Gottlieb Foundation — Individual Support Grants
The Foundation conceived this grant program in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist. They encourage applications from artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their work, regardless of their level of commercial success.
Twenty grants are awarded each year. Applications are reviewed by a panel of five professionals in the arts who have no affiliation with the Foundation.
Rewards: $25,000 grants
PleinAir Salon — 15th Annual Art Competition
The 14th Annual PleinAir Salon is an online art competition with 12 monthly cycles that is open to a variety of mediums and styles, and it’s not just for plein air painters! They invite a variety of top master artists, museum directors and gallery owners to judge each month. All monthly winners are automatically included in the annual competition where the Grand Prize winner receives $15,000 and has their painting featured on the cover of PleinAir Magazine.
Rewards: Combined $50,000 in cash prizes throughout the year
Faena Art — Prize for the Arts
Faena Art is a transformative bridge across the Americas, between the south and the north, the popular and the experimental. Faena Art fosters new models for performative social interaction that transcend the traditional boundaries of art, science, philosophy, and social practice.
One of the Americas’ most prestigious art awards, the Faena Prize for the Arts is offered to artists at all stages in their careers to engage in critical reflection on the present moment and its ever-changing nature.
Rewards: $100,000 for winning proposal
Tropos, a solo exhibition by 2015 Faena Prize for the Arts winner Cayetano Ferrer
Art Explora — The European Award
The European Award encourages new forms of audience engagement and participation in arts and culture, supporting innovative projects, across all art forms, that can be shared, replicated and scaled across Europe.
Rewards: €50,000 x3 awards, €10,000 x1 Audience Choice Award
IAAC — International Awards for Art Criticism
The Organising Committee of the International Awards for Art Criticism aims to support independent critical coverage of contemporary art, away from the immediate pressures of the market, media and private patronage.
Rewards: €20,500 total prize money
Graham Foundation — Grants for Individuals
The Graham Foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Production and Presentation Grants and Research and Development Grants.
Rewards: $10,000 Research and Development Grant, $20,000 Production and Presentation Grant
Chen Zhan, “Situated Imaginaries: Group Dance Improvisation,”
Art On Climate — Art On Climate Illustration Competition
The Art On Climate International Illustration Competition is inviting illustrators from across the world to create artworks that address the theme of climate change.
Rewards: €12,000 total prize money
Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation — Inaugural Grant Program
This new grant initiative celebrates artist Bobby Anspach’s long-held vision while looking forward, investing in artists across disciplines who are exploring how creative empathy can deepen human connection, address our social condition, and inspire ecological transformation. The program will award five unrestricted grants to artists whose work embodies this ethos.
Rewards: Two $50,000 grants and three $8,000 grants
CatchLight — Global Fellowship
Through this program, CatchLight supports individuals who want to cultivate significant audience engagement through inventive distribution methods that will increase the impact of their work. Since 2017, the CatchLight has awarded $30,000 to 26 innovative visual storytellers covering a multitude of topics and come from all over the world.
Rewards: $30,000 award, paid travel and accommodations for the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit in San Francisco & more.
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