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50 Art Prizes calling in May 2026

Published 27 days ago • 3 min read

May 2026

New Calls in May

Popular Prizes in April

Prize categories for prizes calling now

May 2026 Art Prize Snapshot

48 prizes are calling in May, with $1,521,950 on offer

48 prizes calling in May
$1.52M total prize money
5 free-entry prizes

Media / Type Breakdown

Media / Type Count
General
 15
Landscape
 5
2D works
 5
Photography
 4
Painting
 4
Sculpture
 4
Portraiture
 3
Emerging
 2
Drawing
 1
Prints
 1
3D works
 1
Residency
 1
Grants and Scholarships
 1
Youth
 1

Free-entry prizes calling in May

  • Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize$23,000 · closes 22 May
  • Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award$26,000 · closes 5 June
  • COMEL Award$3,500 · closes 21 June
  • Meroogal Women's Art Prize$18,000 · closes 15 July
  • Banksia Art Prize$100,000 · closes 18 September

If you go to 👉 https://members.art-prizes.com/ you can see all the calling prizes for the next 90 days.

Top Finalists thus far

We have indexed 25 prizes to date and as a result we can show the leading finalists in 2026

Test our new ArtBiogs app & see if you're listed

I love the new 'Surfaced' app (yes, I built it). Whenever I go to an exhibition, I just scan a label and get a great summary of the artist. The app is called 'Surfaced'. The dataset of all artists is like a giant sea of data but this app surfaces artists who have been recorded as a finalist in at least one Australian art prize. The app covers 36k finalist records from the past decade for 13.4k artists. This number is growing every day as we continue to update it.

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