Thank you for your support

You are a fantastic group of subscribers and I've absolutely loved providing you with the most up to date calls for entries through the year. Wishing you a great summery holiday. At the time of writing (Boxing Day) there are 32 prizes calling for entries in January and 24 in February. Over the next two months another 40 prizes will commence calling for entries. To keep up to date simply subscribe to the Art Prizes digest and then just watch your email inbox for updates.

There are no prizes without finalists

The effort and expense that artists incur to enter art prizes is quite extraordinary and is unfortunately often overlooked. We want to record those efforts on behalf of the art prize sector and are continuing to build a unique dataset of finalists for prizes. We can't do this for all prizes as the workload is too great, but we do try to cover as many as we can. I believe this is important data and I'm willing to wait for arts organisations to catch up and appreciate the insights the data brings. The data, in its aggregated form, reveals trends and identifies artists who are most active in the art prizes domain.

Thus far we indexed 89 prizes in 2025. You can see all the finalists by going to:

​https://members.art-prizes.com/prizeExhibitions​

Year Count of Finalist Records

2025 - 5234 finalists

2024 - 5564 finalists

2023 - 4765 finalists

2022 - 4687 finalists

Total number of finalist records in our dataset is 34,618

Why does this matter:

This forms a permanent record of finalists in many art prizes, something that isn't found or offered anywhere else.

Winners in 2025

A list of winners (as many as we could find) is available from our website - just click here to see them.

Most successful finalists in 2025

Here they are — those artists who were selected in more art prizes that we tracked during 2025 than their peers.

You can find the full list of top 15 finalist for 2025 (or earlier years) by clicking here:

​https://members.art-prizes.com/finalists​

Our new email digest is now available at https://members.art-prizes.com/​

Here's an example of the listing (live feed), summarising the number of prizes that have an open call during each of the three months, the call status, prize title, type, the deadline for the call, and a link to the Art Prizes website to find more information:

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