The Salon Art Prize — Monthly and Annual Painting Competition
The Salon Art Prize (PleinAir Magazine / Fine Art Connoisseur)
The prize is run by PleinAir Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur and pays out more than $65,000 a year, which puts it among the largest painting competitions open to anyone. Two grand prize winners receive $15,000 each and the cover of one of the two magazines; annual runners-up take $4,000 and $2,000, with three honourable mentions of $750 and four best-medium awards of $500. Monthly rounds dist...
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The prize is run by PleinAir Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur and pays out more than $65,000 a year, which puts it among the largest painting competitions open to anyone. Two grand prize winners receive $15,000 each and the cover of one of the two magazines; annual runners-up take $4,000 and $2,000, with three honourable mentions of $750 and four best-medium awards of $500. Monthly rounds distribute a further $2,250 across eleven cycles. Winners are showcased across the magazines, their websites, newsletters and social channels, and the top twenty-five finalists are invited to the awards ceremony at the Plein Air Convention & Expo.
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Open internationally where legal, to entrants aged 18 and over, with original compositions across nineteen categories. Paintings and drawings only: photography, AI, digital work and anything printed or painted over a photograph is excluded. Artists may enter several paintings and several categories.