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BioArt Open Calls

Open calls for BioArt artists — 8 active grants, residencies and exhibitions with checked deadlines, entry fees and what the funding covers. Updated daily.

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8 active listings for BioArt, tagged by how each programme describes the practices it accepts. Add your works to your portfolio, and Call Match checks how well they fit each call’s brief.

ResidencySelf-funded

Bioceno Lab 2027 — Eco-Materials and Bio-Design Artist Programme (Online or New York)

Artesana Foundation

A three-week lab by the New York non-profit Artesana Foundation in which artists experiment with eco-materials, bio-design and digital tools to imagine sustainable futures. It runs online or in person in New York and ends with an open studio. This is a paid programme: participants pay the programme fee and their own travel and living costs.

31 Dec 20263-week programme with mentors

New York City, USA (or online)

FellowshipPartial Funding

OPENFEED 2026–27 — Virtual Artist Residency & Exhibition

FEED Media Art Center

OPEN FEED 2026-2027 is a highly innovative "phy-digital" accelerator program by the FEED Media Art Center, specifically designed to overcome systemic inequalities in tech access for emerging to mid-career computational artists. It prioritizes remote access to powerful computing clusters, expensive software licenses, and high-end hardware, coupled with sustained, rigorous technical mentorship. T...

28 Feb 2027No direct funding

Remote residency; exhibition and installation in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

ResidencyPartial Funding

Coalesce Center for Biological Arts Residency

Coalesce Center for Biological Arts

Coalesce offers a hybrid studio-laboratory residency enabling hands-on creative engagement with life science tools, bridging the gap between hard life sciences and public cultural comprehension. The ideal applicant should approach the laboratory as a site of philosophical inquiry, engaging with fundamental questions about the ontology of life and the definition of invention or artwork in biolog...

Main deadline June 5, 2026 passed; later applications reviewed monthly$1,500 (artist fee)

Buffalo, NY, USA

Residency

EHIN 2026 Hybrid Intelligence Residency at LABoral (Gijón) — Up to €25,000 + Accommodation, ~12 Months

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

Gijón art and industrial-creation centre; EHIN partner co-funded by Creative Europe.

4 Dec 2026Up to €25,000 fees + production

Gijón, Spain (+ EHIN network venue)

CompetitionPartial Funding

Prix Ars Electronica 2027

Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica remains the undisputed historical heavyweight of the media arts world, offering prestigious awards and exhibition opportunities at its renowned festival. Winning a Golden Nica secures an artist's place in the history books of contemporary digital culture. For light artists, the Interactive Art + category is vital, focusing on installations that drive transformative para...

Call opens January 2027; deadline not yet announced (2026: March 9)Up to €10,000 per category; Golden Nica award

Linz, Austria

ResidencyFully Funded

Environmental Artist Residency 2027 — Artists Association of Nantucket

Artists Association of Nantucket

The Artists Association of Nantucket, founded in 1945, runs an Environmental Artist Residency for practitioners whose work engages ecological change — erosion, sea-level rise, shifting habitats — on an island where all three are visible from the shore. The residency lasts about a month and is funded: a $3,000 stipend, $500 towards travel, three weeks of housing in the association's artists' apa...

7 Dec 2026$3,000 stipend + $500 travel + housing

Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

ResidencyFully Funded

SURF Artist in Residence 2027 — Sanford Underground Research Facility

Sanford Underground Research Facility

An artist residency at the deepest underground laboratory in the United States, a former gold mine in the Black Hills where physicists hunt dark matter and neutrinos. The artist spends a summer month on site with studio space and tours above and below ground, then returns in the autumn to install the work and lecture.

1 Nov 2026$5,000 stipend + up to $5,000 for materials

Lead, South Dakota, USA

FAQ

What counts as BioArt here?

This includes programs that explicitly specify BioArt as the main or one of the priority mediums, ranging from specialized contests to interdisciplinary open calls.

Are digital works or performance documentation accepted?

Yes, when they meet the call’s submission rules — each listing spells out the formats and sizes the organiser asks for.

Do residencies provide specialized equipment for BioArt?

Specialised residencies often offer equipped studios, print presses, darkrooms, labs or technical help — listed with each programme’s facilities.

How do I demonstrate experience in BioArt?

Send a coherent set of recent works — as many as the call asks for — with the concept, size and materials of each.

Are there material grants specifically for BioArt?

Yes. Production grants often set aside a budget for materials and new work — each listing shows the award and what it covers.

BioArt Open Calls

Bioceno Lab 2027 — Eco-Materials and Bio-Design Artist Programme (Online or New York)

OPENFEED 2026–27 — Virtual Artist Residency & Exhibition

Coalesce Center for Biological Arts Residency

EHIN 2026 Hybrid Intelligence Residency at LABoral (Gijón) — Up to €25,000 + Accommodation, ~12 Months

Prix Ars Electronica 2027

Environmental Artist Residency 2027 — Artists Association of Nantucket

SURF Artist in Residence 2027 — Sanford Underground Research Facility

FAQ

What counts as BioArt here?

Are digital works or performance documentation accepted?

Do residencies provide specialized equipment for BioArt?

How do I demonstrate experience in BioArt?

Are there material grants specifically for BioArt?

All open calls here: 8

SURF Artist in Residence 2027 — Sanford Underground Research Facility

Swarovski Foundation Creatives for Our Future 2027

EHIN 2026 Hybrid Intelligence Residency at LABoral (Gijón) — Up to €25,000 + Accommodation, ~12 Months

Environmental Artist Residency 2027 — Artists Association of Nantucket

Bioceno Lab 2027 — Eco-Materials and Bio-Design Artist Programme (Online or New York)

OPENFEED 2026–27 — Virtual Artist Residency & Exhibition

Prix Ars Electronica 2027

Coalesce Center for Biological Arts Residency