Japan

Short Description The HERALBONY Art Prize is an international art award established in 2024 to provide a platform for artists with disabilities from around the world, regardless of their professional status, age, or nationality, to showcase their creative power and support the blossoming of their careers.The prize includes a Grand Prize and Jury Awards selected […]

Short Description: The SILENT MANGA AUDITION is an international contest organized by COAMIX Inc., a manga publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world’s biggest manga contest, exclusively for manga without dialogue.  The theme of this edition is “My Dream”. Tell your story through images alone. “ This round’s theme is ‘My Dream’, but we’re not talking about the dreams […]

Short Description Kyoto Art Center (KAC) aims to be not only a venue for exchange and mutual stimulus among artists, but also for citizens to experience the abundance of arts. This program supports creative activities of artists and art researchers who aim to explore new artistic expression in their encounter with Japanese culture. Participants engage […]

Organizer Information: Hayama Artist Residency is an independent, international artist-in-residence program based in the coastal town of Hayama, Japan. Nestled between mountains and sea, the residency provides a peaceful environment for visual artists seeking time for reflection, experimentation, and creative focus. The program is designed to support artistic growth through solitude, immersion in a new […]

Short Description This September, the international art scene turns its focus to Japan for Tokyo Gendai — and your art can be right at the heart of it. ArtSeen offers visual artists a bold, high-impact way to stand out: digital billboards across key Tokyo locations during the fair, September 12–14, 2025. With leading galleries, collectors, […]

Short Description: The Kokuyo Design Award is launching the competition for 2026, themed: Hamon – Design that Resonates. Kokuyo Design Award is an international competition for product design that aims to co-create with talented designers and support their activities. Any stationery, furniture or tool used in working, learning and living scenes is eligible to be entered. […]

Short Description: We are pleased to announce that the 10th NBC Meshtec Tokyo International Screen Print Biennial, a public offering biennial that is specialized in screen print works, is to be held following the 2021 biennial, and now we invite works from Japan and overseas. The entry acceptance period is from August 1th to September […]

Organizer Information:Toma House AIR is operated by Takabatake Trust, a general incorporated association based in Nara, Japan. Since its founding in 2017, the organization has been committed to preserving and revitalizing cultural assets through contemporary art. Its core project is the restoration and creative reuse of an 18th-century former Shinto priest family residence, designated as […]

Short Description JAGDA International Student Poster Award was established with the mission to discover and acknowledge outstanding young talents from across the world and to promote the further advancement of graphic design. Posters allow ideas to be freely expressed through the rich mixture of graphics and texts, giving them the instantaneous power to move the […]