Short Description
Prisma Art Prize is an art contest born to promote emerging painters and visual artists. As our name and logo suggests, we want to be a prism that refracts all the possible outcomes of the painting process. What we want is to answer a fundamental question in the current artistic context: what does painting mean today? At the base of our project, there is the constant and inclusive research and enhancement of artists from different cultural and educational backgrounds.
Eligibility
Submissions to the quarterly calls are open to all living artists without limits of age, sex, nationality and ethnicity and to works of painting, drawing and engraving of any size and on any medium.
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
- To the winner of each quarterly edition, selected among the finalist works: €500 cash prize;
- To three of the finalist artworks: Honorable mention, which consists in an interview curated by Prisma Art Prize.
- An open number of finalists artists will exhibith in the collective exhibition at Contemporary Cluster and will be featured in the 5th year Catalogue.
- All the finalist artists in the quarterly editions are also eligible for the following prizes:
- Collective exhibition at Contemporary Cluster
- Publication in the Award Catalog published by Il Varco edition
- Dar Meso Art Residency Prize, consisting of a residency at Dar Meso, an artistic institution based in the heart of Tunis, to take place in 2026/2027.
- Casacon Art Residency Prize, consisting of a residency at Casacon Sirolo, Marche, Italy, to take place in 2026/2027. Read the regulation
- Pallavicini- Dettori Home Show Prize, consisting of a personal exhibition for an artist in the Home Gallery of Pallavicini – Dettori collectors, to take place in 2026/2027
- Isorrophia Gallery Prize, consisting of a solo exhibition for an artist organized by Isorrophia Gallery, to take place in 2026/2027
Entry Fee
The submission fee is 34 Euro (for 1-3 paintings). You can submit up to 5 additional works at a price of 5 Euro per piece. It is possible to submit one to eight artworks by paying the following submission fees.
1-3 artworks €34
4 artworks: €39
5 artworks: €44
6 artworks: €49
7 artworks: €54
8 artworks: €59
Location
Rome, Italy
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 5 July 2025
Website Link: https://www.prismaartprize.com/
