Painting Hackathons, Contests & Competitions in san diego 2025🖌️

This prestigious competition celebrates contemporary portraiture and invites artists worldwide to submit works that demonstrate skill, creativity, and innovation in portrait painting.

Art On Loop Tokyo invites global artists to showcase their work in a unique digital format by The Holy Art Gallery in Tokyo, February 10-12, 2025.

The competition offers artists the chance to showcase their work in a large-scale exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin, featuring 20 artists and 20 photographers across three floors.

RMA Festivals is seeking artists for the RMA Fest Missoula, which will take place June 7-8, 2025, at The Oval at the University of Montana in Missoula, MT. This two-day outdoor arts festival will showcase a wide variety of art forms and will feature approximately 150 artists.

The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award returns for 2025. The prestigious painting competition celebrates the very best in contemporary portraiture and will include captivating works from around the world, by both self-taught and more established painters.

This annual competition inspires students to be creative while promoting public awareness of the need to preserve, protect, and restore the world’s oceans and aquatic resources, contributing to the overarching goals of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.