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JUNE 9, 2025

Opening this week in Chicago, Ventus features paintings, sculptures, and prints by Cody Hudson , Seonna Hong ( previously ), Seth Pimentel , Stevie Shao , and Scott Sueme. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Last month at Quoz Arts Fest 2025 in Dubai, Forest Dancer comprised a monumental entry and an immersive exhibition of illuminated inflatable forms inside a contemporary building. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. Find more on ENESS’s website.

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Exhibition Publication Art Gallery 77

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

This open call welcomes all mediums and styles, including sculpture, installation, digital, and literature. Marilyn Newmark Memorial Grant (International) This $5,000 prize is for an artist specializing in animal sculpture with a mature body of work. 2025 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition (U.S.) EST on January 15, 2025.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Exhibition Printmaking 87

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Working across sculpture, installation, and video, the artist returns to the aesthetics of Africa and the African diaspora as she amends the art historical narrative by putting Black women and Black feminist thought at the center. Simone Leigh was published earlier this month by Delmonico Books and is available on Bookshop.

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Arts and Crafts Sculpture Exhibition Artist 95

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JULY 1, 2024

Fiberart International 2025 Call for Entry Featured Contemporary Craft and Brew House Art have teamed up for the 25th Fiberart International, which invites fiber artists to submit their work for a group exhibition in Pittsburgh. EST on January 15, 2025. Deadline: January 10, 2025. Budgets range from $1,000 to $80,000.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Exhibition Programming 94

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Chorus Arts ‘Featured Artists’ 2024/2025 (U.K.) Artists must register and maintain a published profile on Foundwork with at least six artworks and an artist statement throughout the 2024 selection period. This open call welcomes all mediums and styles, including sculpture, installation, digital, and literature.

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Artist Exhibition Programming Printmaking 87

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2025-2027 Award Term Featured U.S.-based Open Calls The Aperture Portfolio Prize (International) Photographers are encouraged to submit innovative bodies of work that haven’t been previously published or exhibited. Deadline: January 12, 2024. Applicants must subscribe to the magazine to enter.

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Artist Printmaking Arts and Crafts Exhibition 96

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Open Source Gallery: Exhibition Open Call (International) Artists working with experimentation, sustainability, and social engagement are invited to submit exhibition proposals for 2025. Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 (United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S.

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Artist Filmmaking Arts and Crafts Exhibition 96

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MAY 1, 2024

Open Calls ArteAlta (International) This annual competition organized by Alina Art Foundation, Inarttendu, and the Council of the Region Valle d’Aosta invites artists to submit work across painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, textiles, paper, and video related to the theme of Fear. EST on January 15, 2025.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Printmaking Programming 87

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 (United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art.

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Artist Filmmaking Printmaking Programming 89

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JUNE 1, 2024

Six projects will be selected for publishing at no cost. 2025 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Visual Arts and Curatorial Work (International) Open to artists and curators born outside the U.S. EST on January 15, 2025. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Exhibition Programming 89

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 (United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art.

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MARCH 31, 2025

From his mountainside studio in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Guy Larame ( previously ) creates otherworldly sculptures that mirror nearby peaks like Pico da Calednia. When viewed from certain angles, each sculpture’s identity as volumes of text nearly vanishes as we perceive mountains in miniature.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We’re happy to announce that Roq La Rue Gallery will be hosting our 2025 Hi-Fructose Invitational in Seattle on June 7th. The post The 2025 Hi-Fructose Invitational is coming first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine. Look for more info on previews and artist list soon.

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APRIL 3, 2025

“Al Otro Lado de Texcoco” (2025), oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches For her upcoming solo exhibition at Mindy Solomon Gallery , Ortiz conjures a surreal borderland that suspends time. Twin agaves appear in “Pareja,” while “Tula” depicts a couple of totemic sculptures that appear to be standing guard.

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Artist Sculpture Gallery Exhibition 62

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JUNE 1, 2023

The Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award (International) In partnership with Artmobile, Booooooom is open to submissions for its Art & Photo Book Award, which will grant six artists the opportunity to publish a collection of work free of charge. Deadline: 11:59 PST on June 5, 2023. Deadline: July 14, 2023. There is a $20 application fee.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It’s been almost exactly a decade since we first featured the concentric, ceramic vessels of Matthew Chambers on Colossal, and in that time, we’ve come to find his sculptures no less stupefying. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. From his studio in St.

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Sculpture Exhibition Artist Patterns 84

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JUNE 6, 2025

Intimate in size, the dioramas meld photorealistic portraits in acrylic with sculptural elements like minuscule flip-flops flung off a child’s feet or a red balloon frozen in an acrylic pane. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Currently, Kaminski is working on a pair of tube socks and preparing for an exhibition in early 2025. You can follow his latest sculptures on Instagram. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. Photo by Robert Bredvad Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Sculpture Exhibition Artist Publishing 85

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Publishing has been one of the greatest joys of our lives and demonstrated again and again how art can connect us all. Colossal will continue publishing independently as it always has, and when Joy Machine’s projects fit Colossal’s mission, we’ll be sure to share them with you all here.

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Gallery Art Publishing Publishing 80

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Rooted in graffiti and street art, their works will be on view at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden later this month for their largest U.S. Standing at the center of one gallery is a tall, prismatic sculpture, which depicts one of their signature figures encircled by an alien beam projecting from a flying saucer.

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Exhibition Sculpture Gallery Media 84

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APRIL 25, 2024

Ornamented with stylized creatures, botanicals, and figures, each sculpture tells its own enigmatic story, drawing on the inextricable link between past and present. ” Rubio is currently working toward a couple of show in 2025 and continuing New Prophets. Find more on the artist’s website , and stay up to date on Instagram.

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Artist Sculpture Presentation Gallery 91

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Through sculptural assemblages and paintings of puppy faces tucked in foliage or morphing from household items, Morrison evokes the timeless love for our pets. Likewise, a series of sculptures made from epoxy clay, resin, paper, and oil paint appear like assemblages of seemingly disparate items. The article The Dog Did It!

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Arts and Crafts Sculpture Artist Animation 81

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Made from everyday materials like cardboard, tinfoil, wire, and epoxy clay, his sculptures capture harried moments of disarray seemingly frozen in time. In the artist’s current solo exhibition, Under the Floorboards at Moskowitz Bayse , the sculptures jump off the wall, angles jutting this way and that.

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Sculpture Artist Exhibition Animation 42

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MARCH 1, 2024

Winners will receive $1,000, their winning image(s) published in the magazine, and press coverage. Kala Art Institute 2024-2025 Fellowship (International) Artists producing innovative work in printmaking, photography, digital media, social practice, media installation, and book arts are encouraged to apply. Deadline: March 12, 2024.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Programming Printmaking 94

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JULY 3, 2023

Open Calls Franklin Furnace 2023 XENO Prize for Artists’ Books (International) This prize offers $5,000 to one artist to publish an artist’s book centered around book banning/burning in an edition of at least 120 copies. Proposals for off-site projects, publishing initiatives, performances, and nontraditional formats are also accepted.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Programming Exhibition 98

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

From found fabrics and objects, Lewis created the towering sculptures for Spirit Level , her first solo museum show in the U.S. ” Conjuring the dark depths of the ocean, the sculpture alludes to a space where life and death coexist. Find more from the artist on her website and Instagram.

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Sculpture Gallery Artist Art 85

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JUNE 10, 2025

From September 2025, an installation titled Cargoes in King Edward Memorial Park, London, will take inspiration from the history of the site’s mercantile and dock communities. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month.

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MAY 1, 2025

Deadline: May 13, 2025. Deadline: May 29, 2025. Deadline: June 9, 2025. Winners receive $1,000 cash, their work published in the magazine, and press coverage. Deadline: April 15, 2025. Deadline: May 22, 2025. PST on May 12, 2025. Deadline: June 1, 2025. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Now based on KNSM Island in Amsterdam, Schneider continues to utilize the mariner material in her large-scale sculptures. Schneider’s sculptures are currently on view at the FITE Textile Biennial in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and will be included in a 2025 group exhibition at Knig Galerie in Munich.

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Sculpture Exhibition Artist Art 72

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

GLEAM | 2025 Request for Proposals Featured Olbrich Botanical Gardens invites proposals for temporary, light-based installations for GLEAM, Art in a New Light , a public art exhibition situated within a 16-acre Midwest landscape or a 10,000-square-foot tropical conservatory. Winners receive $1,000, their images published, and press coverage.

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Artist Exhibition Fine Art Printmaking 95

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MARCH 3, 2025

From seeds to the world’s smallest organisms, the inspiration for Shiyuan Xu s porcelain sculptures ( previously ) originates in biology. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. Find more on her website. inches Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Sculpture Arts and Crafts Exhibition Color 69

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MARCH 31, 2025

The countdown to the 2025 edition of Milan Design Week is officially on. Measuring 18 metres in diameter, her glowing, rotating sculpture will be composed of rounded shelving stocked with more than 2,000 books. Yet the fair will also be adding an additional two venues in between the two homes, for a grand total of four 2025 sites.

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Exhibition Manufacturing Sculpture Magazine 59

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 61 (International) Winners of the 61st annual competition will be shown in an exhibition launching at the Natural History Museum, London, in October 2025. Winners receive $1,000, their image(s) published in the magazine, extensive press coverage, and global recognition. PST on January 10, 2025.

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Artist Printmaking Exhibition Programming 74

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

From throwback pixelated video games to science fiction-inspired computer consoles, Love Hultn s playful sculptures ( previously ) harken back to the birth of digital. Hultn’s work will be on view in Liljevalchs spring salon Vrsalong 2025 , which opens on February 14 in Stockholm. Find more on the artist’s website.

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APRIL 28, 2025

Natasha Kanevski , based near Austin, makes canvas-mounted ceramic sculptures that are evocative of organic forms, yet wholly unlike any found on Earth. Kristin Ruscher, Vacation on Mars (2025), mixed media 5. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Patrick Skals, Special Price (2025), mixed media Text-Heavy Work: Tongue and cheek work you can read into Patrick Skals , a Toronto-based conceptual artist, challenges perspectives on culture and mental health in his In Other Words series. Paola Gracida creates gravity-defying clay sculptures that explore transformation and belonging.

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