18th International ARC Salon Competition

International Deadline: July 12, 2025 – The Art Renewal Center is now accepting entries for the prestigious 18th International ARC Salon Competition.

The International ARC Salon is the largest in the world. With over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through the ARC website which receives over 2,000,000 visitors annually, the ARC Salon also offers career changing opportunities through partnerships with prestigious magazines, museums, galleries and more. Don’t miss your chance to compete!

ELIGIBILITY
All entries must be original artwork, conceived and created by the entrant within the past 3 years. Works need to be original works of art and not copies of works by other artists.

Acceptable mediums include: oil, pastel, watercolor, graphite, acrylic paints, charcoal, clay, bronze, stone, marble and /or travertine, plaster, resin, scratch-board, gold-point, silver-point, ink, colored pencils, gouache, tempera and all traditional mediums. Fine quality realistic renderings in mosaic are also acceptable.

CATEGORIES
Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Drawing, Landscape, Still Life, Plein Air Painting, Fully From Life, Sculpture, Animals, and a special category for teens… see more

BENEFITS & AWARDS

Exhibition of Selected Works
The show will consist of approximately 100 of the best works from the combined 17th and 18th International ARC Salon Competitions. The exhibition is planned to open at what will be Sotheby’s New York’s new flag ship, Madison Avenue location, from July 17 — July 27, 2026, where we will hold our official award ceremony. 

Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY will select a group of approximately 15 to 30 finalists who will be asked to supply the gallery with additional images. From those finalists, the gallery will choose a select group of artists to create new works for a group show to be held at their gallery on 55th Street in 2026 or 2027 depending on how much time the artists need to complete their new works.

The Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, has added an ongoing award to the ARC Salon Competition, devoting a “Featured ARC Artist” gallery wall to their museum in their Founders Gallery. The museum will be selecting one ARC Salon Finalist from the state of Utah each competition to be featured at the museum over the course of the following year.ill be selecting one to three ARC Salon Finalists to be exhibited at the museum for a two month duration in 2026.

Cash & In-kind Awards
Best in Show: $25,000 cash
The William Bouguereau Award “Emotion, Theme, and the Figure”: $3,000

Publication Awards
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