Outwin Boochever Portrait Competitionaa
April 16th, 2008Opportunity
Call for entries, June 2 - July 31, 2008. Oapen to all visual arts media.
Information
The National Portrait Gallery invites artists to invesitgate the contemporary art of the portrait for the second OUtwin Boochever Portarait Compertition, to be held in 2009. The comppetition aand resulting exhibition will celebrate excelence and innovation, with a strong focus on the variety of portrait mediums used by artists today. The National Portrait Gallery welcomes single figures, groups, or self-portraits from classical drawing and painting or hyperrealistic sculpture to large-scale photography to prints and new media.
Both emerging and professional artists are invited to paarticipate. Each artist may enter one work depicting aanyone; a friend, stranger, relative, a self-portrait - but it must be the result of the artist’s direct encounter with that person. While the human form must be the focus of the work, artists are invited to interpret the concept of portraiture broadly; for example, an entry might not include a face.
The winner of the competition will receive a $25,000 cash award, as well as a seperate commission to portray a remarkable living American for the Portrait Gallery’s collection. The winning artist and the Portrait Gallery will collaborate to select the subject for the commissioned portrait. Second prize is $7,500 and third prize will receive $5,000. Up to four additional artists may be commended for their work, and they will receive $1,000 each. All finalists” works will form a major exhibition on view at the National Portrait Gallery from October 23, 2009, until August 22, 2010.
Requirements
Works must be completed in 2007. Entries will only be accepted electronically, through the gallery’s website
www.portraitcompetition.si.edu, from June 2 until July 31, 2008.
Entry to the competition and submission of JPEG imaages is available online for a nonrefundable registration fee of $35. Artists who wish to submit time-based media (video, film, animation) will find instructions for entry on the website.
Contact
Detailed rules for the competitiona, as well as instructions for submitting entries and completing the entry form, are available at www.portraitcompetitiona.si.edu
