2025-26 Biennial Submissions

2025-26 ARTIST ALLIANCE BIENNIAL

Submit Here by September 22, 2025, 10:59pm PST

This is a Call to Members of OMA's Artist Alliance:

 

You are invited to submit up to 20 entries for consideration in this juried art exhibition at OMA, which will feature the most outstanding recent works by members of OMA’s Artist Alliance. Artwork will be on view in the large lobby-facing Rusty and Bebe Grosse Gallery. Submissions will be accepted exclusively through the call for entry hosted on the CaFÉ website. This exhibition will be juried by Chantel Paul, Patric Stillman, and OMA Director of Exhibitions and Collections Katie Dolgov.

Artists who are not members of the OMA Artist Alliance but are interested in participating in this exhibition must submit their membership applications for OMA with the Artist Alliance add-on before submitting artwork for consideration. Details on how to join can be found in this prospectus, or at oma-online.org/membership.

Review the full prospectus and submit here.

Exhibition on view at OMA: November 22, 2025–March 8, 2026

Artwork Parameters

  • Artwork must have been completed within the last five years (2020 or later)
  • Two-or three-dimensional work, maximum 120” in any direction and 100 lbs
  • Priority will be given to works that have not been displayed in an Artist Alliance exhibition (at OMA or off site) in the past five years.
  • All submissions must be original works of art. No giclées or other reproductions of original work, with exception of limited edition prints or photography.
  • Artwork may be in any media or style.
  • Artwork depicting nudity is allowed.

 

Awards

The Grand Prize Winner will receive a solo exhibition at OMA opening in 2026 or 2027. Click here to view our last winner, Marshall Toomey! There will be three additional prizes:

$1,000 First Place

$500 Second Place

$250 Third Place

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IMPORTANT DATES

  • Deadline to submit: Monday, September 22, 2025, 10:59pm PST
  • Notifications of selected works: On or before Friday, October 17
  • Artwork drop off of selected works to OMA: November 10-12, 12:00-3:00pm 
  • Celebration at OMA: Saturday, November 22, 5:00-7:00pm

Artwork pictured at the top of the page: 2023-2024 Artist Alliance Biennial installed at OMA, artwork pictured left to right by Riley Davenport, Robin Raznick, and Viktoria Romanova 

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