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Requirement OverviewLocation Eligibility Type: InternationalEligible Applicant Types: ArtistSubmission Limit: 1Media RequirementsImages | Min: 0, Max: 3Audio | Min: 0, Max: 0Video | Min: 0, Max: 3Total | Min: 1, Max: 3
Opportunity SummarySurreal Salon - the annual exhibition celebrating the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement - will return to Baton Rouge Gallery (“BRG”) for its 19th year in January 2027! The exhibition, held in partnership with the LSU School of Art, will share the work of dozens of artists from across the globe, each hand-picked by the show’s Special Guest Juror, Lauren YS, via a blind jurying process. Artists interested in having their work considered for inclusion in January 2027's Surreal Salon 19 at Baton Rouge Gallery - center for contemporary art, are encouraged to submit their work here!
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General InformationSurreal Salon - the annual exhibition celebrating the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement - will return to Baton Rouge Gallery (“BRG”) for its 19th year in January 2027! The exhibition, held in partnership with the LSU School of Art, will share the work of dozens of artists from across the globe, each hand-picked by the show’s Special Guest Juror, Lauren YS, via a blind jurying process.For more than a decade, Surreal Salon has featured paintings, photography, ceramics, textiles, mixed media works, and more. Artists from all corners of the United States and more than a dozen different nations have been featured in previous exhibitions and with Surreal Salon 19, a new group of artists will join them.More than $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded in conjunction with the exhibition and the artist whose work is selected as Best in Show is also be profiled in an online editorial by Beautiful Bizare Magazine.CRITERIA & JUDGING:Works will be judged anonymously on the following criteria: 1) conceptual and aesthetic quality; 2) feasibility of display; 3) overall artistic merit. The juror/curator will not see the artist's name or home city during judging. The juror will not comment on any one specific application once the jurying has concluded.Baton Rouge Gallery reserves the right, at its discretion, to disqualify submissions featuring erotica/pornographic material, explicit sexual behavior/violence, or content that might reasonably be deemed obscene or hateful.RECOGNITION AND AWARDS:This year, the Surreal Salon exhibition will feature $2,000 in cash prizes that will be awarded as follows:Best in Show: $1,000; Second Place: $600; Third Place: $400The work selected by the exhibition's juror as Best in Show will be prominently recognized in an upcoming editorial on juxtapoz.com that will focus on the artist responsible for the work as well as the piece itself.IMPORTANT DATESSubmission deadline: November 7, 2026, at midnight CST.Notification: by November 18, 2026Delivery deadline for selected work: December 19, 2026, at 6 pm.First Day of Surreal Salon 19: January 2, 2027Final day of Surreal Salon 19: January 24, 2027Pick-up Artwork: January 26 - February 14, 2027 (Tue-Sun)All uncollected works after February 14 will be assessed a $10 storage fee per day. Any work not picked up from Baton Rouge Gallery by April 1, 2027, will be considered abandoned and the property of BRGCCASUBMITTING YOUR WORK(S):Artists submitting work for consideration may do so online at
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