Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 16th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Online Art Competition.  2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s December 2026 online group exhibition.

There is no theme for this art competition so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration.

Artists should submit their best representational and/or abstract work before the deadline of November 27, 2026.

Here is a link to the “Open” (No Theme) 2024 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.

Early Registration - Discounted Entry Fee

• Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition until the 1st day of the second month (October 1, 2026).
• The discounted entry fees are as follows: $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
• After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition. 
• Students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition.  $14.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $22.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
• All entry fees are inclusive of New Mexico Gross Receipts Tax, if applicable.

Important Dates For Participating Artists

Artist Awards

• The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
• The top 12 winning artists will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
• Extensive worldwide online publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
• Links back to the artists’ website.
• Digital Award Certificate, digital Award Ribbon, digital Event Postcard, and Press Releases for their art portfolio.

Artists provide us with your best representative and abstract art (any subject matter and any media) before the deadline.

We are listed on Photo Contest GURU – Photography Competitions Directory

We're listed on Photocompete - Open Photo Contests

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 17th Annual “Botanicals” Online Art Competition.  2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s January 2027 online group exhibition.

The gallery invites artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best botanical and/or floral art. Botanical subjects will include flowers, herbs, fruit, leaves, plants and related botanical and floral subjects.

Artists should submit their representational and/or abstract best work in any media before the deadline of December 28, 2026.

Here is a link to the “Botanicals” 2026 Online Art Exhibition in order to help artists see what type of art was accepted in the past. Please review our article post which explains the Judging Criteria for Our Juried Art Competitions in order to help you as a guide with your entry submissions.

Early Registration - Discounted Entry Fee

• Lower entry fees are offered from the opening of the competition until the 1st day of second month (October 1, 2026).
• The discounted entry fees are as follows: $16.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $24.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
• After that time, the entry fees revert to the gallery’s normal entry fee amount or $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries until the deadline of the art competition. 
• Students (who are registered with Submittable and have an email extension of EDU) are able to receive additional lower entry fees for this competition.  $14.00 for 1 to 2 entries and $22.00 for 3 to 5 entries.
• All entry fees are inclusive of New Mexico Gross Receipts Tax, if applicable.

Important Dates For Participating Artists

Artist Awards

• The #1 overall top winning artist will be the Best in Show winner of the exhibition. The Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize of $100. The cash prize will be paid via PayPal in U.S. dollars. The winner must be able to receive the cash prize via PayPal. If the artist does not have PayPal account, it is easy to set one up HERE.
• The top 12 winning artists will be promoted and circulated to hundreds of major news outlets, including syndicated Premium News Outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News.
• Extensive worldwide online publicity in the form of email marketing, event announcements, and wide-spread social media marketing and promotion to make the art world aware of the artists’ achievement.
• Links back to the artists’ website.
• Digital Award Certificate, digital Award Ribbon, digital Event Postcard, and Press Releases for their art portfolio.

Artists provide us with your best representative and/or abstract botanical and floral art before the deadline.

We are listed on Photo Contest GURU – Photography Competitions Directory

We're listed on Photocompete - Open Photo Contests

The gallery’s competition for March 2022 was the 12th Annual “Botanicals” Online Art Competition. 2D and 3D, artists, (including photography & digital art) from around the world, were called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion in to the Gallery’s April 2022 online group art exhibition.

Artists were asked for their interpretation of the “Botanicals” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art for this competition. The submission process and competition for the artists began in February 2022 and concluded on March 27, 2022.

The gallery received 784 entries from 22 different countries from around the world, as well as from 33 different states and the District of Columbia.   

The exhibition has been divided into three media categories.  Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Art categories.  In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the ten (10) best entries comprised from all the media categories.

The gallery also included Special Merit awards and Special Recognition awards for outstanding art. Many of the artists in either of these groups could have easily been included in the upper tier of our winners, as their art was also exceptional.

All winning entries will now be featured on the Light Space & Time website for the month of April 2022. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives.

Congratulations to our artists who made our 12th Annual “Botanicals” Art Exhibition so successful this month. At any time, we invite our winning artists and other interested visitors to link their websites to the Gallery’s Archive Page for further ongoing promotion.

Overall Top 10 Winning Artists & Artworks

Please go to the results of the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Overall Winning Artists” Category to read about each of these artists.

Top 15 Painting & Other Media Winning Artists & Artworks

To see all the Painting & Other Media artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Painting & Other Category” here.

Top 15 Photography & Digital Winning Artists & Artworks

To see all the Photography & Digital artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Photography & Digital Category” here.

Top 5 3 Dimensional Winning Artists & Artworks

To see all the 3 Dimensional artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Botanicals Art Exhibition “3 Dimensional Art Category” here.

Special Merit Award Category

These are the artists and their artwork which we felt could easily have been placed higher but due to the size constraints in each media category, this art was placed in this special category.  Any of the Special Merit art, in many cases, is interchangeable with the best art that we selected for the top tiers. To view these artists and artwork, please go to the results in the Botanicals Art Exhibition “Special Merit Award Category” here.