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.
| Art Competition Opens | August 29, 2026 | |
| Early Registration & Lower Fees End | October 01, 2026 | |
| Deadline for Receiving Entries | November 27, 2026 | |
| Results Emailed to Artists & Posted | December 01, 2026 | |
| Art Exhibition Opens | December 01, 2026 | |
| Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived | December 31, 2026 |
Artists provide us with your best representative and abstract art (any subject matter and any media) before the deadline.
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The gallery’s exhibition for November 2025 is the 15th Annual “Open” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Open” theme by submitting their best representational and/or abstract art.
The gallery received 532 entries from 24 different countries from around the world, as well as from 32 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories - Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) 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 homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 15th Annual “Open” 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. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 24 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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Top 10 3 Dimensional Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Merit Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Merit Artists
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3 Dimensional Special Merit Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Recognition Artists
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The gallery’s exhibition for November 2024 is the 14th Annual “Open” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Open” theme by submitting their best representational and/or abstract art.
The gallery received 515 entries from 20 different countries from around the world, as well as from 27 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories - Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) 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 homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks and links to the artist’s websites will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 14th Annual “Open” 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. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 24 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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Top 8 3 Dimensional Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Merit Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Merit Artists
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3 Dimensional Special Merit Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Recognition Artists
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3 Dimensional Special Recognition Artists
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The gallery’s exhibition for November 2023 is the 13th Annual “Open” Online Art Exhibition. Both 2D and 3D, artists, from around the world, were asked for their interpretation of the “Open” theme by submitting their best abstract and/or representational art.
The gallery received 683 entries from 23 different countries from around the world, as well as from 32 different states and the District of Columbia.
The exhibition has been divided into three media categories - Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional categories. In addition, there is an overall Winning Artists Category, which is the “best of the best” and consists of the twelve (12) 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 homepage for the 3 months. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives. To see exhibitions prior to January 2022, please visit our LST Archives website.
Congratulations to our artists who made our 13th Annual “Open” 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. Scroll down the page to each section to see the artists accepted into the exhibition.
Overall Top 12 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Top 20 Painting & Other Media Artists
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Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists
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Top 8 3 Dimensional Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Merit Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Merit Artists
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Painting & Other Media Special Recognition Artists
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Photography & Digital Special Recognition Artists
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3 Dimensional Special Recognition Artists
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The gallery’s annual special Summer competition was the 4th Annual “Summer 555” Online Art Competition. This art competition featured an entry fee of $5.00 for artists to enter 5 images of their artworks and the gallery would select 5 overall winning artists.
2D and 3D artists (including photography & digital art) from around the world, were called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s “Summer 555” summer online group art exhibition.
Artists were asked to submit to this open (no theme) competition by providing the gallery with their best abstract or representational art. The submission process and competition for the artists began in April 2022 and concluded on June 15, 2022.
The gallery received 745 entries from 23 different countries from around the world, as well as from 30 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 five (5) 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 from July 5 through September 5, 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 4th Annual “Summer 555” Art Exhibition so successful. 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 5 Winning Artists & Artworks
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Please go to the results of the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “Overall Winning Artists” Category to read about each of these artists.
Top 25 Painting & Other Media Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Painting & Other Media artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “Painting & Other Category” here.
Top 20 Photography & Digital Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the Photography & Digital artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “Photography & Digital Category” here.
Top 5 3 Dimensional Winning Artists & Artworks
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To see all the 3 Dimensional artwork accepted into this exhibition, please visit the Summer 555 Art Exhibition “3 Dimensional Art Category” here.
Special Merit Award Category
In order to streamline our exhibitions, make them simpler to navigate and give artists fewer pages to visit, the Special Merit Category is being merged into the Painting & Other Media, Photography & Digital and 3 Dimensional Category pages.
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