Black & White is an online exhibition dedicated to works built around black, white, and their relationship. Black defines depth and weight. White defines space, light, and separation. Together, they form a visual system based on contrast, balance, and precision.

We invite artworks focused on black, white, or their combination. Works may be abstract or figurative, digital or traditional. These colors must remain central and clearly visible in the composition. We are looking for strong contrast, controlled use of space, and compositions where black and white determine the visual result.

Dates

May 1, 2026 — Applications open
May 25, 2026 — Application deadline
May 29, 2026 — Notification of winning artworks

Prizes

Gold Award

Midnight In The Garden

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 inches acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas unframed

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LAX Terminal Galley

Photography

Description

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Combining silhouettes

Oil on canvas

50x50 oil on canvas

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Quiet Titans

Ink on Paper

This piece celebrates the beauty of African Rhinos. The main focus is on the White Rhino, while a silhouette of a Black Rhino can also be seen at the top. There is something grounding about slowing down, building form through line, and trusting the ink to describe weight, age and presence, without any other color.

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Curator’s Choice

Beech Patrol

Acrylic Painting

These beautiful Beech 18's on floats, with their twin radial engines, twin-tail fin configurations are dockside, waiting for the busy day to begin. Soon the deep, throaty rumble of their radial engines will fill the air as they take to the sky.

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Curator’s Choice

Galaxcy of the Mind

Sculpture

Monterey Leon Black Marble on White Marble base

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Curator’s Choice

Fancy-free

Painted ABS

Innocence and freedom are imaginatively transformed into pure white fish swimming in clear water. Gliding smoothly and naturally, unburdened and peaceful, they seem to forget the water, and the water forgets them, blending into an endless expanse of white.

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Curator’s Choice

Nice Dreams

Photography

Taking a nap while waiting for the bus

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Curator’s Choice

Going Underground

Digital Photography

I was about to take the Tube when I looked up and saw this man about to take his first step to go underground

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Curator’s Choice

Midnight Stride

Acrylics

Chiaroscuro of a Hyena walking in the night.

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Curator’s Choice

White City

Photography and digital art

Photographed a part of the facade of a modern building and then edited it digitally several times.

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Curator’s Choice

Mr. Universe

Photography

Western Lowland Gorilla silverback and his son

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Curator’s Choice

The Alchemist’s Laboratory

Digital Painting

This piece shows a blind alchemist working in her laboratory, searching for the formula of elixir in the face of Death. The color black is used to symbolize the shadow of dread and mortality, and white, the light of hope, knowledge, and discovery. In the foreground, the apples (fruits of knowledge), test tubes, alcohol lamp, crystal ball, and celestial models symbolize the alchemist’s pursuit of cosmic enlightenment. In the background, the skeleton and the hands clutching a mysterious cage symbolize the eternal and ominous presence of Death.

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Curator’s Choice

Mountain Flower

India in on rice paper laminated to rag paper

From a series called " Mist Ridge". A wild flower blooming in the short summer of the mountains.

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Curator’s Choice

Xolivo 4

Gelatin silver print on Barita Fine Art Paper

This work is not about nature.
It is about bodies shaped by time.
These olive trees are not symbols.
They are witnesses.
Marked by cuts, survival, adaptation.
The olive tree — archetype of peace and eternity —
reveals itself here as a wounded organism,
yet irreducible.
Each trunk carries the memory of human gestures
and the slow intelligence of matter.
What appears broken is, in truth, transformed.
Xolivo does not seek beauty.
It seeks presence.
A dialogue between flesh and wood,
between what resists and what remains.
Photography becomes an act of listening.
An encounter with a form of life that refuses disappearance.

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Curator’s Choice

Alovera inverted

Photography

Inverted Alovera flower

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Curator’s Choice

Memory Camera - Creating Reality - The Art Between the Lens and Imagination

My artistic journey began among the crowded shelves of my father's legendary watch and eyewear store.
There, as a child, my deep connection to objects that combine memories, precision, style and time sprouted.
Today, I take this family heritage one step further and create connections that seem impossible: I make glasses, watches and shoes - "fall in love" with Paris.
My creative process is a combination of meticulous photography and artistic Photoshop work with AI.
I photograph elements from different content worlds, and connect them with a unique technique that creates a completely new image

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