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Kennedy Prize 2026
Kennedy Arts Foundation · Adelaide, Australia
Annual $25,000 painting prize on the theme of 'Beauty', open to Australian citizens living in Australia, exhibited at the RSASA Gallery in Adelaide.
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Who can enter
- Location
- Australia (by residence or nationality)
- Age
- 18 and over
- Career stage
- Any
- Mediums
- Painting
- Theme
- beauty
- Entries
- Up to 3 works per artist
- Size limits
- Max 1.8 m x 1.8 m in any direction
- Submission
- Online submission
- Also
- Australian citizens living in Australia; over 18 at closing date; up to three entries.
About
The Kennedy Prize is an annual painting award run by the Kennedy Arts Foundation in Adelaide. Entrants respond to the theme of 'Beauty' in any painting medium, and up to 50 works are selected for a finalists' exhibition at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts gallery.
Entry is online via three digital images per work. Artists may enter up to three works, each no larger than 1.8 m in any direction. A companion Nyland Prize for photography runs alongside.