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Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
The Ruth Borchard Collection · United Kingdom
Biennial £10,000 prize for self-portraiture in any medium, open worldwide to artists aged 16+. 2025 edition closed 2 May 2025 with exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery; next edition opens for entries in 2027.
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Who can enter
- Location
- Open worldwide
- Age
- 16 and over
- Career stage
- Any
- Mediums
- Any medium
- Theme
- self-portraiture
- Size limits
- No restrictions on size (oversized/heavy works may face display limitations)
- Submission
- Online submission
- Also
- Open worldwide to artists aged 16+ (under-16s in exceptional circumstances with parental consent); amateur or professional; all media; self-portrait only.
About
The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize is a biennial competition dedicated to self-portraiture, run by the Ruth Borchard Collection. Self-portraits may be figurative or abstract, alone or in a group, from life or memory, in any medium including painting, drawing, digital art, photography, sculpture, tapestry and ceramics, with no size restrictions.
It is open to professional, emerging and student artists aged 16 and over worldwide (under-16s considered in exceptional circumstances with consent).
The winner receives £10,000 and a selection of entries is acquired for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection; around 30 works are exhibited publicly and 200+ artists are included in an online exhibition. The 2025 edition was shown at Southampton City Art Gallery; the next edition opens in 2027.