Open Call to Artists | 195th RHA Annual Exhibition
- Deadline: Sunday, 23rd February 2025 at 11:59pm
- Type: Awards, Opportunities
- Award: largest artistic prize fund available to artists – (2024 prize fund totaled over €78,000)
- Link to applications: https://royalhibernianacademy.oess1.uk/
ENTRY PRICING
- Maximum Artwork Entries: 3
- First or Single Entry Price: €20.00
- Additional Entries: €20.00 per artwork up to 3 artworks.
Join us this summer for the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition featuring painting, print, sculpture, drawing, photography, mixed media and architectural models. Irelands’ largest and longest-running open submission exhibition will be open to the public from Monday 26 May to Sunday 3 August with free admission, at all times. With the largest artistic prize fund available to artists (2024 prize fund totalled over €78,000) across different medium, the RHA Annual exhibition attracts the highest calibre of artists working today. Exhibitors include RHA Academy members, invited artists and 300+ artists whose work was selected through the, highly competitive, open submission process. 2024 year saw a record-breaking 5300+ works submitted from which less than 350 can be accepted into the exhibition, ensuring that the highest standard of work is shown. With works ranging in price from €50 to €60,000, this show is a must-see for both those new to buying art to the discerning collector.
The documentary Exhibitionists: Road to the RHA followed seven artists on their journeys to selection for the 189th Annual in 2019. View here on the RTÉ Player.
Major awards include the Hennessy Craig Award of €20,000 and the Homan Potterton Award of €10,000, both awarded to a painter under the age of 35, exhibiting in the RHA Annual Exhibition, who has studied at a recognised art college in Ireland. More Here.
2025 will also see the introduction of The Art of Architecture Pavillion competition. More Here.
Applications Now Open. Apply HERE
Read 195th RHA Annual Exhibition Terms & Conditions HERE
KEY DATES
- Open For Entry: 2 December 2024
- Entry Deadline: 23 February 2025, 11:59pm
- Selection Notification (stage 1): 7 March 2025
- Artwork Delivery (stage 2): 4 & 5 April 2025
- Selection Notification (stage 2): 11 April 2025
- Collection of unselected work: 25 & 26 April 2025
- Exhibition Open To Public: 26 May – 3 August 2025
- Collection of unsold work: 6 August, 11am to 4:30pm. For collection after this date please make an appointment for collection with frontofhouse@rhagallery.ie. All collections of unsold work must be made before 1 September 2025.
- All dates subject to change
OPEN CALLS
Open Call | Black Church Emerging Curator Award 2026
Open Call to Artists | Arts + Health – Two Artist Bursaries 2025
Current Exhibitions
An Túr Gloine: Artists and the Collective
Harry Clarke’s – Stained Glass
Staying with the Trouble
