Black & White

Black & White

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

Dates

Dates

May 1, 2026 — Applications open
May 25, 2026 — Application deadline
May 30, 2026 — Notification of winning artworks

Prizes

Prizes

Prizes

Gold Award

— Digital certificate
— $100-$200 cash prize
— Featured at the top of the art show page

Excellence Award

— Digital certificate
— $45 cash prize
— Artwork placement on the art show page

Curator’s Choice

— Digital certificate
— Artwork placement on the art show page

Finalists

— Artwork placement on the art show page

ART SHOW WINNERS

ART SHOW WINNERS

ART SHOW WINNERS

Gold Award

Gold Award

Midnight In The Garden

·

2026

Billy Bishop

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 inches acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas unframed

Certificate

Excellence Award

LAX Terminal Galley

·

2023

Karen Safer

Photography

Minimalist interpretation of airport building with railing.

Certificate

Excellence Award

Combining silhouettes

·

Olga Tkachova

Oil on canvas

50x50 oil on canvas

Certificate

Excellence Award

Quiet Titans

·

2026

Martli Heyns

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.

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Beech Patrol

·

2020

Cher Pruys

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.

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Galaxcy of the Mind

·

2026

Fred Hecht

Sculpture

Monterey Leon Black Marble on White Marble base

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Fancy-free

·

2023

Jason Shih

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.

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Nice Dreams

·

2023

Ken Kochakji

photography

Taking a nap while waiting for the bus

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Going Underground

·

2025

Brigitte B Burckhardt

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

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Midnight Stride

·

2026

Lucie Theroux

Acrylics

chiaroscuro of a Hyena walking in the night.

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

White City

·

2014

Greta Schnall

photography and digital art

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

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Mr. Universe

·

2021

Shawna Hinkel

Photography

Western Lowland Gorilla silverback and his son

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

The Alchemist’s Laboratory

·

2026

Diane Danfeng Yang

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.

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Mountain Flower

·

2015

Barry Smylie

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.

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Xolivo 4

·

2025

Stefano Paradiso

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.

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

Alovera inverted

·

2020

Philip Rosenberg

photography

inverted Alovera flower

Certificate

Curator’s Choice

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

·

2026

irit rotrubin

4

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

Certificate

Finalists

Finalists

Afribanisme

ADOLPHE.K

Chemin de Vie, Vue, Ville

ADOLPHE.K

Dynastie Royale

ADOLPHE.K

Héritage

ADOLPHE.K

Migrant de rêve

ADOLPHE.K

Monochrome Spring

Alexandra Romana Maria Birtar

Mountain Flower

Barry Smylie

Midnight In The Garden

Billy Bishop

Comes the Light of Day

Bob Jolly

Rah, Rah, Rah

Bob Jolly

Delicate Arch

Bobbe Jones

(Dis)connected

Bonnie Sheckter

Going Underground

Brigitte B Burckhardt

At Borough Market

Brigitte B Burckhardt

Looking Out

Brigitte B Burckhardt

The Hood

Brigitte B Burckhardt

The Skater the Shadow

Brigitte B Burckhardt

Surface Tension

Catherine Pennington Meyer

Beech Patrol

Cher Pruys

The Young Cowboy

Cher Pruys

Thea

Cher Pruys

Giselle I

Denise Laurin

The Alchemist’s Laboratory

Diane Danfeng Yang

Overexposure

Diane Danfeng Yang

Soirée Techno

DOULLIEZ Jean

Galaxcy of the Mind

Fred Hecht

Grey, White and Black Abstract II

Gail Morrison-Hall

Grey, White and Black Abstract

Gail Morrison-Hall

Life is more than just black and white

Gail Morrison-Hall

Reclining under the sky

Gerhard Kroyer

White City

Greta Schnall

Grevy's Gaze

Heather Nicole

Cosmic Borders

Honey Z Brennan

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

irit rotrubin

Photographer of memories, creator of art, the story behind the lens

irit rotrubin

Fancy-free

Jason Shih

Flying

Jason Shih

BEYOND PRESENCE

Jemal Gugunava

LAX Terminal Galley

Karen Safer

Bennett's Ice Cream

Karen Safer

Big Broad Corner

Karen Safer

Long Rail Shadows

Karen Safer

Strachan's Fulani Silhouette

Karen Safer

Seeking Freedom

Kathy Kenny

Nice Dreams

Ken Kochakji

The Town Gossip

Ken Kochakji

Grains of Freedom

Kerry

Bare Essentials

Kerry

2 Chairs, 1 Table

Kurt Johnson

Inside Star

Kurt Johnson

Lines and Shadows Running

Kurt Johnson

PISCES

Lane Lawrence Hall

Rehab Wall

Lesley Clarke

Black Magic

Lillianne Daigle

Marguerites

Lillianne Daigle

Dignity

Lisa Johnson McLoughlin

Midnight Stride

Lucie Theroux

Au centre de l'univers

Marie Plante

Quiet Titans

Martli Heyns

Hug

Mary Freericks

Cuore

Melanie Zibit

The Dance

Melanie Zibit

Rebirth

Michael Potts

River of Dreams

Michael Potts

The Topography of Fragmented Consciousness

Mihaela Stoian

The One Who Stayed

Nancy Dillen

Combining silhouettes

Olga Tkachova

Sketch

Olga Tkachova

Alovera inverted

Philip Rosenberg

Zuiki

Philip Rosenberg

Raindrops

Philip Rosenberg

Unraveling

Precious Burger

Industrial Tea Boiler

Robert Snyder

Pipe Pot

Robert Snyder

Spring

Robert Snyder

The Spirit of Colette

Sandra Bertrand

Blizzard

Sandra Taggart

The Universe in Formulas Sheep Emanating

Sandra Taggart

A Winter's Tale

Sara Davies

Mr. Universe

Shawna Hinkel

Daddy's Sidekick

Shawna Hinkel

I Have a Secret

Shawna Hinkel

Spa Day

Shawna Hinkel

The Thinker

Shawna Hinkel

Xolivo 4

Stefano Paradiso

Xolivo 1

Stefano Paradiso

Xolivo 7

Stefano Paradiso

Too many people unlawfully imprisoned

Stephen E Wise

Mother and child

Sylvie Geneste

A Hairy Situation

Telagio Baptista

FORMLESS AND VOID

Varda Breger

Jaguar in Black

Yvonne maximchuk

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