PhotoPlace Gallery - "Cut. Paste. Transform." Open Call

• PhotoPlace Gallery

• Deadline: January 5th, 2026

• Theme: Cut. Paste. Transform.

• Prize: Exhibition in Vermont (USA) + Sales

• Entry Fees: Yes

• REGISTRATION: CLOSED. Click HERE for more Opportunities

In today’s visual culture, photo-collage thrives as a flexible, accessible, and deeply meaningful art form. Shaped by growing interests in sustainability, nostalgia, archival practices, digital experimentation, and community-driven creativity, collage connects artists working online with institutions such as museums, galleries, publications, and art fairs. Its ability to adapt and evolve has made it one of the most dynamic and relevant practices in contemporary art.

Artists including Mickalene Thomas, Lorna Simpson, Colette Fu, Sohei Nishino, Wangechi Mutu, John Stezaker, Deborah Roberts, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Antonio Pulgarín demonstrate the wide-ranging potential of photo-collage. Their work shows how cutting, layering, and reassembling images can be used to explore personal and collective identity, revisit histories, and question how images shape our understanding of the world.

We invite submissions from artists working with photo-based collage in any form, whether digital or analog, sculptural or time-based, experimental or hybrid. We are especially interested in work that addresses identity, memory, storytelling, aesthetics, or social and political themes, as well as projects that push photography and collage in new and unexpected directions. Handmade or computer-generated, traditional or boundary-breaking—if your work involves photo-collage, we encourage you to submit.

We are delighted to have Francine Weiss serve as juror for Cut. Paste. Transform. She will select up to 35 images for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery and an additional 40 images for presentation in our Online Gallery. All 75 selected works will be featured in the exhibition catalog, permanently hosted on our website, and promoted through our social media channels, including links to each artist’s website.