Art Calls Arch Enemy Arts 2026 Spotlight Showcase
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: November 14, 2025 – Arch Enemy Arts is an exhibition space for established and emerging artists from all over the world working in the vast and imaginative movement of new-contemporary art. Founded in 2013, AEA is located in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic Old City district and is dedicated to showcasing the striking and unconventional, highly technical, and delightfully strange.
The gallery is currently open for submissions to our annual juried Spotlight Showcase group exhibition set to open in January 2026. This show features new and emerging talent, as chosen and curated by Arch Enemy Arts, with no themes or direction in subject matter allowing applicants to focus on their best personal work.
Curation at Arch Enemy Arts focuses on representational drawing, painting, and sculpture with emphasis in lowbrow/pop-surrealism, dark surrealism, magical realism, post-graffiti and illustrative genres. Artists are encouraged to visit our website at www.archenemyarts.com to get a sense of our curatorial vision and consider if their work is a good fit for our gallery.
ELIGIBILITY
The 2026 Open Call is open to all artists aged 18+, regardless of location. International submissions are welcome! Works submitted must be recent (created within the last 2 years). Works submitted must be for sale.
Since this will be a group exhibition and wall space is limited, the absolute maximum size of submitted works for this call should measure at or below 36″ on the longest side.
ACCEPTED MEDIUMS
Painting, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, and collage. We do NOT accept submissions created with Midjourney, Dall-E, or any other AI generating software.
APPLY ONLINE – $15 Application
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SALES
Works submitted must be for sale. AEA follows the industry standard for gallery commission rates and receives 50% of the sales price.
DATES
- Submission Deadline: the application window will close promptly at 11:59pm EST on Friday, November 14th, 2025
- Notifications (for both accepted and rejected works) will be sent by end of day on Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Arch Enemy Arts
109 Arch Street
Philadelphia PA 19106
(215) 717 – 7774
