Artadia is now accepting applications for the 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Awards from all visual artists who have lived and worked in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties for a minimum of two years. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all visual media and at any stage in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Awardees will be selected through a two-tier jury in the spring of 2025.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY:

June 1st, 2025 by 11:59pm PT

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

To be eligible to apply for the 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awards, artists must fulfill the following requirements:

• Be a contemporary visual artist (making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc. Please note that Artadia does not fund filmmakers making films for distribution in cinematic venues, or those working in choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context).
• Live and work within Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties.
• Have resided in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties for a minimum of two years.
• Not currently be enrolled in an art-related degree program, nor be planning to attend an art-related degree program in the coming year.
• Not be related to Artadia staff or directors in any way.
• Have never received an award from Artadia or from The Art Council (Artadia’s former name) equal to or more than $10,000. Please note that former finalists are eligible to apply.
• Unless applying as a collaborative, you must be the sole conceptual author of the artwork submitted in the application; if there are collaborators that share authorship of the submitted work they must be clearly identified and credited.