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RSA Annual Exhibition -
Open Art
Deadline passed for 2025, pre-selection in progress
  • RSA Annual Exhibition -
    Open Art
     Deadline passed for 2025, pre-selection in progress
  • RSA Annual Exhibition -
    Open Art
     Deadline passed for 2025, pre-selection in progress
  • RSA Annual Exhibition -
    Open Art
     Deadline passed for 2025, pre-selection in progress
  • RSA Annual Exhibition -
    Open Art
     Deadline passed for 2025, pre-selection in progress
  • RSA Annual Exhibition -
    Open Art
     Deadline passed for 2025, pre-selection in progress

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    RSA Annual Exhibition 2024. Photo Julie Howden.

    About

    The RSA Annual Exhibition is the most extensive annual presentation of contemporary art and architecture in Scotland.

     

    Having been a mainstay of the RSA's calendar since its inception 199 years ago, the Annual Exhibition has evolved over the years, providing a platform for Scottish art alongside international artists, often including topical or political elements, to give an uncensored, independent voice to artists.

     

    Income raised in the Annual Exhibition directly assists artists and the not-for-profit work of the RSA. The exhibition encompasses both the physical and digital, combining the exhibition of artworks on display in the galleries with those shown online, some exclusively designed as such and others as companions or in tandem to work in the galleries. 

     
  • The exhibition will be on view from Saturday 3 May - Sunday 8 June 2025 and will be convened is...

    RSA Annual Exhibition 2023. Photo Julie Howden. Foreground sculpture Kjersti Sletteland. 

    The exhibition will be on view from Saturday 3 May - Sunday 8 June 2025 and will be convened is Lennox Dunbar RSA, who will be assisted in his selection by a committee of his fellow Academicians and supported by our Council. 

     

    Building on the success of the online experience developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which enabled more works to be selected and extended the ways for audiences to discover and engage with artworks, all pre-selected works will again automatically be included in the online exhibition. As usual, only those selected at the final physical selection will be shown on the gallery walls.

     

    There is also the opportunity to submit work as a solely online presentation. These works will only be considered for online selection and open up an opportunity for more experimental practices, for example documentation of installed site-specific work or extended digital video content.

     

    Application deadline has passed for 2025.
  • How to submit

    RSA Annual Exhibition 2022. Photo Julie Howden.

    How to submit

    Application deadline has now passed for 2025 (Thurs 6 Feb, 5pm). If you have submitted an application please log back into your OESS profile from midday Fri 7 March to find out if work has been pre-selected for the next stage. 
     
    If you have any questions, the Regulations and FAQs can be found below - 
    • Open Art Regulations
    • Open Art FAQs
    • International Exhibitors information
     

     

    OESS login   Enquire

     
  • 2025 Key Dates

    RSA Annual Exhibition 2024. Photo Julie Howden.

    2025 Key Dates

    Online Application deadline Thurs 6 Feb 2025 at 5pm
    Pre-selection announced Fri 7 March 2025 from midday
    Hand-in of works Fri 18 – Sat 19 April 2025, 10am-4.30pm
    Final selection announced Wed 23 April 2025 from midday
    Exhibition open to public Sat 3 May - Sun 8 June 2025
    Collection of works Wed 11 - Sat 14 June 2024, 10am – 4.30pm
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    193rd RSA Annual Exhibition 2019

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