Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography 2026
Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation · India
Two grants of INR 500,000 for India-based photographers in staged or documentary work.
- Funding
- Funded
- Entry
- Free
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Money and time
34 of 220 pay the artist. 19 cost nothing to enter.
Closing soon
9 close inside a week. 43 never close at all.
By practice
14 practices tracked. 30 calls take any medium.
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35 countries represented. 121 take applicants from anywhere.
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Open calls, grants, residencies, competitions and fellowships for visual artists, worldwide. Every record carries what it costs to enter, who pays, and the date its facts were last verified — including the calls that are free to enter.
Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation · India
Two grants of INR 500,000 for India-based photographers in staged or documentary work.

European Cultural Foundation · Italy
Since 10 June, the archives of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) are open to the public at the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU).

Camargo Foundation · France
The Camargo Fellowship offers research-based residencies to applicants from various fields and disciplines.
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation · Location not stated
Unrestricted $25,000 grants for long-practising painters, sculptors and printmakers.

Montello Foundation · United States
The Montello Foundation provides a solitary retreat where artists can experience the vastness of a desert landscape from a safe building, a “base camp” a unique space for inspiration and creation, a place that provides a shield from distractions in the solitude of the desert.A building designed with a large shading roof under which there are two distinct spa
Pollock-Krasner Foundation · Location not stated
Year-round unrestricted grants of up to $50,000 for professional painters and sculptors.

Ragdale Foundation · Lake Forest, United States
Eighteen-day residencies in Lake Forest on a self-determined sliding scale of $35 to $280 per day, with a $35 application fee and fee-waived fellowships.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts · United States
Year-round grants of $500 to $3,000 for urgent, unbudgeted project costs.
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation · Location not stated
No-deadline emergency relief for established artists hit by a specific catastrophe.
NARS Foundation · Brooklyn, United States
Rolling-admission Brooklyn studio residency where the artist pays a programme fee.