cromAwards · Graphic art contest
A top-tier jury, feedback on your work and a verified profile you can show to galleries and clients. Prizes, visibility and discovery.
Taking part doesn't cost you your rights: your work stays 100% yours.
Free when you enter or go Pro: 69 collections of presets and LUTs worth over €200. See the gift↓ scroll to discover
Open call
Join in
Enter this edition of the contest, or create your free portfolio and upgrade it to Pro whenever you like.
Free when you enter or go Pro: 69 collections of presets and LUTs worth over €200.
Discover new, verified work, talk to artists with no middlemen or commissions, and reveal who you are when you choose.
Are you an artist, teacher, curator or industry professional? Apply to join the jury of future editions.
Your artist card
Your artist name, your distinction and a QR code anyone can check. Show it with one tap at a fair, in a gallery or to a client, even offline.
Added from My cromAwards, with an active Pro plan.
Two ways to be on cromAwards
You can enter the contest, have your portfolio, or both. If you enter, the portfolio is included and you get free months of Pro.
Verified profile with a QR code, diplomas, your competition works and up to 5 of your own works. Always visible.
Start for free →Up to 30 works, galleries that discover you and write to you, statistics and your card on your phone.
or €90 a yeartwo months free
Start with Pro →Have you entered an edition before? Your portfolio already exists: sign in to My cromAwards with the email you entered with.
The contest
Oil & acrylic. Matter and colour. The slow and the impulsive coexisting on a surface where the pigment still seems to breathe.
The water that decides. Transparency and the controlled accident —that part of the painting the artist can only accompany.
Letters as architecture. The voice that takes shape when the word, still silent, decides how it wants to be seen.
The quick eye. The note taken from life, the unfinished that pulses precisely because it didn't stop to finish itself.
Patience turned into a groove. The material lets itself be wounded so that, once it receives the ink, it gives back an image no screen knows how to imitate.
Captured light. The instant that refuses to vanish and stays to live inside a rectangle.
Galleries and collectors
Accredited galleries and collectors discover new work in the cromAwards showcase. Anonymity works both ways: neither knows who the other is until they choose to reveal themselves.
No name, city, social media or links. Just the work and its record in the contest.
Messages go through the platform. Nobody sees the other’s email.
“We are interested in your watercolour series for a group show in spring. Do you have work available?”
Only accredited galleries can write. You decide whether to reply.
In the showcase, filtering by category, level and area, without knowing whose it is.
No emails or phone numbers. Either of them can close the conversation for good.
With “Reveal who I am” in that conversation. It is final and the other is notified.
Each edition’s finalists and winners do appear with their name on the results page.
As soon as the edition’s results are published.
Pick your favourite work among all the finalists. One vote per person and edition.
When voting closes, on the announced date, and joins the hall of fame.
The contest
At cromAwards our focus is your artistic career; that is why we build every tool with that philosophy in mind. We keep developing new features that, ultimately, help artists in their search for projects.
Taking part doesn't cost you your rights: your work stays 100% yours.
Award-winning artists exhibit on the official cromAwards site and receive:
If you wish, each work receives a comment from the jury, whether or not it is awarded. It is entirely optional: when you enter you choose whether to receive it. Generating over 57,000 words of feedback on average each edition.
Winners and finalists receive their certified diploma, instantly verifiable via QR and linked to their artist profile. No forgeable PDFs.
The window to submit and upload your works opens.
Closes at 00:00 (Spanish peninsular time) at the start of this day: the last day to enter is the day before. Afterwards the jury reviews and scores the submitted works.
Winners and finalists are published on the site and notified by email.
If you wish, you can book —for an additional fee— an in-depth evaluation of your work: jury mentoring with a personal, detailed response.
A gift when you enter or go Pro
69 collections of presets and LUTs for Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, DaVinci, Final Cut, Capture One, Affinity and more. For your photos and videos, worth over €200.
Worth over €200
With the support of
Fill in the entry form, choose how many works you are submitting and the category of each, and accept the rules, terms and privacy policy. After paying the fee you can upload your works. You can take part from any country.
An entry fee is charged for each work, with a progressive discount: the more works you enter, the less you pay per work. The exact amount is calculated instantly in the form, and payment is made before you can upload your works.
No. The contest is open both to professionals and to those who create as amateurs. What matters is the work.
Artists and designers of any nationality who are of legal age. Members of the organising committee and the jury are excluded.
Yes. Each artist may submit a maximum of five works and take part and win in one or several categories. You choose the category of each work when you upload it, and the more works you enter, the lower the fee per work.
The number of categories is set by the organisation before each edition and may vary from one to the next. You can see the categories of the current edition in the “Categories” section; they cover disciplines such as graphic design, illustration, engraving, photography, typography, comic, manga, drawing and more.
Original works, conceived and created by you within the last 3 years. They need not be for sale or available for live exhibition. If the work incorporates third-party elements, you must hold the necessary authorisations: you are solely responsible for its originality.
Images in JPG or PNG format, between 1 MB and 15 MB. A single image is enough to take part, but make sure it is sharp and of good resolution so the jury can appreciate the details.
Once payment is complete we take you straight to the upload page, and we also email you the link so you can come back whenever you like (check spam too). Bookmark that link: it is your access to your private area. The deadline closes at 23:59 (Spanish peninsular time) on the date indicated in the call.
A jury of specialists in Illustration, Design and Graphic Art, together with professionals from other fields of culture. Evaluation is blind: the jury scores each work without knowing the identity of its author. The decision of the jury is final, it may resolve prizes ex aequo and declare a prize void if the quality is not deemed sufficient. You can see their profiles in the “The jury” section.
In each category, the cromAwards prize is awarded to the Winner and up to 5 cromAwards Finalist distinctions, both with a certified diploma verifiable via QR. Winners also obtain promotion of their work on the website and social media, the sending of press releases, use of the cromAwards logo and a public portfolio on their verified artist profile.
Yes. The ownership and authorship of your work always remain yours. By entering you only grant a free, non-exclusive licence for cromAwards to disseminate the selected, finalist and award-winning works for the promotional purposes of the contest. The details are in the Rules.
If you want it, yes: when entering you choose whether to receive it (it comes enabled by default and is free of charge). Each work then receives an evaluation comment from the jury, whether or not it is awarded. Your choice does not affect the score or your chances of winning.
Every artist has their own page with a unique URL and code (CA-…), whether they entered the competition or opened their portfolio in My cromAwards: it gathers their edition history, their diplomas and certificates verifiable by QR code, their finalist and winning works and their own works (up to 5 with Basic, for free, and up to 30 with Pro). It is permanent across editions. With Pro you also get your artist card in your phone wallet.
Only with Pro and if you have messages turned on in your private area. Galleries, curators and collectors accredited by the organisation discover your work in the showcase and, if you are in anonymous mode (the default), without knowing who you are; all communication goes through the platform's messaging: your email is never shared, nobody can pester you (7-day rule) and you can close any conversation for good. In anonymous mode they will only know who you are if you press “Reveal who I am”. No commissions.
On the entry page you will find the “Recover my access” option: type the email you entered with and we will resend your link. If it does not arrive, check spam or write to us at info@cromawards.com.
Questions about the competition? Ask me.
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