OPEN CALLS AT CANDELA
Candela hosts 2-4 open call opportunities a year, including our annual summer exhibition, UnBound!, and our in-house calendar print project. Check back to see what’s coming up next!
UPCOMING CALLS
PAST OPEN CALLS
Candela presents its pilot Bingo open call exhibition and small print fundraising event, featuring small photographic works by 15 artists. On view October 2 – 24, 2026.
Candela Books + Gallery is announcing a special juried exhibition:
Photography is Dead…Long Live Photography!
Submissions open October 1, 2020 at 8:00am EST
and will close October 22, 2020 at 11:59pm EST
Candela Books + Gallery announces our ninth annual invitational and juried exhibition: UnBound8! The summer group exhibition will feature work from a wide range of fine art photographers. This annual summer group exhibition is the only open call we hold each year and is dedicated to featuring a wide range of photographic artworks and fine art photography and artists’ books from 40-50 fine art photographers. UnBound! generates opportunities and exposure beyond the traditional group or juried show by providing a collection opportunity for artists.
Candela Books + Gallery announces our eight annual invitational and juried exhibition: UnBound8! The summer group exhibition will feature work from a wide range of fine art photographers. This annual summer group exhibition is the only open call we hold each year and is dedicated to featuring a wide range of photographic artworks and fine art photography and artists’ books from 40-50 fine art photographers. UnBound! generates opportunities and exposure beyond the traditional group or juried show by providing a collection opportunity for artists.
Candela Books + Gallery announces our seventh annual invitational and juried exhibition: UnBound7! The summer group exhibition will feature work from a wide range of fine art photographers. An UnBound7! gala event, will raise funds to purchase select works from the exhibition. Works purchased by Candela through this event will subsequently be included in the Candela Collection.
The mission of the Candela Collection is to support photographers through the purchase of original photographic work and to actively pursue opportunities to donate said works to notable permanent collections.
Not getting into Unbound! means nothing. Rejection from other competitions, exhibitions, grant proposals… those rejections mean nothing. Yes, getting into a competition is cool, over-the-moon excellent. And we hope that if you get into Unbound4! that you will see that as a genuine compliment. If you get in to this show, we are going to spend our time installing your work, looking at your work, promoting your work, trying to sell it off the walls, maybe end up buying it ourselves, and finally returning it if it isn’t sold. Getting in to this exhibition means we really like your work. Not getting in does not, however, mean the opposite. Not getting in means nothing. We reject a lot, A LOT, of quality work.
Candela Books + Gallery announces our fourth annual invitational and juried exhibition: UnBound4! The summer group exhibition will feature work from a wide range of fine art photographers. An UnBound4! gala (as in good times) event, will raise funds to purchase select works from the exhibition. Works purchased by Candela through this event will subsequently be included in the Candela Collection.
Candela Books + Gallery announces our third annual invitational and juried exhibition: UnBound3! The summer group exhibition will feature work from a wide range of fine art photographers. An UnBound3! gala (as in good times) event, will raise funds to purchase select works from the exhibition. Works purchased by Candela through this event will subsequently be included in the Candela Collection.
Candela Books + Gallery announces our second annual invitational and juried exhibition: UnBound2! The summer exhibition will feature work from a wide range of contemporary fine art photographers. An UnBound2! gala (as in galactic) event, will raise funds to purchase select works from the exhibition. Works purchased by Candela through this event will subsequently be included in the Candela Collection.
Candela Books’ inaugural invitational exhibition, Unbound, will be an annual event featuring work from a wide range of contemporary fine art photographers. The Unbound exhibition and its associated Unbound event, will raise proceeds which will be used to purchase select works from the exhibition. Works purchased through this event by Candela will subsequently be featured in Candela’s newly founded Unbound Collection.
Candela Photographic Arts is excited to announce the open call of our sixteenth annual summer open call, UnBound16!. The resulting group show featuring the work of 50+ juried and invited artists from across the contemporary photographic landscape.