TCG Gallery
Call for Entries
Submit photography and lens-based work to current TCG Gallery open calls. Selected artists are featured in curated online exhibitions, promoted through gallery channels, and included in the long-term exhibition archive.
Current Open Calls
The Surreal 2026
The Surreal explores the strange space where reality stops behaving. We are seeking photographic and lens-based works that distort the familiar, unsettle perception, or reveal the dream logic hiding inside everyday life.
Memory: What Remains
Memory: What Remains explores personal, collective, cultural, historical, and imagined memory. We welcome photographs that examine traces, archives, absence, inheritance, identity, place, and the ways the past continues to shape the present.
Elemental: Earth, Air, Fire, Water
Elemental is centered on earth, air, fire, and water as physical forces and symbolic structures. We are seeking work that engages weather, atmosphere, erosion, heat, flood, smoke, stone, ash, breath, renewal, destruction, survival, and transformation.
What Selected Artists Receive
Online Exhibition
Selected work is included in a curated online exhibition presented by TCG Gallery.
Website Archive
Exhibitions remain available as part of TCG Gallery's long-term online archive.
Artist Credit
Selected works are presented with artist name, title, medium, dimensions, and price when provided.
Promotion
Exhibitions may be promoted through the gallery website, email list, Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.
How It Works
Submit
Choose a call, review the prospectus, and submit up to 3 images through the entry form.
Review
Submissions are reviewed for image quality, originality, theme relevance, and exhibition cohesion.
Notify
Selected artists are notified by email on or before the listed artist notification date.
Exhibit
The final exhibition is published online and added to the long-term TCG Gallery archive.
Submission Standards
Eligibility
Open to photographers and visual artists worldwide, ages 18 and older, unless a specific call states otherwise.
File Format
JPG or JPEG files are preferred. Files should be at least 1200 pixels on the longest side and at least 500 KB when possible.
Fee Waivers
Fee waivers are available on request for artists experiencing financial hardship.
Rights
Artists retain copyright. TCG Gallery does not claim ownership of submitted artwork.
About TCG Gallery
TCG Gallery is an independent, New York City-based online gallery presenting curated photography exhibitions, open calls, artist features, and exhibition archives for emerging and established photographers worldwide. With a focus on accessible opportunities, thoughtful curatorial presentation, and long-term artist visibility, TCG Gallery supports photographers through online exhibitions, website archives, email features, and social media promotion.