Applications Open Online
2022 Bermuda Biennial
We are now accepting submissions for the 2022 Bermuda Biennial. We have set up an online portal where you can download the entry guidelines and submit your application.
This year we are introducing a $20 reduced application fee for students (under 25 with a valid student ID). The application fee for adults remains $40. This covers our administration costs.
The deadline for application is Saturday, January 15. Applications are open to all Bermudians over the age of 18, living on island or overseas, and to foreign nationals who have been resident in Bermuda for at least 6 months over the past 2 years.
The Bermuda Biennial provides a critical platform for local artists to engage in an internationally juried process, which strives to represent the excellence of Bermuda’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition, which has been generously sponsored by Bacardi Limited since 1998, will open in June and will run through to the end of the year.
The theme for 2022, A New Vocabulary: Past. Present. Future., speaks to the seismic societal shifts that have taken place since the last Bermuda Biennial. 2022 also marks the 30th anniversary of the Bermuda National Gallery and with it a celebration of 30 years of contemporary Bermuda art.
In recognition of this, we are opening applications to include poetry for the first time, along with an emphasis on proposals for public artworks to be exhibited, submissions dependent, across the City of Hamilton.
As we approach our anniversary year in reflection upon our past, our present and our future, we turn it over to you, our artists, to write a new vocabulary.
Click here to apply for the 2022 Bermuda Biennial.