Competition Terms and Conditions

By entering this competition, you hereby agree to the following terms and represent and warrant to New York Art Competitions (“New York Art Competitions” or “us”) that all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate.

Eligibility
The competition is open for all artists of 18 years of age or older whose use of nyartcompetitions.com does not and will not violate any applicable law or regulation, or any agreement to which they are a party. Employees of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition and sponsors are not eligible to enter.

Copyrights
All of the images that you will be submitting are images of original artwork created by yourself or are artworks created by an artist who authorized you to submit the images on his/her behalf. Images submitted by you do not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity. You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting our rights, it is our policy to terminate all relations with any artist who infringes copyright upon our receipt of a notice of infringement from the copyright owner or the copyright owner’s legal counsel.

Accepted Media
Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital, printing, and mixed media are eligible. Video art, film, performance art, jewelry, and crafts are not eligible.

Artwork Subject Matter
The artwork which will be uploaded by you will not include material that is pornographic, sexually explicit, violent and/or racist.

Juror
If for any reason an announced juror is unable to judge the entries, the entries will be judged by the remaining jurors and/or alternate jurors.

Jurying
Judging will be ‘blind’. Individual scores from judges will be averaged to produce a single score for each entry. No names or other indicators will be shown in judging to lead to the entrant and no names or other indicators are allowed on the Entry that could indicate who is the author of the Entry.

Selected Artists
If your work is selected it will be your exclusive responsibility to deliver the actual artwork to the gallery and to make sure it is framed and/or gallery wrapped and ready to be displayed. You agree that you will follow all of New York Art Competitions’ procedures for promotion and exhibitions and that New York Art Competitions has the exclusive right to revoke your participation if those instructions are not followed. If you’re not able to have the artwork shipped to the gallery, New York Art Competitions will provide a monitor to display your artwork in the exhibition at no additional cost. Monitors will be provided to the first 3 selected artists who request them. On each monitor, we may display up to 5 images of your artwork.

Awards
Awards for the selected artists are described at the awards page on the competition website.

Artwork sales
The exhibition space incorporates a 20/80 commission structure: the artist receives 80% of the list/retail price, and the exhibition space receives 20% of the list/retail price.

Usage of Images
We will have the right to publish images of your artwork selected by the jurors on our websites and other advertising channels to promote future competitions and your artwork.

Retention of Images
By uploading your artwork, you authorize us to retain the images of such uploaded artwork in our system until the conclusion of the competition. You further authorize us to retain such images following the conclusion of the competition. We are retaining these images in order for you to be able to easily submit them to other competitions in the future. At any time, after the conclusion of the competition, you may send us an email at RemoveImages@Agora-Gallery.com requesting that we delete such images. We will confirm the receipt of the email and your images will be deleted within 10 business days after your receipt of our confirmation.

Changes in Schedule
New York Art Competitions reserves the right to change competition deadlines and dates due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

Fee
Entry fees are non-refundable, except in cases where there has been a double payment or payment error.

TAKE NOTE: We cannot offer refunds for any other reason, including if you change your mind about entering the competition. Please consult our competition representative first and email us at cifac@nyartcompetitions.com.

Limitation of Liability
In the event that you bring a lawsuit or assert in any forum any claim whatsoever against New York Art Competitions, its agents, employees, representatives and/or officers, in connection with and/or arising from any claims that are in any way related to your participation in the competition and/or our relationship with you in any manner whatsoever, the maximum amount of damages to which you shall be entitled on all of your claims in the aggregate shall be the greater of either (a) the insurance proceeds received by either you or New York Art Competitions in connection with your claim or (b) in the event that your insurance claim is denied for any reason whatsoever and/or is not covered by the insurance policy, no more than the total amount actually paid by you to us in connection with your entry.

In the event that you commence a lawsuit or other legal proceeding against New York Art Competitions or any of New York Art Competitions’ owners, officers, employees, agent, representatives or affiliates in connection with and/or arising from any claim whatsoever relating to the competition and/or our relationship with you in any manner whatsoever; a) you hereby unconditionally consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in the State of New York, New York County, b) New York law shall apply for the adjudication of any such claim and c) New York Art Competitions shall be entitled to recover from you all of its costs and expenses relating to any such proceeding including, without limitation, its attorneys’ fees.

Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold New York Art Competitions, its owners, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, representatives and employees harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, relating to any claim made by any third party due to or arising out of your violation of any of the foregoing terms and conditions and/or any breach of your covenants, representations, and warranties set forth above.