CARMA-MATRIX Maths Art/Poster Competition

Entry to the 2025 competition will open on Pi Day (Friday 14 March). Artworks from previous years are now available for viewing:

This year's competition will be launched at the CARMA/Matrix Pi Day seminar!

Need inspiration? See our other galleries.

There are two entry categories:

Maths outreach poster
- Entry eligibility: Any student or staff-member (continuing, fixed-term, sessional, conjoint or emeritus) in a university or other research institution
- Intended audience: school students and the general public
Maths art
- Format: the art itself can be in any format, e.g. sculpture, but submission must be in a format such as jpeg or pdf for display online, thus in the case of sculpture the art would need to be photographed.
- Entry eligibility: anyone
- Intended audience: inclusive of the mathematics research community, art community and broader general public

Important dates:

General information:

There will be many small prizes
Judges: artists and mathematicians
The judges' decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into
Multiple entries from an entrant (which may be an individual or a team) are allowed, but there is a maximum of one prize per category for any given entrant.

"Rotations of Hyperbolic Space" (Scott B Lindstrom) — Winner, Art Category, 2020