Art has a way of catching us by surprise. We stop for a brilliant color and discover a story. We look into a painted face and recognize a feeling of our own. What begins as curiosity can become a connection, drawing us closer to an artist’s world and, sometimes, revealing something about ourselves.

Biafarin invites you to discover those encounters in BOAPS – Fall 2026, our third Seasonal Juried International Smart Online Exhibition, on view from October 15, 2026, to January 15, 2027. Bringing together artists from around the world, this open-theme exhibition offers a journey through intimate portraits, vivid abstractions, landscapes, wildlife, sculptural forms, and imagined worlds.

Come for the art. See what follows you home. 

Begin your visit at https://biafarin.com/boaps2026fall.

Fall offers a fitting moment to encounter this collection. As the light changes and familiar surroundings take on a different character, we may find ourselves looking more closely, noticing what is fading, what endures, and what is beginning. That spirit of attention runs through the experience of BOAPS – Fall 2026, whose artists explore subjects far beyond the season itself.

Here, a child’s face holds the immediacy of a life just beginning, while a carefully drawn older face carries the weight of experience. A red-haired figure meets our gaze. Elsewhere, a person turns away, leaving us to wonder about the thoughts beyond the frame. Across these encounters, the human presence becomes both familiar and mysterious. We recognize something, yet there is always more to know.

The exhibition opens outward into the living world. A kingfisher’s brilliant plumage, the poised stillness of a white bird, horses, flowers, and wooded landscapes offer different ways of attending to nature. Autumn trees glow with reds and golds, while water, mountains, and expansive skies lead the eye toward quieter distances. Some works invite us to remember a place. Others allow us to inhabit somewhere we have never been.

Then the visual language changes. Geometric planes interrupt familiar space. Saturated colors gather, collide, or dissolve. Lines spiral inward, patterns repeat, and textures ask us to look again. Sculptural and dimensional works bring another kind of presence, encouraging us to imagine weight, surface, balance, and the space around an object. Each shift asks something different of our attention.

Moving through BOAPS – Fall 2026 becomes a story of these changing encounters. The tenderness of one image may stay with us as we approach the energy of the next. A quiet landscape can alter how we experience a vivid abstraction. An unexpected figure or imagined creature may introduce humor, unease, or wonder. Connections form along the way, shaped as much by what viewers bring as by what the artists have placed before them.

This is where the exhibition’s open theme finds its strength. Artists have room to pursue their own concerns, memories, experiments, and visions. Together, their works offer a generous view of contemporary creativity, with many ways of making meaning and many invitations to feel.

Accessible online to visitors worldwide, the exhibition makes room for a personal pace. You can linger over a detail, explore an artist’s presentation, or return to an artwork that continues to occupy your thoughts. A first impression may deepen. Something overlooked may become the reason you return.

You are warmly invited to rate the artworks and leave thoughtful comments for the artists. Tell an artist what caught your eye, which detail held your attention, or what their work brought to mind. Your response can give them something valuable: a glimpse of how their creation has entered another person’s experience.

An artwork begins within an artist’s life, but its story continues through the people who encounter it. Across countries, languages, and backgrounds, a single image can awaken a shared feeling or introduce a perspective we might otherwise never have known.

Come for the art. Take your time with what you find. Follow your curiosity through BOAPS – Fall 2026, and let an unexpected artwork hold your attention. When you close the exhibition and return to your day, notice what comes with you. The visit may be over, but a conversation, a feeling, or a new way of seeing may have just begun.

Participant Artists:

Jack Straton, Joseph Urie, Jane Gottlieb, Gerard Huber, Maksim Echein, Alex Alimohammadi, Marie-B Cilia De Amicis, Deborah St John, Mary Morgan, Guadulesa Rivera, Judith Sachs, Jean-Claude Bise, ILIA, Peter Anderson, Sam Dobrow, Raf Tarnawski, Jennifer Simonetti, Corrado Corrima Marra, Carolina Ramonde, Barbara Meilinger, Thomas Hunt, Jeffrey Melzack, Mark Sharfman, Lale Gerger, Kimberly Marnell, Spencer Stuart, Bo Myers, Cora Roth, Ernest Langston, Dan Holt, Shavondalyn Williams, Tenesha Neal, Bob Abayomi Scott, Helen Shipman, Annabel Bishop, Hariclia Michailidou, Fritz Messere, Moises Marco Antonio Cruz, Farida Ali, Shyvonne Neufeldt, Nira Chorev, David Manoguerra, Suzanne Cross, Mary Pascoe, Ed Whitmore, Heidi Fickinger, Gerrit van Ommering, Roberta Parry, Shirley Santomaso, Kristi Kreuzer, Cher Pruys, Joanna Levesley, Shina Khorasani, Randa Lake, Sharon Matusiak, Cora Salvino, Denise Donnell, Zena Eisele, Laura Kessler, Nike Kama, Anthony Iacuzzi, Kateryna Lastovetska, Water Kerner, Robert Falcone, De’Andre Deillis Sims, Diana Andersen, Stephanie Bishop, Marie Belongie, Russell Fennick, Lourdes Rivera – LULU, Snezhina Biserova, Rick Stearns, Laura Friesel, Shelissa Jones, Anastasiia Skisova, Ricky Workman, Elizabeth Finger, Arkady Thompson, Shari Askow, Mindy Matthews, Nicholas Watson, Brigitte B Burckhardt, Jani Klun, Jo PAFF, Lizi, Elisabeth Krenner, Ramza, Mark Mayworm, Lora Trujillo, Elizabeth Richardson, Gay Hoffman, Jacinto Zambrano, Guido Corazziari, Sofia Churkina, Assata Akil, Zorica Purlija, MAGGI PREDMORE, Beatriz López, Mary Wang, Ann Wasserman, Toni Quevedo, Simon Berson, Jonathan Morgan, Sōn, Heather Steffey Art, Grazyna Tarkowska, Anastasiia Yatsunenko, Ric Conn, Peggy Blood, D. Moire Thom, Eric Zoback, Jessica Yard, Don Stephens, Steve Mason, Jeff Ratino, Chris Bartosik, Marianna Grant, Karen Cauvin Eustis, Theresa Parsons, Jeff Layton, Michael Watz, Jessica Nash, Mason Whatley, John Peterson, Jeorja Turner, Xiaoyu Zhang, Lee Kwong Tim Jackson, Marlo High, C. Arthur Brooks, Cheryl Calo, Courtney Coble, Carlie Cornell, Kristine Delaney, Cat Delett, John Domont, Colleen Dwire, Shohini Ghosh, Javier Gil, Darryl Halbrooks, Steve Hattangadi, Hannah Hill, Jen Hsuan Hou, Kannan Krishnan, Beverly Marshall, David Mcgraw, Sherry Mitchell, William Morgan, Nancy Nikberg, Ekaterina Pavlovic, Vince Quevedo, Lisa Rees, Danelle Sabathier, Erin Scully, Eva Slater, Anna Smolenova, Robert Sunderman, Edith Twining, Tony Wells, Vicki Withers, Facundo Yebne