The shooting was reported shortly before 7pm local time on Sunday outside the Curtis Culwell Centre in the Dallas suburb of Garland.
The two armed suspects drove up to the front of the building in a car as the event, called the "Muhammad Art Exhibit," was coming to an end, and began shooting at a security officer, the city said in a message posted online.
Garland police officers then exchanged fire with the gunmen, and both suspects were shot dead, the city said.
The security guard was wounded in the gunfire, but the guard's injuries were not considered life-threatening, according to the statement.
A police bomb squad is reportedly at the scene and is inspecting the gunmen's car.
Lockdown
Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou Castro, who is near the scene of the shooting, said an area of about a kilometre radius of the incident, had been locked down, following reports that a third suspect was seen near a shopping centre.
A New York-based group called the American Freedom Defence Initiative (AFDI) had claimed they were exercising their right of free expression in running the contest.
The judging was supposed to be on Sunday, with the winner from some reported 350 entries from around the country offered a $10,000 prize.
Zhou Castro said the woman who led the AFDI group, Pamela Geller, was "known to make anti-Muslim statements", and had gone to the courts several times to be able to place anti-Muslim advertisements around New York.
Following the shooting, Geller had tweeted from inside the cultural centre that the incident was "a war on free speech", however her critics on Twitter said she had "been trying to provoke an incident like this for years".
Islam forbids depictions of its prophet.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
4/5/15
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