2015 Award Nominees - Global Fine Art AwardsGlobal Fine Art Awards

AWARD CATEGORIES

GFAA judges selected winners in the following award 8 award categories: Contemporary and Post-War; Impressionist and Modern; Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties; Ancient Art; Photography; Design; Fringe/Alternative; Public or Outdoor Installation. “Youniversal,” the final award, recognizes the most popular nominee, and is selected by public voting on the GFAA website and social media.

2015 AWARD NOMINEES

America Is Hard to See	Whitney Museum of American Art	NYC
Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles
Agnes Martin	Tate Modern	London
/seconds	Sharjah Art Foundation	Sharjah
In Part	Fondazione Prada	Milan
Shirin Neshat: Art in exile	The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden	Washington, DC
Sol Lewitt	Fundacion Botin	Santander
On Kawara – Silence	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	NYC
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art	Seattle Art Museum	Seattle
Raoul Dufy	Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza	Madrid
Paul Gauguin	Fondation Beyeler	Basel
J.M.W. Turner: Set Painting Free	Tate Britain/ The J. Paul Getty Museum / de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco	London/ Los Angeles/ San Francisco
Monet and the Birth of Impressionism	Stadel Museum	Frankfurt
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement	The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	Philadelphia
Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Philadelphia
Frida Kahlo: Art * Garden * Life	New York Botanical Gardens	NYC
Keys to a Passion : Les Clefs d’une Passion	Fondation Louis Vuitton	Paris
Calder: Discipline of the Dance	Museo Jumex	Mexico City
Sorolla y Estados Unidos	Fundacion MAPFRE	Madrid
Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action	The J. Paul Getty Museum	Los Angeles
L’ Inca et Le Conquistador	Musee du Quai Branly	Paris
The Baroque Underworld – Vice and Destitution in Rome	Petit Palais (Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris)	Paris
From Guercino to Caravaggio	Palazzo Barberini	Rome
Late Rembrandt	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam
Leonardo Da Vinci	Palazzo Reale Milan	Milan
Rubens and his Legacy	Royal Academy of London	London
Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy	The Metropolitan Museum of Art	NYC
Velazquez	RMN-Grand Palais/Palais du Louvre/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	Paris
Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age	The Metropolitan Museum of Art	NYC
The Saga of the Thracian Kings, Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria	The Louvre	Paris
The Romanesque Reliefs of the portal of Gurk Cathedral	Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna
Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	Philadelphia
Mummies of the World	Cincinnati Museum Center	Cincinnati
Unfading Colours: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel	Hermitage Museum	St. Petersburg
The Roman Inquisition in Malta	Inquisitor’s Palace	Vittoriosa
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World	Palazzo Strozzi/The J. Paul Getty Museum	Florence/Los Angeles
Alice Channer: Rockfall	Aspen Art Museum	Aspen
Chiharu Shiota: The Key in the Hand	Japan Pavilion/Venice Art Biennale 2015	Venice
Jaume Plensa: Together	Venice Art Biennale 2015 (Basilica di San Giorgio)	Venice
Stuart Williams: Breath of Life/Dresden	Dresden Cathedral	Dresden
Tape Paris: Palais de Tokyo	Palais de Tokyo/Inside	Paris
Arne Quinze: The Passenger	Mons	Mons
Terasita Fernandez: Fata Morgana	Madison Square Park Conservancy	NYC
Kapoor Versailles	Chateau de Versailles	Versailles
Africa: Architecture, Culture and Identity	Louisiana Museum of Modern Art	Humlebaek
David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material	Haus der Kunst	Munich
Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690–1840	Art Institute Chicago	Chicago
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Manifest of the New Style	Moscow Kremlin Museum	Moscow
Waterweavers	Centro Cultural Conde Duque/Art Museum of the Americas	Madrid/ Washington, DC
New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America	The Museum of Arts and Design	NYC
Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century	Denver Art Museum	Denver
Henri Cartier Bresson	Ara Pacis	Rome
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) Pioneer of Photography	Museum Voor Schone Kunsten Gent	Gent
National Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition	National Portrait Gallery	Parkes
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography	The J. Paul Getty Museum	Los Angeles
Salt and Silver: Early Photographs 1840-1860	Tate Britain	London
Faces Now	BOZAR Center for Fine Arts	Brussels
Mika Ninagawa: Self-Image	Hara Museum of Contemporary Art	Tokyo
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story	High Museum of Art	Atlanta
Esko Mannikko: Time Flies, A Highlight	Collezione Maramotti/Kunsthalle Helsinki	Reggio Emilia
A Utopian Stage: Festival of Arts Shiraz-Persepolis	Whitechapel Gallery	London
Creative Time/Central Park Conservancy: Drifting in Daylight	Central Park NYC	NYC
Sarah Sze: All The World’s Futures	Arsenale Venice Biennale	Venice
Maboneng Township Arts Experience	Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa	Cape Town and Johannesburg
Stories of Change-Beyond the ‘Arab Spring’	Humanity House	Den Hague
What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960s to the Present	Rhode Island School of Design/Matthew Marks Gallery	Providence/NYC
Rebel Bodies (Corps Rebelles)	Musee de la Civilisation	Quebec
Ming: 50 years that changed China	The British Museum	London