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Congratulations to the 2017 Global Fine Art Award Nominees!

Our Nominees represent the best works created every year across the globe. Check out our interactive map with descriptions of all 85 Nominees.

Geographic, scale, ethnic and gender diversity are essential considerations for the Global Fine Art Awards. The 85 Nominees this year represent works from 6 continents, 28 countries and 60 cities – from Beijing to Boston, from Melbourne to Montréal. Nineteen percent (19%) of this year’s Nominees are created by or are about Asian and Middle Eastern art and artists. One of the most prominent awards – Best Contemporary and Post-War Art, features women in 3 of the 8 Nominees. Almost two-thirds of the Nominees emanate from smaller institutions and private initiatives, and the remaining 37% of the GFAA Nominees are from the top 100 art museums visited in the world (The Art Newspaper, April 2015).

The culmination of the year-long process to discover the best curated art and design exhibitions will be on Thursday, March 8, 2018 with the celebration of all Nominees and the presentation of the Winners of the 2017 Global Fine Art Awards. The black-tie gala will take place at the historic 583 Park Avenue in New York City.

The GFAA Judges will select winners in the following 13 award categories: Contemporary and Post-War- solo artist; Contemporary and Post-War- group or theme; Impressionist and Modern- solo artist; Impressionist and Modern- group or theme; Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties- solo artist; Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties- group or theme; Ancient Art; Photography; Design; Fringe; Public Art, and the two new awards – Global Planet and Global Humanity. Youniversal, and YOU-2 are the two final awards, are given to the most popular nominees, and are selected by public voting on the GFAA website and social media. GFAA Finalists will be announced in January 2018, with the launch of the YOUNIVERSAL Award.

Gala tickets are now available to the public. Tickets may be purchased online through the Fiscal Sponsor of the GFAA program – Fractured Atlas.

*Best Post War or Contemporary (WWII-Present) – Solo Artist***
David Hockney	Tate Britain	England		London
Wifredo Lam	Tate Modern	England		London
Dia al-Azzawi: A Retrospective (from 1963 until tomorrow)	Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and QM Gallery Al Riwaq	Qatar		Doha
Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms	The Met Breuer	USA		New York
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Seattle Art Museum	USA		Washington DC / Seattle
Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space	The Met Breuer / Hammer Museum	USA		New York / Los Angeles
Philip Guston and the Poets	Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia	Italy		Venice
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry	Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art	USA		Chicago / New York / Los Angeles
*Best Post War or Contemporary (WWII-Present)– Group or Theme*
Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	USA		New York
Abstract Expressionism	Royal Academy / Guggenheim Bilbao	England / Spain		London / Bilbao
China. The Arts – The People	NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore	Singapore		Singapore
The Absent Museum	WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre	Belgium		Brussels
The Principle of Uncertainty	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea	Korea		Seoul
*Best Impressionist and Modern* *(1838-WWII) – Solo Artist*
Rodin: the centennial exhibition	Grand Palais	France		Paris
Monet: The Early Years	Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) and Kimbell Art Museum	USA		San Francisco / Ft. Worth
Lawrence Alma-Tadema	Fries Museum / Belvedere Museum / Leighton House Museum	Netherlands / Austria / England		Leeuwarden / Vienna / London
Pierre Alechinsky	The National Museum of Art, Osaka	Japan		Osaka
Matisse in the Studio	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	USA		Boston
Calder: Hypermobility	Whitney Museum of American Art	USA		New York
The Discovery of Mondrian	Gemeentemuseum den Haag	Netherlands		The Hague
Medardo Rosso: Experiments in Light and Form	Pulitzer Arts Foundation	USA		St. Louis
*Best Impressionist and Modern (1838-WWII) – Group or Theme*
Arp and Sculptural Analogies (shared)	Museo de Arte Moderno	Mexico		Mexico City
Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932	Royal Academy of Arts	England		London
Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time	Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) / Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes	USA / Mexico		Los Angeles / Mexico City
Beyond the Stars: The Mystical Landscape from Monet to Kandinsky	Musée d’Orsay	France		Paris
Art et liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948)	Centre Pompidou /Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia / Tate Liverpool	France / Spain / England		Paris / Madrid / Liverpool
America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s	Art Institute Chicago / Royal Academy of Arts	USA / England		Chicago / London
Icons of Modern Art. The Shchukin Collection	La Fondation Louis Vuitton	France		Paris
*Best Renaissance, Baroque,* *Old Masters and Dynasties* *(1200 – 1838) – Solo Artist*
Hercules Segers	Rijksmuseum / The Metropolitan Museum of Art	Netherlands / USA		Amsterdam / NYC
Guercino a Piacenza	Palazzo Farnese	Italy		Piacenza
Rembrandt at the Vatican. Images from heaven and earth	Vatican Museum	Italy		Vatican City
Pietro Paolo Rubens and the Birth of Baroque	Palazzo Reale	Italy		Milan
Raphael: The Drawings	Ashmolean Museum	England		Oxford
Maestro Mateo	Museo Nacional del Prado	Spain		Madrid
*Best Renaissance, Baroque,* *Old Masters and Dynasties (1200 – 1838) – Group or Theme*
Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery	Victoria and Albert Museum	England		London
Nel Segno di Roberto Longhi: Piero della Francesca e Caravaggio	Museo Civico San Sepolcro	Italy		Arezzo
Art and Nature in the Middle Ages	Dallas Museum of Art	USA		Dallas
Remembering Antiquity: The Ancient World through Medieval Eyes	The J. Paul Getty Museum – Getty Center	USA		Los Angeles
The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts	Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries	USA		Washington D.C.
*Best Ancient Art* *(BC – approx 1200)*
Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C-A.D 220)	The Metropolitan Museum of Art		USA	New York
History Begins in Mesopotamia	Musée du Louvre		France	Paris
Portrait of Emperor Hadrian at the Acropolis Museum	Acropolis Museum		Greece	Athens
Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia	Asia Society Museum / Asian Civilisations Museum		USA / Singapore	New York / Singapore
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe	Asian Art Museum		USA	San Francisco
A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC – 200 AD	Onassis Cultural Center New York		USA	New York
Great Liao	Drents Museum		Netherlands	Assen
*Best Public or Outdoor Installation/Exhibition*
Drawing from the Collection: 40 Years at Laumeier	Laumeier Sculpture Park		USA	St. Louis
The Iraq Pavilion	The Ruya Foundation (Venice Biennale)		Iraq / Italy	Venice
The Garden – End of Times; Beginning of Times	ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum		Denmark	Aarhus
Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017	Munster		Germany	Munster
Slater B. Bradley: Sundoor at World’s End	Zuecca Projects at La Maddalena (Church of Mary Magdalene)		global / Italy	Venice
*Best Design*
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion	Victoria and Albert Museum		England	London
Together! The New Architecture of the Collective	Vitra Design Museum		Switzerland	Basel
Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive	Museum of Modern Art		USA	New York
Toyo Ito: On the Stream	Power Station of Art (PSA)		China	Shanghai
The Architect’s Studio: Wang Shu	Louisiana Museum of Modern Art		Denmark	Humlebaek
*Best Photography*
Walker Evans	Centre Pompidou / Museum of Modern Art		France / USA	Paris / New York
Henri Cartier-Bresson: India in Full-Frame	Rubin Museum of Art		USA	New York
Irving Penn: Centennial	The Metropolitan Museum of Art		USA	New York
William Eggleston Portraits	National Gallery of Victoria		Australia	Melbourne
An Artist’s Model in the Camera’s Viewfinder	Tretyakov Gallery		Russia	Moscow
Perpetual Revolution: the Image and Social Change	International Center of Photography (ICP)		USA	New York
*Best Fringe / Alternative Exhibition*
Farideh Lashai: When I Count, There Are Only You… But When I Look, There Is Only a Shadow	Museo del Prado / The British Museum		Spain / England	Madrid / London
The American Dream	The British Museum		England	London
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics	Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)		Ireland	Dublin
The emotion of art COLORS	Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM)		Italy	Turin
The Islamic Treasures of Africa. From Timbuktu to Zanzibar	Institut de Monde Arabe		France	Paris
The End of the World	Centro Pecci		Italy	Prato
Matisse/Diebenkorn	Baltimore Museum of Art / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art		USA	Baltimore / San Francisco
Alejandro G. Inarritu: Carne y Arena	Cannes Film Festival / Prada Foundation / Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)		France / Italy / USA	Cannes / Milan / Los Angeles
*Global Planet*
Tomás Saraceno	lifetime		global / Argentina	global
Andy Goldsworthy	lifetime		global / England	global / England
Zaria Forman: Stillness and Momentum Through Climate Change	Harvard University Center for the Environment		global / USA	global / Cambridge
Wave Walk	Project 0		USA	NYC
Diane Tuft: The Arctic Melt	Marlborough Gallery		USA	NYC
Art for Conservation	African Conservation Centre – US		global / USA	Boulder
Wild: Michael Nichols	Philadelphia Museum of Art		USA	Philadelphia
*Global Humanity*
Syria: A Living History	Aga Khan Museum		Canada	Toronto
Ai Weiwei Libero	Palazzo Strozzi		Italy	Florence
Forensic Architecture – Towards an Investigative Aesthetic	Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)		Spain	Barcelona
Ana Mendieta	lifetime		global / Cuba	global
Jaume Plensa	lifetime		global / Spain	global
Li Chen: Being: In / Voluntary Drift	Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei		Taiwan	Taipei
Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes	Museo Correr		Italy	Venice
Art Represent	Online Platform.		global / England	global / London