2018 Award Winners and Honorable Mentions

Congratulations to the 2018 Global Fine Art Award Winners!!

GFAA honors all 94 nominees and is proud to announce the 15 award winners, 8 honorable mentions and a special award for the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, PST:LA/LA, that comprised more than 70 exhibitions and projects throughout Southern California in the fall of 2018.

The 5th Annual Award Ceremony and Gala was held at the historic Harold Pratt House in New York on March 12, 2019.  The event was hosted by the American Alliance of Museum’s Dean Phelus, GFAA Founder and President, Judy Holm, and the GFAA Advisory Board. Peter Trippi, a member of the GFAA Executive Committee and Judge Emeritus, served as the Master of Ceremonies. Trippi is editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine.

GFAA Judges selected 13 winners– one in each of the following 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; Global Planet and Global Humanity (the new awards that premiered last year). Two additional awards, called Youniversal and YOU-2, were given to the most popular nominees as selected by public voting on the GFAA website and via social media.

The magnitude of PST:LA/LA transcended any of the individual GFAA award categories. Its significance to the art world rendered it a selection of the GFAA judges for a first-time independent award.

Italy received a total of 6 nominations and was awarded 3 of the highly coveted awards.