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The GFAA program conducts extensive year-round research of curated exhibitions and installations across the globe, designating awards for group and themed exhibitions, as well as awards for solo artist shows. With the two newest awards launched in 2017 – Global Planet and Global Humanity, GFAA is determined to continue to illuminate the best works produced every year voicing the connection of art and global concerns.
The culmination of the year-long process to discover the best curated art and design exhibitions will take place with the celebration of all Nominees and the presentation of the Winners of the 6th annual Global Fine Art Awards in Spring 2020. Stay tuned for further details!
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The GFAA program presents the list of nominees for its sixth edition- 99 nominees represent works in 6 continents, 27 countries and 74 cities.
Geographic, scale, ethnic and gender diversity are essential in the GFAA research and nominee selection:
The culmination of the year-long process to discover the best curated art and design exhibitions will take place with the celebration of all Nominees and the presentation of the Winners of the 6th annual Global Fine Art Awards in Spring 2020.
GFAA Judges will select thirteen winners – one in each of the following 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, 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.
Best Post War and Contemporary (WWII-Present) – Solo Artist
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Pittura/Panorama: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1992 (shared) | Palazzo Grimani | Italy | Venice |
Helen Frankenthaler: Sea Change: A Decade of Paintings, 1974–1983 (shared) | Gagosian Gallery | Italy | Rome |
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts | Museum of Modern Art (MoMA and MoMA PS1) | USA | New York |
Xu Bing: Thought and Method | Ullens Center for Contemporary Art | China | Beijing |
Yun Hyong-keun | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) / Palazzo Fortuny | Korea / Italy | Seoul / Venice |
Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective | Albright-Knox Art Gallery | USA | Buffalo |
Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again | Whitney Museum of American Art / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) / Art Institute of Chicago | USA | New York / San Francisco / Chicago |
Dorothea Tanning (shared) | Tate Modern | England | London |
Dorothea Tanning: Behind the Door, Another Invisible Door (shared) | Museo Reina Sofía | Spain | Madrid |
Cao Fei: HX | Centre Pompidou | France | Paris |
Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work | Pulitzer Arts Foundation | USA | St. Louis |
A Wanderer between Heaven and Earth: Yu Peng | Taipei Fine Arts Museum | Taiwan | Taipei |
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale | Haus der Kunst | Germany | Munich |
Lee Krasner: Living Colour | Barbican Centre | England | London |
Best Post War and Contemporary (WWII-Present) – Group or Theme
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New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century | Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | USA | New York |
A Fairy Tale in Red Times: Works from the White Rabbit Collection | National Gallery of Victoria | Australia | Melbourne |
Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood | The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Houston) | USA | Houston |
Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s | The National Museum of Modern Art / National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / National Gallery Singapore | Japan / Korea / Singapore | Tokyo / Seoul / Singapore |
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power | Tate Modern / Brooklyn Museum / Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art / The Broad | England / USA | London / New York / Bentonville / Los Angeles |
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China | Los Angeles County Museum of Art / The Smart Museum of Art / Seattle Art Museum / Peabody Essex Museum. | USA | Los Angeles / Chicago / Seattle / Salem |
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War | Smithsonian American Art Museum-Renwick Gallery | USA | Washington D.C. |
Chinese Bible: Revolution and Art in China | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Australia | Sydney |
Minimalism: Space, Light, Object | National Gallery and ArtScience Museum | Singapore | Singapore |
Best Modern or Impressionism (1840 to WWll) – Solo Artist
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The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain | Tate Britain | England | London |
Dora Maar | Centre Pompidou / Tate Modern / J. Paul Getty Museum | France / England / USA | Paris / London / Los Angeles |
The C C Land Exhibition: Pierre Bonnard | Tate Modern | England | London |
Edvard Munch: love and angst | British Museum | England | London |
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | USA | New York |
Natalia Goncharova | Tate Modern | England | London |
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light | The National Gallery | England | London |
Jean Dubuffet & Venezia | Palazzo Franchetti | Italy | Venice |
Picasso. Blue and Rose | Musée d’Orsay /Musée national Picasso-Paris / Fondation Beyeler | France / Switzerland | Paris / Basel |
Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up / Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving (shared) | Victoria and Albert Museum / Brooklyn Museum | England / USA | London / New York |
Joaquín Torres García: Obra Viva | Centro Cultural La Moneda | Chile | Santiago |
Manet and Modern Beauty | Art Institute of Chicago / J. Paul Getty Museum | USA | Chicago / Los Angeles |
Best Modern or Impressionism (1840 to WWll) – Group or Theme
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The Whole World a Bauhaus | Elmhurst Art Museum / ZKM | Center for Art and Media | Argentina / Mexico / USA / Germany | Buenos Aires / Mexico City / Elmhurst / Karlsruhe |
The Bauhaus and Harvard | Harvard Art Museums | USA | Cambridge |
National Gallery of Art | USA | Washington D.C. | |
Klimt / Schiele: Drawings | Royal Academy of Arts / Albertina Museum | England / Austria | London / Vienna |
The Avant-Garde Networks of Amauta:Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920’s | Museo Reina Sofia / Museo de Arte de Lima / Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City / Blanton Museum of Art | Spain / Peru / Mexico / USA | Madrid / Lima / Mexico City / Austin |
Kandinsky, Arp, Picasso… Klee & Friends | Zentrum Paul Klee | Switzerland | Bern |
Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan | Yokohama Museum of Art / Isamu Noguchi Museum / Asian Art Museum | Japan / USA | Yokohama / New York / San Francisco |
Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement | American Federation of Arts and Birmingham Museums Trust | USA | Oklahoma City / Vero Beach / Seattle / San Antonio / New Haven / Reno / Pittsburgh / Puerto Rico |
Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties (approx 1200 – 1838) – Solo Artist
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Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice | National Gallery of Art, in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia | USA | Washington D.C. |
Antonello da Messina (shared) | Palazzo Abatellis / Palazzo Reale | Italy | Palermo / Milan |
Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo | Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Washington | Italy | Florence |
Early Rubens | Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) /Art Gallery of Ontario | USA / Canada | San Francisco / Toronto |
Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties (approx 1200 – 1838) – Group or Theme
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Betwixt Reality and Illusion | National Palace Museum | Taiwan | Taipei |
Art of Three Faiths: A Torah, a Bible, and a Qur’an | J. Paul Getty Museum | USA | Los Angeles |
The Renaissance Nude | J. Paul Getty Museum / Royal Academy of Arts | USA / England | Los Angeles / London |
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa | The Block Museum / The Aga Khan Museum / National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute | USA / Canada | Evanston / Toronto / Washington D.C. |
Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism | The Rubin Museum of Art | USA | New York |
Huizhou Ink Stick | Xuhui Art Museum | China | Shanghai |
Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer: Parallel Visions | Museo Nacional del Prado | Spain | Madrid |
Best Ancient (BC – approx 1200) | |||
The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | USA | New York |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | USA | New York | |
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis | USA | Indianapolis | |
Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt | Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Brooklyn Museum | USA | St. Louis |
Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri | Getty Villa | USA | Los Angeles (Malibu) |
Best Public or Outdoor Installation/Exhibition
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Brazilian Modern: The Art of Living of Roberto Burle Marx | New York Botanical Garden | USA | New York |
Franchise Freedom | Studio Drift | USA / Netherlands | Miami / Black Rock City / Amsterdam / Meritt Island |
Leonardo 500 | City of Milan and Lombardy Region | Italy | Milan |
Do Ho Suh: Bridging Home | Do Ho Suh | England | London |
Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival | Milan Triennial | Italy | Milan |
Best Design | |||
MONUMENTality | Getty Research Institute | USA | Los Angeles |
Balenciaga and Spanish painting | Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum | Spain | Madrid |
Dior: From Paris to the World | Denver Art Museum / Dallas Museum of Art | USA | Denver / Dallas |
Christian Dior-Designer of Dreams | Victoria and Albert Museum | England | London |
Palazzo dei Diamanti | Italy | Ferrara | |
Asian Civilisations Museum | Singapore | Singapore | |
Canadian Centre of Architecture | Canada | Montreal | |
Best Photography | |||
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 (shared) | The Cleveland Museum of Art / National Gallery of Art / Amon Carter Museum of American Art / Addison Gallery of American Art | USA | Cleveland / Washington D.C. / Ft. Worth / Andover |
Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story (shared) | J. Paul Getty Museum | USA | Los Angeles |
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings | National Gallery of Art / Peabody Essex Museum / J. Paul Getty Museum / The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Houston) / Jeu de Paume / High Museum of Art | USA / France | Washington D.C. / Salem / Los Angeles / Houston / Paris / Atlanta |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | USA | New York | |
Carrie Mae Weems: Heave | Art Museum at the University of Toronto, co-presented with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival | Canada | Toronto |
Civilization: The Way We Live Now | Ullens Center for Contemporary Art | China | Beijing |
OSMOSCOSMOS | Centre de la photographie | Switzerland | Geneva |
Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico | Museum of Fine Arts | USA | Boston |
Best Fringe / Alternative Exhibition | |||
Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | USA | New York |
Oceania | Royal Academy of Arts / Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac | England / France | London / Paris |
Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque | Fondazione Prada / Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp / Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp | Italy / Belgium | Milan / Antwerp |
Hockney-Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature | Van Gogh Museum | Netherlands | Amsterdam |
Appearance Stripped Bare | Museo Jumex | Mexico | Mexico City |
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists | Minneapolis Institute of Art / Frist Museum / Smithsonian American Art Museum-Renwick Gallery / Philbrook Museum of Art | USA | Minneapolis / Nashville / Washington D.C. / Tulsa |
Picasso and Antiquity. Line and Clay | The Museum of Cycladic Art | Greece | Athens |
Global Planet | |||
Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing | Hudson River Museum | USA | Yonkers |
Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II | TBA21–Academy and Luma Foundation | Italy | Venice |
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Russia | Moscow |
Setouchi Triennale: Restoration of the Sea | Setouchi | Japan | Setouchi |
We Live in an Ocean of Air | Saatchi Gallery (by Marshmallow Laser Feast) | England | London |
Global Humanity | |||
Mario Merz: Igloos | Pirelli HangarBicocca | Italy | Milan |
Tomorrow is the Question | ARoS in collaboration with ART 2030 and Faurschou Art Resources | Denmark | Aarhus |
Castastrophe and the Power of Art | Mori Art Museum | Japan | Tokyo |
Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now | Fondation Cartier | France | Paris |
Robots | National Museum of Scotland | Scotland | Edinburgh |
Manifesto: Art x Agency | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | USA | Washington D.C. |
Meiro Koizumi: Battlelands | Minneapolis Institute of Art | USA | Minneapolis |
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement | The Phillips Collection | USA | Washington D.C. |
Homeless Souls | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | Denmark | Humlebaek |
Culture Under Attack | Imperial War Museum | England | London |
Alison Lowry: A(Dressing) Our Hidden Truths | National Museum of Ireland | Ireland | Dublin |