5/18/21 The 7th Annual GFAA Awards – Winners Announced
The Global Fine Art Awards Announces the 7th Annual GFAA Award Winners
30 Honorees Represent Art and Design Exhibitions
across 5 continents, 18 countries
Paris, France and New York, NY – May 18, 2021 – The Global Fine Art Awards (GFAA) program announces the winners for its seventh edition – selected from the 116 nominees, this year’s awardees represent 5 continents and 18 countries following the year-long research process to discover the best curated art and design exhibitions and independent projects around the world.
The public announcement of the 7th annual Global Fine Art Awards winners took place today via
GFAA Facebook at 6:00 pm CEST (12:00 pm EST).
GFAA conducts extensive year-round research of more than 2,000 curated exhibitions and installations across the globe, designating awards for group and themed exhibitions, as well as awards for solo artist exhibitions. GFAA spotlights works produced every year voicing the connection of art to society’s pressing issues as exemplified in two awards launched in 2017 – Global Planet and Global Humanity.
This year, in response to the global pandemic, GFAA launches a new award to recognize the indelible mark on the cultural and total global landscape and to recognize innovation and excellence in the field of art and design – Best Digital Exhibition or Online Educational Program.
The 30 award winners and honorable mention recipients represent the breadth and depth of artistic achievement that embrace geographic, demographic and gender diversity
- 18 countries and 5 continents, including 7 international collaborations
- 67% emanate from museums or institutions other than the “top 100 visited museums in the world”
- 60% non-European/North American male artists
- 33% women artists (5 of 15 gender-specific awardees)
- Luchita Hurtado: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn, Serpentine Galleries / Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Fantastic Women, Schirn Kunsthalle / Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
- A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, Museo Nacional del Prado
- Claudia Andujar: La Lutte Yanomami, La Fondation Cartier
- An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain, Carnegie Museum of Art
GFAA Award Winners and Honorable Mention – 2020
| Best Post War and Contemporary (WWII-Present) – Solo Artist / Deceased | |||
| W – Luchita Hurtado: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn | Serpentine Galleries / Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) | England / USA | London / Los Angeles |
| Best Post War and Contemporary (WWII-Present) – Solo Artist / Living | |||
| W- Antony Gormley | Royal Academy of Arts | England | London |
| HM – Gerhard Richter: Painting After All | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | USA | New York |
| HM – Anthony McCall: Dark Rooms, Solid Light | Albright-Knox Art Gallery | USA | Buffalo |
| Best Post War and Contemporary (WWII-Present) – Group or Theme | |||
| W – Art in the Age of Anxiety | Sharjah Art Foundation: Al Mureijah Square | UAE | Sharjah |
| HM – Inspiration – Iconic Works | Nationalmuseum and Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery | Sweden / Finland | Stockholm / Helsinki |
| Best Modern or Impressionism (1840 to WWll) – Solo Artist | |||
| W – Picasso and Paper | Royal Academy of Arts / Cleveland Museum of Art in partnership with the Musée national Picasso-Paris | England / USA | London / Cleveland |
| Best Modern or Impressionism (1840 to WWll) – Group or Theme | |||
| W – Fantastic Women | Schirn Kunsthalle / Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | Germany / Denmark | Frankfurt / Humlebæk |
| HM – Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 | Whitney Museum of American Art | USA | New York |
| Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties (approx 1200 – 1838) – Solo Artist | |||
| W – Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution | Museum voor Schone Kunsten (MSK) | Belgium | Ghent |
| HM – Raphaël | Scuderie del Quirinale | Italy | Rome |
| Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties (approx 1200 – 1838) – Group or Theme | |||
| W – A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana | Museo Nacional del Prado | Spain | Madrid |
| HM – Caravage-Bernini. Baroque in Rome | Rijksmuseum | Netherlands | Amsterdam |
| Best Ancient (BC – approx 1200) | |||
| W – Ulysees. Art and Myth. | Musei San Domenici | Italy | Forli |
| Best Public or Outdoor Installation/Exhibition | |||
| W – teamLab: A Forest Where Gods Live | Mifuneyama Rakuen | Japan | Takeo City, Saga |
| HM – DESERT X ALULA | Desert X in collaboration with the Royal Commission of AlUla (RCU) | Saudi Arabia | Alula |
| Best Design | |||
| W – Kleureyck: Van Eyck’s Colours in Design | Design Museum Gent | Belgium | Gent |
| HM – Nature-Cooper Hewitt Design Triennal | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum co-organized with Cube design museum | USA | New York |
| Best Photography | |||
| W – Claudia Andujar: La Lutte Yanomami | La Fondation Cartier | France | Paris |
| HM – An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain | Carnegie Museum of Art | USA | Pittsburgh |
| Best Fringe (Cross-Category or Cross-Era) Exhibition | |||
| W – Black Suns | Louvre Lens | France | Lens |
| Global Planet | |||
| W – Water | Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) | Australia | Brisbane |
| Global Humanity | |||
| W – Jeppe Hein & ART 2030: Breathe with Me | United Nations Headquarters / Central Park / BLOX Danish Architecture Center | USA / Denmark / global | New York / Copenhagen / global |
| Best Digital Exhibition or Online Educational Program (NEW Award 2020) | |||
| HM – Cocktails with a Curator | The Frick Collection | USA | New York |
| HM – Love Stories | Fondazione Prada | Italy | Milan |
| Youniversal Award | |||
| Art Primer. Artists of Prehistory | Museu Nacional d’Arqueologia de Catalunya (MNAC Barcelona) | Spain | Barcelona |
| You-2 Award | |||
| W – Pitika Ntuli ‘Azibuyele Emasisweni’ (Return to the Source) | The Melrose Gallery | South Africa | Johannesburg / Cape Town |
| HM – Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From | Imago Mundi’s Gallerie delle Prigioni / Aga Khan Museum | Italy / Canada | Treviso / Toronto |
| HM – The Renaissance of Etching. From Dürer to Bruegel | The Metropolitan Museum of Art / The Albertina Museum | USA / Austria | New York / Vienna |
| HM – Maurizio Cattelan | Blenheim Palace | England | Blenheim |
| HM – Ulysees. Art and Myth. | Musei San Domenici | Italy | Forli |
In the near future, GFAA will resume live events – health and travel conditions permitting. The 5th Annual Awards was held at the Harold Pratt Mansion in New York City on March 12, 2019.
GFAA Nominees – 2020
116 nominees represent 6 continents, 31 countries and 68 cities
Geographic, scale, ethnic and gender diversity are essential in the GFAA research and nominee selection:
- 35 total collaborations, an unprecedented number of shows involving multiple institutions
- 21% of this year’s Nominees are in or about the art and artists of Asia, Africa and the Middle East
- 78% of the Best Photography category are by women artists or include women artists
- 32% of the Nominees are women in two of the highest profile categories – Best Contemporary and Post-War Art, (deceased), Best Contemporary and Post-War Art, (living)
- Less than half of the GFAA Nominees included in Best Contemporary and Post-War Art, (deceased), Best Contemporary and Post-War Art, (living) are exhibitions by European or North American white males (42%)
- Less than half of the GFAA Nominees exhibited in the top 100 art museums visited in the world (The Art Newspaper, April 2017), whereas the majority emanate from smaller institutions and other venues
The GFAA Judges select fifteen winners – one in each of the following award categories: Contemporary and Post-War- solo artist (deceased); Contemporary and Post-War- solo artist (living); 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 new awards that premiered in 2017 – 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.
Media Inquiries: USA
Eleanor Goldhar, GFAA Communications Chair
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Media Inquiries: International
Maarten Statius Muller, GFAA PR and Social Media Director
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