Mar 12, 2019 | 5th Annual GFAA Award Ceremony & Gala
The 5th Annual GFAA Award Ceremony and Gala
Congratulations to all 94 Nominees!
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. The culmination of this process took place on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 in celebration of all GFAA Nominees and the presentation of the Winners of the 2018 Global Fine Art Awards. The black-tie gala was held at the Harold Pratt Mansion on Park Avenue and 68th St in NYC, headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations.
GFAA 5th Annual Award Ceremony Invitation
Corporate Sponsors, GFAA Benefactors ($1,000 +) and Young Visionaries ($500+) also received invitations to the private Benefactor Breakfast on Wednesday March 13, hosted by Leila Heller at her new gallery on 17 East 76th Street
The celebratory event is hosted by the American Alliance of Museum’s Dean Phelus, GFAA Judge, as well as the GFAA Advisory Board – and chaired by Founder and President, Judy Holm. The Master of Ceremonies is Peter Trippi, member of the GFAA Executive Committee, and Judge Emeritus. Trippi is editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine.
Many prominent guests attended the Award Ceremony include Nominees and their representative proxies:
- Michael Frahm, artistic director of Blenheim Palace Art Foundation, representing “Softer” and nominated artist Jenny Holzer
- April Moorhouse, Head of Membership & Programmes at Royal Academy America
- Joan Weinstein, Acting Director of the Getty Foundation
- Alexandra Munroe, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Samsung Senior Curator, Asian Art and Senior Adviser, Global Arts
- PACE Gallery Director Samanthe Rubell, representing Nominated artist Fred Wilson
- Suzanne Deal Booth, Philanthropist and collector; Founder of the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize (at The Contemporary Austin)
- Louis Grachos, Executive Director and CEO, The Contemporary Austin
- Vicente Todoli, artistic director of the Pirelli HangarBicocca
- Marina Pugliese, co-curator of nominated exhibition, Lucio Fontana.Ambienti/Environments, HangarBicocca, Milan; Creative Director Future Humans Archive Berggruen Institute; Faculty California College of the Arts
- Ruth Berson, Deputy Museum Director, Curatorial Affairs at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Caitlin Haskell, Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of International Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago
- Peter Drummond-Hay, Chairman of the American Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland
- Mario Mainetti, Head of Research and Publication, Fondazione Prada
- Gianfranco Brunelli, Director Musei San Domenico
- Bill Beekman, Director of the American Friends of the National Gallery, London
- Sarah Beam-Borg, Senior Exhibitions Manager, Aga Khan Museum
- Konstantin Akinsha, Guest Curator, Ludwig Museum, Hungary
- Viktoria Popovics, art historian and curator, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
- Lilly Tuttle, Curator at Museum of the City of New York
- Eva Respini, Chief Curator, ICA Boston
- Jennie Goldstein, Assistant Curator, the Whitney Museum of American Art
- G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Senior Curator, National Building Museum, Washington D.C.
- Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art world luminaries also supporting GFAA include:
- Nicola Bulgari, Vice Chairman, Bulgari
- Lucia Boscaini, Brand and Heritage Curator, Senior Director BVLGARI Spa
- Renato Miracco, former Cultural Attache at Italian Embassy, Washington D.C.
- Paolo Barlera, Attache for Cultural Affairs, Italian Cultural Institute New York
- Victoria Duffy Hopper, CEO Art Media Holdings
- Ben Hartley, Executive Director at the National Arts Club
- Jessica Porter, Executive Director at ArtTable
- Javier Lumbreras, CEO of Artemundi
- Executives from the American Alliance of Museums and other GFAA Partners
GFAA Judges selected thirteen Winners that were revealed during the award ceremony– 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, and the new awards that premiered last year – 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.
In continuing GFAA’s recognition of social issues addressed by many artists and institutions, and in addition to the two new awards launched last year – Global Planet and Global Humanity, GFAA premiers a new award category this year called Global Artists. This category distinguishes the lifetime body of work of the nominated artists. The new award is juried but will not designate a single Winner.
The GFAA program highlights the link between artists and their creations, the galleries that represent them, curated shows from the gallery, public art and museum worlds. This year, eleven galleries exhibiting at the Armory Show, a cultural collaborator of GFAA, represent more than twenty-four 2018 GFAA Nominees including:
- Jenny Holzer, Lucio Fontana, Adrian Piper, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Magritte, Anni Albers, Fred Wilson, Olafur Eliasson, Alfredo Jaar, Christian Boltanski, David Goldblatt, Keith Haring, Pablo Picasso, Georg Baselitz, Jasper John, John Akomfrah, Lucien Freud, Claude Monet, Marc Chagall, Hassan Sharif, Joan Jonas, Danh Vo, Doris Salcedo, David Goldblatt
Geographic, scale, ethnic and gender diversity are essential in the GFAA research and nominating process.
- 94 Nominees this year represent works in 6 continents, 31 countries and 49 cities – featuring many new artists, initiatives and countries- including Estonia, Hungary, Turkey and Chile.
- 22 of this year’s Nominees (23%) are in or about the art and artists of Asia, Africa and the Middle Eastern.
- 15 of this year’s Nominees (16%) feature Latin American artists, in 6 Latin American countries and in diaspora.
- In one of the highest profile categories – Best Contemporary and Post-War Art, 30% of the Nominees are women.
- 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.
Thank you to our Partners and Sponsors!
Ironhorse Vineyards, Eli Klein Gallery, PACE Gallery , Park Avenue Catering
Sponsor of GFAA Benefactor Breakfast
Providing pro bono Public Relations – Copperfield Advisory
Providing pro bono Digital Media and Business Strategy – Sullivan Media Group
ART MEDIA Holdings (Art in America, ARTnews Magazine, The Magazine ANTIQUES and MODERN), The Armory Show, Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), American Alliance of Museums (AAM), Art Table, Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), De la Cruz Collection (Miami), DSL Collection (Paris), Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, Family Office Elite magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, Fractured Atlas, Galerie Lelong & Co., Gladstone Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Leighton House Museum (London), Mapme, Marlborough Gallery, Masterpiece London, National Arts Club, Onassis Foundation USA, PACE Gallery, Traveling Exhibits Network, Vastari, White Rabbit Collection (Sydney)
GFAA Judges
The 2018 GFAA Jury is comprised of these highly-esteemed art professionals:
- Savita Apte, Art historian and lecturer specializing in Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art
- James M. Bradburne, Director General of the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Biblioteca Braidense, Milan
- Gina Costa, Art historian and curator, previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago
- Joe Lin-Hill, Deputy Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Dean Phelus, American Alliance of Museum’s Senior Director of Leadership Programs
GFAA Research and Nominating Committee
- Research Chair Kimberly Lin– BA in Art History in modern and contemporary art from the UC Berkeley; Degree in fashion design from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising; Post War Contemporary Art program, Sotheby’s London
- Nominating Committee Chair Betsie Piussan– MBA from NYU; BA Stanford University, studied at l’Université de Paris and l’Ecole du Louvre, Design Certificate NY School of Interior Design
- Peter Trippi– Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine; GFAA Judge Emeritus
- Salwa Mikdadi– Associate Professor of Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi
- Patricia Lannes– Founder of Cultures and Literacies through Art for the 21st Century; Chair, Global Latino Network AAM
- Renee Farina– Biennale di Firenze (Florence) International Selection Committee; Gallery owner; formerly of Christie’s Masters, Modern and Contemporary Departments, NYC, former GFAA Research Committee Chair
GFAA is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purpose of GFAA must be payable to “Fractured Atlas” only. All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) public charity, provides a fiscal sponsorship program to help arts organizations raise money from charitable sources.
Media inquiries:
Copperfield Advisory – USA | andrewn@copperfield.nyc
Carolyn Cruz – International | carolyn.cruz@gmail.com
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