Join us to discover this year’s Winners! Tuesday May 18, 2021 | 7th Annual GFAA Awards LIVE on facebook

The 7th Annual GFAA Award Ceremony and Gala

Congratulations to all 116 Nominees!

Celebrate the best exhibitions and productions of 2020 – from 31 countries and 6 continents!

Join us ONLINE Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 12:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Paris LIVE on FACEBOOK.

We will honor all of this year’s nominees and reveal the winners of the 2020 Global Fine Art Awards.

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Get introduced to top art world luminaries from around the globe and find out who earned the title of best exhibitions of the year!

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 will take place on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 online in celebration of all GFAA Nominees and the presentation of the Winners of the 2020 Global Fine Art Awards.

Our program, and the award ceremony event strengthen the tie between the GFAA program, art fairs and galleries showcasing top artists, and is hosted by GFAA Founder Judy Holm and the GFAA Executive Committee. Peter Trippi, Editor in Chief of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine and GFAA Executive Committee, is Master of Ceremonies and will announce this year’s winners.

Where else can one learn expert insider’s insights about art works connected to the GFAA nominees and get introduced to top art world luminaries from around the globe? Please support GFAA and join us for this momentous celebration on May 18, 2021.  LINK HERE

Each year, many prominent guests attend the Award Ceremony including our past nominees and luminaries:

• 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 fifteen Winners that will be 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, Global Planet and Global Humanity, and our new award for 2020 – Digital Art or Digital Program. 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.

Thank you to our Patrons, Partners and Sponsors!

Special thanks to our Founder’s Circle Benefactors for their continued support this year. With gratitude.

Judith Neilson

Suzanne Deal Booth

(partial list)

ADAA (Art Dealers of America Association), ART MEDIA Holdings/Penske Media (Art in America, ARTnews Magazine, and MODERN),The Armory Show, Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), American Alliance of Museums (AAM), Art Dubai, Art Table, Arts Club (London), Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), De la Cruz Collection (Miami), Cartier Foundation, DSL Collection (Paris), Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery, Family Office Elite magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Forbes, Fractured Atlas, Galerie Lelong & Co., Galerie Gmurzynska, Gladstone Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Leighton House Museum (London), Leila Heller Gallery (New York and Dubai), Mapme, Marlborough Gallery, Masterpiece London, Marian Goodman, National Arts Club, Onassis Foundation, PACE Gallery, Paris Photo, Photo London, Thaddaeus Ropac, The Art Newspaper, The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Vastari, We are Museums, White Rabbit Collection (Sydney), David Zwirner.

We look forward to your partnership!

GFAA Judges

  The 2020 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
• (Chair emeritus) 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:

Eleanor Goldhar – USA | globalfineartawards@gmail.com

Maarten Statius Muller- International | statiuspr@icloudcom

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