Introduction to the 7th Annual GFAA Awards by Savita Apte, GFAA Judge –
Celebrating the multifaceted triumphs of creativity
GFAA 6th Annual Youniversal Awards – Youniversal and YOU-2 VOTING
GFAA First Five Years – Highlights
2018 GFAA Awards – 5th Annual Awards Ceremony & Gala | March 12, 2019
2017 GFAA Award Ceremony & Gala – 583 Park Ave, Mar 8 2018
2017 GFAA Award Program and Youniversal Award
2016 GFAA Award Ceremony & Gala – National Arts Club, NYC Feb 11, 2017
2016 GFAA Introduction and Youniversal Award
2015 GFAA Award Ceremony & Gala – Freedom Tower, Miami
2015 GFAA Introduction & Youniversal Award
2017 Best Contemporary / Post-War
Best Impressionist / Modern
2017 Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters, Dynasties
Art and Nature in the Middle Ages
2017 Best Ancient Art
2017 Best Public Art
2017 Best Design
2017 Best Photography
2017 Best Fringe
2017 Global Planet
2017 Global Humanity
2016 Best Contemporary / Post-War – solo artists
Rauschenberg in China / Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) / Beijing, China
Maholy-Nagy: Future Present / Solomon R. Guggenheim / NYC, USA
Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World / Kroller-Muller Museum, Tate Britain, Arp Museum /Otterlo, Netherlands; London, England; Remagen, Germany
Best Contemporary / Post-War – group or theme
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016 / Hauser Wirth Schimmel Gallery / Los Angeles, USA
Human Interest: Portraits / Whitney Museum of American Art / NYC, USA
Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America / Museum of Fine Arts Houston / Houston, USA
Best Impressionist / Modern – solo artist
Degas: A New Vision / National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Fine Arts Houston / Melbourne, Australia; Houston, USA
Joan Miro: Painting Walls, Painting Worlds / Schirn / Frankfurt, Germany
Georgia O’Keeffe / Tate Modern, Art Gallery of Ontario / London, England / Toronto, Canada
Best Impressionist / Modern – group or theme
Divine Beauty: from Van Gogh to Gauguin and Fontana / Palazzo Strozzi, The Vatican Museums / Florence, Italy
Painters of light. From Divisionism to Futurism / Fundación MAPFRE, Mart Museum / Madrid, Spain; Rovereto, Italy
The Lost Symphony: Whistler and the Perfection of Art / Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries / Washington DC, USA
Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition / de Young / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / San Francisco, USA
Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters, Dynasties – solo artist
The Tricentenniel of Giuseppe Castiglione’s Arrival in China / National Palace Museum / Republic of China (Taiwan)
Jheronimus Bosch – (shared) Visions of a Genius / Noordbrabants Museum/ Noordbrabants, Netherlands; and Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition / Museo del Prado / Madrid, Spain
Caravaggio and the Painters of the North / Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza / Madrid, Spain
Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters, Dynasties – group or theme
Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer / Museum of Fine Arts Boston / Boston, USA
Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts / The J. Paul Getty Museum / Los Angeles, USA
Best Ancient Art
Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World / The Met Fifth Avenue / NYC, USA
Sicily: culture and conquest / British Museum / London, England
Best Public Art
Olafur Eliasson / Palais de Versailles / Versailles, France
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers / Lake Iseo / Lake Iseo, Italy
William Kentridge: Triumphs and Laments – A Project for Rome / River Tiber / Rome, Italy
Best Design
Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology / The Met Fifth Avenue / NYC, USA
Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia’s Environment for Sound / Museum of Arts and Design / NYC, USA
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist / The Jewish Museum / NYC, USA
Best Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium / (shared) The J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)/ Los Angeles, USA
Diane Arbus: In the Beginning / The Met Breuer / NYC, USA
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers / The Barbican / London, England
Burnt Generation: Contemporary Iranian Photography / Candlestar / London, England
Best Fringe / Alternative
Susan Philipsz: War Damaged Musical Instruments / Tate Britain / London, England
El Macro Mural Barrio de Palmitas / German Crew / Pachuca, Mexico
From Kandinsky to Pollock. The Art of the Guggenheim Collections / Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / Florence, Italy
2015 Contemporary & Post War
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art
Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East
2015 Impressionist & Modern
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement
Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting
Frida Kahlo: Art • Garden • Life
2015 Old Masters & Dynasties
The Baroque Underworld – Vice and Destitution in Rome
Ming: 50 years that changed China
Sultans of Deccan India: Opulence and Fantasy
Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action
2015 Ancient Art
Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age
Potere e Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
The Saga of the Thracian Kings, Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria
2015 Public Art
Chiharu Shiota: The Key in the Hand
2015 Design
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Manifest of the New Style
Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design
New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America
2015 Photography
Esko Mannikko: Time Flies, A Highlight
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story
Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography
2015 Fringe