Chelsea International Fine Art Competitions Results 2010-2018

33rd Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, 2018

Jurors: Kathy Battista, Sharon Matt Atkins, Amanda McDonald Crowley​ 

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2018 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Arinze Stanley, Carlos Salazar Arenas, Dong Kyu Kim, Meike Lohmann, Gabrielle Kruger, Ayo Filade, Candelaria Palacios, Cynthia Evers, Hiromichi Matsudaira, Oluwatobi Adewumi, Samuel Wyatt, Kristina Daukintyte Aas, Ada Luisa Trillo, Terence Finch, Emily Jones, Sidney Chambers, Nemo Nox, Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja, Peter Genssler, Yvonne Muinde, HE Chunqing, Eileen Olimb, Beth Cavalcanti, Jennifer Day, Chenyi Sun, Denis BAUDRIER, Martijn Weiffenbach, Dana Edmonds, Kara Daviau Cook, Herold P Alexis.

Entitled to receive cash prizes of $1000 each:

Domingo Donoso, Eric W. Shute, Anne Rudanovski, Rodrigo Calixto, Wenqian Leng.

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

Nicola Watson, Marek Slavík, Richard Ostroff.

Entitled to one year of exposure on ART-mine.com, which includes an artist statement composed by ARTmine’s talented art writers:

Jenny Ahmad, Arthur H. Gunther III, Rachel Sager, Chad Thompson, M. Ines Lagos.

Entitled to an Honorable Mention and a complimentary entry to the 34th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition (Feb. 2019):

Fukuoka Yuri, Maria Jimenez, Oliver Sin, Gabriela Esterovich, Cristobal Lanzarini, Alchemy Chan, Soosan Danesh, Danielle Klebes, Rosa Paola Villarroel Gomez, Marcela García Henríquez.

 

Note: Agora Gallery is proud to sponsor the competition, but Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process. All selection decisions were made by the competition jurors.

View the 2018 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

View results for previous competitions.

32nd Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, 2017

Jurors: Suzanne Anker, Federica Chiocchetti, David C. Terry, Anne-Brigitte Sirois, Robert Farber, Kyoko Sato 

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2017 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Chie Hirabayashi, Mario Daniel Quiroga, M Y Yip, Jiantao Qu, Holly Wilson, Ian Lee, Brian J. Sesack, Fran Panza, Leonard Yang, Chema Mora, Kristin Dillon, Mher Evoyan, Keith Thomson, Guy Kingston Austin II, Emily Jones, Héloïse Chevrel Paulus, Yoong Wah Alex Wong, Ailon Glitz, Rosanne S. Wolfe, Gabriel Schiavina, Masin Mauro, Christina Marie Chavez Banerjee, Joana Cruz, Menpo, José María Peña Gallardo, Adriana Espinosa Calle, Donna Pinckley, Karak Bolotbek Karakeev, Allen M. Capriotti, Michel Kirch

Entitled to receive cash prizes of $1000 each:

Nien-Ting Chen, Désirée Iturbide Dormond, Manuel Rodríguez Domínguez, Themba Khumalo, Huan-Chia, Lin (煥嘉 林煥嘉)

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

Iris Shields, Monique Daneau, Michael Bourque

Entitled to one year of exposure on ART-mine.com, which includes an artist statement composed by ARTmine’s talented art writers:

Samuel Lehikoinen, Steve Jacobs, Ayesha Samdani, Eduardo Blanco Alvarez, Nadia Jampolski

Entitled to an Honorable Mention and a complimentary entry to the 33nd Chelsea International Fine Art Competition (Feb. 2018):

Guadalupe Crego, Sandra Nardone, Kelly Thompson, Suhyung Park, Peter Gutmanis, Narges Soleimanzadeh, Luca Prandini, Michaela Laurie, David Dejous, Tatiana Leony

Note: Agora Gallery is proud to sponsor the competition, but Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process. All selection decisions were made by the competition jurors.

View the 2017 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

31st Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, 2016

Jurors: Marisa Kayyem, Irene Tsatsos, Seb Patane, Xiaoyun Zhang, Holly Myers) 

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2016 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Anat Propper Goldenberg, Nancy V. Ridenour, Diane Schroeder, Ezio Cicciarella, Cecil Gresham Sr., Allan Redd, Pat Sollows, Celina Baldasarre, André Laplante, Adam Horrigan, Wenjianglin, Daniel Ortega Buitrón, Nora Sidoine, Yueli Guo, Victoria Estacio Huckins, Vassilina Dikidjieva, Danielle Miller, Akina Tokiyoshi, Eelze J Ploegh, Liz Walinski, Sylvia McEwan, Kaethe Haase Kornstein, Alain Schroeder, Esther Huser, Sophia Pistofidou, Xi Zhang, Rodrigo López Gómez, Fátima Sarute, Dongze Huo.

Entitled to receive cash prizes of $1000 each:

Federico Fernández Gärtner, Rebecca Lomshek, Lesia Maruschak, Sergio Spalter, Joy J. Rotblatt

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

Mauricio Mallet, Naoko Ochi, Bernd Steinert

Entitled to one year of exposure on ART-mine.com, which includes an artist statement composed by ARTmine’s talented art writers:

Christine Kern, Iwauko Murakami, Simone Rosti, Juan Eugenio Ochoa, Yegana Azadova

Entitled to an Honorable Mention and a complimentary entry to the 32nd Chelsea International Fine Art Competition (Feb. 2017):

Anthony Viscardi, Candelaria Palacios, Steve Pennisi, Betsy Lewis, Yan Zhisheng, Yosuke Hasegawa, Victoria Manganiello, Ivonne Fuentes, Anna Ryman, Maggie Venn.

Note: Agora Gallery is proud to sponsor the competition, but Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process. All selection decisions were made by the competition jurors.

View the 2016 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

30th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, 2015

Jurors: Yuko Hasegawa, Ginevra Bria, Ave Pildas, Susan Whitney, Sebastien Pronovost, Takao Tsutsumi, David Benrimon 

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2015 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition and for gallery representation:

Madiha Abdo, Javier De Cea, Maria Martha Pichel.

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Bernd Sannwald-Schwenk, Hideo Tanaka, Walter Bruszewski, Jason Morgan, Jose Sanchez Vasquez,  Patti Fontaine, Ines Menacho, Darren Nisbett, Dafna Rehavia Hanauer, Raul Fombona Bustos,  Julija Levkova, Charlotte Brisland,  Barbara Tosatto, Sue Howard, Xinyu Zhang, Yvon Buchmann,  Nancy Ridenour, Akira Otsubo, Kelly Rae, Bill Vollers, Arturo Samaniego, Candace Primack, Dale M Reid, Katarzyna Tomaszewska, Ev Pommer, Masateru Hagiwara, Espinosa Miguel, Karleena Mitchell, Juan José Jiménez Molina, Shaun Williams

Entitled to receive cash prizes of $1000 each:

Lewis Brown, Janet Wilson, Walter Castro, Hadieh Afshani, Hewart Aldot

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

John Nieman, Edoardo Miola, Melanie Huebner

Entitled to a Press Release:

Ender Martos, Enzzo Barrena, Şebnem Keçeli, Aviv Gad Keller, Ouria Tadmor, Tyler Eash, Jayoung Yoon, Kathleen Mcsherry, Linda Brown, Michael Santini

Entitled to an Honorable Mention:

Hungkwai Chan, Yair Gutterman, Luca Buono, Alejandra Rincón, Steve Scheuring, Hanínga Thiel, Eleonora Barbiere, Jennifer Fields Ferris, Luis Miguel Núñez Torres, Annalisa Pisanelli, Enrico Markus Essl, Etsuko Shida, Chie Hirabayashi, Bonjeong Koo, Andrea Simon, Stanislav Ukraintsev, Memo Art Merler&Molin, Anita Marci, Nancy Cutler, Irina Kassabova, Jean-Paul Collon, Steven Stodor, Yozo Abe, Joan Benjamin, Winston Tragico, Vlatko Ceric, Verena Otterbach, Ralena Gordon, Hegine N., Jacinto Fernando Gonzalez Foncerrada, Alexander Nasekin, María Del Rosario, Arias Usandivaras, Owen Normand, Lina Alattar, Caterina Pacialeo, Lucas Martínez Graullera, Lyudmila Ozerovsky, Susi Hassert, Yuriy Koval, Jack Chechik, Toshio Ishikawa, Concha Martínez, Javier Bellomo, Donnève Marie, Imogen Wallis-Mayer, Elli Albrecht, Barry Dabb, Gosia Tojza, Ilona Hein, Deno Angelopoulos, Shingo Oe, Caglar Gezer, Magdalena Alicja Jedrzejczyk, Barbara Groot, Seonju Townsend, Ying Huang, Robert Tamara, Allen Capriotti, Ginny Barrett Virginia Barrett, Kristine Gaier, Dalit Leon, Margitta Schoeler, Claudy Hosteaux, Mel Talley, Mituyasu Yokota, Veronique Gambier, Jim Cobb, Dieter Härtter, Pablo Bartelsman, Norbert Schling, Liz Derksen, Lisa Ocasio Hirkaler Hirkaler, Tom Colcord, Frances Mercer, M Berrin Kayman, Cheri Bohn, Zach Eberly, Laura Figueroa, Stanley Olivera, Marco Antonio Guzman Roca, Merrill Neave, Jill Quinn Babcock, Lynn Jaanz, Angelo Fertitta, Celine Achour, Hamsi Boubeker, Michael Vance, Minako Kotake, Walters Melora, Erik Sundgaard, Anne Walker, Maria Willison, Luis Hernandez Davila, Ivonne Elena Balli Perez, Orit Zuckerman, Wolfram Keller, Anne Patricia Murray, Gabriela Grobocopatel, Carla Andreina Ramos Guerrero, Yunzu Yi.

Note: Agora Gallery is proud to sponsor the competition, but Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process. All selection decisions were made by the competition jurors.

View the 2015 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

29th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, 2014

Juror: Carlo McCormick, Art Critic, Curator, and Author

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2014 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the exhibition, appeared in the exhibition catalog, and were displayed on the Agora Gallery website:

Alexander Churchill, Amy Gilvary, Andreas Tomblin, Andrew K. Currey, Anna Pont, Brandy Trigueros, Curtis Salonick, Denise Dethlefsen, Ivannia Lasso, Janet Rossi, Joan Taltavull, Joaquin Amaya, Joel Trieger, John Ilg, John Nieman, Judith Vergara Garcia,Keiko Tomita, Lauren Haggis, Mack Gingles, Marcin Ryczek, Maria Jose Vicuña, Mario Caccia, Mark Lloyd, Marlen Peix, Michael Woodle, Nicoletta Balani, Renee De Gagne, Riette Steenkamp, Rudy Bortolini, Sergio Nates, Songnyeo Lyoo, Tom Uebelherr, Tuco Amalfi

Entitled to receive cash awards:

Dan Gerbo ($500), Carolina Pelegri ($300), Manuel Rodríguez Domínguez ($200)

Entitled to one year of exposure on ARTmine.com: 

ABE Maria LEEAN, Anton Hoeger, Carlo Keshishian, Elena Tamburini,Flavio Rossi, Jim Ellis, Malik Al Maliki, Michael (AKA Mic Le Pirate) Jonas, Noelle Maline, Paul Dodez, Phil Burger, Pierrick Fiolleau

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

C. R. Cain, Emilyann Gachko, Katia Neboit Croze

Entitled to a press releases from E4A.com:

Donna Marie Mckno, Katherine Gailer, Marcel K. Bisdorf, Maria Saracino, Marta Juvanteny, Mona Oates, Nadine Levin, Nafissa Harvoire, Nunokawa Junko, Susie Dureau

Entitled to a portfolio package from E4A.com:

Kelsey Stephenson, Pimpisa Tinpalit, Yun Nam

Entitled to a complete package from E4A.com:

Michael Harris

Note: While Agora Gallery is the sponsor and organizer of the competition, the 2014 competition was juried by critic, curator, writer, and educator Mr. Carlo McCormick. Mr. McCormick is not affiliated with Agora Gallery in any manner. Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process.

View the 2014 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

28th Chelsea International Art Competition, 2013

Juror: Mr. Anthony Haden-Guest, Art Critic

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2013 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Anne Sedel, Sean Arce, Céline Bardou, Liza Brenner, Rebecca Calhoun, Airco Caravan, Tracey Derrick, Kat Elagina, Brigitte Garcia,  Hank Gray, Michelle Hartney, Gudrun Heamägi, Dong Whan Kang, Jordi Marin-Gest, Russell Mehlman, Alain Millerand, Hélène Mogensen de Monléon, Edward Moret, Yasuaki Okamoto, Alix Pierre, Jonathan Popovich, Jeffrey Richter, Debbee Sheppard, Kristina Siegel, Chuck Siler, Mark St. Mary, Neale Stratford, John Szabo, Maria Torrendell, Swarte Vulpescu Olaru, Christina White, Mia Am Fenster, Beatriz González, Talia Savyone.

Entitled to receive cash awards:

$500 to Dana Crossan, $300 to Andrew Shin and $200 to Alexandria Lira.

Entitled to  one year of exposure on ARTmine.com:

Lawrence Baker, Silla Calzolari, Jorge De La Torriente, Carolina Delgado, Phyllis Dunseth, Florian Froese-Peeck, Eugeny Galkin, Stacia Gates, Sophie Herbé, Yasmine Laraqui, Oriol Jolonch, Julie Ramage.

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

Antoine Guiraud, Francisco Emiliano Karothy, Clint Saunders

Note: While Agora Gallery is the sponsor and organizer of the competition, the 2013 competition was juried by Mr. Anthony Haden-Guest, a British writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic and occasional performer, who lives in New York and London. Mr. Haden-Guest is not affiliated with Agora Gallery in any manner. Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process.

View the 2013 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

27th Chelsea International Art Competition, 2012

Juror: Mr. Ira Goldberg, Executive Director of the prestigious Art Students League of New York

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2012 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Arantxa Alvarez, Abby Rieser, Doug DePice, Luis Guerrero, Gloria Miller Allen, Phil Saunier, Mauricio Cadavid, Mary Sauer, Giovanni Gelardi, Kathleen Knauer, Joel Mara, Valerie Cordaro, Juan Miguel Palacios, Shelley Powsner, Piero Anthony Manrique, Hilary Eddy, Siobhan Leonard, Susan Schmidt, Ralph White, Robert Langstaff, Katerina Verguelis, Deborah Danelley, Elena Evseeva, Juan Pablo Gayoso Mogrovejo, Babis Arizi, Andrée Laroche, Mark Van Crombrugge, Eric Shute, John A. Varriano, Teymur Agalioglu, and Meredith Rose.

Entitled to receive cash awards:

$500 to Michael Dangel, $300 to Marsha Massih and $200 to Ken Ahlering

Entitled to  one year of exposure on ARTmine.com:

Kevin Fleming , Ezgi Gökçe, Christina Jekey, Tiffany Scull, Rebecca Kuzemchak, Maria Torrendell, Michael Stefanovich, Jeffrey Salzar, Atushi Ikeya, Raul Hiroshi Yoshimoto, Ariela Mirelman, and Ernst Miesgang

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

Antonio Guerrero(Anguesser), Sharon Brill, and Arkadiusz Gawecki

Note:While Agora Gallery is the sponsor and organizer of the competition, the 2012 competition was juried by Mr. Goldberg, Executive Director of the prestigious Art Students League of New York. Mr. Goldberg is not affiliated with Agora Gallery in any manner. Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process.

View the 2012 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

26th Chelsea International Art Competition, 2011

Juror: Ms. Elizabeth Sherman, Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2011 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Goseong Choi, Juancho Arregui Lopez, Marisa Ollero, Lyn Ashby, Beth Kamhi, Andreas Tschersich, Christian Weber, Vlad Antonov, Panagiota Bakouti, Len Bernstein, Olivia Coffey, Alfredo De Matteis, Mark Hedengren, Yohei Kichiraku, Emma Topping, Chloe Vallance, William Tarnowski, Carlo Piemonti, Jorge Rivas, Filip Matic, Judi Lederman, Jessica Houston, Sarah Intemann, Mio Garcia, Romulo Goncalves, Petra Fohringer, Matthew Condron, Matthew Allen, Ilse Bormann, Barbara Groot .

Entitled to receive cash awards:

$500 to Angie Zielinski, $300 to Trey Gossett and $200 to Carmen Celentano

Entitled to  one year of exposure on ARTmine.com:

Nadia Garcia Porras, Cheng Halley, Yiyun Chu, Marcus Günther, Antonia Sanke, Masumi Nyui.

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

Read Becky Franco’s Review in ARTisSpectrum, Volume 25, page 93

Note: While Agora Gallery is the sponsor and organizer of the competition, the 2011 competition was juried by Ms. Sherman, curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ms. Sherman is not affiliated with Agora Gallery in any manner. Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process.

View the 2011 Signed Minutes of Decisions.

25th Chelsea International Art Competition, 2010

Juror: Ms. Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The following are the results based on the average scores provided by the jurors of the 2010 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition after reviewing the submitted artwork (Reception Video and Photos):

Selected to participate in the competition exhibition:

Alec Von Bargen, Alina Alexandrovna, Allen Bryan, Allie Regan, Cassie Clements, Claudia & Davide Luciano, Denny Bond, Edward Hahn, Eily K Jammy, Evi Apostolou, Ferdinando Di Maso, Franco Monari, Gaspare Di Caro, Hally Mcgehean, Horacio Dowbley, Jose A. Gallego, Julio Flores, Jürgen Lechner, Losan Luca Piatti, Maryann Worrell, Michael May, Nick Kozak, Peter Baldinger, Peter Strobos, Roberto Bernardo, Ruth Schreiber, Sangeun Yu, Stephanie Kristofic, Víctor Melia De Alba, Yea Jin Son.

Entitled to receive cash awards:

$500 to Sebastian Rudko, $300 to Leslie Tucker and $200 to Gregory Grim

Entitled to one year of exposure on ARTmine.com:

Huguette Roe, Ian Magargee, Isabel Kumerz, Jenny Walker, Magdalena Kwapisz-Grabowska, Marie-Claire Feltin

Entitled to a review in ARTisSpectrum magazine:

Tania Elisabeth Welz

Read the review of the selected artists in ARTisSpectrum - Volume 23, page 37

Note: While Agora Gallery is the sponsor and organizer of the competition, the 2011 competition was juried by Ms. Fontanella, Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Ms. Fontanella is not affiliated with Agora Gallery in any manner. Agora Gallery and its employees had no input or influence in the selection process.

View the 2010 Signed Minutes of Decisions..