Artist of the year 2025


Awards:

Grand Prize: Federico Pisciotta, "La Dama del Selfie"


Painter of the Year: Cher Pruys

"Fleeting Moments"


"Buttercup"


Sculptor of the Year: Kathleen Friedenberg

"Fagotto"


"Legend"


Photographer of the Year: Doug Caplan

"Silent Overture No 1316"


"Silent Overture No 1643"


Other Media of the Year (mixed media, drawing, collage, installations,etc.): Bujar Arizi

"Mystery of Skin"


"Woman with the Beladon"


Digital Art of the Year: Skottie O'Mahony"

"Aurex | Held In Reverence"

 

"Caius | Crowned By Time"


AI Art of the Year:

Mario Forcherio, "Flower Face"


Other Awarded Artists:

Ahmad Abdulaziz – Digital Art

Aleksandra Ciążyńska - painting

Angela Vera Torres - painting

Anna Tsivdari – painting

Anne Gro Starefoss Greve - painting

Anush Babayan – mixed media

Barry DeBaun - painting

Brigitte Krief - painting

Carmen Heidi Kroese - painting

Charles Hively - photography

Charles Wang - drawing

Despina Kyriakou - photography

Dr. Georgina Macken - painting

Dr. Michael Durst – painting

Eduardo Blanco Alvarez – painting

Emin Guler - painting

Eric Renard – photography

Henrik Bakmann – digital art

James Ellison – painting

Jason Shih – sculpture

Jean Sebastian Berche – painting

Juan Angel Gamez Ortiz – other media

Julie Turner – painting

Kathy Stanley – painting

Krisztianna – sculpture

Lee Richards – other (stained glass)

Linda Hansen – painting

Marcia Söderman – painting 

Marty Jones – AI

McP2 – mixed media

Omotayo Agunbiade – photography digitally manipulated

Ramón Rivas – mixed media

Ranulf Streuff – sculpture

Richard Ferguson – painting
Roland Reinert - painting
Romy Pfeifer- photography
Sevastianos Maillis - painting
Simon Hafele – painting
Steven B Wills – photography digitally manipulated

Stoian Mihaela – AI

Sylvia Bandyke - Photography & AI

Sylvia Dr. Kölbl - painting

Viktor Genel – sculpture

Wendy Cohen – painting 

William Moore III - sculpture

Yotzrim-Israeli Art Gallery - Ella Shimoni – other media (collage)

Zoltan – painting


The prize winners will be featured on the home page of the Artavita website, and in Current Masters Volume 8, the prestigious art book published by World Wide Art Books to be released in October 2026

 

The 7 Prize winners and 47 other awarded artists will be also featured in a Virtual Exhibition on Artavita for the whole of 2026.