Best Gallery In Utah: Ogden Contemporary Arts / 2024 WORLD ART AWARDS

Thom Bierdz
4 min readMar 25, 2024

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The World Art Awards has announced the 20 Best International Galleries and/or Museums for the year 2024, with Ogden Contemporary Arts receiving the award for the Best Gallery in Utah (one of six selected in the USA). Selections were based on years established, industry reputation, location, size, aesthetics, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, online presence, represented artists — and references from artists, clients, and visitors.

World Art Awards: “The internationally respected art establishment Ogden Contemporary Arts creates and shares globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced arts programming. OCA inspires local and regional artists through active involvement with the international contemporary art community within their Arts Garage, exhibit spaces, OCA Center Digital Art Room, 2nd Floor Gallery and Artist Lofts.”

UPCOMING EVENTS: Healing Palette of Mystical Mestizaje March 1st — April 21st, 2024; The Other Side Of the Tracks: May 3rd — July 21st, 2024

Web Site: ogdencontemporaryarts.org

Address: 455 25th Street Ogden, UT 84401

Contact: connect@ogdencontemporaryarts #801- 810–2898

World Art Awards: “This year we awarded art establishments with buildings hundreds of years old presenting Old Master originals, and conversely we selected new boundary-pushing art facilities. We opted for many high-rated private galleries representing important young work, from painting to digital to photography to sculpture. Most of these focus on advancing their regional artists, be they Burmese, Chilean, Colombian, Georgian, Latvian, Malaysian, Moroccan, Japanese, Portuguese, African, American, Latin American or Native-American.

“Our diversified roster this year includes a renowned three-story London showplace and a Prague institution (offering Czech legends of the 19th-20th century as well as European masters like Renoir, Chagall and Picasso). We chose an Australian gallery made of Australian materials specializing in Australian wood sculpture — and the only gallery in Taiwan that has focused on the art of photography for over 15 years. We also tributed large, modern art facilities with influential international presences in Morocco, Japan, Israel and USA.”

World Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2024 are:

Best in Australia: Bungendore Wood Works Gallery

Best in Chile: Isabel Aninat Gallery

Best in Columbia: Beatriz Esguerra Art

Best in Czech Republic: Knupp Gallery

Best in Georgia: UGallery

Best in Israel: Corridor Contemporary

Best in Japan: Nanzuka Underground

Best in Latvia: Galerija Romas Darzs

Best in Malaysia: Gallery des Artistes / Gallery@Tropicana

Best in Morocco: Comptoir des Mines Galerie

Best in Myanmar: New Treasure Art Gallery

Best in Portugal: Underdogs

Best in Taiwan: 1839 Contemporary Gallery

Best in United Kingdom: Miart Gallery London

Best in USA / Alabama: Alabama Contemporary Art Center

Best in USA / Arizona: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art

Best in USA / Iowa: Moberg Gallery

Best in USA / Nebraska: Kiechel Fine Art

Best in USA / South Dakota: South Dakota Art Museum

Best in USA / Utah: Ogden Contemporary Arts

www.WorldArtAwards.net annually awards the 20 Best International Galleries, and with their critique months later, awards 300+ living contemporary artists (painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists).

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Thom Bierdz

One of Medium’s TOP ART CONTRIBUTORS, award-winning author, actor, film-maker, painter. 12 books: 6 on art. President of WAA & AAA & ACCA.