WORLD ART AWARDS Winners In Erotic Male: HELDENS, DALL, GEORGIEVA, BEER, BEULLENS, ELLIS, SAFAR, QUAN & HARRELL

5 min readJun 26, 2023

The WORLD ART AWARDS winners in CATEGORY 10: EROTIC MALE live in THE NETHERLANDS, BULGARIA, UK, BELGIUM, USA, FRANCE & CANADA.

Artists from 79 countries competed in the 2023 WORLD ART AWARDS where 20 of the most revered galleries in the world were sent online images to score in drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: The work of Wim Heldens can be found in collections all over the world, among which the collection of the Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten in The Hague, the AMC Collection in Amsterdam, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira (New York), the Howard Tullman Collection in Chicago, the MEAM in Barcelona (the European Museum of Modern Art), and various private collections in the USA, England, Australia, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Taiwan and The Netherlands.

AWARDS: In 1998 Wim Heldens won the Menena Joy Schwabe Award of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (Mall Galleries/National Portrait Gallery) in London; in 2000 he was awarded a grant from the Fonds voor de Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. In 2011, Wim Heldens won the prestigious First Prize of the BP Portrait Award of the National Portrait Gallery in London for which in 2017 he was commissioned to paint Lady Carol and Sir Harry Djanogly titled “The Collectors.” In 2022 Heldens won the first prize in the ModPortrait competition in MEAM Barcelona. http://www.wimheldens.com/

ART COLLECTORS — CONTACT THE WINNERS HERE:

CATEGORY 10. EROTIC — MALE

1ST PLACE WIM HELDENS THE NETHERLANDS http://www.wimheldens.com/ “Emeka” 127x76cm Oil on canvas.

2ND PLACE — TIE RUMJANA GEORGIEVA BULGARIA “Mirror Worlds” 150x100cm Acrylic on 3D canvas.

2ND PLACE — TIE JO BEER UK jobeerart.com “More Core Gavin” 60x90cm Oil on canvas.

3RD PLACE — TIE WIM BEULLENS BELGIUM www.wim-beullens.be “No Title 2” 42x30cm Graphite on paper.

3RD PLACE — TIE TOM ELLIS USA “Nude With Horns & Sceptor” 24x36" Oil on linen.

4TH PLACE MATHIEU SAFAR FRANCE https://www.artmajeur.com/mathieu-safar “Milky Way — Orpheus” 144x120cm Digital art.

5TH PLACE SHAWN DALL CANADA https://shawndall.com/ “Grunt” 16x9ratio Digital art.

6TH PLACE — TIE CAROLYN QUAN USA https://carolynquan.com/ “Letting Go” 48x32" Digital photo collage.

6TH PLACE — TIE WIM BEULLENS BELGIUM www.wim-beullens.be “No Title 4” 42x30cm Graphite on paper.

6TH PLACE — TIE WINSTON HARRELL USA https://chefontherun.artstation.com/ “The Sleeping” 24x18" Graphite on paper, finished in Photoshop.

Art collectors can see hundreds of winning images and contact info to all 50 CATEGORIES of winning artworks:

https://www.americanartawards.com/2023-winning-artists-world-art-awards/

In 2023, WORLD ART AWARDS had submissions from these 79 countries: Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chili, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tobago, Trinidad, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.