World’s Best Asian-Subject Artists: MENGDI, HONGBING, RHEE, BOLEN, MINGLIANG, HUANG, DOU, ZHANG, SHUAI, BẢO & YU / 2024 WORLD ART AWARDS

Thom Bierdz
5 min readJun 28, 2024

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Artists from 61 countries competed in the 2024 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. The 300+ winning works, 1st to 6th Place (and ties) in all 50 categories, will be revealed in this column one category at a time, and also an upcoming movie.

The WINNERS in CATEGORY 28. ASIAN SUBJECT represent CHINA, JAPAN, VIETNAM & USA.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Liu Mengdi

graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the School of Fine Arts of Nanjing University of the Arts in 2015. She is a director of the Xicheng District Artists Association of Beijing. Her oil painting “Ode to Pear Blossoms” is collected by the National Center for the Performing Arts of China.

Awards:

In 2024, her oil painting “Spring Warmth” won the Talent Award of the “10th International Painting Open Competition”.

In 2022, her oil painting “Deep Autumn Water” won the Talent Award of the “3rd International Portrait Art Competition”.

In 2022, her oil painting “Tsinghua Academy” won the Talent Award of the “4th International Landscape Art Competition”.

In 2021, her oil painting “Decision-making Yangjialing” won the third prize of the “Image Beijing” Fine Arts Calligraphy and Photography Competition.

In 2018, her oil painting “Meeting” won the Excellence Award (the highest award) of the “Colorful.2018” National Women Painters’ Exhibition.

ART COLLECTORS — CONTACT THE WINNERS HERE: CATEGORY 28. ORIENTALISM or ASIAN SUBJECT

1st Place LIU MENGDI CHINA mengdi.liu@outlook.com “Phoenix Returns To The Nest” 80x100cm Oil on linen.

2nd Place — Tie WANG HONGBING CHINA 13051957859@163.com “Kazakh Girl” 30x30cm Oil on linen.

2nd Place — Tie INA RHEE USA lulurun18@gmail.com “Childhood Innocence” 14x14” Color pencil.

3rd Place — Tie TERESA BOLEN JAPAN https://teresabolen.com “Darling Miss M” 9x12” Oil.

3rd Place — Tie WU MINGLIANG CHINA 2510838300@qq.com “Mysterious Force” 100x80cm Oil on linen.

4th Place — Tie SONG-ZHEN SHEN HUANG USA 2917620140@qq.com “Faraway Girl” 38x56cm Digital painting.

4th Place — Tie DAMAO DOU CHINA hansondou1996@gmail.com “Dawn At The Ancient Pavilion“ 78x60cm Ink.

5th Place — Tie XUEPING ZHANG USA https://xueping-zhang.pixels.com “Dancing To The Pipa Music” 11x14” Pen and ink.

5th Place — Tie HAN SHUAI CHINA https://www.clatia.com/artist/index/225- “The The Smell Of Spring” 120x80cm Acrylic.

6th Place — Tie TERESA BOLEN JAPAN https://teresabolen.com “Michael” 11x16" Digital painting.

6th Place — Tie NGOC BẢO ANH VIETNAM ngocbaoanhcasi@gmail.com “The Girl And Lotus” 70x90cm Oil canvas.

6th Place — Tie SHU YU CHINA https://instagram.com/rambow7d/ “Sealed Memory” 150x91cm Mixed media on canvas.

In 2024, WORLD ART AWARDS had submissions from these 61 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, UK, Ukraine, USA, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia.

The World Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2024 who were asked to score art: (in alphabetical order by country):

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

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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.