World’s Best Contemporary Artists: Ashbourne, Finch, Gianna/Georgieva, Pesic Grozdanov, Rodigas, Yoffe / 2024 AMERICAN ART AWARDS Winners
Artists from 64 countries competed in the 2024 AMERICAN ART AWARDS where 20 of the most revered galleries in the USA 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, were featured in 75 articles and a movie.
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Art collectors can see the hundreds of winning artworks and corresponding contact info to the best contemporary artists in the world here: https://americanartawards.com/2024-winning-artists-american-art-awards/
Here are bios on six outstanding 2024 award-winning artists (in alphabetical order):
Tom Ashbourne
Tom is a lifelong art patron and collector. In his words “I’ve been collecting and appreciating art for most of my life. My transition from corporate executive to professional artist started with what learning about fine art while building my extensive and varied art collection. My skills and knowledge grew with some sculpting and interior design classes, confidence I acquired from encouragement by mentors and my artist friends, and experiences in my studio. Together, I’ve developed and matured my artistic eye, sense of balance, and appreciation of texture, shapes, and color.
Tom Ashbourne SSC SCA OSA has been honored with extensive national and international recognition. In addition to two wins in American Art Awards 2024 (Non-Representational Sculpture, Non-Manipulated Photography — Human), other recent awards include Art Market’s The Gold List 2024,; ATIM’s Top 60 Masters; Art Comes Alive “Sculptor of the Year”; Contemporary Art Curator’s “ 2025 Visionaries: Artists Shaping The Future; and Contemporary Art Collectors’ “Global Art Virtuoso Award: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award”.
Tanya Finch
Born in the Kazakhstan, Tanya used to leave in Siberia, Ukraine, Russia and now for the past 20 years she is leaving in the USA. Tanya has a bachelor degree in chemistry, she started drawing 2 years ago,graphite art is her passion
https://www.facebook.com/graphite.artist.tanya.finch
Romi Gianna
Romi Gianna is the artistic name of the well-known Bulgarian artist Rumjana Georgieva.
Primary medium — acrylic, mixed media, quartz sand, modeling paste, putties and other tools.
Exhibitions 11 solo and 12 group exhibitions, featured in television and radio appearances, as well as magazines and newsletters.
Recent awards:
- 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards — 2nd place Abstract, 2nd and 6th place Abstract Expressionism
- 2023 American Art Awards — 2nd place Naïve and 6th place Portrait of someone famous / 2023 World Art Awards -2nd place Erotic-Male, 3rd place Abstract Expressionism, 5th and 6th place in Portrait of Someone Famous, 6th place in Impressionism Animal
- 2022 American Art Awards — 6th place Cubism
Collectors: Collections of Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper, Austria, France, Italy, German, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Nederland, Portugal, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Latvia and s.o.”
https://www.instagram.com/romigianna?igsh=MWZ3OTNqY2RleHRyYg==
Divna Pesic Grozdanov
Born on 22nd September 1979 in Kavadarci, Republic of Macedonia, Divna graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, Department of Macedonian and South-Slavonic Languages with American Studies. Later she finished Master of Economy science in Management and Banking.
Divna Pesic Grozdanov has been a professional sportsman for more than 20 years. She has been the best shooter of all times in the Republic of Macedonia in the discipline of small calibre rifle and air-rifle, holding 37 state records in both female and male competitions. So far she has twice become a champion of the Balkans and twice took part at the Olympic Games (Sydney, Australia, 2000, and Athens, Greece, 2004). She has been ranked among the top competitors in many European and World competitions.
Divna Pesic Grozdanov, 45, lives and works in the USA, creating mesmerizing oil paintings in a unique, recognizable style called Divnism.
The highly-collected artist was named the #1 abstract expressionist in the world several times by American Art Awards and won Italy’s International Donatello Prize art award this year for her unique artistic career. Also in 2023, Divna’s paintings were published in the book, Contemporary Celebrity Masters.
She was chosen first place at World Art Awards 2024 juried by 20 best museums and galleries across the world and was named the best abstract expressionist in the world!
She was elected as second place from “33 EMERGING CREATIVE MINDS YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR 2011” by Sofi Art magazine, USA (www.SOFImag.com).
She received Luxembourg Art Prize 2022 from Pinacotheque museum for her artistic achievements globally and won the Best of Best Award from Top Art Awards 2021.
At 13 years-old, one of her passions had been oil on canvas, and to date she has had 20 major exhibitions around the world; Skopje, New York, Miami, Paris, Washington, Dusseldorf, Ljubljana, Istanbul, Chicago…
Divna Pesic’s art works were shown on the biggest billboard in Manhattan, NYC, as a selected artist from around the world by See.Me Take Times Square 2014.
One of her paintings, Protecting My Pride, was acquired by her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth and hangs fittingly at Buckingham Palace. Art collectors understand that owning a Divna Pesic Grozdanov oil is not only a joy to see daily, but a wise investment. (www.divnapesic.com).
Steffi Rodigas
On her first trip to New Zealand, she stood at the top of Key Summit and decided to change her life. Social constraints and family reasons determined the previous life of the mother of three, which was characterized by working in a variety of occupations, as a teacher, Christmas tree ornament designer, self-employed transporter, headmistress and for the longest time as a social pedagogue. At 58, she broke with all conventions, left her secure job and paved the way to freedom to fully develop her passion for art and music.
Within a few years, Steffi Rodigas had become a major figure in the art scene, thanks to her hard work and flourishing skills.
Her works have since been shown in 13 countries on 4 continents. She was widely represented at the 1st Chinese-German Art Exhibition in Weifang, the cultural capital of East Asia in 2024. She has had several solo exhibitions in Germany.
Steffi Rodigas has received 16 international art awards, including in New York, Washington, London, Monaco and Milan, as well as numerous honors. Her works are represented in various books and magazines, including on covers, as well as in private and public collections worldwide. She has repeatedly taken top places at the international ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS, WORLD ART AWARDS, AMERICAN ART AWARDS.
She is a member of the International Association of Visual Artists IAVA.
In terms of materials, she works with acrylic, oil and watercolor paints and developed her own art form “ART in ART”, which combines her penchant for realism with abstraction. Her art focuses on the beauty of nature, characters, children, animals, but also world events such as climate change or ocean pollution.
With her passion for three-dimensionality, she has created numerous sculptures from building insulation material and designs them in a unique way.
In 2023, her own book “Art- Passion- Emotions” was published with 145 works of art and biographical information.
David Yoffe
I came into this world in 1962 in Leningrad, Soviet Union …there is no such city and country anymore, so actually I am from nowhere.
I did not attend any art school, learned painting from my own experience and by visiting each and every museum and exhibition, possible.
Painting art, is something like “bottle mail” — you put your message in to the bottle and toss it into the sea … no way no knows, who will pick it up… oil on canvas can survive hundreds of years, artists are not… hopefully I can share creativity with them — Engineer must follow rules of country and physics, Architect must follow rules of city and cardinal directions, sculptor must follow rules of volume, only painter have no limits.
There are mistakes in my works, or at least something that I did not expected from myself. That is why most of my works are “ Flawristic”, having flaw, internal contradiction … looking at them some part of me says “yes” some part of me says “no», that’s not new: Errare humanum est.
In our days’ Artificial intelligence can learn any painting technics or style of any great artist, but there is something that AI will lose to artist — his mistakes, his doubts, his breaks the chain of logic…
My friends are bringing me verity of ideas about my works, but almost no one got the same idea that pushed me to do it- so Natural intelligence have problems with my art … probably Artificial one will miss it as well.
Maybe we humans will win this race, may be we not … but I will do my best. https://www.instagram.com/davidyoffe1/
In 2024, AMERICAN ART AWARDS had submissions from these 64 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, China, Congo Democratic Republic, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea (Republic, South), Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vietnam, USA, Zambia.
American Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2024 (in alphabetical order by state) asked to score art:
BEST IN ARIZONA: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art
BEST IN COLORADO: Mirada Fine Art
BEST IN CONNECTICUT: Fairfield University Art Museum (FUAM)
BEST IN FLORIDA: MAC Art Galleries
BEST IN IDAHO: Capitol Contemporary Gallery
BEST IN ILLINOIS: Jackson Junge Gallery
BEST IN INDIANA: Kuaba Gallery
BEST IN KANSAS: 2010 Gallery
BEST IN LOUISIANA: GRYDER
BEST IN MINNESOTA: Kolman & Reeb Gallery
BEST IN MISSOURI: The Museum of Art and Archaeology
BEST IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: Candita Clayton Gallery
BEST IN NEW JERSEY: Evalyn Dunn Gallery
BEST IN NEW MEXICO: Thornwood Gallery
BEST IN NORTH CAROLINA: Ambleside Gallery
BEST IN PENNSYLVANIA: Morton Contemporary Art Gallery
BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA: Mary Martin Galleries Of Fine Art
BEST IN UTAH: Modern West
BEST IN VERMONT: The Current
BEST IN WASHINGTON: ArtX Contemporary
ACTING CREDITS OF THOM BIERDZ: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0081551/
