World’s Best Figure Impressionists Named By America’s 25 Best Galleries: GHETIU, TANG, ZUBAIR, FASSA, ROSSOUW, YANG, HOU, LIUBOU, YAO, ZHUANG & SEALE / 2021 AMERICAN ART AWARDS

6 min readOct 1, 2021

Each May the American Art Awards organization selects the 25 Best Galleries and Museums in America, then in autumn these revered art institutions vote on online art to decide the world’s best contemporary artists.

The 25 Best GALLERIES + MUSEUMS In America, 2021 — American Art AwardsAmerican Art Awards

The AAA board chooses only one gallery or museum per state per year. Among other criteria, selections are based on…

www.americanartawards.com

America’s Best Galleries & Museums scored almost 2,000 works in 50 categories from 64 countries.

Winners in this category are from LITHUANIA, USA, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA, CHINA & BELARUS.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: SERGHEI GHETIU — Art for me is primarily emotions, which I get in the process of work. As far as I remember myself back in my early childhood, I loved to visualize my feelings and moods that is why I paint everything without selecting one direction, since there are many things in this world that I want to capture in my paintings, whether people, nature or still lives. My love of detail does not complicate this perception at all, and my many years of experience in painting allow me to work quickly, without much searching, to solve the tasks in the painting. My paintings reflect my state of mind and emotions that is why they are so bright and saturated with detail. Serghei Ghetiu | Saatchi Art

Education

1986–1989 School of Arts 1, Soroca, Moldova

1998–2001 College of Fine Arts „Alexandru Plămădeală” in Chisinau, Moldova

2002–2003 European University of Moldova (EUM), Chisinau, Moldova — studies unfinished due to the closure of the university — specialty: Economics (main subject) and German Philology (subsidiary subject)

2003–2005 Free International Universtity of Moldova (ULIM), Chisinau, Moldova — interrupted studies — specialty: German Philology (main subject) and English Philology (subsidiary subject)

2005–2006 DAAD scholarship, German Philology in University of Rostock, Germany

2006-2008 University of Rostock, Germany, specialty: German Philology (main subject) and Language Communication and Communication Disorders (subsidiary subject)Gained degree: Bachelor of Arts

Professional Appointments

Since 2016 fine art artist working independently and specializing in oil painting. Creation and selling artworks online and directly through physical galleries, meeting client deadlines, commissions of portraits and old masters copies.

Individual lessons or in small groups for beginners and advanced art lovers.

Exhibitions

1990 Exhibition of young Talents in the House of Culture, Soroca, Moldova
2002 Gallery of Arts of Chisinau, landscapes of Moldova

Representation — Kaunas Art Gallery “Artarea”

ARTIST CONTACTS FOR ART COLLECTORS:

.Category 21. IMPRESSIONISM — HUMAN

1st Place SERGHEI GHETIU LITHUANIA https://www.saatchiart.com/all?query=serghei%20ghetiu “Je Suis Ballerine III” 60x75cm Oil on canvas.

2nd Place-Tie LIMING TANG USA doclmt@yahoo.com
“Book Reading” 38x32" Oil on canvas.

2nd Place-Tie LIMING TANG USA doclmt@yahoo.com
“New Normal” 24x30" Oil on canvas.

3rd Place-Tie ISMAIL ZUBAIR NIGERIA Izubair97@yahoo.com
“My Joy Belong To Me” 120x150cm Acrylic and newsprint on canvas.

3rd Place-Tie LYNDA FASSA USA http://www.fassaart.com “The Traveler” 24x18” Oil and gold leaf on panel.

3rd Place-Tie SERGHEI GHETIU LITHUANIA https://www.saatchiart.com/all?query=serghei%20ghetiu
“The Girl With The Eyes Of The Whole World” 50x60cm Oil on canvas.

4th Place-Tie ROELOF ROSSOUW SOUTH AFRICA www.art.co.za/roelofrossouw “Mother And Child” 20x16" Oil.

4th Place-Tie CLAIRE YANG USA clairejoy333@gmail.com
“I Miss You” 24×18″ Graphite pencil on paper.

5th Place-Tie CHENLIN HOU CHINA 329563524@qq.com
“Want To Cross The Life” 150x120cm Oil on linen.

5th Place-Tie SAS LIUBOU BELARUS sas.lub@yandex.ru
“Big Bird” 50x70cm Oil on canvas.

6th Place-Tie XINYI YAO CHINA 24xinyiy@wab.edu
“Brown Sugar” 90x120cm Oil on canvas.

6th Place-Tie JIE ZHUANG CHINA 651862835@qq.com
“One Day In 1980s” 80x100cm Oil on linen.

6th Place-Tie ANN SEALE USA www.annsealeart.com “Lay Off Of My Blue Suede Shoes” 30x48” Oil on Canvas.

Click below to see the relaxing hour-long movie revealing 2021’s hundreds of winning artworks:

Artworks from 59 countries won among the 50 categories: paintings, drawings, photography, digital and sculpture. (Americans won more because Americans entered more since the competition is better known here.)

Number of winners per country: Argentina 1, Australia 12, Belarus 2, Belgium 2, Brazil 3, Bulgaria 2, Canada 30, China 85, Croatia 2, Cyprus 1, Denmark 2, England 2, Finland 1, France 7, Georgia 3, Germany 18, Ghana 1, Greece 3, Hungary 2, Japan 1, India 10, Iran 1, Ireland 1, Israel 1, Italy 14, Kazakhstan 1, Kuwait 2, Latvia 6, Lithuania 27, Macedonia 5, Malaysia 2, Mexico 2, Moldova 1, Morocco 1, Netherlands 3, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 8, Norway 1, Oman 1, Pakistan 1, Philippines 5, Poland 8, Republic Of Korea 12, Romania 2, Russia 45, Serbia 1, South Africa 8, Spain 11, Sweden 3, Taiwan 7, Thailand 1, Turkey 3, Uganda 1, UK 10, Ukraine 5, USA 264, Uzbekistan 1, Zambia 1, Zimbabwe 2.