World’s Best Humor Artists Named By America’s 25 Best Galleries: MACGILLIVRAY, PARK, KURZEMNIECE, REYMORE, WILSON, CHO, KIM, SCHMIDT, CHEN, GERALD, WALKER & LI/ 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 CANADA, USA, LATVIA, GERMANY & CHINA.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Sandra MacGillivray Award-winning Canadian Artists, an accredited member of Federation of Canadian Artists — FCA, the Portrait Society of Canada and graduate of Sheridan College Institute of Design and Technology.

Her paintings are collected nationally and internationally. Sandra has been published in Arabella Art Magazine, has been awarded 1st place with the American Art Awards multiple times, she is also winner of the Emily Carr Legacy Award.

Sandra paints in a realistic style capturing the emotion and mood of her subject. Through colour, texture and detail, her paintings capture the subject’s story and a moment in time, compelling the viewer to stop and be inspired. The paintings allow her audience to enter into a journey and share for just a little while the reason the piece of art was created.

“My goal is always to engage with the viewer. Otherwise it is merely paint on canvas.”

ARTIST CONTACTS FOR ART COLLECTORS:

Category 19. HUMOROUS

1st Place SANDRA MACGILLIVRAY CANADA semacgillivray@gmail.com
“Raining Cats And Dogs” 20x30” Acrylic on canvas.

2nd Place ZENO PARK USA mikaela73@naver.com
“Muffled Cries of Solitude” 18x24" Acrylic on board.

3rd Place-Tie AGNESE KURZEMNIECE LATVIA https://www.behance.net/
“Leisure” 117x95cm Oil on canvas.

3rd Place-Tie LINDA REYMORE USA reymoreL@comcast.net
“Out Of Lockdown” 24x24" Acrylics, canvas. humor

4th Place STEVE WILSON CANADA www.stevewilsonstudios.com “Leanne’s Smile” 24x18” Oil on canvas.

5th Place-Tie YOONSEO CHO USA chloecho2004@gmail.com
“Where Art Belongs” 14x22" Acrylic on board.

5th Place-Tie JENNIFER KIM USA artistbonkoo@gmail.com
“Behind the Scenes” 24x18” Charcoal and acrylic on paper.

5th Place-Tie SILVIA SCHMIDT GERMANY https://www.silvia-schmidt-farbreisen.de “Don’t Worry Be Happy” 12x16" Pastel on paper.

6th Place-Tie QIUCHI CHEN CHINA qiuchi68@live.cn
“Laughing Fruit” 120x200cm Oil.

6th Place-Tie DEBRA GERALD USA debragerald7@suddenlink.net
“Aunt Birdie, It’s Time” 16x20” Acrylic on canvas.

6th Place-Tie RONALD C WALKER USA https://ronald-walker.pixels.com/ 11x14" “Suburban After Taste” Gouache on board.

6th Place-Tie ROCKY LI CHINA rockylee0930@gmail.com
“Flip-Trap-Flop” 15x15cm Ballpoint pen on paper.

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.