World’s Best Minimalists Named By America’s 25 Best Galleries: WANG, SAMKANASHWILI, REYMORE, AKOPOVA, CHUNG, LAUGHTON, SUPPLE, XIAOYU, RAVY, MAXIM & BR/ 2021 AMERICAN ART AWARDS

6 min readOct 2, 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 CHINA, GEORGIA, USA, SOUTH KOREA, FRANCE & RUSSIA.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Wang Xu was born in ShaanxiChinain1994

Watercolor “old objects” won the excellence award of the first silk road Changan University Student Art Festival in 2017.

Watercolor “stone shadow 1” was selected as the color pioneer in 2018 National Watercolor Exhibition.

Watercolor ”pathin the forest” won the excellence award of 2018 China sketching Association annual exhibition.

The watercolor “Waiting for flowers to bloom all over the hillside” was selected into the 2018 future water world network exhibition, and the watercolor “entering the city” won the sixth place in the third category of American Art Award 2019.

The oil painting “rose and jasmine” was selected in the American Fusen art still life competition.

The oil painting “the taste of Gardenia” was selected in the 107th annual exhibition of the American Artists Union.

Watercolor “hometown foreign land” was selected in the small work exhibition of the Canadian painters’ Federation.

The oil painting “that tree” and “winding” were selected in the 2021 Helvey art open online competition in Switzerland The oil painting thorns was selected in the 108th annual exhibition of the American Artists Federation in 2021.

ARTIST CONTACTS FOR ART COLLECTORS:

Category 25. MINIMALISM

1st Place XU WANG CHINA 478130448@qq.com
“Shout Loudys” 100x100cm Oil on linen.

2nd Place-Tie NATA SAMKANASHWILI GEORGIA natalisamkanashvili@gmail.com “Chord” 60x40" Mixed media, paper, watercolor, ink, charcoal, acrylic.

3rd Place-Tie LINDA REYMORE USA reymoreL@comcast.net
“Series 2nd Place-Tie- Composition 1” 36x48" Acrylic, wall paint, canvas.

3rd Place-Tie MILA AKOPOVA USA milaakopova@gmail.com
“Thoughts” 16.5x23.4" Acrylic, watercolor on black paper.

3rd Place-Tie XU WANG CHINA 478130448@qq.com
“Free” 100x100cm Oil on linen.

3rd Place-Tie DAEUN CHUNG SOUTH KOREA condy2084@gmail.com
“The Black And White Sun” 8x8" Pen on paper.

4th Place PETER LAUGHTON USA www.peterlaughton.com “Lowlands” 48x36” Oil on canvas.

5th Place-Tie GREGORY SUPPLE USA supplelaw@aol.com
“Smooth Sailin’” 14x11" Watercolor on Arches paper.

5th Place-Tie XU XIAOYU CHINA 469370733@qq.com
“ Existence-contradiction” 240x100cm Oil on linen.

5th Place-Tie JORDAN RAVY FRANCE artndeco06@hotmail.fr
“Contours, Formes Et Couleurs. Série 4” 40x30cm Paper collage.

6th Place-Tie MILA AKOPOVA USA milaakopova@gmail.com
“Pink Dream” 11.7x16.5" Acrylic on black paper.

6th Place-Tie CHUKIN MAXIM RUSSIA www.instagram.com/chukin.maxim ‘’Hayloft’’ 60x80 cm Acrylic on canvas

6th Place-Tie BR SOUTH AFRICA www.brart.co.za br@brart.co.za
“Winter Stroll” 51x40cm Oil on cotton 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.