Collectors Art Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in contemporary art by celebrating the work of extraordinary artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time.
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My art is a mirror of my soul. Through spontaneous and intuitive creative processes, I try to process my emotions and experiences and find myself again. It's a way to express my feelings and thoughts and engage with my surroundings. I hope that my art touches the viewer and gives them a glimpse into my world.
For over forty years, Greg Stirling has been a quiet yet profound force in the world of contemporary art, a true luminary in San Jose, California’s creative scene. His work, spanning abstract and impressionist painting to kinetic sculpture, resonates with a duality of stillness and motion, of quiet contemplation and explosive energy.
Gaya Chandrasekaran is a London-based contemporary artist. Born in the coastal city of Chennai, India, her artistic practice is deeply influenced by the vivid colors and rich cultural heritage of her upbringing. Working primarily with acrylics, palette knives, and gold leaf, she creates layered, emotive landscapes that invite quiet introspection and a sense of transcendence.
Aline Pouget, internationally awarded contemporary painter, has exhibited in remarkable places such as the Vatican Chancellery, the Vicar's Palace in the Vatican during the jubilee year, the Whitney Gallery in New York, the museums of Turin and Barcelona among others.
The intended mise-en-scène has been an important component of her art work. Having started with photographical art, for the last years she has focused on shoe sculptures and assemblages, and turned to a surrealistic way of working. "I just need to assemble the pictures and thoughts of my consciousness and subconsciousness to create a new vision and a new way to see.", the artist says. And as Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once said "He, who has eyes, sees everything in everything."
Riitta Hellén-Vuoti (b. 1959) is a Finnish artist, living and working in Kuopio, Finland. By education she is a licensed medical specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. She has been artistic since her youth, and started dedicating more time to painting and poetry around the year 2000.
MALO began teaching art classes at the age of fifteen: drawing, painting, and sculpture. From 1974 to 1978, the young artist was selected to participate in four creativity art camps broadcast by the French Alliance Television. Based in France and Spain, those immersions in the world of creation were dedicated to introducing a new generation of artists to the philosophical, historical, and practical aspects of arts: Grand Masters, arts and culture, literature, cinema, and poetry have also been explored.
I was, or, I have always been a dreamer.
Looking for ways to escape
This has lead me to be a late bloomer
Never satisfied with what was presented
Always thinking
There has to be more.
Tamara Michel, born in Ukraine, studied in Moscow and has been living and working as a freelance artist for 30 years. She paints various pictures with oil and watercolor, has her own style, likes to experiment closely with colors, changes her style, but her love for joyful colors remains.
She has received many awards, including a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Fine Art in Beijing China. 2017 she got the 60 Top Artists Award, Metropolitan Art Museum Las Vegas USA, and 2020 the Top 60 Masters Award, ATIM, Grimandi Gallery, New York USA, and the Paolo Levi Prize at Palazzo Clerici, Milano Italy.
Born on August 11, 1956, in Çorum, Turkey, he embarked on his artistic journey with oil painting in June 2006. For two years, he honed his skills under the guidance of Hızır Teppeev at an atelier in Ankara, dedicating his weekends to perfecting his craft. Currently, he works as a freelance artist in a charming, restored atelier that was once a house built in 1926. Located in Edremit, Balıkesir, Turkey, this space became his creative sanctuary in September 2010. Here, amidst a setting rich with history, he continues to explore and express his artistic vision.
António Adauta started working as an artisan in 1990 when student in Coimbra “rediscovered” the mosaics of Conímbriga. He adapted its patterns to create an Arraiolos stitch framed handmade embroidery. For about three years he worked on the elaboration of “master patterns” and the handcrafting of 16 prototypes. In 1992, the Secretary of State for Culture approved a “manifesto of cultural interest” for this project being sponsorable. This year he started an economic activity as artisan.
Christophe Szpajdel, born in Belgium on the 29th of September 1970 to Polish parents, is an internationally acclaimed artist who has dedicated his life to the intricate arts of calligraphy, typography, lettering, and logo design.
Erna Klaus is a contemporary artist whose path to painting is as unconventional as her expressive, color-intense works. She did not come from a traditional artistic background but discovered art later in life—through a formative experience during a painting course in Munich. There, under the guidance of a Bob Ross–trained artist, she created her first two oil paintings. This moment marked the beginning of a new, deeply personal journey: art became not just a form of expression but a calling.
Vasco Diogo was born in Lisbon in 1970. He has a degree in Sociology by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a master degree in Social Sciences by Universidade de Lisboa and a PhD in Communication Sciences by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with the thesis: "Video: specificity, hybridity and experimentation"(scholarship by FCT, 2008). From 2008 to 2020 he was a professor at University of Beira Interior teaching mainly cinema directing, new cinemas and experimental cinema.
His artistic ability as a Sculptor was born with him, in the sense that he was a self-taught Sculptor, along with genius and talent that allowed him to create marvelous Artworks from trunks and pieces of Olive Wood and from Stone, which he also loved to work with, using simple and rudimentary tools such as chisels and gouges of all sizes and hammers such as chisels and gouges of all sizes, hammer, files, glass and sandpaper.
As an artist, a visual artist Symona Colina reads between the lines of perspective opening heart and mind to the boundaries of consciousness and perception. Slipping through the doors of perception where time vanishes, finding a deeper awareness of the world and our place within it.
Born in 1983 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, Fina Ferrara has transformed herself from a celebrated classical ballet dancer into a bold multidisciplinary performance and video artist, fusing her rigorous training with radical new forms of expression. Her art is an unrelenting exploration of movement—physical, emotional, and conceptual—combining dance, theater, sculpture, video, and installation to create works that resonate with both power and poetry.
I am from Lithuania. Drawing has been my favourite activity since childhood. When I was working as a teacher of Lithuanian language and literature, I enrolled in the Music Academy to study directing. For 3 years I have been delving deeper into Third Millennium Psychology, based on Western and Eastern philosophy. I studied Art History at the Art Academy.
