To this year’s incredible sponsors, on behalf of Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and the global arts community: thank you for once again championing the Arts. Your support of the representational visual arts is important now more than ever – so thank you, we are deeply grateful!

DANIJELA KRHA PURSSEY, CO-FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BEAUTIFUL BIZARRE MAGAZINE

We hope you have enjoyed our week of reveals! The Winners of each Award – RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, INPRNT Photography Award, iCanvas Digital Art Award, and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders’ Emerging Artist Award have now been announced. Aren’t they all incredible?

Now it’s time for the biggest reveal yet! Below we unveil the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, the six Honourable Mentions selected by each of this year’s wonderful Gold sponsors, Directors of Haven Gallery in New York, and our Editor-in-Chief Danijela Krha Purssey. Along with the People’s Choice Award Winner, which saw our amazing community contribute over 14,136 votes from 103 different countries!

Thank you to everyone that voted for the People’s Choice Award. We sincerely appreciate your thoughts and opinions!

Our Thanks

We would like to once again thank the Jury Panel for giving their time and expertise this year: Rebecca Leveille (Traditional Art juror), Ellen Sheidlin (Photography juror), Ellen Jewett (Sculpture juror), and Laura H. Rubin (Digital Art juror), Erica Berkowitz & Joseph Weinreb Directors of Haven Gallery, and dedicated representatives from our amazing Gold sponsors.

It is thanks to our sponsors, particularly our Gold sponsors: INPRNT, RAYMAR, Yasha Young Projects, and iCanvas, that the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is able to give artists from all over the world the opportunity to have their work seen, recognized and validated. The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize inspires thousands of artists each year and changes the trajectory of many of these artists careers due to the exposure, recognition, and funding that the Prize provides.

Finally we would like to thank the Beautiful Bizarre team for their dedication and hard work over the many months it takes to manage and administer the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine will continue our work to ensure that the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize adds even more value to artists globally. The 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize will open in February 2024, so to ensure you don’t miss the news, please join our email mailing list here. If you are a brand or philanthropist that would like to become a champion of the arts by supporting next year’s Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, please email our Deputy Editor Natalia Joruk who would love to chat to you regarding how we can collaborate.

‘Serendipity’ Exhibition

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize Winners of the RAYMAR Traditional Art, INPRNT Photography, Yasha Young Projects Sculpture and iCanvas Digital Art Awards, the 1st Prize Winner of the Emerging Artist Award, and the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have been invited to participate in this year’s Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition ‘Serendipity‘, at Haven Gallery in New York later this year. We look forward to presenting their work as part of this prestigious annual exhibition! These works will be shared in the coming weeks leading up to the opening.

Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize

The Grand Prize Winner will receive:

• US$10,000 cash prize! Generously donated by sponsors RAYMAR, INPRNT, iCanvas, and Yasha Young Projects.
• The opportunity to exhibit in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition at Haven Gallery, in New York, USA, alongside 80+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists.
• Exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work.
• 10 page in-depth interview editorial published in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine December 2023 issue.
• Winning artwork printed in the December 2023 issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize editorial.
• Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
• Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
• 12 month social media advertising package (Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: 1 million+ followers across all socials platforms).
• A coupon to enjoy Linktree PRO for free for 12 months.
• A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.

Winner of the People’s Choice Award

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize People’s Choice Award will receive:

• 12 month social media advertising package (Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: 1 million+ followers across all socials platforms).
• Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
• Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
• A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
• Plus most importantly, receive worldwide exposure for their practice.

Winners & Honourable Mentions

So without further ado, it is with great pleasure and much pride that we share with you the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Honourable Mentions, and the Winner of the People’s Choice Award.

Grand Prize Winner
2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize

Lo Chan Peng

Born and Currently residing: Taiwan

“Eternity Dawn”, Oil on the canvas, 107.5cm x 170 cm

Born in 1983 in Taiwan, Lo Chan-Peng is a constant prize winner in Taiwan since his young age. Lo has awarded: ARC Purchase Award | Art Renewal Center (ARC), USA, Honorable Mention / Portraiture | Art Renewal Center (ARC), USA, ARC People’s Choice Award | Art Renewal Center (ARC), (2020). The Chi-mei Cultivation Award (2007). The Kaohsiung Award (2008). Lo has been working as an artist in resident in worldwide institutions such as ARC Salon, Sotheby’s 2021), European museum of modern art Barcelona, 2021) and in Berlin (2011). He also attended International Art Fairs hold in London, Tokyo, Osaka, Busan, Soul, Masco, Singapore, Taipei, etc. Lo’s works have been collected by galleries, museums, and collectors around the world, such as ESMoA, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Chi-met Museum, and Union Culture Foundation. Most of Lo Chan-Peng’s works are focusing on portraitures by using oil color or ink. In his creation, Lo likes to discuss issues such as time, history, and life and death. With his vivid and exquisite portraits, Lo adds elements to “spoil” the pictures, thereby bringing a strong and unique visual experience to the viewers, also transferring the abstract concept into something that can be seen.

“Eternity Dawn”: From the canvas of daily life, Lo Chan-Peng sense a sanctity, as if any who bathe in it may be redeemed, and an endless love exists between him and his creation. At this moment, life and death, chaos and order, piety and depravity, freedom and constraint, the originally confusing chasm between this shore and the other, all meld into one; and Lo’s art lies between this and that. It is a mysterious journey before reaching the other shore.

Honourable Mentions

Chenoa Warner

“Alone with You”, Oil on linen, 36″ x 48″

Awarded by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

Nanci France-Vaz

“Nocturnal”, Oil on linen ACM, 24″ x -28″

Awarded by RAYMAR

Anna Karvounari

“Amnesia”, Digital Photograph: Nikon D5600 / 18-55 mm

Awarded by INPRNT

Shane Stover

“Glitch”, Resin, silicone, LED lighting, 24″ x 19″ x 11″

Awarded by Yasha Young Projects

Nick Pedersen

“Canopy”, Digital Collage (Canon EOS, Apple iMac, Wacom Tablet, Adobe Photoshop)

Awarded by iCanvas

Mark Newman

“Light of the Moon”, Bronze, 22″ x 13″ x 6″

Awarded by Haven Gallery

People’s Choice Award Winner

Chiche_art

“My time is mine”, Charcoal and graphite pencils on watercolor paper, 30″ x 40″

“Congratulations to all of the Winners and Honourable Mentions!

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is administered by Australian based, international contemporary art magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is administered by Australian based, international contemporary art magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.