The Art Interview - International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly international art award.

Since its inception in 2004, the award has been given to many emerging artists who have become known to the general public for the first time. It has also been awarded to artists who are considered to be more established, such as Bill Wray

Bill Wray

William York Wray is an American cartoonist and landscape painter, notable for his Urban Landscape series of paintings, his many pages for Mad and his contributions to The Ren & Stimpy Show...

, Tim Tate, Marcus Antonius Jansen

Marcus Antonius Jansen

Marcus Jansen is an American born painter. He attended Berufsfachschule fuer Gestaltung in Mönchengladbach in 1985.-Career:...

, and Erika Blumenfeld, whose works can be found in museums and other collections. In addition to cash awards, winners of the prize receive long-term publication of their winning artwork with the sponsoring online magazine (art-interview.com). The first place winner of the award receives a published interview in Art Interview Online Magazine alongside the interviews of well established artists such as: El Anatsui

El Anatsui

El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana...

, Artists Anonymous

Artists Anonymous

Artists Anonymous are an art group based in Berlin and London. They founded 2001 during their studies at University of Arts, Berlin atthe classes of Georg Baselitz and Stan Douglas.They finished studying 2006, when Douglas was forced to leave the UdK....

, Jim Avignon

Jim Avignon

Jim Avignon is a contemporary German pop artist and representatives of the art modeste, designer and musician. A respected cult figure in the art and Techno subculture in Berlin, he currently lives and works both in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and in Berlin.Jim Avignon was born Christian Reisz...

, David Černý

David Cerný

David Černý is a Jewish - Czech sculptor whose works can be seen in many locations in Prague. His works tend to be controversial. He gained notoriety in 1991 by painting a Soviet tank pink that served as a war memorial in central Prague...

, Richard Estes

Richard Estes

Richard Estes is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters...

, Janet Fish

Janet Fish

Janet Fish is a contemporary American artist. She paints still life paintings, some of light bouncing off reflective surfaces, such as plastic wrap containing solid objects and empty or partially filled glassware....

, Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker.-Early life:Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1967...

, Alex Katz

Alex Katz

Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...

, Oleg Kulik

Oleg Kulik

Oleg Kulik is a Russian performance artist of Ukrainian ethnicity, sculptor, photographer and curator.Kulik was born in Kiev, graduated from Kiev Art School and Kiev Geological Survey College , and was awarded a scholarship by the Berlin Senate in 1996...

, Jesus Moroles

Jesús Moroles

Jesús Moroles is an American sculptor, known for his monumental abstract granite works. He lives and works in Rockport, Texas, where his studio and work shop are based...

, Sylvia Sleigh

Sylvia Sleigh

Sylvia Sleigh was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter...

, Richard Stipl and Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is a New York-based portrait painter, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban African, African-American, Afro-Brazilian, Indian and Ethiopian-Jewish men in heroic poses.-Early life:...

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History

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 22nd International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Yarisal & Kublitz - Germany

Second Prize: Liz West - United Kingdom

Third Prize: Lef Kiort - Greece

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 21st International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Lucio Carvalho - Brazil

Second Prize: William Wray - United States

Third Prize: Ken Min - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 20th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Nic Lyons - Canada / United States

Second Prize: Xiao Guo Hui - China / Canada

Third Prize: Thomas Spradling - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 19th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Ted Vasin

Ted Vasin

Ted Vasin is a painter and sound artist based in San Francisco. Born the only child of an artist and an geologist in Moscow, Russia, Ted Vasin often attended the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard where his grandfather Alexander Falkovsky was a costume and stage designer who created costumes for...

 - Russia / United States

Second Prize: Leora Lutz - Canada / United States

Third Prize: Stephen Wilks - UK / Germany

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 18th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Brett Amory - United States

Second Prize: Kwangok Park - South Korea

Third Prize: Cyriaco Lopes - Brazil / UK

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 17th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Erika Blumenfeld - United States

Second Prize: William Cravis - United States

Third Prize: Samantha Huang - Taiwan / UK

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 16th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Jonathan Delachaux - Switzerland

Second Prize: Won Jun Jung - South Korea

Third Prize: Helena Hugo - South Africa

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 15th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Marcus Ahlers - Germany

Second Prize: Edwin J. - Netherlands

Third Prize: David Rosales - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 14th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Katerina Belkina - Russia

Second Prize: Claire Feng - United States

Third Prize: Rachel Eckstein - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 13th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Elizabeth Dorbad - United States

Second Prize: Kellianne McCarthy - United States

Third Prize: Gaelle Bertrand - Switzerland

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 12th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Celeste Rapone - United States

Second Prize: Oleg Dou - Russia

Third Prize: Benjamin Duke - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 11th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: David Krepfle - United States / Germany

Second Prize: Abigail Donovan - United States

Third Prize: Christopher Bradshaw - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 10th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Levi van Veluw - Netherlands

Second Prize: Joshua Hagler - United States

Third Prize: Miya Hannan - Japan / United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 9th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Marcus Antonius Jansen - United States

Second Prize: Mai Tomita - Japan

Third Prize: Matt DeFord - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 8th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Gary Paul Stutler - United States

Second Prize: Marcie Lenke - United States

Third Prize: Pete Nawara - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 7th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Tim Tate - United States

Second Prize: Xinjian Du - China / Canada

Third Prize: Shimpei Kawai - Japan

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 6th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Steve Breerwood - United States

Second Prize: Vera Tataro - Czech Republic

Third Prize: Paola Merazzi - United States

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 5th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Nikolai Atanassov - Bulgaria / United States

Second Prize: Eve Clair - France

Third Prize: Akiva Huber - Israel

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 4th International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Amanda van Gils - Australia

Second Prize: Ger A. Elwood - United Kingdom

Third Prize: Ellen Marlen Hamre - Norway

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 3rd International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Nobuhito Tanaka - United States

Second Prize: Ted Stanke - United States

Third Prize: Elena Garcia de la Fuente - United Kingdom

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 2nd International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Bill Wray

Bill Wray

William York Wray is an American cartoonist and landscape painter, notable for his Urban Landscape series of paintings, his many pages for Mad and his contributions to The Ren & Stimpy Show...

- United States

Second Prize: Pamela Ivankovic - Croatia

Third Prize: Patrick Gysemberg - Belgium

WINNERS of the Art Interview - 1st International Online Artist Competition:

First Prize: Lorraine Sleator - United Kingdom

Second Prize: Jennifer Evancich - United States

Third Prize: Michael Van Patten - United States