The 22nd Annual International Portrait Competition Finalists
by Matthew Innis |The 2020 Art of the Portrait Conference will soon be here, and by its conclusion, we will know who has taken home top honors in the 22nd Annual International Portrait Competition. This year, 2,660 digital entries were received from artists around the world, and the judges had a difficult time winnowing that initial group down to 100 potential award-winners. After eight additional rounds of judging, 50 of those 100 artists were given awards of distinction, 27 were given certificates of excellence, and 23 were selected to compete as finalists for the highest awards. These last 23 works will be on display at the Art of the Portrait Conference in April, where the judges and attendees will cast their votes onsite. For more information on the conference – on how you can attend for a day or for the full event, or how you can submit your own work for next year’s competition – please visit www.PortraitSociety.org.
The finalists are featured below. Best of luck to all of the artists!
Olena Babak
Hartland, Maine USA
Anna Rose Bain
Arvada, Colorado USA
Frances Bell
Wooler, Northumberland UK
Julie Bell
Allentown, Pennsylvania USA
Scott Burdick
King, North Carolina USA
Louis Carr
Cary, North Carolina USA
Joseph Daily
Vestal, New York USA
Thomas Caleb Goggans
Signal Mountain, Tennessee USA
Fengshi Jin
Flushing, New York USA
Olga Krimon
Hermosa Beach, California USA
Morgan LaPlante
Medfield, Massachusetts USA
Susan Lyon
King, North Carolina USA
Annie Murphy-Robinson
Carmichael, California USA
Paul Newton
Dural, NSW Australia
Cesar Orrico
Madrid, Spain
Timothy Rees
Mesa, Arizona USA
Brittany Ryan
Laguna Beach, California USA
Oliver Sin
San Francisco, California USA
Pavel Sokov
Verdun, Quebec Canada
Stephanie Paige Thomson
Brownsburg, Indiana USA
Louise Weir
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Ernest Wood
Wichita, Kansas USA
Konstantin Zhulin
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
