We thank all of the artists who submitted their work and commend each artist for their creativity and effort. Participating artists hailed from the United States, Canada, Albania, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.

The 2025 CollexArt Grand Prize highlights artists whose work responds to the realities of our time—by documenting hardship and environmental degradation, and by reimagining how we live, see, and create. While many of this year’s winning works address environmental themes directly, others invite deeper reflection, offering imaginative, challenging, and at times whimsical ways of seeing the world anew through composition, perception, or playful transformation of a known medium.

This year’s $3,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Louis Minnaar, an artist who brings a playful yet unsettling lens to the consequences of human excess. Departing from a long career in meticulous craft, his practice has shifted toward spontaneity and raw materiality. Using found objects and mixed materials, he constructs sculptural garments—tribal-futuristic uniforms for a world shaped by overconsumption. These dystopian-yet-humorous works are presented as single-edition photographic pieces, transforming discarded objects into visual allegories for a future we may be rapidly inventing. In their absurdity and invention, they ask us to consider what we discard—and what kind of world we are outfitting ourselves for.

Two online exhibits, Heaven and Earth, and the upcoming exhibit Humanity in the Landscape —along with newly published artist profile pages—showcase the selected artists.

Congratulations to Louis Minnaar, the Grand Prize winner, for his series Remnants of Tomorrow.

Congratulation to our two Purchase Award recipients Youri Messen-Jaschin for HOUYHNHNM and Matthew Shewchuk for Serendipity.

We are very pleased to announce that Muhammad Amdad Hossain and Joy Saha have been invited to mount a joint exhibition titled Humanity in the Landscape, Yang Weifeng, presents his work on Heaven and Earth - The Hexi Corridor.

Congratulations to our Artist Profile winners: Louis Minnaar, Matthew Shewchuk, Muhammad Amdad Hossain, Yang Weifeng, Joy Saha, Annette Goodfriend, and Sharon Harms.

Twelve artists have been awarded a CollexArt-sponsored artist website through FolioLink:
Ivonne Portillo Sierra, Francisco Jesús García Robles, Lei Gao, Audrey Loveland, Yang Weifeng, Heoi Yun Jeong, Kaitlyn Pena, Shen Fun Lin, Haitham Alhamad, Joe McKenna, Alex Winnen and Chuoer Liang.