Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many powerful contributions from artists across the globe. The selected works reflect the diversity of contemporary social art practices and address urgent issues such as climate and water crises, social and economic inequality, migration, conflict, discrimination, and the protection of human and more-than-human life.
Below you will find the submissions from the edition of 2024/2025 that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and supports dialogue around their themes; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your inspiring and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping the Social Art Award 2025.
Tea Garden
Stephen Von Mason
oil on canvas, 60 X 72", 2024 - This painting is the first piece of a series titled “Cultural Healing”. Transforming pain into strength while celebrating Black Love, Black Excellence and the Beauty that lies within our Culture. This painting is also in honor of a dear friend Gary Heit, may he rest in peace. His friends Steven Grant Firestone and Carol Tang who stood by his side until the end, found solace and peace at the Japanese Tea Garden.
oil on canvas, 60 X 72", 2024 - This painting is the first piece of a series titled “Cultural Healing”. Transforming pain into strength while celebrating Black Love, Black Excellence and the Beauty that lies within our Culture. This painting is also in honor of a dear friend Gary Heit, may he rest in peace. His friends Steven Grant Firestone and Carol Tang who stood by his side until the end, found solace and peace at the Japanese Tea Garden.