Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
ING
YU HAO
The work ING is inspired by anxiety over future career choices. In this piece, I fictionalized five childhood fantasies about future professions. Teenagers are often influenced by their parents' career planning and the mainstream standards of success in society. This "designed" life trajectory leaves them feeling pressured and confused when it comes to making actual career decisions. In career planning, young people are easily swayed by external aesthetics, which limits their choices and even "formats" them. Behind these career fantasies lies a yearning for self-awareness. Extreme sports allow people to experience the limits of body and mind, while fashion serves as a means of self-expression. Contemporary youth seek, through these fields, brief moments of self-recognition and release in the midst of confusion.
The work ING is inspired by anxiety over future career choices. In this piece, I fictionalized five childhood fantasies about future professions. Teenagers are often influenced by their parents' career planning and the mainstream standards of success in society. This "designed" life trajectory leaves them feeling pressured and confused when it comes to making actual career decisions. In career planning, young people are easily swayed by external aesthetics, which limits their choices and even "formats" them. Behind these career fantasies lies a yearning for self-awareness. Extreme sports allow people to experience the limits of body and mind, while fashion serves as a means of self-expression. Contemporary youth seek, through these fields, brief moments of self-recognition and release in the midst of confusion.