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'Chaos Code' 2025 New York International Art Competition Officially Unveiled
05/06/2025, New York City, New York // KISS PR Brand Story PressWire //
Whitelock Art Center announces the winners of 'Chaos Code—2025 New York International Art Competition,' reaffirming its leading role in the global art scene.
New York, April 21, 2025 — As a vital hub for emerging global art trends, Whitelock Art Center officially announced today the winners of its prestigious 'Chaos Code—2025 New York International Art Competition.' The exhibition will be accessible online from April 22 to May 22, open to a worldwide audience.
Bringing together submissions from artists across six continents and evaluated through a rigorous international review system, the competition affirms Whitelock's status as a core platform for interdisciplinary and experimental contemporary art, while further expanding its influence in digital humanities, global artistic discourse, and arts education.
Whitelock Art Center: A Contemporary Engine of Cross-Disciplinary Innovation
Based in New York City, Whitelock Art Center has, since its founding, committed itself to advancing dialogue between contemporary art and critical global issues such as technology, society, identity, and ecology. In a time when digital transformation is rapidly reshaping the cultural landscape, Whitelock continues to lead international art discourse through its open curatorial model, global academic networks, and forward-thinking exhibition vision.
'Chaos Code,' one of the center's flagship projects in 2025, exemplifies Whitelock's ongoing exploration into the evolving relationship between art, humanity, and technology, marked by its critical inquiry and cross-media presentation.
'Chaos Code': A Humanistic Inquiry and Visual Response in the Digital Age
Titled 'Chaos Code,' the competition addresses a profound and future-facing question: In a world dominated by algorithms and digital systems, what becomes of identity, freedom, and humanity?
Among the 1,800+ submissions from around the globe, the jury focused on works that demonstrated groundbreaking approaches in form, concept, and medium. Whether through painting, video, photography, or digital art, the selected artists use a chaotic visual language to reveal the tension beneath perceived order, breaking barriers between culture and technology to construct a visual dialogue on the present and future of human existence.
Rigorous Evaluation Upholding Global Standards and Academic Authority
To ensure fairness and professionalism, the competition employed a double-blind peer review process with both preliminary and final judging rounds. The jury consisted of five renowned international artists and curators from countries including the U.S. and Germany, featuring:David Mason (U.S. artist)、Julia Holtmann (German artist)、Samantha Lee (Artistic Director, Whitelock Art Center)、Plus additional guest jurors from prominent international art institutions.
Evaluation criteria included academic rigor, innovation, foresight, contemporary relevance, and cultural diversity, ensuring each artist was assessed within a global framework.
Winners Announced: A Multinational Portrait of Contemporary Expression
The winning artists represent a broad international spectrum, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, China, Italy, Japan, Denmark, Israel, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Estonia, underscoring the competition's global reach and cultural diversity.
Grand Prize:Robert Obier
Gold Awards:
Gold Award in Painting: Alexandra Finkelchtein
Gold Award in Video Art: Maurizio Zoccola
Gold Award in Photography: Meiling Li
Gold Award in Digital Art: Shijie Hai / Luciano Caggianello
Silver Awards:
Darko Stanic / Peep Ainsoo / Fusheng Bao / Cameron Lings / Pan Huang / Yishan / Dmitry Kemell
Bronze Awards:
Chey Isola / Drake Fu / Eugen Serbanescu / Michelle Oconis / Reagan Burns / Hanzhu / Yangang Wang / Cheng Yang / Hao Zhang / Anton Sazonov / Laura Hu / Peiyang (Camille) Li / Yu Liu / Maii Fallara / Dale Zhou & Hongxiang Zhou / Nao Kimata / Ningxin Zhang / Xingdu Wang / Susanne Layla Petersen
Looking Ahead: Continued Exploration and Global Dialogue
More than just a competition and exhibition, 'Chaos Code' represents Whitelock Art Center's systematic and collective reflection on the evolving relationship between art and reality. In the years ahead, Whitelock will continue to launch internationally engaged, publicly accessible artistic projects focused on the cultural transformations of our time, supporting new generations of artists in developing a truly global perspective.
The online exhibition will remain open through May 22, 2025. The public is warmly invited to visit the official website, view the works, and join us in contemplating the central question: How might humanity use art to code chaos in the future?
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