The 2025 ICIAD Painting Art Award embraces the core themes of “Heritage in Brushstrokes · Media Experimentation · Civilizational Dialogue,” spotlighting the contemporary translation of cultural DNA and cross-disciplinary innovation in painting. The competition encourages artists to transcend traditional canvas boundaries, reinventing the narrative power of painting in a global context through material innovation, digital tools, and sustainable practices. Artists are invited to explore the synergy between ink, oil, mixed media, and generative AI, and to uncover new intersections among traditional techniques, the metaverse, bio-art, and social engagement—creating visual epics enriched with both historical depth and future vision. By recognizing pioneering works that ignite cultural awakening and ecological reflection through painting, the award seeks to define painting’s enduring value as a vessel of the human spirit and a bridge of civilization, inscribing new, cross-cultural chapters into the history of art.
As a key category of the 2025 ICIAD International Cultural Innovation Art & Design Awards, the ICIAD Painting Art Award welcomes submissions from professional painters, experimental art collectives, digital pioneers, and university students and faculty worldwide. The competition seeks breakthrough works that reconstruct cultural cognition through the language of painting and interdisciplinary innovation. It will delve deeply into the dialectics of craftsmanship, technological tools, and ethical responsibility, setting new benchmarks for global painting: “Technique as Foundation, Thought as Core, Responsibility as Boundary.” The award aims to redefine painting’s avant-garde mission in activating cultural heritage, contributing to ethical discourse in technology, and forging social connections.
