Honorees of the 2024 edition
ArtTour International presents
Top 60 Masters Awards
Honoring the Artists Who Inspire Our World.
Toronto, Canada · May 22, 2027Three-day celebration
Since 2012, the Top 60 Masters Awards have celebrated exceptional artistic vision, bringing together sixty selected artists from around the world for each edition.
In 2027, our fifteenth edition comes to Toronto, continuing a story shaped by remarkable art and the people who create it.
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In the Words of the Press
“The ATIM’s Top 60 Masters Awards are among the most recognized and prestigious art award programs in the entire world.”Published in New York Weekly · 2022
“Winning a Top 60 Masters Award is a career-defining achievement for any artist.”Published in US Insider · 2023
“The ceremony is the most significant event held by ATIM yet, and it has successfully provided artists with the spotlight they deserve.”Published in US Reporter · 2021
“The ceremony serves as a global platform for the artists to share their artistic vision and amplify their voices…”Published in Los Angeles Wire · 2021
The Artists at the Heart of It
We Have So Much to Celebrate.
The artists we honor have followed their curiosity, developed their own visual language, and brought ideas into the world that only they could express.
Coming together gives us time to recognize that contribution and get to know the people behind the work. An artist whose images we have admired becomes someone we can speak with. A first introduction becomes a conversation that continues over dinner.
We treasure the pride on an artist’s face, the warmth of these encounters, and the friendships that continue long after the celebration.
Moments from previous editions of the Top 60 Masters Awards.
The Vision for 2027
Humanity Reimagine: A Call for Peace
In collaboration with Create4Peace.org
Even in humanity’s most difficult moments, artists continue creating. They give form to what they witness, what they feel, and what they still believe is possible. Their courage inspires this edition.
Through Humanity Reimagine: A Call for Peace, we continue our mission of intercultural exchange and peace awareness through the arts. Together with Create4Peace.org, we affirm a vision of peace that embraces our relationships with one another, our environment, and the species with whom we share our planet.
We honor the individuality of each artist’s vision and the possibility that, through their work, someone else may begin to see differently.
When we honor life, we honor peace.
The Sculpture
Wings of Light
An original sculpture designed by Viviana Puello
Wings of Light honors the courage to overcome obstacles, remain faithful to a personal vision, and keep creating through adversity.
Inspired by the strength of artists across the world, including those creating in war zones, the sculpture gives form to Viviana Puello’s belief that even when life wounds us, we can find the strength to rise and continue.
“When our human wings feel wounded, I believe the powers above give us wings of light, so we can keep soaring.”
Viviana Puello
The Fifteenth Edition
Toronto Welcomes Our Next Chapter.
Our journey has brought artists together in New York, Miami, Florence, Ferrara, and Montagnac, France. In May 2027, Toronto becomes the setting for our next chapter.
Across three days, the celebration makes room for the moments that matter to us: welcoming the artists, honoring their work, and enjoying time together before everyone returns to their studios and lives around the world.
Honorees unable to travel remain part of the edition and receive their award, book and other physical program materials by mail.
The Book
An International Collection to Return To.
Produced in hardcover, printed in Italy and presented in full color, the Top 60 Masters Book brings together the work of the artists honored in each edition.
Painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and installation share its pages, with attention to the individuality of each artist’s contribution. For collectors, the collection offers a place to discover unfamiliar names, follow artists they admire and begin conversations around the work.
Curated by Viviana Puello and designed by Alan Grimandi, each edition creates a published record of the artists and the distinction they have received.
The 2027 edition will be published on May 22, alongside the awards celebration in Toronto.
The Stories Continue on Screen
Art Titans: The Lives Behind the Work.
An artist’s voice can reveal dimensions of a work that its image alone cannot convey. Directed by filmmakers Alan Grimandi and Viviana Puello, Art Titans: Masters of the New Era explores the experiences, ideas and creative lives behind the art.
Art Titans is reserved for Top 60 Masters Award honorees. Only honorees may submit their work and story for consideration, and every artist featured in the series is selected from among them through a separate curatorial review.
For our honorees, the award opens the door to a further conversation: the opportunity to be considered for a film dedicated to their life and work.
Artist of the Year
One Artist. One Remarkable Vision.
Among the sixty masters honored in each edition, one artist is chosen as Artist of the Year: a distinction reserved for a body of work of rare power, and for the devotion that brought it into being.
The Artist of the Year graces the cover of the Top 60 Masters Book and is celebrated by ArtTour International throughout the year, with dedicated features that carry their vision to audiences around the world.
It is our most personal recognition: a tribute to an artist whose work has moved us, and whose commitment to their art inspires everyone who encounters it.
Heinz Marzohl · Artist of the Year 2025
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The Next Chapter Begins With the Artists We Have Yet to Meet.
Each edition begins with looking closely: discovering new work, learning about an artistic practice, and recognizing a vision that deserves to be shared.
Artists who wish to be considered for the 2027 Top 60 Masters Awards are invited to submit their portfolios for curatorial review. Sixty honorees are selected for each edition. Personal invitations follow the review process.