Jiannan Huang is Winner of LABA Icon Award for Lifetime Achievement
Artist Jiannan Huang
The Los Angeles Beverly Arts (LABA) Icon Awards took place on March 2nd, 2025, honoring LABA Blue Chip artist Jiannan Huang with a LABA Icon Award for Lifetime Achievement. The event was held during the Luxury Gala 2025 Academy Awards Viewing Party at the Universal City Hilton Hotel in Universal City, California. The awards ceremony was organized by the LABA Biennial International Art Festival and LABA Icon Awards committee, bringing together award winners and guests from around the world for a night of celebration and recognition at the Luxury Gala 2025.
The LABA Icon Awards were hosted by TV host Joey Zhou, founder of LABA, TV host/former news anchor Carlos Amezcua (winner of 22 Emmy® awards), model/actress Dustin Quick, and special guest actress/TV personality Marla Maples. Other LABA guests included sound designer Paul Ottosson (3-time Oscar® winner), director/filmmaker Harrison Engle, renowned artist Todd Williamson, financial entrepreneur Sharon Amezcua, producer Douglas Ivanovich, artist Rosana Largo Rodriguez, music artist Karen Han, Sir Laurent Khaiat, international investors Jacky (Jiahao) Zhang and Dr. Binghua Chen, Professor Lingyun Xiang, and Freda Ou, Chairman of the LABA Asia Region.
Artist Jiannan Huang
Jiannan Huang, a Chinese calligrapher, painter, collector, and appraiser, has been ranked in the Top Ten of the Hurun Art Rankings since 2015, with a total of 1.15 billion yuan in the auction market, and ranked 21st in the top 500 contemporary artists in the world on Artprice, an authoritative European and American art website. He is the Asian artist with the fastest valuation and popularity growth in the European and American painting market in the past three years. He released a signed version of the complete original painting NFT on the entire network, targeting the high-end art market, with only 500 copies, and the original auction price is tens of millions of yuan, and the signed print is tens of thousands of US dollars. Jiannan Huang is one of the world's top artists, specializing in Western oil painting and Chinese ink painting. He ranked third in the Hurun Chinese Art List in 2020 and 2023, and ranked 19th in the world in the Hurun Art List in 2020. In 2021, he was awarded the Honorary Membership of the Royal Society of St. George (RSSG) California Chapter, and in 2022, he won the Royal Society RSSG "Master of Art " Award, and was awarded first place in the LABA Top 10 Most Influential and Most Valuable Artists in 2022.
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