THE FINALISTS OF THE GOLDEN TURTLE 2026 ART CONTEST HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED

30 artists from 11 countries reached the final of the GOLDEN TURTLE 2026 Art contest. The finalists of the Golden Turtle Art contest are as follows:

France Bauduin	UK
Ashe Christie	USA
Nataliya Dryabina	Russia
Krista Fulbright	USA
Emiliya Galiakhmetova	Russia
Anna Gryaznova	Russia
Evgeniya Gushchina	Russia
Goh Hong	Singapore
Tan Jinlin	China
Yuliya Kelu	Russia
Irina Kukrusova	Russia
Nataliya Kuryshina	USA
Nina Lavrens	Russia
Artur Catala	Spain
Anna Mikhailova	Finland
Viktoriya Nesterova	Russia
Alyona Oshkina	Russia
Camilo Osorio Orjuela	Colombia
Ekaterina Panaeva	Russia
Sophie Parkhill	UK
Olga Pekarskaja	Estonia
Natalya Rezanova	Russia
Ilya Robe	Russia
Kong Ruoxi	China
Robert Sandor	Hungary
Radik Shafikov	Russia
Mariya Tretyakova	Russia
Sofya Vershinina	Russia
Zhan Weilin	China
Varvara Zavadskaya	Belarus

"Passing scores" of the Art contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):

Animal in Nature — 17 (10 works reached the finals)
The Animal and its World — 15 (10 works reached the finals)
The Living as Symbol — 15 (12 works reached the finals)
Nature by the Hands of Youth — 16 (6 works reached the finals)
Nature by the Hands of Children — 16 (4 works reached the finals)

Congratulations to the finalists of the contest! The winners will be announced at the festival’s opening ceremony in Moscow this autumn.