Congratulations to our 2025 Best of Show Finalists & Winners!

Running in correspondence with the Reno Tahoe International Art Show, the RTA Best of Show voter-based awards celebrate best booth presentation within each presenting category of the RTIA Show. Attendees and exhibitors are asked to vote for one winner per category on - site at the RTIA Show. The Grand Prize is awarded to the RTIA Show exhibitor with the most overall votes.

Winners of each category of the Best of Show awards receive:

$1500 credit for RTIA Show 2026
Special edition award created by local artist Ted Demolski

Winners of the Grand Prize Best of Show receives:

$5,000 credit for RTIA Show 2026
Special edition award created by local artist Ted Demolski
Full page ad in American Art Collector magazine
Artwork featured on the 2026 exhibitor badges

Galleries & Features

Color of Neon
Selena Valenti Fine Art, Spotlight NV
Truckee Meadows Community College

Heart of Reno

Will Barber
BRKLYN.W
8woodworks

Sculpture: Large-Scale

Art Cities

Ali Hall

Studio Zizka Fine Art
Desert Valley Gallery

Leyla Brashka and Kauyumari Crew
Jerry Snyder and the Midnight Museum Crew
Alyssa Oliveira with Alpine Artists Collective

Independents

Mxkt Art
Liana Z. Weber
Scott Rispin Fine Art

Sculpture: Small-Scale

Streamline HiFi
Driftwood Sculptor Molly Oman
Candace Garlock

First Nations, Indigenous Peoples

Ben Begay
Great Basin Native Artist Gallery
S.T.I.L.L She Lives

Student Art

BMCH: Oliva Rogers
BMCH: Avery Struby

BMCH: Malie Green

Overall Best-of-Show

Scott Rispin Fine Art