🇮🇳 The organizing committee of the International Maya Kamath Memorial Award Cartoon Contest 2026 has officially announced the selection of 150 cartoonists from around the world for participation in the prestigious international exhibition commemorating the 75th Birth Anniversary of renowned Indian cartoonist Maya Kamath.
🖼️ Organized by the Indian Institute of Cartoonists (IIC), the exhibition will be held at the Indian Cartoon Gallery, Bengaluru, from 13 to 27 June 2026, featuring 150 selected cartoon artworks chosen from entries submitted to this year’s international competition.
🎯 The contest attracted significant international participation, with the organizing committee receiving 1,080 cartoon artworks from 544 artists, including 309 cartoonists from various countries worldwide and 235 participants from India.
👥 Selected Cartoonists:
1. Valentin Georgiev, BULGARIA
2. Dendy Heru Hardono, INDONESIA
3. Bahram Arjmandnia, IRAN
4. Subhash Babu, INDIA
5. Nikolay Sviridenko, RUSSIA
6. Juan Gabriel Benavides, SPAIN
7. Camila De la Fuente, MEXICO
8. Subhash Chandra Gowda, INDIA
9. Julio Carrion, PERU
10. Xiaoqiang Hou, CHINA
11. Sur Ali, TURKEY
12. Alexander Zudin, RUSSIA
13. Fatih Aksular, TURKEY
14. Konstantin Kazanchev, UKRAINE
15. Grftar Kakayi, KURDISH
16. Angel Boligan, MEXICO
17. John Xagoraris, GREECE
18. Sun Chen, CHINA
19. Sunshen Ying, CHINA
20. Ismail Kar, Turkey
21. Tadeusz KROTOS, POLAND
22. Vladimir Khakhanov, RUSSIA
23. Goran Celicanin, SERBIA
24. Alexander Shmidt, RUSSIA
25. Soltan Soltanli, AZERBAIJAN
26. Yasin Al-Khalil, SYRIA
27. Steffen Jacob, GERMANY
28. Kareem Fatoom, SYRIA
29. Xiaoqiang Hou, CHINA
30. Boris Erenburg
31. Designer Affonso, MEXICO
32. Achmad Cholid, INDONESIA
33. Constantin Pavel, ROMANIA
34. Mark Winter, UNITED KINGDOM
35. Izabela Kowalska Wieczorek, POLAND
36. Hamid Ghalijari, Iran
37. Miroslaw Hajnos, POLAND
38. Mark Lynch, AUSTRALIA
39. Izabela Kowalska Wieczorek, POLAND
40. Makhmud Eshonkulov, UZBEKISTAN
41. Marian Avramescu, ROMANIA
42. Raed Khalily, BELGIUM
43. Atiq Shahid, AFGHANISTAN
44. Morhaf Youssesf, SYRIA
45. Agus Widodo, INDONESIA
46. Abbas Nasser, IRAN
47. Vladimir Pavlik, SLOVAKIA
48. Marco D'Agostino, ITALY
49. Seyran Jaferli, AZERBAIJAN
50. Jia Ruijun, MANGOLIA
51. Vladimir Kazanevsky, UKRAINE
52. Valeri Alexandrov, BULGARIA
53. Marco De Angelis, ITALY
54. Fahad Al-Bahadi, Syria
55. Edi Dharma, INDONESIA
56. Igor Smirnov, RUSSIA
57. Marina Bondarenko, RUSSIA
58. Mehmet Zeber, TURKEY
59. Oleksiy Kustovsky, UKRAINE
60. Wei Dong, CHINA
61. Serpil Kar, TURKEY
62. Fan Lintao, CHINA
63. Vladimiras Beresniovas, LITHUANIA
64. Edwin Perales Gonzalez, PERU
65. Eda Karabdurrahmanoglu, TURKEY
66. Makmun Bungsu, INDONESIA
67. Alexander Barabanshchykov, UKRAINE
68. Angel Boligan, MEXICO
69. Hamad Al Gayeb, Kingdom of Bhrrain
70. Helmut Jacek, GERMANY
71. Marilena Nardi, ITALY
72. Md Abdur Rahman Talikder, BANGLADESH
73. Naji Benaji, MOROCCO
74. Salih Kütükçü, TURKEY
75. Wang Rui Sheng, CHINA
76. Bedirhan Akagündüz, TURKEY
77. Cival Einstein, BRAZIL
78. Grigori Georgiou, GREECE
79. Didie Sri Widiyanto, INDONESIA
80. Andrea Arroyo, MEXICO
81. Leslie Ricciardi, URUGUAY
82. Likui Jun, CHINA
83. Luc Descheemaeker, BELGIUM
84. Luc Vernimmen, BELGIUM
85. Darko Drljevic, MONTENEGRO
86. Rachid Amghouze, Morocco
87. Raimundo Rucke Santos Souza, BRAZIL
88. Ayesha Haseen, UAE
89. Ghenas Alg, ALGERIA
90. Husan M. Sodiqov, UZBEKISTAN
91. Oğuz Gürel, TURKEY
92. Xu Hong, CHINA
93. Ba Bilig, CHINA
94. Atmaja Septa Miyosa, INDONESIA
95. Darko Drljevic, MONTENEGRO
96. Erdogan Basol, TURKEY
97. Hanusic Cave, TURKEY
98. Liviu Stanila, ROMANIA
99. Midhat Ajanovic, SWEDEN
100. Sabine Voigt, GERMANY
101. Sait Munzur, TURKEY
102.Sergey Dudchenko, UKRAINE
103. Seyit Saatçi, TURKEY
104.Talimonov Alexei, ENGLAND
105. Wang Da Peng, CHINA
106. Yang Liangyi, CHINA
107. Dina Abdelgawad, EGYPT
108. Camila De la Fuente, MEXICO
109. Giorgio Gino Giunta, ITALY
110. Irina & George Licurici, ROMANIA
111. Moises de Macedo Coutinho, BRAZIL
112. Huang Mingke, CHINA
113. Handren Khoshnaw, Iraq
114. Miroslav Jakovljev, SERBIA
115. Michal Graczyk, POLAND
116. Nancy Ndaya, REPUBLIC OF CONGO
117. Petros Tsiolakis, GREECE
118. Wilber Chavarría Centeno, NICARAGUA
119. Wiesław Frączyk, LODZ
120. Wesam Khalil, EGYPT
121. Tsocho Peev, BULGARIA
122. Alexander Dubovsky, UKRAINE
123. Atiq Shahid, AFGHANISTAN
124. Aziz, MOROCCO
125. Cemil Safiturk, TURKEY
126. Francois Ruel, CANADA
127. Firuz Kutal, NORWAY
128. John Xagoraris, GREECE
129. Kaan Saatci, TURKEY
130. Kareem Fatoom, SYRIA
131. Kemal Yilmaz, TURKEY
132. Normal Gergely, HUNGARY
133. Pedro Astrain, CUBA
134. Rasha Mahdi, EGYPT
135. Soltan Soltanli, AZERBAIJAN
136. Tao Yong, CHINA
137. Tomasz Rogowski, POLAND
138. Weili, CHINA
139. William Abiha Atubwa, KENYA
140. Yu Shixin, CHINA
141. Zhejiang Clay Figure M, CHINA
142. Abdelghani Benhariza, ALGERIA
143. Affan Siregar, Indonesia
144. Edra Amorim, BRAZIL
145. Eda Uzunoğlu, TURKEY
146. Fadi Abou Hassan, NORWAY
147. Gabriel Ferrari, Argentina
148. Gopi Burugu, USA
149. Goran Celicanin, SERBIA
150. West Java Saber, KURDISTAN
👉 Click here to view the winning artworks of the International Maya Kamath Memorial Cartoon Exhibition 2026.