RELEASE: Gottheimer Announces Winner of 2025 Fifth District Congressional Art Competition

Above: Tenafly Resident Shreya Patel’s “Simplicity of the Past,” the winner of the 2025 Fifth District Congressional Art Competition.

NORTH JERSEY — U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) announced that Shreya Patel, from Dwight-Englewood School, is the winner of the 2025 Fifth District Congressional Art Competition.

Shreya’s winning piece, entitled “Simplicity of the Past,” will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol Building for one year. As the winner of the competition, Shreya received two round-trip tickets to Washington to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception for the new display last week.

“I was honored to again host the annual Fifth District Congressional Art Competition and Art Competition Showcase. Congratulations to this year’s winner, Tenafly’s Shreya Patel, and each of the dedicated young North Jersey artists who submitted their artwork,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “I’m always blown away by the quality and uniqueness of the art at this showcase. I’m proud to bring a piece of the Fifth District with me to Washington, and to see what these North Jersey artists do next.”

Below: This year’s Second Place winner, “Fashionable Slaughter” by Hailey Kim of Fort Lee, will have their art hung in the Congressman’s Washington, D.C. office in the Cannon House Office Building.

Below: This year’s Third Place winner, “The Bittersweet Changes” by Angella Cheon of Old Tappan, will have their art hung in the Congressman’s District office in Fairlawn.

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