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• Lili Reynaud-Dewar Wins Prix Marcel Duchamp Amid Major Curatorial Appointments award

  Lili Reynaud-Dewar has been awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp, receiving EUR€35,000 for her installations, performances, and video works that examine bodily politics. Centre…

• South African photographer Guy Tillim wins 2017 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award for 'Museum of the Revolution' project award

  Guy Tillim, a South African photographer, has been named the recipient of the 2017 HCB Award by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. The biennial prize, which supports…

• Modern Dazed Launches NOWNESS Awards Honoring Film and Video Innovators award

  Modern Dazed, a collaboration between Modern Media and Dazed Media, revealed the recipients of its first NOWNESS Awards on 28 November 2019. The ceremony took place at the Modern…

• Freelands Award shortlist revealed for UK regional institutions supporting mid-career female artists award

  The Freelands Award has shortlisted six regional art institutions in the UK, offering £100,000 to facilitate a solo exhibition for a mid-career female artist. The chosen…

• Bouchra Khalili's Film on Jean Genet and Black Panthers Featured in Artes Mundi 8 Exhibition award

  Bouchra Khalili is among five artists shortlisted for Artes Mundi 8, a biannual international prize recognizing artists engaging with everyday life and global social issues. An…

• Sonia Boyce and Simone Leigh Make History as First Black Women to Win Venice Biennale Golden Lions award

  At the 59th Venice Biennale, Sonia Boyce and Simone Leigh received Golden Lions, marking the first time Black women have secured the top honors in the event's 127-year history.…

• Martha Wilson and Christine Tohme win 2015 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence award

  Martha Wilson and Christine Tohme have been honored with the 2015 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. This $25,000 accolade, created in 2012 in tribute to philanthropist…

• Nominations Open for 2021 Margaret Tait Award with £15,000 Prize for Scottish Moving-Image Artists award

  Nominations are now open for the 2021 Margaret Tait Award, Scotland's leading prize for moving-image work, with submissions due by 5pm on Monday, 7 December. This award provides…

• Four Artists Shortlisted for France's Prestigious Prix Marcel-Duchamp award

  Four artists have been selected as finalists for the Prix Marcel-Duchamp, a major French art award. Julian Charrière, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Creuzet, and Lili Reynaud-Dewar will…

• RIBA Stirling Prize 2017 shortlist announced award

  The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has unveiled the nominees for this year's Stirling Prize, a prestigious accolade in UK architecture, now entering its 22nd…

• SFER IK Museion Launches $100k AI Art Award with Residency at AZULIK Uh May award

  SFER IK Museion has introduced a new $100,000 award for artists creating work with artificial intelligence, accompanied by a two-month residency at AZULIK Uh May in Mexico's Mayan…

• Four contemporary artists among 2023 MacArthur 'genius grant' recipients award

  Four contemporary artists have been named 2023 MacArthur Fellows, receiving the prestigious $800,000 no-strings-attached award. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, based in Nashville,…

• Wang Tuo Wins K21 Global Art Award 2024, Video Installation Acquired for Düsseldorf Museum award

  Chinese artist Wang Tuo has been selected as the recipient of the K21 Global Art Award 2024. The award, presented by K21 and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, recognizes…

• Max Hooper Schneider Awarded Fifth BMW Art Journey for Coral Reef Exploration Project award

  Max Hooper Schneider has been selected as the recipient of the fifth BMW Art Journey prize. The Los Angeles-based artist, previously recognized as one of ArtReview's 2016 Future…

• Cildo Meireles receives Europe's highest-value art prize from Kunsthaus Zürich award

  Brazilian conceptual artist Cildo Meireles has been awarded the Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Europe's most financially significant art honor with a value of CHf150,000 (£134,955). The…

• Astha Butail Wins Sixth BMW Art Journey for Oral Traditions Research award

  Astha Butail has been named winner of the sixth BMW Art Journey, a collaborative award from Art Basel and BMW. Selected from a shortlist including Julian Charrière and Lin Ke,…

• Four Artists Shortlisted for 2014 Turner Prize at Tate Britain award

  Tate Britain revealed the Turner Prize shortlist, featuring Duncan Campbell, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ciara Philips, and James Richards. Each artist, all under 50 and either British or…

• LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize 2019 Shortlist Reveals 29 International Artists award

  The LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize 2019 has unveiled a shortlist of 29 artists, selected from over 2,500 submissions across more than 100 countries. This year's finalists include…

• Maurizio Cattelan Awarded 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie with Solo Exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie award

  Maurizio Cattelan has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie. The Italian artist, born in Padua, will present a solo exhibition at Berlin's Neue…

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul's INVISIBILITY featured in Artes Mundi 8 at National Museum Cardiff award

  At the Artes Mundi 8 exhibition in Cardiff, Apichatpong Weerasethakul showcases a double-channel video projection named INVISIBILITY. This piece, which incorporates shadows, was…

• Tschabalala Self and Andra Ursuţa Win London's Fourth Plinth Commission award

  Tschabalala Self and Andra Ursuţa have been chosen for the Fourth Plinth commissions in Trafalgar Square, London, with their artworks set to be revealed in 2026 and 2028,…

• Inaugural Fundación Casa Wabi ArtReview Residency Award Winners Announced for 2017 award

  The inaugural Fundación Casa Wabi ArtReview Residency Award has been awarded to Nasser Alzayani, Dexter Dalwood, and Marita Fraser. This open-call prize provides artists with a…

• Hao Jingban and Eisa Jocson Receive 2021 SeMA-HANA Media Art Award award

  Beijing-based artist and filmmaker Hao Jingban and Manila-based choreographer Eisa Jocson have been named recipients of the 2021 SeMA-HANA Media Art Award. Presented by Seoul…

• Artes Mundi 10 shortlist announced with £40,000 prize for seven international artists award

  Seven artists from diverse global backgrounds have been shortlisted for Artes Mundi 10, the UK's most lucrative art award with a £40,000 prize fund. The finalists include Rushdi…

• Mohamed Bourouissa awarded Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for socially engaged work award

  Mohamed Bourouissa, a French-Algerian artist, has been awarded the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. His acclaimed series, Shoplifters (2014–15), showcases…

• Laure Prouvost Wins 2013 Turner Prize Over Favorite Tino Seghal in Derry~Londonderry Exhibition award

  Laure Prouvost unexpectedly claimed the 2013 Turner Prize, defeating odds-on favorite Tino Seghal. The annual award exhibition was hosted in Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland,…

• Abbas Akhavan Receives 2015 Sobey Art Award award

  Abbas Akhavan, an artist based in Toronto, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Sobey Art Award. This annual prize, funded by the Sobey Art Foundation, provides $50,000 to…

• Karrabing Film Collective Wins 2021 Eye Art & Film Prize award

  Founded in 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective, an indigenous Australian art group from the Northern Territories, has been honored with the 2021 Eye Art & Film Prize. This award,…

• Mimosa Echard Wins Marcel Duchamp Prize for Feminist Ecological Art award

  Mimosa Echard has been awarded France's most prestigious art honor, the Marcel Duchamp Prize, receiving €35,000. Her practice investigates permaculture and feminist ecology…

• Turner Prize 2019 nominees collectively accept award, sparking debate on competition format award

  At the 2019 Turner Prize ceremony in Margate, the four nominees—Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, and Tai Shani—jointly accepted the award as a collective,…

• William Pope.L Receives 2017 Bucksbaum Award for Whitney Biennial Installation award

  William Pope.L has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 Bucksbaum Award, announced by Adam D. Weinder, the Whitney Museum's Alice Pratt-Brown director. The Chicago-based…

• Olu Oguibe receives Kassel's Arnold Bode Prize for his Documenta 14 obelisk award

  Olu Oguibe, a distinguished artist, has received the Arnold Bode Prize in Kassel, awarded annually for significant contributions to contemporary art. The €10,000 award ceremony is…

• Nottingham Contemporary Wins Freelands Award for Lis Rhodes Exhibition award

  Freelands Foundation has named Nottingham Contemporary the recipient of its second annual Freelands Award, granting £100,000 to mount a comprehensive exhibition of artist and…

• Naomi Beckwith Awarded 2024 David C. Driskell Prize by High Museum of Art award

  Naomi Beckwith has been honored with the 2024 David C. Driskell Prize, an annual $50,000 award presented by Atlanta's High Museum of Art. The prize, established in 2005,…

• Hepworth Prize for Sculpture Inaugural Exhibition Features Four UK-Based Artists award

  The Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire launched the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, a £30,000 biennial award for UK-based artists of any age or career stage, as an alternative to the…

• Adrian Piper Awarded Kaiserring Prize for Conceptual Art and Philosophical Practice award

  Adrian Piper will receive the Kaiserring award from the German city of Goslar, an honor established in 1975. Her career, beginning in the 1970s, includes early work at the Seth…

• Shilpa Gupta Wins Possehl Prize for International Art 2025 award

  Shilpa Gupta, based in Mumbai, India, has been awarded the Possehl Prize for International Art 2025. The prize includes €25,000 and a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle St. Annen in…

• Bedwyr Williams presents CGI video installation for Artes Mundi 7 prize exhibition in Cardiff award

  Bedwyr Williams has created a 20-minute 4K video loop for the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition, depicting an imaginary futuristic city built around Cadair Idris mountain in North Wales.…

• BP Portrait Award 2019 Shortlist Announced, Mana Decentralized Platform Launches, Mostyn Seeks Curator award

  The National Portrait Gallery in London revealed the shortlist for the 2019 BP Portrait Award on Monday. Selected by a panel including artist Gary Hume, curator Zoé Whitley, and…

• Contemporary Art Society Announces £60,000 Prize Shortlist for Museum-Artist Commissions award

  The Contemporary Art Society has revealed the four finalists for its annual £60,000 prize, which will fund a new commission for a UK museum's permanent collection. Each…