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• Nomura Holdings launches US$1 million art prize with additional emerging artist awards award

  Nomura Holdings, Inc., a financial services company based in Japan, has launched a new award for contemporary visual arts, featuring a substantial cash prize of US$1 million for…

• Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicuña Awarded Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Biennale award

  The 2022 Venice Biennale will honor Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicuña with Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement, as announced by curator Cecilia Alemani. Fritsch, a German…

• Riken Yamamoto Awarded 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize for Boundary-Blurring Designs award

  Riken Yamamoto, a Japanese architect, has been awarded the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize in recognition of his extensive career spanning five decades, characterized by…

• Turner Prize replaced by ten £10,000 bursaries for 2020 due to pandemic constraints award

  Tate has cancelled the 2020 Turner Prize, substituting it with ten one-off bursaries of £10,000 each for selected artists. Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain and jury…

• Lee Ufan Awarded 2026 Wolfgang Hahn Prize award

  Lee Ufan has received the 32nd Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The South Korean artist, a co-founder of the Mono-ha movement,…

• Spike Island Wins 2018 Freelands Award for Veronica Ryan Exhibition award

  Spike Island in Bristol has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Freelands Award, receiving £100,000 from the Freelands Foundation. The funding will support a solo…

• Jimmie Durham Receives Venice Biennale's Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Honor award

  Jimmie Durham, an American artist, is set to be honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. The award ceremony will occur on May 11 at Ca'…

• Pink Border Seesaws Win Design Museum's 2020 Beazley Design Award award

  The Design Museum in London selected the Teeter-Totter Wall as the 2020 Beazley Designs of the Year winner. This temporary installation featured three pink seesaws inserted…

• David Alan Chipperfield Awarded 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize award

  Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH has been named the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate. The British architect, urban planner, and activist will receive the $100,000 award and…

• Demas Nwoko awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Architecture Biennale award

  On May 20 at Ca' Giustinian, Demas Nwoko, an architect, designer, and artist from Nigeria, will be honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale of…

• Nan Goldin Awarded Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 by Berlin Academy of Arts award

  The Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 will be awarded to American photographer and filmmaker Nan Goldin by the Berlin Academy of Arts. An award ceremony is set for early 2023, where she…

• Sohrab Hura awarded 2025 Eye Art & Film Prize award

  Sohrab Hura has received the 2025 Eye Art & Film Prize, which comes with €30,000 to fund a new project that will be presented at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Hura, who hails…

• Heidi Lau and Wong Ping Share 2025 Sigg Prize award

  The 2025 Sigg Prize has been awarded jointly to Heidi Lau and Wong Ping by M+ in Hong Kong, a historic first for the award recognizing two distinct artists. The shortlist featured…

• Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Bahrain Win Golden Lions at 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale award

  At the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, the American firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the Golden Lion for best participation with their project Canal Café, which purifies…

• Jesse Darling Awarded 2023 Turner Prize at Eastbourne Ceremony award

  Jesse Darling received the 2023 Turner Prize, a £25,000 award, during a ceremony at Eastbourne’s Winter Garden hosted by Towner Eastbourne. The event was presented by musician…

• Venice Biennale 57th Edition Honors Anne Imhof, Franz Erhard Walther, and Others award

  The 57th Venice Biennale awards ceremony took place on Saturday, 13 May, at Ca’ Giustinian in Venice. Anne Imhof, representing Germany, received the Golden Lion for Best National…

• Emma Talbot Awarded 2020 Max Mara Prize for Women with Italian Residency award

  Emma Talbot has been named the recipient of the 2020 Max Mara Prize for Women, announced by the Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti. The prize, established in 2005 and…

• Samson Young Wins First Sigg Prize from Hong Kong's M+ Museum award

  Samson Young, an artist from Hong Kong, has been awarded the first-ever Sigg Prize, which comes with a prize of HK $500,000 (£52,555) from the M+ museum. This biennial accolade,…

• Donna Haraway and Italo Rota Receive Golden Lions at Venice Architecture Biennale award

  At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to American philosopher Donna Haraway. In…

• Kapwani Kiwanga Wins 2020 Prix Marcel Duchamp for 'Flowers of Africa' Installation award

  Kapwani Kiwanga, a Paris-based Canadian artist, has been honored with the 2020 Prix Marcel Duchamp, which includes a prize of EUR35,000 for her ongoing project 'Flowers of Africa'…

• Lacaton and Vassal win 2021 Pritzker Prize for sustainable social housing transformations. award

  The 2021 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to the French architectural team of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, known for their firm Lacaton & Vassal, established in Paris in…

• Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Awarded 2025 Pritzker Prize award

  The 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been conferred upon Liu Jiakun, a renowned architect from China. The jury, led by Alejandro Aravena, who won the award in 2016, commended…

• Meredith Monk and Chuquimamani-Condori Honored with Golden and Silver Lions at Venice Biennale Musica 2025 award

  Meredith Monk, a New York native born in 1942, was honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 69th International Festival of Contemporary Music, part of the…

• Anne Imhof and Huey Copeland Win 2017 Absolut Art Awards award

  The 2017 Absolut Art Award has honored Anne Imhof and Huey Copeland, with Imhof winning in the Art Work category and Copeland taking home the Art Writing prize. Both artists will…

• Turner Prize 2018 shortlist features four artists with moving image focus award

  The shortlist for the 2018 Turner Prize features Forensic Architecture, Naeem Mohaiemen, Charlotte Prodger, and Luke Willis Thompson, as revealed today. An exhibition will…

• Venice Biennale Theatre 2026 Awards Honor Emma Dante and Mario Banushi award

  The Venice Biennale has announced the recipients of its 2026 Theatre awards. Italian director Emma Dante will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, while…

• Walters Prize 2027 Finalists Revealed by Auckland Art Gallery award

  Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki has selected four artists as finalists for the 2027 Walters Prize, New Zealand's premier contemporary art award. The triennial competition,…

• Los Javis Win Best Director at Cannes for 'La bola negra' award

  Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, known as Los Javis, won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for their film 'La bola negra'. The announcement was made by Xavier…

• TV Personality Mr Motivator Launches Charity Addressing UK Bed Poverty award

  On World Sleep Day, Derrick Evans MBE, known as Mr Motivator, introduced Bed Bank, a charitable organization focused on raising funds and awareness for bed poverty in the United…

• PRINT Awards Highlight In-House and Self-Promotion Design Categories award

  The PRINT Awards are featuring in-house and self-promotion design categories, judged by a panel of design leaders from major organizations. The jury includes Dalit Shalom from The…