Topic Archives: Prizes

The 2012 ART FUTURES award was awarded to Hong Kong artist Lee Kit for his project Something in My Hands. The prize is given to an emerging artist represented by a young gallery.

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During a benefit for New York non-profit art space White Box on 25 April 2012, dissident artist Ai Weiwei was awarded the first Richard J. Massey Award for Arts and Humanity.

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Lachlan Petras was awarded the AUD35,000 Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize at the 2012 “Hatched” National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

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Closing out the inaugural Dhaka Art Summit, which ran from 12 to 15 April 2012, the Samdani Art Awards were given to Bangladeshi artists Khaled Hasan and Musrat Reazi.

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Shortlisted work by Yeondoo Jung, a leading Korean contemporary photographer, is part of a travelling exhibition for “Growth 2011″, the third theme for the Prix Pictet.

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ArtSociates announces the winners of its second annual Bandung Contemporary Art Awards. The grand prize was presented to video installation artist Yusuf Ismail.

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The Prince Pierre Foundation has brought on Moroccan-born curator Abdellah Karroum as an Artistic Director for their triennial International Contemporary Art Prize.

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At the closing reception of the annual March Meeting on 19 March 2012, the Sharjah Art Foundation announced the winners of its Production Programme grant.

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The ŠKODA Prize is fast becoming the most prestigious contemporary art award in the Indian visual art scene, featuring the work of younger artists across the country.

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A focus on machines and narrative drive has bagged Taiwanese artist Han-chih Liu (劉瀚之) the Grand Prize in the coveted Taipei Arts Awards for 2011.

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Five artists from across the Asian region have been named as winners in the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011. Filipino Rodel Tapaya took home the Grand Prize.

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A jury that included Bharti Kher and Sunil Gupta has selected installation artist Charmi Gada Shah as the winner of the 2011 Emerging Artist Award, initiated by FICA.

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Indian photographers Gauri Gill and Nandini Valli make up one half of the 2011 finalist selection for the Canadian-based, internationally focused The Grange Prize.

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We look 2011′s ART FUTURES award winner Gao Weigang. The ART FUTURES award, worth US$25,000, is presented to one emerging artist by ART HK each year.

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Chinese-born artist Xu Bing received the “30-year Accomplishment” prize as part of the inaugural (2011) Arts China: Audi Arts & Design Award.

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The Arab Image Foundation has won a grant enabling them to begin digitising their collection. Work by photographers Hashem el Madani and Iraq’s Latif el Ani is first.

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The 10 finalists for the 2011 Jameel Prize have been announced. To qualify for this V&A-administered prize, all artists must seek influence from Islamic art.

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We highlight the three Asian visual artists that have been honoured in the Sharjah Biennial Prize for 2011. A Pakistani miniaturist took out the top prize.

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Sri Lankan artist Pala Pothupitiye has been awarded the 2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize and has vowed to use the prize money to help raise awareness of Sri Lankan art.

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Two Japanese galleries compete with 38 mostly European spaces at the 45th Art Cologne to win best stand and the 2011 Maurice Lacroix Art Award for New Contemporaries.

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Art in the Philippines never sounded so good. When you hear the word “Yum” you usually think of food. But a Filipino fast food chain seems to have a different kind of “Yum” in mind. Launched in October this year, the Jollibee Yumbassadors is an effort of Jollibee Foods Corporation to give back to the food loving Filipino community by means of youth empowerment emphasising Filipino individuality. And with the inclusion of Nasser Lubay in the Yumbassador roster of nine, it seems that the company views contemporary artists as particularly inspirational. Continue reading →

Thirty finalists have been chosen from over four hundred nominees from all over Asia Pacific for the 2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. For the first time ever the list includes works from Afghanistan, Kyrgyztan and Iraq. In another first, the Sovereign Art Foundation will hold a major fundraising event in Singapore, selecting twenty of the best works by Singaporean artists to be sold at a special auction dinner. Art Radar lists five of the finalists.

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PAKISTANI AMERICAN ARTISTS ART PRIZES AND AWARDS ART HK 10 Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander, represented by London gallery Pilar Corrias, has been brought into spotlight on the stage of contemporary art after impressing the judges of SCMP|ART FUTURES at … Continue reading →

PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL BEIJING AWARDS As part of the launch of the first annual Caochangdi PhotoSpring festival, held in Beijing, China, from 17 April to 30 June this year, three young Chinese artists were awarded a prize for their outstanding work in … Continue reading →

KOREAN ART ASIAN ART PRIZE Art Radar Asia is pleased to bring you an article by guest contributor, Kate Bryan. Her article, Hybrid Graces, presents an in depth insight into the work of Debbie Han, the first Korean artist to … Continue reading →