Topic Archives: Prizes

ASIAN ART PRIZE JAPANESE ARTISTS International selectors for the Nam June Paik Award 2010 met on the last weekend of February in the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf and there decided which artists would be shortlisted for this year’s award. … Continue reading →

LIAO SHIOU-PING TAIWAN AWARD PRINTMAKING Graphic master recognised for ability to blend Eastern imagery and Western technique Earlier this year, Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs awarded graphic artist Liao Shiou-ping one of three National Cultural Awards. The 74-year-old artist, renowned … Continue reading →

EMERGING ASIAN ARTISTS –  ART PRIZES   Four Asian artists were nominated for Pulse Awards at the PULSE art fair  which took place in New York City and Miami between 4-7 March 2010: Shun Duk Kang from Korea, Hiroshige Furuhaka … Continue reading →

Taipei Arts Awards celebrates works of talented up-and-comers Four winners have been selected from 380 submitted works in the Taipei Arts Awards 2009. Ni Xiang, Chang Li-ren, Chang Huei-ming and Tao Mei-yu won with large-scale mixed-media installation pieces. The judging … Continue reading →

JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART Yamaguchi Soichi is a bright creative star who has surpassed his own expectations and found recognition and success early in his career as a contemporary Japanese artist. Indeed, he only graduated from the Tokyo National University of Art and Music in … Continue reading →

CHINESE ART AT THE VENICE BIENNALE This post gives an overview Chinese art on exhibit at the 53rd Venice Biennale until November 2009 with a blogs-eye round-up of images and reviews. We also take a look at how Chinese art … Continue reading →

ABRAAJ CAPITAL ART Unlike other art prizes, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize is awarded for art project proposals rather than work already produced. By recognising the latent potential of ideas and providing funding for the winners, the Abraaj Art Prize … Continue reading →

  RUSSIAN ART PRIZE The Art Newspaper reports that Kandinsky Prize prize winner Alexey Beliavev-Guintovt continues to cause controversy and threatens a split amongst the supporters of the Russian contemporary art scene. “These (art) unprecedented divisions in a community which hitherto … Continue reading →

CHINESE ART PRIZE The winners of the Chinese Art Prize 2008 are: Min Xiaofang (Gold) and Kang Yongfeng (Silver). The Viewers’ Choice Prize went to Song Yongjun. In 2008 more than 1,000 emerging Chinese artists applied for the CAP. The … Continue reading →

        RUSSIAN ART PRIZE Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt won Russia’s top contemporary-art award, the Kandinsky Prize, with a series of nationalist paintings “Motherland-Daughter,” winning 40,000 euros ($52,500). The prize, in its second year and named after Russian abstract painter … Continue reading →

An exhibition of the works by the winners of the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards is on at the Ullens Center until December 21 2008. About the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards The  awards were founded by Uli Sigg in 1997 as a … Continue reading →

INSTALLATION ART PRIZE Yeo Chee Kiong won the S$45,000 ($30,793) inaugural APB Foundation Signature Art Prize (images on website) for his installation “A Day Without a Tree,” originally shown last year at Singapore’s National Museum. Yeo’s mixed-media work greeted visitors to … Continue reading →

ART PRIZE CANADA PHOTOGRAPHY The Sobey Art Award is Canada’s leading visual-art prize and its aim is to throw a spotlight every year on the work of one of this country’s most promising emerging artists. So when the announcement was … Continue reading →

      PAKISTANI SCULPTOR RECEIVES EMERGING ARTIST AWARD The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has announced the selection of Huma Bhabha as the recipient of the museum’s 2008 Emerging Artist Award, notes e-flux. Bhabha will debut an exhibition of new … Continue reading →

  ART PRIZE In 2003, Howard Bilton, chairman of the Hong Kong-based Sovereign Group, set up the Sovereign Asian Arts Prize, an annual award of $25,000 established “to give recognition to some of the most important artists of our time”. … Continue reading →