Winners The London-based artist Emma Hart has won the sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women. The biennial prize for UK-based female artists includes a residency in Italy. Hart’s works will be shown at London’s Whitechapel Gallery and at the Collezione Maramotti, in Reggio Emilia, in 2017.
The Cologne-based video artists Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr will undertake the second BMW Art Journey, supported by Art Basel and BMW. Their winning project will focus on dub reggae music and the CCTV tower in Beijing.
The Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford is due to receive the 12th David C. Driskell Prize at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, on 29 April. The $25,000 annual award honours early or mid-career scholars and artists for their contribution to African-American art or art history.
Art Stage Singapore and the US embassy in Singapore have given the annual Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art, which includes a $15,000 cash prize, to the Singaporean performance artist Lee Wen.
The publisher and curator Elena Ochoa Foster, who founded the art publishing house Ivorypress, has won the 2016 Ibero-American Art Patronage Award for Spanish and Latin American patrons of the arts.
The painter Lewis Hazelwood-Horner is the winner of the 2016 Columbia Threadneedle Prize for Figurative Art. He receives £20,000 and a solo exhibition at London’s Mall Galleries later this year.
The artist Olafur Eliasson won a Crystal Award for “leadership in creating inclusive communities” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. The actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the musician will.i.am also received awards.
Shortlists The 11 nominees for the fourth biennial Jameel Prize for artists and designers inspired by traditional Islamic design are David Chalmers Alesworth, Rasheed Araeen, Lara Assouad, Canan, Cevdet Erek, Sahand Hesamiyan, Lucia Koch, Ghulam Mohammad, Shahpour Pouyan, Wael Shawky and Bahia Shehab. The winner of the £25,000 prize, which is co-organised by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and Art Jameel, will be named on 7 June, just before the launch of the Jameel 4 exhibition (8 June-14 August) at the Pera Museum, Istanbul.
The artists Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Ulla von Brandenburg and Barthélémy Toguo have been shortlisted for the 16th Marcel Duchamp Prize, France’s most prestigious contemporary art award. A group exhibition of their work is due to open at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on 12 October. The winner, who is due to be announced on 18 October, will receive €35,000.
