Winners The film director and visual artist Steve McQueen is the winner of this year’s Johannes Vermeer Award, the Dutch annual state prize for the arts. He receives €100,000 to fund a special project. The award ceremony is due to be held on 7 November at The Hague.
The winners of the 2016 Praemium Imperiale Awards are Cindy Sherman for painting, Annette Messager for sculpture, Paulo Mendes da Rocha for architecture, Gidon Kremer for music and Martin Scorsese for theatre and film. The annual prizes are awarded by the Japan Art Association for fields of achievement not covered by Nobel prizes. Each laureate receives ¥15m (around £100,000).
The first prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016 has been awarded to the Norwegian artist Solveig Settemsdal for her video Singularity (2016), which depicts the drawing process. She receives £8,000, and her work is on display at London’s Jerwood Space (until 23 October).
Yoko Ono has announced the four winners of the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace—Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Katalin Ladik and Olafur Eliasson. The prizes are due to be presented in Iceland on 9 October, John Lennon’s birthday.
The Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, the Netherlands, has given the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art 2016 to Cai Guo-Qiang. The prize comprises €50,000, a publication and a solo exhibition. Cai has also been chosen as one of three recipients of the Japan Foundation Awards, presented to individuals and organisations that promote international understanding between Japan and other countries through intellectual and cultural pursuits.
Shortlists The Seattle Art Museum has shortlisted five artists for its Betty Bowen Award 2016. They are Evan Baden, Dawn Cerny, Mark Mitchell, Wendy Red Star and Sadie Wechsler. The winner will receive an unrestricted cash award of $15,000 and is due to have work displayed at the museum from 10 November.
The photographers Kovi Konowiecki, Claudio Rasano and Joni Sternbach have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016, organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London. The winner of the £15,000 award is due to be announced on 15 November. New prize
The Etrillard Foundation is to award the Anna Morettini Prize to artists who combine an understanding of Florence and the Florentine Renaissance with contemporary art. The judges will give preference to artists under the age of 45. The winner, who will receive prize money of €20,000 and an exhibition in Florence and in Paris, is due to be announced in Florence on 5 January 2017.
