Art prize

Artist Graham Crowley wins prestigious John Moores Painting Prize

Meanwhile Eloise Hawser, a sculptor and mixed media artist, has been awarded the annual David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation grant

Vija Celmins and Olafur Eliasson win £90,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

French curator Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of 15th Gwangju Biennale

The South Korean exhibition has come under fire for its Park Seo-Bo art prize which has now been abolished

Art Explora opens applications for €50,000 cultural project prize

Last year’s winners include the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla in Spain and Projekt Europa theatre company in the UK

Hostile states, fragile sculptures: 2023 Turner Prize nominees revealed

Artists Barbara Walker and Rory Pilgrim have been nominated for works exploring Britain's Windrush scandal and Covid-19 pandemic

Three US museums use prize funds to acquire works from Expo Chicago

The institutions that won the fair's Northern Trust Purchase Prize selected artwork by artists Mohau Modisakeng, Wole Lagunju and Claudia Peña Salinas for their permanent collections

Mimosa Echard wins France’s most prestigious contemporary art prize

The multi-disciplinary Paris-based artist wins the €35,000 Prix Duchamp award for mixed-media waterfall installation

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Ai Weiwei and museum architects Sanaa win £100,000 Praemium Imperiale art prizes

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

Ai Weiwei to curate exhibition of works created by UK prisoners

The Chinese activist, detained in 2011, has visited prisons across the country

Emerging British artist Abbas Zahedi wins 2022 Frieze Artist Award

He will create a large installation for the upcoming Frieze London fair, bringing together a public waiting area and support space

Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub

Plus, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize winner: a basket made with horsehair

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Artes Mundi hits the road: next edition of contemporary art prize to be shown at venues across Wales

Artists Nguyen Trinh Thi and Mounira Al Solh are on the shortlist for the £40,000 award

Horsehair baskets and tracing paper chairs: Loewe Craft Prize announces 2022 shortlist

The world's most lucrative award for craft will announce its winner in a ceremony in Seoul this June

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Curator Meg Onli wins inaugural prize aimed at advancing racial equity in the arts

The $75,000 Figure Skating Prize will be awarded annually to a Black artist, curator or scholar

A year after Covid-19 is confirmed as a pandemic, World Press Photo prize reminds us of photography's vital role in playing witness to history

Highest prize for photojournalism includes images from 28 countries that capture a year when the coronavirus intertwined with global issues of social injustice and territorial conflicts

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Tanoa Sasraku wins Futures Award for 'haunting' minstrel videos and defiant Ghanaian flags

The 25-year-old Black British artist was awarded first prize worth £10,000

Kapwani Kawanga wins Duchamp Prize with installation referencing African independence

Paris-based artist's work recreates flower arrangements that featured at diplomatic events connected to independence ceremonies in African countries

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French tech entrepreneur funds new €150,000 award for European cultural institutions focused on 'digital and environmental impact'

Public and private European organisations—including UK and Switzerland— are encouraged to apply before the deadline later this month

UK’s largest art award Artes Mundi postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus

Challenge of transporting works and artists means £40,000 prize now scheduled for spring next year

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Doris Salcedo wins world’s largest contemporary art prize of $1m

Nomura Art Award enables Colombian artist to create Acts of Mourning works in remote regions

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Ikon Gallery wins £125,000 grant to put on 'dream' show of overlooked Renaissance master Carlo Crivelli

Birmingham institution is first recipient of new Ampersand Foundation Award that enables UK museums to realise a major project

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Sarah Raphael wins big art prize

She beat out the highest number of applicants to date for the NatWest prize