Art award

Studio Museum in Harlem director and chief curator Thelma Golden won the 2023 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize with $250,000 prize money. The Studio Museum in Harlem was founded in 1968 by a collective of artists, curators, and…

Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles became the first Latin American artist to win the Roswitha Haftmann Prize, one of the largest art prizes in the world. The award is named after Roswitha Haftmann, a very prominent art dealer. She was…

Lubaina Himid, whose career surged in the last decade, has won the Maria Lassnig Prize for mid-career artists, along with its $55,000 prize money. Himid has had an influential career spanning over four decades. By combing sculptures and…

Artist Stephanie Dinkins has won the first LG Guggenheim Award, which felicitates artists working on the intersection of art and technology. The LG Guggenheim Art & Technology Initiative is a five-year program that aims to award…

An artist forfeited the Sony World Photography prize after winning it through AI-generated images. Boris Eldagsen won the Sony World Photography contest last week, organized by the World Photography Organization. He won it for a work…

Artist Carrie Mae Weems was announced as the 2023 winner of the prestigious Hasselblad Photography prize – creating history as the first Black woman to win it. The Hasselblad Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in photography. It…

Veteran artist Senga Nengudi, known for her groundbreaking work, has won the 2023 Nasher Prize worth $100,000. Senga Nengudi has been a prominent name in African-American sculpting for over five decades. She is perhaps best known for her…

The Ford and Mellon Foundation announced the selected artists for the second edition of the Latinx Fellowships. The Latinx Fellowship was established last year by the joint efforts of the Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation. The…

The Venice Biennale was a big success for Black women artists like Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce, who bagged all the top awards at the event. Leigh and Boyce won the Golden Lion awards - the highest awards given by the Venice Biennale.…

Chanel has announced the names of the 10 winners of its first-ever Chanel Next Prize, with prize money of €100,000. The Chanel Next Prize was established in March this year, for artists who are redefining their fields of work. The award…