Winners
The French-Armenian artist Melik Ohanian has won the 15th Prix Marcel Duchamp. He receives €35,000 and a solo show at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, which is planned to run from 1 June to 29 August 2016.
The 46th Prix International d’Art Contemporain has been awarded to Rosa Barba. The Berlin-based artist receives €40,000 and a commission that will be shown alongside her winning work during the São Paulo Biennial in 2016.
Emma Hart, Will Holder, Tina Keane, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, and Patrick Staff have been announced as the winners of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s 21st annual Awards for Artists 2015 in the visual arts category. Each winner will receive £50,000 over three years.
Valérie Belin has won the Sixth Prix Pictet, worth 100,000 SFr (£65,500). The prize is awarded for photography that deals with issues of sustainability and the environment.
The French government has awarded the multimedia artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff the insignia of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. The ceremony was held in November at the Payne Whitney mansion in New York, home to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
The US architect and artist Maya Lin is among five recipients of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s inaugural Portrait of a Nation Prize.
The Minneapolis Institute of Art has announced that the creative tech studio Team Luxloop has won its inaugural 3M Art and Technology Award competition. The award, launched in June to recognise artistry and innovation in the field of technology, comes with a $25,000 prize.
Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza Zelenkova have won the first Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Each receives £5,000 to support the making of new work, as well as advice from a selection of 13 mentors, including Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, Broomberg & Chanarin and Michael Mack.
Shortlists
Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckey, Ralph Lemon, Laura Owens, Wael Shawky and Anicka Yi have been shortlisted for the 20th Hugo Boss Prize. The winner, who is due to be announced in autumn 2016, will receive $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2017.
Laura El-Tantawy, Erik Kessels, Trevor Paglen and Tobias Zielony have been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016. Works by the shortlisted photographers is due to be shown at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, from 16 April to 26 June 2016. It will then be presented at the Deutsche Börse headquarters in Eschborn, near Frankfurt. The winner will receive £30,000.