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The glittering prizes, November 2016

The Art Newspaper
1 November 2016
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Winners The architecture practice Caruso St John has won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize for its work on Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery.

The 2017 Nasher Prize for sculpture has been awarded to Pierre Huyghe. The French artist will receive $100,000 in prize money.

Elizabeth LeCompte, a founding member and director of the experimental theatre company the Wooster Group, has been named the winner of this year’s $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.

The British artist Roger Hiorns has been awarded the 2016 Faena Prize for the Arts. Hiorns will receive $75,000 towards the production of a new work.

The Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, have been awarded the $200,000 Don Tyson Prize for outstanding achievement in American art.

ArtPrize has awarded one $200,000 grand prize to James Mellick and another to Stacey Kirby. Eight other artists received $12,500 each in the prize’s category awards.

Kader Attia has won France’s Marcel Duchamp Prize, which is awarded to artists who raise the international profile of challenging French art. Attia will receive prize money of €35,000 and will exhibit at the Centre Pompidou along with the other three finalists: Yto Barrada, Ulla von Brandenburg and Barthélémy Toguo.

The Bangladeshi-British artist Rana Begum has won the ninth Abraaj Group Art Prize. Begum will receive $100,000 to create a new project that will be unveiled at Art Dubai next year (15-18 March 2017).

The Khaled al-Asaad Prize for the most important archaeological discovery of the year has been awarded to the tomb of a Celtic prince dating to the fifth century BC, found at Lavau in the Champagne region of France. The prize is given in honour of the former director of the archaeological site of Palmyra, who was murdered by Isil in 2015.

Shortlists The six shortlisted finalists for the third edition of the Syngenta Photography Award are Lucas Foglia, Claudia Jaguaribe and Yan Wang Preston in the professional commission category and Robin Friend, Matt Hamon and Kenneth O’Halloran in the open competition category. The first prize-winner in the professional category will receive a $15,000 cash prize and up to $25,000 to fulfil their submitted proposal.

Six artists have been shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Art Prize: Pallas Citroen, Cynthia Cruz, Olivia Kemp, Uesung Lee, Ana Milenkovic and Emma Papworth. The shortlisted artists will take part in the prize exhibition (24 November-23 December) at Griffin Gallery in London. The winner, who will be announced on 23 November, will win a three-month studio residency at the gallery.

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