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Artist Princess Pea wins inaugural Swali Craft Prize

The Chanakya School of Craft has partnered with India Art Fair to offer the $12,000 award

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US National Portrait Gallery reveals winner of its triennial portraiture award

The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal has received the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for a video work created using NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 70s

Ethiopia’s Africa Hall wins Modernist conservation award

The 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize honours the famous Addis Ababa building’s decade-long, $57m renovation

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Ten artists receive €100,000 as winners of Chanel Next Prize 2026

The recipients—who work across visual art, performance, design, music and film—will also benefit from a two-year mentorship programme

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Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar wins UK’s Artes Mundi prize

Paucar’s works and those of five other shortlisted artists are on show at venues across Wales

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Shortlist announced for Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s biggest art prize

Five artists are in the running for the prize, which offers €35,000 and an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris to the winner

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Heidi Lau and Wong Ping both win M+ Sigg Prize

Six artists were shortlisted for Chinese contemporary art prize worth $130,000

Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary wins French art prize at Art Basel Miami Beach

The prize is awarded annually to a French artist exhibiting at Art Basel Miami Beach

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New £200,000 contemporary art prize is biggest in UK

The Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize is open to artists of any age, based anywhere worldwide, who have been exhibiting professionally for less than ten years

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Tania Willard wins Canada’s top contemporary art prize

The British Columbia-based artist, who is a member of the Secwépemc First Nation, described the experience of taking home the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award as “a waking dream”

What does winning an arts prize really mean?

Sparkly accolades punctuate the art world calendar and are honey pots for museums and artists alike

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Home, belonging, displacement, community: Artes Mundi exhibitions open across Wales

Works by the six international artists shortlisted for the UK’s biggest contemporary art prize can be seen at five venues, including the National Museum Cardiff

Everyone’s a winner, baby: prizes abound during Frieze London

We take stock of who has won what, from the Tate Frieze Fund to the Circa 2025 prize

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Art of diplomacy: Scottish printmaker Anya Gallaccio explores soft power with commission for UK embassies

Gallaccio's series was commissioned by the UK Government Art Collection, as part of the Robson Orr Ten Ten Award

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Sculptor Brian Jungen wins top Canadian art prize

The $C100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts recognises the achievements of artists from Canada’s westernmost province, British Columbia

‘There’s no fudging. She deserves to win’: critics react as Turner Prize 2025 opens

Nominees for the £25,000 award were selected on the basis of what the judges felt to be the strongest and best exhibitions of the past year

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Artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt receive $250,000 Heinz Awards

Both artists will receive an unrestricted cash prize from the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation

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Actor Sharon Stone is up for the Women in Art Prize

The movie star will compete against 24 other finalists including Bianca Raffaella

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Writers for The Oklahoman, First American Art Magazine and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes

This year’s leading prize for US art writers also honours The Art Newspaper contributor Nicole Martinez

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Danae Stratou wins G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize 2025

The Greek sculptor, known for her land art installations, has created a new permanent installation inspired by the mysterious Phaistos Disc

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Open-air museum that recreates 1950s Britain wins Art Fund Museum of the Year prize

Beamish, The Living Museum of the North was commended for "remarkable attention and passion of its staff"

Sculptural works by emerging artists win Baloise Art Prize

Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa's pieces feature in Art Basel's Statements section

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Finalists for Canada’s top contemporary art prize, the Sobey Art Award, revealed

The prize, now in its 22nd year, will be the subject of a group show in Ottawa this autumn, and the winner will be revealed in November

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A personal story of loss in post-apartheid South Africa wins the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

The Johannesburg-based Magnum Photos member Lindokuhle Sobekwa claimed contemporary photography's biggest prize in London last night

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Art Basel Awards name inaugural medalists including artists, curators and patrons

The 36 medalists will be honoured at a reception during Art Basel’s Swiss fair

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Artist Alison Saar wins High Museum’s 20th annual Driskell Prize

The renowned sculptor, whose distinctive public work was most recently featured in the Desert X biennial, will be formally honoured with the $50,000 prize at a gala in September

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Immersive experience featuring ‘costumed folk’ shortlisted for world's biggest museum prize

Judges including comedian Phil Wang and artist Rana Begum selected the Beamish Museum to join four other spaces on the Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist

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Tate announces 2025 Turner Prize shortlist

The four nominated artists will take part in an exhibition in Bradford later this year as part of the UK City of Culture festival

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Prestigious prize for women artists celebrates 20 years with Florence show

The nine past winners of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women—Andrea Buttner and Laure Prouvost among them—are all presenting work at the Palazzo Strozzi