Prizes
Sámi artist network wins Munch prize focused on freedom of expression
Dáiddadállu, whose work draws on Sámi knowledge and philosophies, have been acknowledged for “actively inserting Indigenous knowledge and perspectives into established art worlds”
Turner Prize 2026 opens in northeast of England at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
The exhibition featuring shortlisted artists Tanoa Sasraku, Marguerite Humeau, Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije opens to the public on 26 September
Steven Shearer wins Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards
The Vancouver-based painter and photoconceptualist will receive $71,000
Researchers rescuing war-damaged manuscripts in Gaza receive Unesco prize
Abdul Latif Hashim and Haneen Al-Amassi have been awarded the $40,000 Unesco/Jikji Memory of the World Prize
Winners of 2026 Governor General Awards, one of Canada’s top art prizes, revealed
An exhibition featuring works by all eight recipients of this year’s awards will open in New Brunswick this autumn
Bhutanese artist Pem Lham wins Rubin Museum's prize for Himalayan art
The $30,000 unrestricted cash prize will be awarded at a ceremony with the Queen of Bhutan in attendance
Writers for Artforum, The New York Times and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes
This year’s leading prize for US art writers also honours The Art Newspaper contributor Julia Halperin
Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy win art world’s ‘Nobel Prizes’
Architect Daniel Libeskind, whose past projects include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, was also a winner of one of this year’s Praemium Imperiale awards
Three UK arts organisations receive new £100,000 Freelands Foundation education award
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, The Burton and Signal are the inaugural recipients of the Freelands Award
The Armory Show will launch two museum acquisition prizes at upcoming fair
The Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Bronx Museum will acquire works next month from the fair’s Focus and Presents sections, respectively
Online art competition raises millions for charity—and many questions
“The People’s Artist”, an online competition with Johnny Depp as its spokesperson, pulled in thousands of entrants with promises of an exhibition and magazine coverage
Competition invites children across the UK to reimagine Bayeux Tapestry's lost panel
Winning primary school classes will receive a free trip to the British Museum in London to see the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as a funded visit to the Battle of Hastings site
Prize for emerging artists at Art Basel quietly cancelled
Dealers in the fair's Statements section say they were informed at the last minute that the Baloise Art Prize has been discontinued
Nigerian artist Omolola Coker wins inaugural Myma Art Prize
The new prize, which includes $5000 and a residency in Benin City, was open to artists living in Ghana and Nigeria
Finalists for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s top contemporary art prize, revealed
The six shortlisted artists, each representing a different region, will be featured in an exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Canada in September
Untitled Art will launch four new prizes at Houston fair's second edition
Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair
More than 70 Venice Biennale artists withdraw from awards
Walid Raad, Alice Maher and Alfredo Jaar are among those who have signed a protest statement in solidarity with the resignation of the exhibition's jury
Nominees for the Turner Prize 2026 announced by Tate
This year’s selection includes a “strong emphasis on sculptural practice”, says the Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson
Art Basel reveals 33 medalists for second edition of its awards
The shortlist for the Art Basel Awards spans artists, curators and collectors ahead of the June ceremony in Basel
Trevor Paglen wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award
The artist and investigator of digital surveillance infrastructures will deliver a hybrid lecture-performance at the Guggenheim in New York in May
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
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
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
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
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
Heidi Lau and Wong Ping both win M+ Sigg Prize
Six artists were shortlisted for Chinese contemporary art prize worth $130,000
Napoles Marty wins Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize
The prize, presented in partnership with Nxthvn, includes a solo stand at Frieze Los Angeles and $25,000
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
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




























