Prizes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Actor Sharon Stone is up for the Women in Art Prize
The movie star will compete against 24 other finalists including Bianca Raffaella
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘Often overlooked or misunderstood’: photographer who highlights migrant experiences wins inaugural Annie Leibovitz prize
Zélie Hallosserie, who documents the stories of migrants in Calais, receives $10,000
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
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
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




























