Prizes
Contemporary drag and fruity sculpture: Turner Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Exhibition for the award returns to Tate Liverpool this October after a 15-year hiatus
SJ Norman wins Australia's Blake Prize for diptych of scarification ritual
The prize recognises a live performance in which the artist was slashed 147 times, addressing the disproportionate incarceration and custody deaths of First Nations people
Artist Faye HeavyShield receives one of Canada’s top art prizes
HeavyShield, who received the C$75,000 award from the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation and the Art Gallery of Ontario, creates Minimalist sculptures and installations
Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicuña awarded Venice Biennale Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
Both artists will feature in the main exhibition titled The Milk of Dreams
Painter Oscar Yi Hou receives third annual UOVO prize
The $25,000 prize includes a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and a public commission for the exterior of the UOVO warehouse in Bushwick
Afghan artist wins $100,000 prize for video that reflects on life amid never-ending conflicts
Ukraine's PinchukArtCentre awards Aziz Hazara the Future Generation Art Prize 2021 for his five-channel film installation depicting children in Kabul
Winners of $450,000 Moscow Art Prize announced
The lucrative award is divided between 16 recipients and funded by the Moscow city government
Sanford Biggers and Tanya Aguiñiga win $250,000 Heinz award
The prize recognises the artists for their ‘unflinching’ examination of present-day issues
Marina Abramovic receives Spain's most prestigious culture prize
The performance artist was awarded the Princess of Asturias award for the arts (laureate)
Italian photographer dropped from prize after accusations he identified rape survivors in India without consent
By publishing full names alongside images, Marco Gualazzini stands accused of breaking child protection laws and putting his subjects in danger
Inaugural Oberlander Prize goes to landscape architect
Julie Bargmann wins the $100,000 award, which recognises her focus on advancing urban regeneration in marginalised communities
Bradford, Southampton and the county of Cornwall make the UK City of Culture 2025 longlist
But Banksy ‘spraycation’ towns are eliminated from the competition
New Museum announces sculpture award for women artists
Five artists will be commissioned to create sculptures for the museum’s public plaza when its expansion is complete
Lubaina Himid creates work for UK government collection inspired by climate change and Black Lives Matter
Turner Prize-winning artist wins the annual Robson Orr TenTen Award, with 15 copies of the print going on display in official buildings
‘Excellence in Essex’: Firstsite wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021
The small contemporary art organisation was awarded the £100,000 prize for its work during the pandemic and engagement with the local community
'India is an example of fascism unchecked': Jameel Prize-nominated activist Sofia Karim on her samosa packets of solidarity
The London-based artist's Turbine Bagh project shines light on human rights abuses across South Asia
James Turrell and Sebastião Salgado among international recipients of £400,000 Japanese art prize
Japan Art Association drew up the all-male winners list for award dubbed ‘Nobel Prize for the Arts’
Sculptor Nairy Baghramian awarded 2022 Nasher Prize
The $100,000 award for sculpture recognises the Berlin-based artist's evocative explorations of the body through sculpture
Sung Tieu's film on sonic warfare, nausea and the legacy of the Cold War wins 2021 Frieze Artist Award
The Berlin-based artist will have a solo booth with Emalin at the London fair
Winner of 25th Deutsche Börse prize announced
Chinese artist Cao Fei's Serpentine exhibition Blueprints recognised as prophesying the effects of the pandemic
Winners of the Russian Art Focus Prize announced at Viennacontemporary
The British journalist Theo Merz won “best publication” and writing collective Agitatsia won “best research paper”
From village life to vaccine centre: Museum of the Year 2021 shortlist announced
Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Experience Barnsley, Firstsite, Thackray Museum of Medicine and Timespan chosen as five finalists for Art Fund's coveted £100,000 prize
Sarah Hardie's symphonic video essay on motherhood, opera and gardens wins Soho House's inaugural art prize
The work was chosen by a panel including Tate director Maria Balshaw and curator and presenter Kate Bryan
What's the point of art prizes?
The trend for awards to be shared among all the shortlisted artists reflects the current political climate, but it might be time to do away with them all together
Everyone’s a winner: Artes Mundi 9 prize awarded to all six nominees
Firelei Báez, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Meiro Koizumi, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Prabhakar Pachpute and Carrie Mae Weems each win £10,000 in latest example of award-sharing
New grant programme to benefit Black designers
The initiative includes three $10,000 awards for emerging designers and one $100,000 grant for a Black-owned design business
Queen’s birthday honours: sculptor Phyllida Barlow is made a Dame with awards also for gallerist Sadie Coles and artist Veronica Ryan
Other art world figures recognised include Edmund de Waal and Martin Parr
Shortlist announced for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s largest art prize
Although nominations were open to artists of all ages for the first time, the finalists are all around the same generation
Chicago’s Joyce Foundation awards $75,000 each to four artists’ projects
Sydney Chatman, Daniel Minter, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Santiago X will create new works in Great Lakes cities that “honour individual and collective resiliency”
Black Obsidian Sound System: 'Thanks for the Turner Prize nomination, here are our terms'
Group shortlisted by Tate for the prestigious contemporary art prize is calling out the institution’s hypocrisy and demanding working conditions that are “nurturing and supportive”