prizes and contests
Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore wins the Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards
The annual prize, which honours an artist based in British Columbia, comes with C$100,000 cash
Writers for The New York Times, Washington Post and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes
The latest cohort honoured by the Rabkin Foundation includes curators, artists, freelance writers, bloggers and salaried writers at major publications
Winner of El Museo del Barrio and Maestro Dobel's inaugural $50,000 art prize revealed
In addition to the significant cash prize, the Cuban performance artist Carlos Martiel will get a show at the Manhattan museum in 2024
Conceptual artist Jessica Vaughn wins new Frieze prize, will bring mail art project to New York fair
Vaughn is the recipient of the inaugural Frieze Artadia Prize, which will commission a New York-based past Artadia awardee to present a project at Frieze New York
David Chipperfield, architect of renowned museums from Margate to Mexico City, wins 2023 Pritzker Prize
Chipperfield’s building projects include Turner Contemporary and Museo Jumex, as well as expansions of Kunsthaus Zürich and London’s Royal Academy
Film-maker Suneil Sanzgiri wins UOVO Prize, and will have a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum
Sanzgiri will present a segment of a forthcoming feature-length film at the museum within an installation incorporating sculptural and archival materials
The Smithsonian and MTV are launching a reality television art competition
The winner of “The Exhibit” will receive $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum
Effects of war on young Ukrainian artists exposed in PinchukArtCentre Prize exhibition
Contemporary art prize, held in Kyiv, shows images of conflict and ideas for post-war reconstruction by 18 shortlisted artists aged 35 and under
Sculptor Julien Creuzet wins $20,000 French art prize at Art Basel in Miami Beach
The artist’s work is on show in both Andrew Kreps and High Art’s stands at the fair
After 26 years, Guggenheim discontinues prestigious $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize
The biannual award was first given in 1996 to Matthew Barney, and in the years since has honoured some of contemporary art’s biggest names
Ai Weiwei and museum architects Sanaa win £100,000 Praemium Imperiale art prizes
The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture
Shortlisted artists revealed for Canada’s 2022 Sobey Art Award
Works by the finalists vying for the country’s top contemporary art prize will go on view at the National Gallery in Ottawa in October
Deana Lawson wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022
The US photographer has been awarded the £30,000 prize for her “sheer inventiveness and complexity of her approach to image making”
From migration to Minecraft: shortlist for UK's Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 is announced
Institutions in the running include Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham and Horniman Museum and Gardens in London
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
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
Bradford, Southampton and the county of Cornwall make the UK City of Culture 2025 longlist
But Banksy ‘spraycation’ towns are eliminated from the competition
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
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
For first time Turner Prize 2021 shortlist is made up entirely of artist collectives
From a Welsh community group to a neurodiverse arts hub in Hastings, the collectives' works will go on show in Coventry in September
Winner: The Art Newspaper's podcast The Week in Art is named Best Special Interest Podcast
Judges of the Publisher Podcast Awards described the category as "one of the most competitive"
A year after Covid-19 is confirmed as a pandemic, World Press Photo prize reminds us of photography's vital role in playing witness to history
Highest prize for photojournalism includes images from 28 countries that capture a year when the coronavirus intertwined with global issues of social injustice and territorial conflicts
Actor Russell Tovey to judge 2021 Turner Prize
Award's exhibition moves to Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of the year-long UK City of Culture 2021 festival
Martin Bailey—The Art Newspaper's correspondent—awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
Other art world honourees include painter Frank Bowling; Artist Support Pledge founder Matthew Burrows; and Sally Shaw, the director of Firstsite in Colchester
Venice Biennale awards Golden Lions to the late curators Okwui Enwezor and Germano Celant
Honour bestowed on four previous artistic directors of the international exhibition
UK’s largest art award Artes Mundi postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus
Challenge of transporting works and artists means £40,000 prize now scheduled for spring next year
Five museums will share £200,000 as Art Fund reboots 2020 prize to battle coronavirus crisis
Museum of the Year prize has been changed from £140,000 awards and the shortlist will be announced in October
Turner prize 2020 is cancelled and replaced with £100,000 fund for artists
Ten £10,000 "Turner Bursaries" to be announced late June
Hong Kong artist's sombre still life with a tear gas canister vase wins Human Rights arts prize
Jeremy Deller judged the sixth edition which is backed by the European Union