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Artes Mundi Prize

Awarded by Artes Mundi.
Biennially – even-numbered years.
Top prize of £40,000, with runners-up awarded £4,000. The work of short-listed artists is displayed as part of the Artes Mundi exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff.
Open to any artist of any age and nationality whose work explores the human condition.
Focus on international contemporary visual artists who engage with social reality and lived experience.
Open call for nominations artists via an online form. Artists can be nominated more than once across successive cycles. Two selectors then determine a shortlist of 5–7 artists for exhibition. Prizewinner is selected by a larger panel of eminent judges that does not include the original selectors.
www.artesmundi.org

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Baloise Art Prize

Awarded by Baloise and Art Basel International Art Fair.
Annual – winners are announced at Art Basel fair.
Two top prizes of CHF 30,000 (£20,036). Prize includes the acquisition by Baloise of a selection of works by the award winner. These are subsequently donated to the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna.
Eligibility limited to ‘emerging artists’, but candidates can be of any nationality.
Outlook of the award tied up with that of the corporate founder: ‘Baloise believes that the privilege of owning art brings with it the obligation to present it to a wider public.’
Winners chosen by a jury of five curators and art directors.
www.baloise.com/en/responsibility/art/baloiseartprize.html

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Celeste Prize

Awarded by Celeste International – based in New York.
Annual.
Five €6,000 prizes in the following categories: painting, photography, video, installation, live media. Other benefits include promotion and expenses.
Unrestricted entry.
Aims to ‘…promote international contemporary art in its widest sense’.
Selection from a shortlist of 50.
www.celesteprize.com/prize

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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Awarded by The Photographers’ Gallery.
Annual.
First prize of £30,000, and £3,000 for the three runners-up, with an exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery for all four shortlisted candidates.
Artists can be of any nationality and are nominated on the basis of a previous exhibition/publication within Europe.
Rewards artists who have made a ‘significant contribution’ to the medium of photography in Europe over the previous year.
Candidates are nominated by an independent academy of experts and are subsequently judged by a jury of four.
www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pid=8

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East International Award

Awarded by East International and Contemporary Art Norwich.
Exhibition is held at Norwich University College of the Arts.
Top prize of £5,000.
Exhibition and award is run on an ad hoc basis. There were cycles in 2006, 2007 and 2009, with another planned for 2012.
There are no restrictions on eligibility.
Aims to ‘…define the arrival of a new generation of artists with new attitudes towards making art’.
An open submission policy. In 2009, the two selectors looked at 11,000 images to select 25 artists for exhibition and the ultimate prizewinner.
www.eastinternational.net/index.html and www.contemporaryartnorwich.co.uk

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European Association for Jewish Culture Visual Arts Grants

Awarded by European Association for Jewish Culture.
Annual.
Grants of up to €5,000 for new exhibitions of contemporary art that address the Jewish experience. Awards are made in two instalments. The project must be exhibited within 12 months of the first instalment.
Applicants must be resident in Europe. They must have two years of arts experience and must have exhibited their work at least once previously.
Focus of the European Association for Jewish Culture is to enhance Jewish life by fostering and supporting artistic creativity and achievement.
Application by e-mail only, including details of exhibition budget, venue and purpose. Examples of work also required.
www.jewishcultureineurope.org/schedule.htm

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FIRST@108 Public Art Award

Awarded by Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Award previously offered in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Five shortlisted artists receive £500 to develop their proposals for exhibition at the RBS Galleries and presentation to a panel of art industry professionals. The winner receives a further £10,000 to create their proposal for public exhibition. The winning work is exhibited initially at the RBS galleries with an accompanying solo show in the Salon Gallery. The award catalogue includes a profile of all five shortlisted artists and a foreword by a respected curator or art critic.
The award is open to sculptors of any nationality, working in any medium. The only restriction is that artists must not previously have received a public commission worth more than £10,000.
The award supports innovation and excellence in public art by offering valuable professional development opportunities that enable sculptors to break into the field.
www.rbs.org.uk

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Hugo Boss Prize

Awarded by Guggenheim Foundation, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
Biennial.
Award of $100,000.
No age, gender, nationality or media restrictions on eligibility.
Nominations include emerging artists as well as distinguished professionals who are due recognition.
Focus on rewarding work that represents a significant development in contemporary art. Hugo Boss sees the prize as ‘…underlining our commitment to the arts as an integral part of our corporate culture’.
A jury of curators, critics and scholars nominates six or seven artists for the shortlist and subsequently chooses the prizewinner.
www.hugoboss.com/de/en/emag/artsSponsorship/hbPrize2010_ informationen.php

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International Print Biennale

Awarded by Northern Print.
Biennial – the inaugural cycle was in 2009 and plans are in place for 2011.
Top prize of £5,000. The scheme also hosts an open exhibition that takes place across multiple venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.
Eligibility is a loose interpretation of ‘…all artists whose work encounters print’. Since this is an international award, there is no restriction on applicant nationality.
Focus of the award is to encourage, recognise and reward artists making prints.
Selection for the exhibition and subsequent prizes is managed by a panel of three, which is comprised of a curator, artist and master printer. Selectors are also each permitted to invite one artist to display work.
www.internationalprintbiennale.org.uk

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Les Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award

Awarded by Les Rencontres d’Arles with the support of the Luma Foundation.
Annual, since 2002.
First prize of €25,000. Winner is chosen from a group of 15 exhibitions featuring the work of 15 nominated photographers and artists. There are two additional prizes: The Contemporary Book Award and The Historical Book Award, worth €8,000 each for the best photo books published during the previous year. (Open call given in April each year.)
Candidates can be of any age and any nationality and are predominantly artists whose ‘…work has been recently discovered internationally or deserves to be’.
Focus on photographers or artists making use of photography.
Five experts from different photographic fields nominate three artists each to exhibit their work as candidates for the Discovery Award. The winner is chosen by a vote of professionals present during the first week of the exhibition.
www.rencontres-arles.com/A11/Home#/CMS3&VF=ARL_3_VForm&FRM=Frame:ARL_21&SrvRsp=1

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Pollock-Krasner Grants

Awarded by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (USA).
No deadlines – rolling application programme.
Grants of varying amounts. In 2009/10, the scheme awarded $2,547,000 to 162 artists. This works out as an average of £9,815 per artist.
Eligibility limited to painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper. Applications encouraged from candidates who have a genuine financial need. Applications from all nationalities are welcomed.
Mission of the grants is to aid those individuals who have been working as professionals for a significant period of time.
Foundation staff are assisted with selection by a dedicated committee. Artists submit examples of their work and previous exhibition history is taken into account. Applications are promptly considered.
www.pkf.org/grant.html

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Roswitha Haftmann Prize

Awarded by Roswitha Haftmann Foundation.
Frequency is irregular, although the prize has been granted annually in recent times. In theory, there is a cycle every one to three years.
Award of CHF 150,000 (£101,671).
Prizewinners chosen on the basis of their artistic significance, without regard for age, nationality or gender.
Aim of the award is to recognise outstanding achievement in visual arts.
Selection process conducted solely by the ‘board’ of the Foundation. This panel consists of six members, four of whom are nominated by institutions. The institutions are the Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
www.roswithahaftmann-foundation.com/en/aims/default.htm or
www.roswithahaftmann-foundation.com/en/press/pdf/rhs_andre_e_24-08-10.pdf

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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

Awarded by Taylor Wessing and National Portrait Gallery.
Annual.
First prize of £12,000, second prize £3,000, third prize £2,000, fourth prize £1,000. National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the work of 60 artists. Elle magazine commission for the winner.
Any photographer of any nationality may enter, as long as they are over 18. In 2009/2010, 2,500 photographers submitted more than 6,700 pieces. Each artist can submit up to six photographs.
Aims to ‘…showcase the work of the most talented emerging young photographers, photography students and gifted amateurs alongside that of established professionals’.
A panel of six whittles down the entries to 60 for the exhibition. The prizewinners are then chosen.
www.npg.org.uk/index.php?id=6715

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The Jameel Prize

Awarded by Victoria and Albert Museum
Biannual.
A single prize of £25,000 is awarded to the winner at a prize-giving ceremony.
Entry is by nomination only. Nominations are invited from a wide range of specialists with a knowledge of contemporary art and design inspired by the Islamic tradition. More than 200 artists are put forward in this way.
The prize is truly international. It is not restricted to entrants who are Muslim or from the Islamic world, but is open to designers for any nationality, creed or age.
The aim of the award is to ‘…explore the relationship between Islamic traditions of art, craft and design and contemporary work as part of a wider debate about Islamic culture and its role today’.
The shortlisted artists and designers are invited to show examples of their work in a special exhibition at the V&A.
www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/j/jameel-prize

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The Prix Pictet

Awarded by Pictet & Cie.
18-month cycle.
A single prize of CHF 100,000 and a commission in which a shortlisted photographer is invited to undertake a field trip to a region where Pictet & Cie is sponsoring a sustainability project.
Entry is by nomination only.
Mandate is to use the power of world-class photography to raise awareness of a global audience to the social and environmental challenges of the new millennium.
www.prixpictet.com

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Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture

Awarded by Mall Galleries.
Annual.
Top award is Threadneedle Prize at £25,000, with each of the six runners-up receiving £1,000. All works featured in the exhibition at the Mall Galleries are eligible to win the £10,000 ‘Visitors’ Choice’ award. One artist can win both the main prize and the Visitors’ Choice award, making it the most valuable prize for a single work of art in the UK.
Artists of all nationalities, aged 18 or over, are eligible but they must live or work in the UK or Ireland. Candidates may submit up to three recently created works that have not been exhibited for another prize or award.
Marketed as ‘…the UK’s leading showcase for paintings and sculptures that promote the practice of representational art, but challenge its language and assumptions’.
In the first instance, a panel of three selects 50–70 pieces worthy of exhibition. From these, a shortlist of seven is drawn up to select prizewinners from.
www.threadneedleprize.com/About

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Turner Prize

Awarded by Tate.
Annual.
£25,000 for the winner and £5,000 for each of the other nominees. Shortlisted artists present works in a show normally held at Tate Britain before the winner is chosen.
British artists under 50.
High-profile prize to celebrate new developments in contemporary art.
Nominations are invited each year and are judged by a rotating independent jury. Members of the jury in 2010 were: Katrina Brown, Vasif Kortun, Nadia Schneider, Godfrey Worsdale.
www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/abouttheturnerprize.shtm

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