SARR Prize 2022
Image: Abdelhak Benallou, Lumière bleu, 2020.
Oil on canvas.163 x 132 cm.
ART
Abdelhak Benallou
Grand Prize
Abdelhak Benallou, 4th-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris at the Stéphane Calais studio, is the recipient of the Grand Prize, which comes with a cash award and a residency at the Villa Albertine in Chicago.
Explaining his practice he said: "My work as a painter is built on realistic practice. I am, above all, interested in the search for visual narration more so than by technical aspects. After trying several mediums, I now work in oil paint on series portraying various themes. Through my paintings, I am attempting to develop a reflection on behaviors and relationships in society, on the evolution between generations both from a human and technological point of view, drawing inspiration from my daily life."
Image: Sofía José Salazar Rosales, Bagaje (2020), We are contextual and sentimental (2021),
They ask to stay (2020), Letter to the bags (2020).
ART
Sofía José Salazar Rosales
SARR Prize
Sofía José Salazar Rosales, 4th-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris at the Tatiana Trouvé and Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano studios, was awarded the SARR Prize. To synthesize her work she wrote down these words: "There are bodies tired from the journey that seek to take root". Her interest is in the potential of objects to reveal social and economic contexts, particularly those concerning the displacement of humans and objects. Her pieces are nourished by materials, such as packaging, evoking the memory of travel, resistance to weight, and protection.
Image: Jérémie Danon, Installation View, Crush 2022 exhibition.
ART
Jérémie Danon
SARR Prize
Jérémie Danon, 5th year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris at the Julien Sirjacq studio, was awarded the SARR Prize. The individual, his identity, and the place given to him by society are at the heart of his work. Through the encounters and relationships he's developed, he immerses himself in universes that are not his own. His practice reflect time and moments shared via photography, painting and video, synthesizing his observations and questions. In an approach at the crossroads of documentary and plastic, his installations make it possible to directly present the words and stories in which he is the mediator.
Pollock Prize for Creativity
Image: Beili Liu, Lure / 惑 Series (2008-2020). Site-Responsive Installations.
Thread (hand coiled), sewing needle, dimensions variable, (each coil 2-5" in diameter).
ART
Beili Liu
Pollock Prize for Creativity
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s annual Pollock Prize for Creativity went to Austin-based artist Beili Liu, a visual artist who creates site-specific installations and performances that address themes of migration and cultural memory, as well as labor, social, and environmental concerns. The award is directed towards Liu’s sculptural installation and performance series "Dreams of the High North: Between Survival and Belonging", a solo exhibition which will go view at the Norwegian national arts and cultural institution Hå Gamle Prestegard in 2023.
About the Pollock Prize for Creativity
Charlotte Perriand Award
Image: Adjaye Associates, Smithsonian National Museum of African American
History and Culture, Washington DC, USA, 2016.
ARCHITECTURE
David Adjaye
Charlotte Perriand Award
British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye was awarded the inaugural Charlotte Perriand Award by The Créateurs Design Awards. He is considered one of the leading architects of the 21st century. David Adjaye was knighted for his architecture in 2017, before becoming the first black recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2021. Among his key projects are the Smithsonian NMAAHC, the Sugar Hill housing, the Steven Lawrence Centre and the 130 William skyscraper.
About the Charlotte Perriand Award
Goslar Kaiserring 2022
Image: Isaac Julien, Installation view, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement.
Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW. 7 June–27 July 2019.
© Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
ART
Isaac Julien
Goslar Kaiserring
Artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien received this year’s Goslar Kaiserring award, which has been awarded to international contemporary artists annually since 1975 by the German city of Goslar.
In a statement, the prize’s jury said Julien "breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines by drawing from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture and uniting them in a highly sensual visual narrative. Julien’s work deals with important social and human issues of our time—racism, migration, diversity, queerness, homophobia and chauvinism—and encourages us to rethink and explore social responsibility."
UOVO Prize
Image: Oscar yi Hou, The siblings in my studio, aka: Gemini, Sagittarian, 2021.
Signed and dated verso. Oils on canvas. 54 3/8 x 35 5/8 inches.
ART
Oscar yi Hou
UOVO Prize
The Brooklyn Museum has selected Oscar yi Hou as the recipient of its third annual UOVO Prize, which comes with a cash award, a solo exhibition at the museum, and 50-foot public installation on the façade of the Brooklyn facility of UOVO, the art storage company which funds the prize.
Oscar yi Hou, who was born in Liverpool and is now based in Brooklyn, creates figurative paintings that often depict queer people from the Asian diaspora as a way to explore the complexity of both identities. Set against layered backgrounds that feel compressed, his paintings also include references to Chinese calligraphy and American graffiti.
Designers’ Nest 2022
Image: Boram Yoo, Designers’ Nest, Autumn/Winter 2022.
FASHION
Boram Yoo
Designers’ Nest Award
Designers’ Nest 2022 took place as a physical show at Copenhagen Fashion Week featuring 10 graduate collections by emerging designers from the Nordic countries.
Boram Yoo, MA-graduate of Aalto University, is the recipient of the Designers’ Nest Award 2022. In a statement the jury said: "Boram Yoo is a designer whose work exhibits exceptional attention-to-detail, a keen sense of historical investigation, and emotional depth."
Leevi Ikäheimo, BA-graduate of Aalto University, was awarded the Exhibition Prize 2022 by Designmuseum Danmark. Rinatro Iino was awarded the Internship Prize for an internship at the Italian label Trussardi. Frederik Taus, MA-graduate of The Royal Danish Academy, was selected to develop a sustainable collection for Browns Fashion in collaboration with The Bear Scouts.
