The Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize with the aim to discover, recognize and give long-term support to young artists. The prize was established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The winner is awarded a total of $100,000 (2019), including a cash prize of $60,000 and $40,000 towards the production of new work.

History

On December 8, 2009, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation announced the establishment of the Future Generation Art Prize, a new large-scale international competition for artists up to 35 years old, with the PinchukArtCentre acting as the organizer. On June 29, 2010, seven members of the Selection Committee featuring competent and global art-professionals, selected 20 artists from more than 6,000 applications coming from 125 countries and divided over all continents. Every two years (with an edition skipping a year in 2016), the PinchukArtCentre holds an exhibition of artists under 35 from around the globe and awards a grand prize. Alongside the central exhibition held at the PinhukArtCentre, the show travels to Venice, Italy as an official collateral event of the

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Past winners

* 2010: Main Prize: Cinthia Marcelle * 2012: Main Prize:

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian heritage. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to ...

. Special Prize: Jonathas de Andrade, Marwa Arsanios, Micol Assael,

Ahmet Öğüt Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a Kurdish conceptual artist living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Istanbul. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing, painting and print ...

Rayyane Tabet Rayyane Tabet (born 1983) is a Lebanese visual artist, known for his sculpture. He has lived and worked in both Beirut and San Francisco. Early life and education Rayyane Tabet was born in 1983 in Ashqout, Lebanon. He has training as an artist ...

. People's Choice Award: Meiro Koizumi * 2014: Main Prize:

Nástio Mosquito Nástio Mosquito (born 1981) is an Angolan-born multidisciplinary artist. He works in music, sound, video art, performance art, installation art, and spoken word poetry. Mosquito's art deals with topics such as identity and faith, as well as raci ...

, Carlos Motta. Special Prize: Aslan Gaisumov,

Nikita Kadan Nikita may refer to: * Nikita (given name), people with the given name, including variants * Nikita, Crimea, a town in Ukraine * Nikita the Tanner, a character in East Slavic folklore Film and television *''Little Nikita'', a 1988 film * ''La Femm ...

Zhanna Kadyrova Zhanna is a given name, Russian form of Jeanne. Notable people with the name include: *Zhanna Agalakova (born 1965), Russian journalist *Zhanna Aguzarova (born 1962), Soviet and Russian singer *Zhanna Bichevskaya (born 1944), prominent Russian bar ...

* 2017: Main Prize:

Dineo Seshee Bopape Dineo Seshee Bopape is a South African multimedia artist. Using experimental video montages, sound, found objects, photographs and dense sculptural installations, her artwork "engages with powerful socio-political notions of memory, narration a ...

. Special Prize:

Phoebe Boswell Phoebe Boswell (born 2 January 1982), is a multi-media artist and film maker based in London, UK. She has won awards in the UK and Ukraine. Early life Phoebe Boswell was born in Nairobi, Kenya, the daughter of Timothy, a pilot, and Joyce, a tea ...

* 2019: Main Prize:

Emilija Škarnulytė Emilija Škarnulytė (born 1987 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Existing between the fictive and the documentary, "she works primarily with deep time, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political". Biogra ...

. Special Prize: Cooking Sections, Gabriel Goliath * 2021: Main Prize: Aziz Hazara. Special Prize: Agata Ingarden, Mire Lee and Pedro Neves Marques.

References

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History

Past winners

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