Sarah Sze: Recipient of the Meraki Artist Award 2025

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announced that Sarah Sze is the first recipient of the Meraki Artist Award

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) announced that Sarah Sze (b. 1969, Boston, MA) is the inaugural recipient of its new Meraki Artist Award. Widely recognized for expanding the boundaries between painting, sculpture, video, and installation, Sarah Sze’s work blends the intimate with the monumental, precision with chaos, and the physical with the digital. Her intimate paintings and large-scale installations and public works challenge perceptions of space, time, and scale, making her one of the most compelling artists of our time.

“It’s a huge honor to be the first recipient of the Meraki Artist Award and I’m inspired by the dedication to love, care, and art that the award stands for,” said Sarah Sze.  

Generously funded by Fotene Demoulas, the $100,000 award celebrates the artistic achievements of women artists and their impact on the field of contemporary visual art. Sarah Sze will accept the Meraki Artist Award at the museum’s annual Women’s Luncheon on May 5, 2025. 

“I am honored to collaborate with the ICA to spotlight the passion and presence that women visual artists bring to their practice through the Meraki Artist Award,” said Fotene Demoulas. “I want to offer heartfelt congratulations to Sarah, whose innovate work inspires us to see the world in new ways.”

“In Greek, the word meraki means to pour your soul into something, and I can think of no better way to describe Fotene’s longstanding support of artists and the ICA,” said Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director of the ICA. “The generosity of this award is echoed in the open spirit and artistic expansiveness of Sarah’s work. We are thrilled to recognize Sarah as the inaugural recipient of the Meraki Artist Award and to celebrate her important contributions to art and culture.”

An exhibition of works promised to the ICA by Fotene and Tom Coté will go on view at the museum in January 2026. Reflecting their longtime support of artists at every stage of their career through exhibitions, publications, and museum acquisitions, the exhibition features work by 20 artists including Charlene von Heyl, Deana Lawson, Deborah Roberts, Diedrick Brackens, Laura Owens, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Olga de Amaral, and Sarah Sze. The artworks reflect multiple generations, styles, media, and thematic concerns, exemplifying a sustained interest in formal and material complexity and a steadfast belief in the singular perspectives that artists contribute to the world.

SARAH SZE BIOGRAPHY 

Sarah Sze gleans objects and images from worlds both physical and digital, assembling them into complex multimedia works that shift scale between microscopic observation and macroscopic perspective on the infinite. A peerless bricoleur, Sarah Sze moves with a light touch across proliferating media. Her dynamic, generative body of work spans sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation while always addressing the precarious nature of materiality and grappling with matters of entropy and temporality. 

Born in Boston, Sarah Sze earned a BA from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1997. While still in graduate school, she challenged the very nature of sculpture, at MoMA PS1 in New York, by burrowing into the walls of the building, creating sculptural portals and crafting ecosystems that radically transformed the host architecture. A year later, for her first solo institutional exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, she presented Many a Slip (1999), an immersive installation sprawling through several rooms in which flickering projections were scattered among complex assemblages of everyday objects. This marked Sze’s first foray into video, which has since become a central medium of her installations. Citing the Russian Constructivist notion of the “kiosk” as a key inspiration, she conceived subsequent installations as portable stations for the interchange of images and the exchange of information. Sarah Sze represented the United States in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, and her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including recently at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2024); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2023); and Fondation Cartier, Paris (2020), and featured in the Carnegie International (1999); Whitney Biennial (2000); and the Bienal de São Paulo (2002). She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. 

THE MERAKI ARTIST AWARD  

The Meraki Artist Award is an annual artist award that is a key part of the ICA’s efforts to exhibit, present and collect the work of women artists. The award takes its inspiration from the Greek word “meraki” (may-rah-kee), which means to do something with soul, love, or creativity. The Meraki Artist Award is funded by Fotene Demoulas and will continue to be supported for the next ten years. The artist will be recognized at the ICA’s annual Women’s Luncheon. 

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2025 Foster Prize Recipients and Exhibition @ ICA Boston - Alison Croney Moses, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Damien Hoar de Galvan, and Sneha Shrestha (aka Imagine)

James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition 

Alison Croney Moses, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Damien Hoar de Galvan, and Sneha Shrestha (aka Imagine) 

Institute of Contemporary Art / ICA Boston

August 25, 2025 - January 19, 2026

Alison Croney Moses, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Damien Hoar de Galvan, and Sneha Shrestha (aka Imagine) have been named the recipients of the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize, announced the ICA Boston. Their work will be presented in the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition. Organized by Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator, the exhibition recognizes the global and local roots of each artist, and how this is reflected in their practice.

“The biannual James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition consistently introduces audiences to the vitality of Boston’s artistic community and supports artists through exhibition, collaboration and a deepened sense of community. It is always a highly anticipated moment within our exhibition program,” said Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director. “We are grateful to Jim and Audrey Foster, whose ongoing generosity over two decades has made it possible for us to share the work of immensely talented area artists with many thousands of people in person and online.”   

“We are thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Foster Prize artists, whose work demonstrates the strength and creativity of Boston’s arts scene. We can’t wait to see their work on view in the ICA galleries,” James and Audrey Foster added.  

Following recent visits to over 50 Boston-area artist studios, Haas wishes to express her immense gratitude to each artist with whom she has met during this time and over her years in Boston. “It is a unique and necessary privilege to spend extended time with artists in their studios,” said Tessa Bachi Haas. “I am immensely proud to organize an exhibition of four outstanding artists who are pillars of supporting the arts, equity, and education in our region.” 

“Each of this year’s Foster Prize recipients draws on materials that connect their local and global roots,” said Tessa Bachi Haas. “Whether through woodworking, installation, sculpture, painting, and photography, the expansive art practices of Croney Moses, Efthymiadis, Galvan, and Shrestha underpin the strength of our greater Boston arts community.”  

The James and Audrey Foster Prize is key to the ICA’s effort to recognize, present, and acquire works by exceptional Boston-area artists. First established in 1999, the Foster Prize (formerly the ICA Artist Prize) expanded its format when the museum opened its Seaport building in 2006. James and Audrey Foster, passionate collectors and lifelong supporters of contemporary art, endowed the prize, ensuring the ICA’s ability to sustain and grow the program for years to come. 

The program has proven to be a springboard for many artists to have major museum exhibitions. The selection of artists for the James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition spans generations and results from sustained conversations with Boston’s community of working artists. More than 46 artists have participated in the Foster Prize exhibition program, including: Ambreen Butt (1999), Taylor Davis (2001), Kelly Sherman (2006), Rania Matar (2008), Evelyn Rydz (2010), Luther Price (2013), Lucy Kim (2017), Lavaughn Jenkins (2019), Marlon Forrester (2021), Yu-Wen Wu (2023), and many more. Works by many Foster Prize recipients have entered the ICA’s permanent collection.  

ALISON CRONEY MOSES BIOGRAPHY

Alison Croney Moses (born 1983, Fayetteville, North Carolina; lives and works in Roslindale, MA, and Allston, Boston, MA) creates wooden objects that reach for your senses—the smell of cedar, the glowing color of honey, the round form that signifies safety and warmth, the gentle curve that beckons to be touched. Born and raised in North Carolina by Guyanese parents, Croney Moses remembers making clothing, food, furniture, and art as part of her childhood. She carries these values and habits into adulthood and parenting, creating experiences, conversations, and educational programs that cultivate the current and next generation of artists and leaders in art and craft. Croney Moses holds an MA in Sustainable Business & Communities from Goddard College, and a BFA in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been included in group exhibitions at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2024-25); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2024); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center (2023); Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia (2022-23); MassArt Art Museum, Boston (2022); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2021-22); and Center for Architecture + Design, Philadelphia (2021), among others. Croney Moses’s work is in the collections of Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Detroit Institute of Arts Museum; and Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. She is recipient of the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize, the 2023 Boston Artadia Award, the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, and a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. She will debut her first public art installation at the Boston Public Art Triennial in 2025 through their Accelerator program. This is Croney Moses’s first institutional solo exhibition. 

DAMIEN HOAR DE GALVAN BIOGRAPHY

Damien Hoar de Galvan (born 1979, Northampton, MA; lives and works in Milton, MA) has developed a unique output of painted sculpture made primarily from recycled wood for nearly 20 years. Some of the wood Hoar de Galvan uses is reclaimed from his time as a preparator at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and from his father’s carpentry projects, which he began in the 1970s as an immigrant to Massachusetts from Argentina. Hoar de Galvan grew up between Western Massachusetts, Argentina, and spent most of his adolescence in Beverly, MA. He holds a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a BA from Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT. Hoar de Galvan has exhibited in group exhibitions at Concord Center for Visual Art, Concord, MA (2024); Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA (2023); and has had several solo and group exhibitions at galleries in New York, Seattle, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and across Massachusetts. He is represented by Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA. This is Hoar de Galvan’s first institutional solo exhibition. 

SNEHA SHRESTHA (aka Imagine) BIOGRAPHY

Sneha Shrestha (born 1987, Kathmandu, Nepal; lives and works in Kathmandu, Boston, and Somerville, MA), also known as Imagine, creates paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and larger-than-life murals that harmoniously blend her native Nepali and Sanskrit languages, mantras, sacred sounds used in meditation and prayer, and American graffiti hand styles. Education has always been at the forefront of Shrestha’s work to celebrate and inspire an appreciation for the beauty and diversity of Nepali language. Shrestha received her MA in Education from Harvard University. She has had a solo exhibition at Cantor Arts Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (2024); and participated in group exhibitions at Wrightwood 659, Chicago (2024-25); Nepal Arts Council, Kathmandu (2024); and Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, New York (2024). In 2025, she will complete a public art project in partnership with Rubin Museum and New York City Department of Transportation’s Temporary Art Program. One of her iconic public murals is at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Main Street in Central Square, Cambridge, MA, and her work can also be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Fidelity Art Collection, among others. Shrestha’s additional honors include a commissioned thirty-foot sculpture at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2024); a grant from the Collective Futures Fund (2024); becoming the first contemporary Nepali artist the be included in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s permanent collection (2023); inclusion in WBUR The ARTery’s 25 Millennials of Color (2019); recognition as one of the 100 most influential women in Nepal by the Nepal Cultural Council (2018); a Boston Artist-in-Residence Award (2018); the HUBWeek Change Maker Award (2018); South Asia and the Arts Fund Grant, Harvard University (2017); and Project Zero Artist-in-Residence Award, Harvard University (2017). She was recently selected for a studio residency at Boston Center for the Arts. 

YORGOS EFTHYMIADIS BIOGRAPHY

Yorgos Efthymiadis (born 1972, Halkidiki, Greece; lives and works in Somerville, MA) is an artist and curator who works in photographic media. Drawing from his experience as an architectural photographer, recent series by Efthymiadis explore portraiture of kin through their material cultures and surrounding natural environments in Greece, Boston, and beyond. Efthymiadis has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Kayafas, Boston (2024, 2019, and 2016) and the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (2016); and has been included in several group exhibitions including at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (2025, 2024, 2023, and 2020); Boston City Hall (2024 and 2017); Filter Photo Gallery, Chicago (2023, 2022, 2017, and 2014); Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT (2022 and 2017); Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA (2022, 2016, 2015, and 2013); Distillery Gallery, Boston (2021); Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence (2020); Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA (2019); and Photographic Resource Center, Boston (2015). Efthymiadis is an awardee of the Artist’s Resource Trust A.R.T. Grant (2024); a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (2017); and recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award (2017). A board member of Somerville Arts Council and chair of the Visual Arts Fellowship Grants since 2017, Efthymiadis has also been a reviewer for the Lenscratch Student Prize Awards since 2023 and finds it deeply fulfilling to work with fellow photographers and give back to the photographic community. In 2015, Efthymiadis created a gallery in his own kitchen titled The Curated Fridge, to celebrate fine art photography and connect photographers with established and influential curators, gallerists, publishers, and artists from around the world through free, quarterly curated calls. The Curated Fridge recently celebrated 10 years of exhibitions featuring more than 1500 artists in 40 shows juried by 45 guest curators.  

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Ugo Rondinone awarded the Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation

15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation awarded to Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone 

Photo: Maru Teppei

New York-based Swiss artist (sculpture, video and installation) UGO RONDINONE (*1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland) received the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation. He is one of the most acclaimed international artists of his generation who has already been honored with numerous solo exhibitions, among others in London, Paris, Boston, Zurich, Rotterdam or Frankfurt. After all, his monumental groups of works can repeatedly be found dominating public space, whether in urban contexts such as New York and Paris or in the Nevada desert.

“Rondinone's works have their own poetry and are inspired by his own experiences and events. They boast immense density as they are rich in quotations from art history, literature, and pop culture. With seemingly playful material observations in an aesthetic of archetypes that can be sensually experienced and approached by the viewer, the artist creates a connection between the subjective and universal world images," according to the jury of the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation. “His skillful brilliance is characterized by this poignant immediacy combined with a formal language shaped by a high degree of seriality and the use of the most different artistic media. The captivating formal translation of universal fields of tension such as time and transience, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture makes him a worthy laureate of the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation. Last but not least, the participatory character of his work was convincing.”

The awarding of the prize together with a presentation of the artist's work at one of the museums of the Würth Collection is scheduled for the spring of 2024.

The jury of the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation

Dr. Christoph Becker, former Director of Kunsthaus Zurich 

Dr. Philipp Demandt, Director of Städel Museum and Liebieghaus, Frankfurt 

Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer, former Director-General of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 

Fabrice Hergott, Director of Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris 

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maaz, General Director of Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 

Elmgreen & Dragset, Scandinavian artist duo, Berlin, winners of the 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize 

C. Sylvia Weber, Director of Würth Collection (chair)

Maria Würth, Member of the Board of the Würth Foundation

About the Robert Jacobsen Prize

After the death of sculptor Robert Jacobsen in 1993, the Würth Foundation endowed the Robert Jacobsen Prize in cooperation with Museum Würth. Every other year, it is awarded to contemporary visual artists to commemorate Robert Jacobsen’s oeuvre and influence. After their first accidental encounter in the 1970s, the Danish sculptor and Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth, entrepreneur and art collector, became long-standing friends. In 1991, Jacobsen had completed his largest sculpture installation on the forecourt of the Würth Group's new administration building, which has shaped the appearance of the Group's headquarters ever since. The Robert Jacobsen Prize is endowed with EUR 50,000. 

Previous Robert Jacobsen Prize winners:

1993 Lun Tuchnowski 

1995 Richard Deacon 

1997 Magdalena Jetelovà 

1999 Gereon Lepper 

2001 Stephan Kern 

2003 Rui Chafes 

2005/06 Bernar Venet 

2008 Monika Sosnowska 

2010 Alicja Kwade 

2012 Jeppe Hein 

2014/15 Michael Sailstorfer 

2016/17 Yngve Holen 

2018/19 Eva Rothschild 

2021 Elmgreen & Dragset

About the Würth Foundation

Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold and Carmen Würth founded the Würth Foundation in 1987. It is a civil law foundation based in Künzelsau, Germany, and promotes charitable and benevolent causes. The Würth Foundation promotes projects in the fields of art and culture, research and science as well as education and training—mainly in the Hohenlohe region, where the Würth Group’s headquarters are located. The foundation also supports social integration projects. The projects of the Würth Foundation are promoted by the German Würth Group companies, in particular Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG.

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Art Dubai 2013: Abraaj Group Art Prize Winners Artworks exhibited

Vartan Avakian, Rayyane Tabet, Iman Issa, Huma Mulji, Hrair Sarkissian, Winners of the 5th Abraaj Group Art Prize at Art Dubai 2013

The  five winning artists of the fifth  Abraaj  Group  Art Prize are in the final stages of producing their new artworks which will be unveiled at Art Dubai on March 19, 2013. The winners, announced last year, are: Vartan Avakian  and Rayyane Tabet from Lebanon, Iman Issa from Egypt, Huma Mulji from Pakistan and Hrair Sarkissian from Syria. 

Hrair Sarkissian Portrait

HRAIR SARKISSIAN

Portrait of the artist with one of his artwork, 2012

Image courtesy of the artist

Hrair Sarkissian Artwork

HRAIR SARKISSIAN

Istory - 6, 2010

Previous work. Courtesy of the artist Hrair Sarkissian and Kalfayan Galleries

They have been working closely with guest curator Murtaza Vali for the past six months on their ambitious projects, which have required them to experiment with new techniques, travel internationally and undertake new research.

Murtaza Vali Portrait

MURTAZA VALI

Portrait of the artist by the photographer Siddharth Siva, 2012

Courtesy of the photographer

Accompanying the exhibition will be a publication designed by Brooklyn based design agency Project Projects, with commissioned essays from writers such as Haig Avazian, Adnan Madani Vali Mahlouji, Walid Sadek and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie.

Savita Apte, Chair of the Abraaj Group Art Prize, said: “The Selection Committee have consistently showcased creative excellence from the MENASA region highlighting artists who traverse national and regional boundaries with their work. This year's winners Vartan Avakian, Rayyane Tabet, Iman Issa, Huma Mulji and Hrair Sarkissian join an alumni who are already inspirational figures in the global art scene and whose works are shown increasingly in international institutions."

Iman Issa Portrait

IMAN ISSA

Portrait of the artist, 2012

Courtesy of the artist

Huma Mulji Artist Portrait

HUMA MULJI
Portrait of the artist by the photographer Siddharth Siva, 2012
Courtesy of the photographer

Huma Mulji Artwork

HUMA MULJI

Ode To A Tubelight, 2011

Enamel and mixed media on canvas

Previous Artwork. Courtesy of the artist Huma Mulji

The five new works will bring the total number of  artworks created by artists awarded the prize to 21, and will be part of the Abraaj Art Collection  following their unveiling at Art Dubai 2013. 

The aim of the Abraaj Group Art Prize is to give often under-represented, contemporary artists the resources to further develop their talent. Artists are invited to submit proposals for new artworks they would like to produce. Once chosen by the Selection Committee, the artists go on to produce the works. The artists collaborate with an internationally renowned curator. This allows them to tap the latest trends, while the prize gives them a global platform to showcase their works and their region. The Abraaj Group, a leading private equity investor operating  in global growth markets of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, launched the art prize in 2008. To date, the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 works were unveiled at Art Dubai and artworks have been exhibited at  several venues in  Africa,  Asia,  Europe,  the Gulf  and  the US including: The National Museum of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia (2012), the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2012-2013),  the Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2012); Future of a Promise, collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy (2011); Museum of Photography, Braunschweig, Germany (2012), La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2012); Parasol Unit, London, UK (2012-2013); Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US (2009 and 2010); Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian’s Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC, US (2012-2013); Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai (2009, 2010, 2013) and the Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah (2010), UAE.

Photographs of the previous Abraaj Group Art Prize exhibition that was unveiled at the Art Dubai fair. The 2012 exhibition untitled Spectral Imprints, curated by Nat Muller, presented artworks by Raed Yassin, Taysir Batniji, Wael Shawky, Risham Syed, Joana Hadjthomas and Khalil Joreige.

Entrance to Spectral Imprints, Abraaj Group Art Prize exhibition, 2012

Nat Muller, Curator. Artworks by Raed Yassin, Taysir Batniji, Wael Shawky, Risham Syed, Joana Hadjthomas and Khalil Joreige.

Photo Courtesy Abraaj Group Art Prize

Opening of Spectral Imprints, Abraaj Group Art Prize Exhibition, 2012

Visitors at the Spectral Imprints and exhibit by the winners of the 4th Abraaj Capital Art Prize, unveiled at Art Dubai 2012, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE on Monday, March 20, 2012.

Photo by Siddharth Siva. Courtesy Abraaj Group Art Prize

Abraaj Group Art Prize Unveiling at Art Dubai, 2012

Photo Courtesy Abraaj Group Art Prize

Abraaj Group Art Prize Unveiling at Art Dubai, 2012

Visitors at the Jumeirah Preview at Art Dubai 2012, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE on Monday, March 20, 2012. Photos by Siddharth Siva. Courtesy Abraaj Group Art Prize

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Daan van Golden: Heineken Prize for Art 2004

Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2004 awarded to Daan van Golden

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2004 (EUR 50,000) to Daan van Golden 'for his versatile output as an artist and his ability to place art in a new context, time and again'.

Daan van Golden has been working as an artist for over forty years, a period of major change in the world of modern art. Van Golden's response to that change has been both exciting and complex. Younger generations of artists particularly appreciate the extraordinary way in which he presents his paintings, photographs and other works in installations and publications, which then become works of art in themselves.

Van Golden's earliest works were abstract-expressionist in nature. In 1963, while in Japan, he embarked on a radical change in style and began a series of painstaking depictions of textile and wrapping paper patterns in enamel paint. His use of existing commercial products betrays the influence of pop art, then in its ascendancy, but in Van Golden's hands such references take on a quality of timeless elegance. His work thereafter uses a highly diverse range of images, drawing on both high and popular culture. Van Golden often sees images within images; in Pollock (1991), for example, he enlarges a detail of an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock to suggest an animal figure. His photographs, frequently taken during his travels, also contain many autobiographical references, for example the series documenting his daughter Diana's life from infant to adult.

In 1968, Van Golden was invited to exhibit at Documenta 4 in Kassel, where he combined existing and new paintings to produce an intriguing installation. He repeated this approach at subsequent exhibitions, but he also produced work in situ. During the Century 87 exhibition in 1987, Van Golden covered the paths of the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam with blue gravel, inspired by Mexico's Agua Azul riverine landscape. In the mid-1990s he redesigned parts of the inner and outer courtyards of the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.

Daan van Golden (born in Rotterdam in 1936) lives and works in Schiedam, the Netherlands. After at-tending technical school, he enrolled at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Technical Sciences, where he specialised in painting and took classes in graphic techniques. He also worked as a window dresser for De Bijenkorf, an exclusive chain of department stores. He spent 1963 to 1965 in Japan and has travelled widely since then, with long sojourns in such places as Morocco, India, Indonesia, and North and South America. His travels have found their expression in his work.

There have been two major solo exhibitions of Daan van Golden's work, one organised by the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in 1982 (Daan van Golden - 1963-1982) and the other by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1991 (Daan van Golden - Works 1962-1991). Van Golden was one of the artists featured in the Dutch pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennial. Solo exhibitions have been organised in Geneva, Dijon, Paris and Göteborg. Van Golden's work can also be viewed regularly at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer in Antwerp.

The Heineken Prize for Art

The Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art was awarded for the first time in 1988. Previous winners include Aernout Mik for video art (2002), Guido Geelen for ceramics (2000) and Marrie Bot for photography (1990). The jury (Henk van Os, chair, Carel Blotkamp, Ed Taverne and Ilja Veldman) is awarding the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art to Daan van Golden for his entire oeuvre.

Unlike the other Heineken Prizes, the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art is awarded by a jury which is independent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Although a number of jury members are also members of the Academy, they are acting in a private capacity. 

The five Heineken Prizes for science, scholarship and art are presented every other year during a special session of the Academy. This year the presentation will take place on Friday 1 October at the Beurs van Berlage Building in Amsterdam.

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2002 Praemium Imperiale Laureates Announcement

2002 Praemium Imperiale Laureates

The recipients of the 14th Praemium Imperiale are:

Painting: SIGMAR POLKE

Sculpture:  GIULIANO VANGI

Architecture: NORMAN FOSTER

Music: DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU

Theatre/film: JEAN-LUC GODARD

The artists are recognized and awarded for their achievements, for the impact they have had internationally on the arts, and for their role in enriching the global community. The five recipients each receive 15 million yen (c. $125,000), and a diploma and medal presented by honorary patron of the Japan Art Association Prince Hitachi in an awards ceremony in Tokyo. The awards ceremony will be held on October 23rd, 2002.

The Praemium Imperiale is an annual award given by the Japan Art Association for global achievement in the arts. Since its foundation in 1989, it has become a mark of the highest international distinction. The 2002 laureates join a roster of 67 artists, including David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo and Jean-Claude, Anthony Caro, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ravi Shankar, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Brook.

2002 PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE LAUREATES

Painting ：SIGMAR POLKE

Sigmar Polke was born in Oels/Schlesien, Poland in 1941 and studied art at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf under Joseph Beuys between 1961 and 1967. Polke first gained notoriety in 1963 alongside fellow student Gerhard Richter with their exhibition “Capital Realism.” Polke’s work with old prints, news photos, and comic characters has always set his work apart, politically and emotionally, both from American and British Pop Art, and from his German contemporaries.

Sculpture：GIULIANO VANGI

Giuliano Vangi was born near Florence in 1931. He began his career concentrating on abstract studies and working with crystal and metals such as iron and steel, but moved to figurative expression when he returned to Italy in 1962 after four years in Brazil. His subject is always the human figure, and aside from stone, wood, and metal, he is just as likely to use glass and pottery, gems and gold - or any other natural material. He is currently collaborating with architect Renzo Piano(Praemium Imperiale laureate 1995) on a new work for the Church of St. Padre Pio. Robert Rauschenberg(Praemium Imperiale laureate 1998) and Arnaldo Pomodoro(Praemium Imperiale laureate 1990) are also taking part in this project.

Architecture：NORMAN FOSTER

Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961, he completed a Master’s Degree in Architecture at Yale University. His architecture is universally admired for its conceptual and structural brilliance and “high-tech” beauty - a special union of technology and aesthetics that has been polished and perfected over a lifetime. His works combine advanced technology, an ingenious geometry, attention to detail, and sensitivity to ecological considerations. Recent commissions, especially the Sackler Galleries and the Great Court of the British Museum, both in London, and the new German Parliament at the Reichstag in Berlin, add a new quality to his work. Although uncompromisingly modern in character, they demonstrate a great respect for the past.

Music：DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin in 1925. For most of his career, he divided his time fairly equally between opera and concerts. He sang Verdi and Puccini roles as readily as Mozart, Strauss and Wagner, and sang in many contemporary operas as well. Although probably most well known for his performances of traditional lieder, Fischer-Dieskau's dedicated commitment to contemporary music is noteworthy. He participated in the first performances of works by Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek, Witold Lutoslawski, Siegfried Matthus, Winfried Zillig, Gottfried von Einem. The precisely articulated accuracy of his performances, in which text and music are presented as equal partners, established standards that endure today. He is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

Theatre/film：JEAN-LUC GODARD

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris in 1930, and grew up in Switzerland. He returned to Paris in the late 1940’s to study and during this period he met Andre Bazin, Francois Truffaut, and others who would be central to the French Nouvelle Vague movement of the 1960s. He is widely recognized as one of the filmmakers who has most influenced the modern art and language of the medium. Breathless(a bout de souffle)(1959), Godard’s first full-length film was to become an epoch-making point in motion picture history. Godard continues to explore new techniques in film and video. Godard’s works, from Breathless through his most recent, Eloge de l’Amour(2001), challenge his contemporaries and also have an immense influence on artists working in many different fields.

ANNOUNCEMENT IN PARIS

The main announcement took place, with all of the new Praemium Imperiale laureates present, at the Chateau de Versailles. Mr. Raymond Barre hosted the event on behalf of the Japan Art Association. Mr. Barre serves, along with Messers.Umberto Agnelli, Edward Heath, William Luers, Yasuhiro Nakasone, and Richard von Weizsäcker, on an advisory panel to the Japan Art Association. Japan Art Association executives and advisors attended the Paris announcement.

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2001 Praemium Imperiale Laureates Announcement

2001 Praemium Imperiale Laureates

The recipients of the 13th Praemium Imperiale are:

Painting: Lee Ufan

Sculpture: Marta Pan

Architecture: Jean Nouvel

Music: Ornette Coleman

Theatre/Film: Arthur Miller

The artists are recognized and awarded for their achievements, for the impact they have had internationally on the arts, and for their role in enriching the global community. The five recipients each receive 15 million yen (c. $125,000), and a diploma and medal presented by governor of the Japan Art Association Prince Hitachi in an awards ceremony in Tokyo. The awards ceremony will be held on October 25.

The Praemium Imperiale is an annual award given by the Japan Art Association for global achievement in the arts. Since its foundation in 1989, it has become a mark of the highest international distinction. The 2001 laureates join a roster of 61 artists, including David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Anthony Caro, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ravi Shankar, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Brook.

2001 Praemium Imperiale Laureates

Painting: Lee Ufan

Japan-based Korean Lee Ufan has been a presence on the international art scene since the early 1970s. Profoundly rooted in philosophy of the East and West, his works offer his response to the basic problems of western art in the latter half of the 20th century. Lee's questioning of artistic methods and materials classes him among a large group of contemporaries; but his elementary forms and reduced processes and colors, his handling of time and space, connect him above all with Minimal Art and Conceptual Art. The genesis of his work is embedded in long meditative phases and profound concentration.

Sculpture: Marta Pan

Marta Pan has devoted her professional life to a pursuit of geometric simplicity, and to exploration of the themes of equilibrium and continuity. Her site-specific sculptures were pioneering in their attention to the overall landscape, to subtly changing light, and movements of water and wind. They were typically placed in natural environments and sculpture parks, but in recent years are found increasingly in urban settings as her interest shifts to urban scenery, and to the creation of public space environments. She has been very active outside of France, and her encounter with Japan, starting in 1969 with Floating Sculpture for the Hakone Open-Air Museum, was something like a mystical union. She now has about 25 major pieces in Japan that are appreciated for their abstract serenity and harmony with nature that perhaps recalls the essence of the traditional Japanese garden.

Architecture: Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel is recognized for the clarity, elegance that characterizes his work. Nouvel has created a stylistic language separate from that of modernism and post-modernism, and buildings that go beyond cultural constraints. He places great importance on harmonizing a building with its site and surroundings. Another theme unifying all of his projects is the beautiful interplay of transparency, opacity, shadow, and light. Perhaps the most well known example of this is his Institute du Monde Arab in Paris. Nouvel is considered one of the founders of the high-tech school of architecture. He uses materials such as aluminum, glass, stainless steel and concrete, but he adopts a softer, perhaps more poetic approach than his British colleagues. Nouvel's current projects include the new corporate headquarters for Dentsu Corporation at a site overlooking Tokyo Bay.

Music: Ornette Coleman

Most people think of Ornette Coleman as the revolutionary saxophonist who created "free jazz," but his explorations of the musical possibilities extend much beyond that and reveal a personal musical vocabulary free from prevailing conventions of harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic structures. Coleman's innovations, later to be known as "harmolodics," pointed out a new direction, and also established his place among a group of major 20th Century American composers such as Charlie Parker, Harry Partch, Charles Ives and John Cage. He describes Harmolodics as a system that allows every person to express their own emotions and ideas regardless of their languages, instruments, or role.

Theatre/Film: Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller has enriched the stage for over five decades. With his Death of a Salesman in 1949, Miller reached a universal audience and set a standard that marked him as a playwright for his time and for all time. The fate of the individual in society, the tragedy of the common man who loses his integrity due to social and economic pressures, the moral and political issues of our time, including the right to speak and think freely - these are the themes that have occupied Miller throughout his career. Arthur Miller continues to be a major force in world theater.

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