Prize Recipients

Oluremi C. Onabanjo receives the Vilcek Prize in Curatorial Work for her work to examine the power, position, and production of Blackness in relation to the unfinished global history of the photographic medium.

Francesca Du Brock receives the Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History for her holistic and comprehensive approach to exhibition curation and to public education and engagement with art through museum programming.

Selva Aparicio receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Visual Arts for her evocative sculptures and installations, which use organic materials and ritualistic imagery to explore death, mourning, memory, and the fleeting nature of time.

Felipe Baeza receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Visual Arts for his studio practice and poetic style that engages multiple mediums and traditions to explore spirituality, otherness, and regeneration.

Jeffrey Meris receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Visual Arts for his work engaging materiality, installation, and performance to explore the power of ecology and embodiment to liberate and heal from individual and historical trauma.

Donna Honarpisheh receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work for her multidisciplinary approach to address the historic and ongoing omissions of global artists and movements in Western art history and institutions.

Aimé Iglesias Lukin receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work for her leadership promoting the art of the Americas, and her focused initiatives to achieve recognition for historically underrepresented migrant and women artists.

Bernardo Mosqueira receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work for his commitment to building institutions, frameworks, and platforms for emerging and radical artists, especially those from the Global South, Latin America, and diasporic communities.

Carmen C. Bambach receives the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Art History for revelatory contributions to the study of Renaissance drawings, and for curating landmark exhibitions that made masterpieces available to new audiences.