Prize Recipients

Guadalupe Maravilla receives the Vilcek Prize in Visual Arts for his sculptures, installations, and performances that combine symbol, sound, and ritual; his immersive and evocative works explore concepts of migration, transcendence, and the human condition.

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.

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.

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.

Maryam Turkey receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Design for her practice that seeks to bridge cultural and societal divides while simultaneously challenging the status quo; through organic sculptural forms and surfaces, she deconstructs gender norms, revealing a powerful humanity.

Nari Ward receives the Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts for a body of found-object assemblage artwork that invites both a public discourse and an intimate dialogue with viewers on topics such as race, poverty, immigration, and the Caribbean diaspora identity.