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Nari Ward

Multidisciplinary artist
Born in Jamaica
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.
Portrait of Nari Ward
2017 Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts

Iman Issa

Multidisciplinary artist
Born in Egypt
Iman Issa receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts for exploring, through works of various media, difficult philosophical questions, such as the individual’s relationship to places, figures, and events that are collectively familiar, or the difference between experience and recognition.
Portrait of Iman Issa
2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts

Meleko Mokgosi

Painter
Born in Botswana
Meleko Mokgosi receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts for paintings that rely on intensive research, reflection, and conversation in order to address widespread misrepresentation of Africa and Africans, and to accurately portray the continent’s complex social and political realities.
Portrait of Meleko Mokgosi
2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts

Carlos Motta

Multidisciplinary artist
Born in Colombia
Carlos Motta receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts for his engagement, through performance, film, and other media, with the question of representation and democracy, the emotional underpinnings of political awareness, and the tension between dominant accounts of history and marginalized communities.
Portrait of Carlos Motta
2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Multidisciplinary artists
Born in Bulgaria and Morocco
Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) receive the Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts for capturing the imagination of the world and broadening the popular conception of art with their large-scale works.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude stand in front of their work of art
2006 Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts