This 12 months, the Vilcek Basis doubled its prizes within the arts and humanities by bestowing awards in two classes: Visible Arts and Curatorial Work. Granting $250,000 to Visible Arts and $250,000 for Curatorial Work, these prizes acknowledge immigrant artwork professionals and curators whose work has a profound impression on their establishments, and on up to date artwork historical past.
The recipients of the Vilcek Prizes in Curatorial Work examine Blackness within the historical past of images, world artwork historical past and approaches, the artwork of the Americas, and rising and radical artists from the International South.
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, 2025 Vilcek Prize in Curatorial Work
Born within the UK to Nigerian mother and father, Oluremi C. Onabanjo is an artwork historian and curator within the Division of Pictures on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork (MoMA). Her work examines energy, place, and manufacturing of Blackness throughout the ongoing historical past of images.
Donna Honarpisheh, Artistic Promise Prize in Curatorial Work
Born in Canada to Iranian mother and father, Donna Honarpisheh is an affiliate curator of artwork and analysis on the Institute of Modern Artwork, Miami (ICA Miami). She makes use of a multidisciplinary method to deal with the historic and ongoing omissions of world artists and actions in Western artwork historical past and establishments.
Donna Honarpisheh (paintings by Naudline Pierre)Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Artistic Promise Prize in Curatorial Work
Aimé Iglesias Lukin is the chief curator of artwork on the Americas Society. The Argentinian immigrant has led initiatives selling the artwork of the Americas and traditionally underrepresented migrant and ladies artists.
Aimé Iglesias LukinBernardo Mosqueira, Artistic Promise Prize in Curatorial Work
Initially from Brazil, Bernardo Mosqueira is the chief curator for the Institute for Research on Latin American Artwork (ISLAA), dedicated to constructing establishments, frameworks, and platforms for rising and radical artists, particularly these from the International South, Latin America, and diasporic communities.
Bernardo Mosqueira
By growing the variety of awardees, the inspiration hopes to convey consciousness to these whose work is usually under-recognized regardless of being important to our lives.
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