Queen's Birthday Honours 2022

Image: Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991, Tate. Presented by the Patrons of
New Art (Special Purchase Fund) through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1995. © Cornelia Parker

ART

Isaac Julien

Cornelia Parker

Queen's Birthday Honours

The Queen of England revealed her 2022 Birthday Honours List, which includes news of members of all sectors of British society who have received special honors. Isaac Julien, a filmmaker whose work has explored intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class across the years, has become one of the few Black artists to be knighted by the Queen of England. Meanwhile, Cornelia Parker, a sculptor with a retrospective that just opened at Tate Britain, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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Royal Academy Architecture Prize 2022

Image: Renée Gailhoustet, La Maladrerie, Aubervilliers, 1975-1986. © Marc Pataut

ARCHITECTURE

Renée Gailhoustet

Royal Academy Architecture Prize

French architect Renée Gailhoustet has been awarded the 2022 Royal Academy Architecture Award for her pioneering work designing public housing and neighborhoods in and around Paris. Born in Oran in French Algeria in 1929, she enrolled in École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, gained her diploma in 1961, and founded her own firm in 1964. In 1962, while working at the firm of Roland Dubrulle, she began to work on the urban renewal of Ivry-sur-Seine, becoming the chief architect of the project in 1969. In addition to her numerous projects in suburban Paris, like Aubervilliers, Saint-Denis, and Villejuif, she also developed two urban renewal plans for Reunion Island.

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2022 Käthe Kollwitz Prize

Image: Nan Goldin, Nan and Brian in bed, New York City, 1983, from the series
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Acquired in 1992. © Nan Goldin

PHOTOGRAPHY

Nan Goldin

Käthe Kollwitz Prize

Nan Goldin has been named the recipient of the 2022 Käthe Kollwitz Prize. The prestigious award, presented by the Berlin Academy of Arts, recognizes contemporary photographers who have made important contributions in their field. The photographer, filmmaker, and activist is being lauded for her intimate, pathbreaking work focused on the LQBTQ+ community. In an oeuvre spanning more than four decades, Goldin has examined issues of themes of gender, domesticity, and sexuality, typically through works comprising numerous photographs or slides, often with an audio component.

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Queen Sonja Print Award 2022

Image: Yto Barrada, Untitled (Bonbon 5), 2017. C-type photogram.
25,4 x 20,3cm. Unique. Courtesy of the artist.

ART

Yto Barrada

Queen Sonja Print Award

Yto Barrada (Moroccan, French, b.1971, Paris) studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography in New York. Her work, including photography, film, sculpture, prints and installations, began by exploring the peculiar situation of her hometown Tangier. Barrada was commended for her "continuous search for new forms of expressions, pushing the boundaries of her own practice and our understanding of printmaking and graphic art". The artist’s work is also "informed by postcolonial thought and socio-political concerns", say the judges.

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Prix Niépce Gens d’images 2022

Image: Julien Magre, Elles veulent déjà s'enfuir, 2010 - 2012. © Julien Magre

PHOTOGRAPHY

Julien Magre

Prix Niépce Gens d’images

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1973, Julien Magre lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. His work is represented by the gallery Le Réverbère in Lyon since March 2017. Julien Magre is not looking for a spectacular image. He photographs his family, his wife, his children and some landscapes. In the corpus he submitted, entitled En vie, he poetically crystallizes these fragments of intimacy where joy, sadness and melancholy mingle.

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2022 LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers

Image: S.S.Daley, Spring 2022 Menswear.

FASHION

Steven Stokey-Daley

LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers

The 25-year-old London-based designer Steven Stokey-Daley has won this year’s LVMH Prize with his menswear label S.S.Daley, created in 2020. S.S.Daley plays on the idea of British heritage with romantic fabrics and a focus on sustainability, while bringing a touch of decidedly queer humor. Stokey-Daley studied theatre before studying fashion at the University of Westminster. When lockdown came, he started his S.S Daley collection, selling direct to consumers through his Instagram and website, with the brilliant tagline "Championing quality & frivolity while maintaining ecological integrity."

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Bourse ADAGP / Bétonsalon 2022

Image: Abdessamad El Montassir, Al Amakine, 2016 – 2020.
Photographic installation in light boxes and sound piece 6.1.
Photo credit: Aurélien Mole.

ART

Abdessamad El Montassir

Bourse ADAGP / Bétonsalon

Native of the Sahara in the south of Morocco, Abdessamad El Montassir grew up in the town of Boujdour. It is in this region that he wishes to develop his project, Mémoire des cendres, with the ADAGP / Bétonsalon research and production grant. For this research, Abdessamad El Montassir wishes to evoke the invisibility of the history of the Sahara, its knowledge, its traumas and their transmissions. It will seek to experience alternative means of transmission while respecting the right to be forgotten, and will question how these traumas can be the support for a new form of historicization.

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2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize

Image: Azin Zolfaghari, Density, 2021. Mixed media on canvas. 100 x 130 cm.
Courtesy the artist and Sovereign Art Foundation.

ART

Azin Zolfaghari

Sovereign Asian Art Prize

The Sovereign Art Foundation announced Iranian artist Azin Zolfaghari the winner of the 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Her work is characterised by unusual cityscapes depicting muted slabs of desolate facades with minimal signs of life. The only hint of a human presence comes in the form of windows, leaving the viewer wondering what the inside of the structure may hold. Zolfaghari's winning work is a hyperrealist painting of a bleak apartment facade, entitled Density, which embodies the complicated definition of "house".

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Grand Press Photo 2022

Image: Strike, Rafał Milach, Jednostka, 2021.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Strike by Rafał Milach

Photo Book of the Year 2021

Strike (Strajk) is a visual record of the protests that began across Poland on October 22, 2020, and which persisted in various forms over the ensuing months. The publication channels the spirit of intervention, solidarity and aid. Since 2019, Rafał Milach, together with sixteen fellow photographers, has been a co-creator of the Archive of Public Protests (APP), a platform for gathering documentation of social actions and grassroots initiatives that have opposed political decisions executed in violation of principles of democracy and human rights. Strike is a piece of this archive.

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