Los Angeles-based artist platform Foundwork has kicked off the international open call for its 2024 Artist Prize, an annual juried grant for emerging and midcareer artists working in any media.

Now in its sixth year, the award includes an unrestricted USD 10,000 grant and individual studio visits with each of the esteemed jurors on the 2024 committee. In addition, the honoree and three shortlisted artists will be invited to participate in long-form interviews as part of the ongoing Foundwork Dialogues program, which will further public engagement with their practices. 

For anyone who may not be familiar, Foundwork is a digital platform and charitable organization whose mission is to support access and recognition for contemporary artists wherever they are based. Foundwork provides a dedicated online network for emerging and midcareer artists to share their work with curators, gallerists, and other prospective collaborators across the global contemporary art community. It also hosts ongoing programming, in addition to the Artist Prize, to foster interest and exposure for participating artists.

The prize winners of the past six years have represented a range of working styles, topics of interest, geographies, and identities. Last year’s honoree, Tanzania-born and London-based artist Valerie Asiimwe Amani, works through various physical and embodied mediums. Her practice interrogates the ways in which body erotics, language, and the mythical are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community. In 2022, the recipient was Marseille and Essex-based artist Dominique White, who went on to win the 9th Max Mara Art Prize for Women later that year.  In 2021, the organization had the unique opportunity to award two grantees—Kent Chan, an artist, curator, and filmmaker based between the Netherlands and Singapore, and Onyeka Igwe, a London-born and based artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. In 2020, the recipient was Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Tracey Snelling and, in 2019, the inaugural honoree was Puerto Rico-born artist, curator, and educator Edra Soto, who is based in Chicago and just this year won the USD 100,000 Joyce Award. 

Each year, Foundwork chooses a unique group of acclaimed curators, gallerists, and artists to serve on its prize jury. This cast changes with every prize cycle. This year’s jurors include: Rachel Uffner, founder of Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Olivia Aherne, Curator at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Monsieur Zohore; multidisciplinary artist based between Richmond, VA, New York, and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Mohamed Almusibli, Director and Curator of Kunsthalle Basel; Lorraine Kiang, cofounder of Kiang Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong.

The Foundwork Artist Prize is open to artists residing anywhere in the world with limited exceptions. To be considered, artists will need to register and maintain a profile on the Foundwork website, with at least six artworks and an artist statement published on their profile page, throughout the 2024 selection period: 11:59 pm PT, September 26, 2024—11:59 pm PT, December 31, 2024. Any artist interested in learning more can visit the FAQ and Prize Rules pages on the Foundwork website for instructions, terms, and conditions, or can email support [​at​] foundwork.art. 

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