The Cartier Award at Frieze
Cartier UK (cartier.com), is the associate sponsor at leading contemporary art fair, Frieze Art Fair (friezeartfair.com), supporting specifically the Frieze Projects and the Cartier Award (friezefoundation.org/cartier).
The Frieze Projects
Cartier is the sponsorship of the Frieze Projects through the annual curatorial program presented at the Frieze Art Fair, which comprises site-specific interventions, films, performances, debates and conversations. The Cartier Award, assigned by Cartier to a young artist in the Frieze Projects, carries on with Cartier’s long involvement with multi-disciplinary contemporary art, through the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
The Cartier Award
Since 2006, the Cartier Award gives an international artist within five years of graduating the chance to present new work at the Frieze Art Fair. The prominent award also incorporates project production costs up to £10,000 as well as a coveted three-month residency at Gasworks (gasworks.org.uk), a leading London studio. With the intention to encourage the current creation, the Cartier Award is an incredible launch pad for an emerging artist and consolidates Cartier’s long-standing and pioneering relationship with contemporary art.
Cartier Award 2009
The winner of the Cartier Award 2009 is American artist Jordan Wolfson (jordanwolfson.org) (b. 1980). That talented artist lives and works between New York and Berlin. His work, which focuses recently on video recordings, was selected amongst more than 450 applications.
friezefoundation.org/cartier/category/year_2009
Cartier Award 2008
The winner of the Cartier Award 2008 is Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto (wilfredo-prieto.com) (b. 1978). Prieto, based in Barcelona and Havana, is a talented young artist whose work often takes the form of conceptual site specific installations.
friezefoundation.org/cartier/category/year_2008/
Cartier Award 2007
Recipient of the Cartier Award 2007, the Mexican artist Mario Garcia Torres (b. 1975) graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
friezefoundation.org/cartier/category/year_2007/
Cartier Award 2006
First recipient of the Cartier Award, Mika Rottenberg (b. 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a New York-based artist. She presented in the Frieze Art Fair in 2006 a work inspired by the Seven Sutherland Sisters.
friezefoundation.org/cartier/category/year_2006/
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