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Sharjah Biennial 2015 Prize Winners Announced

Artists Eric Baudelaire, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Adrián Villar Rojas, Fahrelnissa Zeid are honoured for their thought-provoking contributions to SB12.


Sharjah Biennial 2015 Prize Winners Announced
Abbas, Basel

Abbas, Basel

Artist

Basel Abbas works together with Ruanne Abou-Rahme across a range of sound, image, installation and performance practices.

Abou-Rahme, Ruanne

Abou-Rahme, Ruanne

Artist

Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together with Basel Abbas across a range of sound, image, installation and performance practices.

Adnan, Etel

Adnan, Etel

Artist

A celebrated writer, poet, artist and filmmaker, Etel Adnan is considered a leading figure in modern and contemporary art.

Al Saadi, Abdullah

Al Saadi, Abdullah

Artist

Abdullah Al Saadi’s work ranges from painting, drawing and the creation of lengthy artists’ notebooks to the collection and systematic categorisation of found objects and the invention of new alphabets.

Alkadhi, Rheim

Alkadhi, Rheim

Artist

Rheim Alkadhi works with images, texts, objects and by interposing the body in decidedly unfixed conditions.

Anastas, Ayreen

Anastas, Ayreen

Artist

Brooklyn-based Ayreen Anastas uses text, film, video, audio and the internet to create work that focuses on legal and discursive shifts around differing notions of security and the subsequent effects on everyday life.

Antunes, Leonor

Antunes, Leonor

Artist

Leonor Antunes’s work demonstrates her interest in the social, political and philosophical dimensions of craft.

Arthur Liou, Jawshing

Arthur Liou, Jawshing

Artist

Jawshing Arthur Liou creates video installations that employ digital technology to transform representation and reality.

Aydabi, Yousif

Aydabi, Yousif

Writer

Dr Yousif Aydabi is a poet, playwright, film critic and academic. He is currently the Cultural Advisor at the Dr Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies and Advisor to the Arab Theater Authority in Sharjah.

Baudelaire, Eric

Baudelaire, Eric

Filmmaker

A visual artist and filmmaker, Eric Baudelaire’s recent projects have explored the possibility
 of self-invention and political imagining.

Bradford, Mark

Bradford, Mark

Artist

Mark Bradford’s work is distinguished by expansive collage paintings and sculptures composed of mysterious strata, which the artist forms from materials scavenged from the urban environment of his South Central Los Angeles neighbourhood.

C, Unnikrishnan

C, Unnikrishnan

Artist

Unnikrishnan C was born into a family traditionally engaged in basket weaving in Pezhumpara, rural Kerala.

Chang-Sup, Chung

Chang-Sup, Chung

Artist

Among the first artists to be educated in Korea after its liberation from Japanese occupation, Chung Chang-Sup was part of a generation of artists who transformed the future of contemporary art in Korea.

Chimurenga

Chimurenga

A pan African publication of writing, art and politics, Chimurenga has been in print since March 2002.

Chopra, Nikhil

Chopra, Nikhil

Performance

Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice draws upon approaches associated with theatre, portraiture, landscape drawing, sculpture and installation to chronicle the world through live performance.

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