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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
Tan, Xu

Tan, Xu

Artist

Since 2005, Xu Tan’s ‘Keywords Project’ has explored linguistic activities, collective research, public space and knowledge production through a variety of working methods in his unique art practice.

Tiravanija, Rirkrit

Tiravanija, Rirkrit

Artist

Widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of his generation, Rirkrit Tiravanija’s practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching and other forms of public service and social action.

Villar Rojas, Adrián

Villar Rojas, Adrián

Artist

The practice of Adrián Villar Rojas is marked by large-scale, site-specific interventions that incorporate his fascinations with battling ecosystems, physical decay, unlikely rebirth and man’s interference in it all.

Vo, Danh

Vo, Danh

Artist

Danh Vo is an artist whose conceptual practice exists in both tangible and intangible forms. His work often explores personal narrative through a confluence 
of collective history.

Yang, Haegue

Yang, Haegue

Artist

Haegue Yang employs ready-made objects such as fans, clothing racks and building materials, to create works that depict a unique play on human experience through temporality and spatialisation.

Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette

Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette

Artist

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings focus on fictional figures that exist outside of specific times and places.

Zeid, Fahrelnissa

Zeid, Fahrelnissa

Artist

A member of the avant-garde D-Group in Istanbul before entering the Paris art scene in the 1940s, Fahrelnissa Zeid was part of the École de Paris, a movement of abstraction that rejected academic methods and intellectual speculation.

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