The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a biennial arts prize awarded to a young female artist working in the United Kingdom. It is organized by the

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fashion company and the

Whitechapel Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the fir ...

in London. The prize includes a six-month

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in Italy, during which the artist creates an art project to be exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and at the

Collezione Maramotti The Collezione Maramotti is the private collection of contemporary art of Achille Maramotti, who founded Max Mara. It is housed in the former premises of the company in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia Romagna in central Italy, converted for the pur ...

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, in

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in northern Italy. Between 2006 and 2020 the winners of the prize were

Margaret Salmon Margaret Salmon is an American and British based film maker-artist. The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film, be it the propaganda documentary of the Farm Security Administratio ...

Hannah Rickards Hannah Rickards (born 1979) is a British artist. She has won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Arts. Life and work Rickards was born in London. She studied at Central Saint Martins and now t ...

Andrea Büttner Andrea Büttner (born 1972) is a German artist. She works in a variety of media including woodcuts, reverse glass paintings, sculpture, video, and performance. She creates connections between art history and social or ethical issues, with a parti ...

Laure Prouvost Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a France, French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she French pavilion, represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surr ...

Corin Sworn Corin Sworn (born 1976) is an artist who lives and works in Glasgow. Her 2012 installation and film ''The Foxes'' was shown at the Scottish Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Sworn was the recipient of the fifth edition of the Max Mara Art Pr ...

, Emma Hart,

Helen Cammock Helen Cammock ( ; born 1970) is a British artist. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Turner Prize and was awarded the prize along with the other three nominees (Tai Shani, Oscar Murillo and Lawrence Abu Hamdan). For the first time ever, they asked ...

and

Emma Talbot Emma Talbot (born 1969, Stourbridge, Worcestershire) is an English artist who lives and works in Walthamstow, London. Talbot studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design graduating with a BA Fine Art at (1991), followed by studies at t ...

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British art awards Awards honoring women Max Mara {{Art-award-stub

See also

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