The Ricard Prize (or Prix Ricard S.A.) was founded in 1999 and in 2006 its name changed to Prix Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard. The prize is awarded each year during the Parisian art fair

FIAC The Paris International Contemporary Art Fair (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain or FIAC) is a contemporary art event that occurs in Paris. It was usually held in October in the Grand Palais. In 2022, Art Basel surprisingly evinced FIA ...

by a committee of French collectors (friends of the

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

, Jeu de Paume,

Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...

, and FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais) to an artist under forty featured in an annual group show curated by a different curator each year. The Prize consists of buying an artwork for 10,000 euros minimum from the prize winner, which is then donated to the Musée National d'Art Moderne (

) to be part of their permanent collection.

Past recipients

Didier Marcel __NOTOC__ Didier is a French masculine given name and surname common throughout the Romance languages. It comes from the Ancient Roman names Didius and Desiderius. During the 5th century AD, with the Christianisation of ancient pagan names, it h ...

(1999) * Natacha Lesueur (2000) *

Tatiana Trouvé Tatiana Trouvé (born 4 August 1968) is a contemporary Italian visual artist based in Paris who works in large-scale installations, sculptures, and drawings. Trouvé is the recipient of numerous awards including the Paul Ricard Prize (2001), Mar ...

(2001) * Boris Achour (2002) *

Matthieu Laurette Matthieu Laurette (born 1970 in Villeneuve Saint Georges, France) is a media and conceptual contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions. He lives and works in Paris, Am ...

(2003) *

Mircea Cantor Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a Romanian-born artist who follows in the tradition of France, French artist Marcel Duchamp in that he employs Found art, readymade objects.Demos, T.J. "Mircea Cantor: The Title is the Last Thing". Philadelphia: Ha ...

(2004) *

Loris Gréaud Loris Gréaud (born February 7, 1979 in Eaubonne, France) is a conceptual installation artist, as well as a filmmaker and architect. Biography He is seen in the media and recognized by international critics as one of the most important and ...

(2005) * Vincent Lamouroux (2006) * Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus (2008) * Raphaël Zarka (2008) *

Ida Tursic Ida or IDA may refer to: Astronomy *Ida Facula, a mountain on Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter *243 Ida, an asteroid *International Docking Adapter, a docking adapter for the International Space Station Computing *Intel Dynamic Acceleration, a techno ...

& Wilfried Mille (2009) *

Isabelle Cornaro Isabel is a female name of Spanish origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of '' Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheva''), Arising in the 12th century, it became popul ...

Benoît Maire Benoît Maire (born 22 October 1978 in Pessac) is a French visual artist who works in film, sculpture, painting, photography, collage, and performance art. He is known for treating theory as an art form in its own right. Biography Benoît Maire ...

(2010) *

Adrien Missika Adrien is a given name and surname, and the French spelling for the name Adrian. It is also the masculine form of the feminine name Adrienne. It may refer to: People Given name * Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), French astronomer * Adrien Baillet (16 ...

(2011) *

Katinka Bock Katinka Bock (born 1976) is a German sculptor and visual artist. She lives and works in Paris and Berlin. Early life Katinka Bock was born in Frankfurt am Main and studied sculpture and visual arts at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, rec ...

(2012) *

Lili Reynaud-Dewar Lili Reynaud-Dewar (born 1975 in La Rochelle) is a French installation and performance artist. She currently lives and works in Grenoble and Geneva. Her work has been exhibited in many international surveys, including the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008 ...

(2013) * Camille Blatrix (2014) * Pugnaire & Raffini (2015) *

Clément Cogitore Clément Cogitore (born 27 August 1983) is a French contemporary artist and filmmaker. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representati ...

(2016) *

Caroline Mesquita Caroline Mesquita (born 1989) is a French sculptor. Mesquita was born in Brest, in Finistère, France. She has used film, and particularly stop motion animation, as a component of her work. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée Nat ...

(2017) * Liv Schulman (2018) * Marcos Avila Forero (2019) * Boris Kurdi (2020-2021) *

Elsa Werth Elsa Werth (born 1985) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. Biography Elsa Werth was born in 1985 in Paris, France. She graduated from both the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs where she studied film animation and É ...

(2022)

External links

Foundation website

References

{{Reflist Visual arts awards French awards

Past recipients

See also

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