THE ŠKODA PRIZE, also known as The Škoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art, was one of the prestigious contemporary art awards in the Indian art scene to recognize an Indian artist under 45 years of age. Announced on May 26, 2010, a total reward of Rs 1 million was awarded to artist Mithu Sen by internationally known artist

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after two rounds of long list and short list selection. Since 2011, the awards would also be succeeded by a book publication titled "THE ŠKODA PRIZE twenty 2011-12" featuring top twenty selected artists from the Indian contemporary scene. The winner in 2011 was Navin Thomas The prize is sponsored by

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among others. Its jury over the two years consisted of reputed artists from the Indian contemporary scene like Kiran Nadar, Vivan Sundaram and advisers to the jury includes art writer and critic Girish Shahane. In 2011, artist Jitish Kallat featured in the shortlist for THE ŠKODA PRIZE. The prize was cancelled in August 2013 as it was announced that ŠKODA would not be renewing its three-year contract to sponsor the prize.

Winner entries

2010

The first artist to be awarded in 2010 was

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2011

The winner in 2011 was Navin Thomas

2012

L N Tallur won The Skoda Prize in 2012 for his exhibition named ''Quintessential'' held at

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