Oliver Beer has been awarded the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2015. Designed to offer a unique opportunity for a British artist to gain exposure to Japan’s visual arts sector, the triennial prize also includes a participation fee of £5000. Previous winners are Haroon Mirza (2012) and Marcus Coates (2009).
Beer is known for his participatory performances, sculptures and videos. He has previously exhibited at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; WIELS, Brussels; Museum of Contemporary Art MAC Lyon; and Modern Art Oxford.
The judging panel for the prize included: Hideki Aoyama, gallery director, Aoyama | Meguro Gallery, Tokyo; Richard Deacon, artist; Mami Kataoka, chief curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Chris Orr RA, artist; and Jonathan Watkins, director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
An exhibition of video work by Beer and the other two shortlisted artists, Julie Brook and Mikhail Karikis, is on display at Daiwa Foundation Japan House until 17 July. Beer’s piece, Reanimation – Snow White, features over 500 images, hand-coloured by French school children, reimagining a sequence from Walt Disney’s 1938 cartoon.
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