The second round of winners of the Gold Art Prize, which awards an unrestricted $25,000 to five AAPI and Asian diaspora artists every other year, are Tishan Hsu, Mire Lee, Gala Porras-Kim, WangShui, as well as the partnership of Enzo Camacho and Amy Lien.
Mire Lee had her first American solo exhibition at the New Museum earlier this year. WangShui currently has a solo show, ‘Window of Tolerance’, at the Haus der Kunst museum in Munich until March 10 and has work as part of the Guggenheim’s upcoming group show ‘Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility’. Porras-Kim has two exhibitions in Seoul this month: one at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art as a finalist for the Korea Artist Prize opening on October 20; and then “National Treasures” at the Leeum Museum of Art on October 30. Hsu’s work has been shown widely, including at the 2021 Gwangju Biennale and “The Milk of Dreams” at the 2023 Venice Biennale.
The Gold Art Prize was formed by adviser Kelly Huang and Gold House, a California-based nonprofit focused on Asian and Pacific Islander leaders. The creators have said their goal is to increase scholarship, visibility, stronger networks, and opportunities for collaboration for AAPI and Asian diaspora artists. The 2023 prizes are sponsored by the Kahng Foundation.
The inaugural winners of the Gold Art Prize in 2021 were Jes Fan, Maia Ruth Lee, Candice Lin, Moved by the Motion, and Miljohn Ruperto.
—Karen K. Ho
