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AXA Art Prize 2024
January 31, 2024 | AXA XL
AXA XL and the Royal Academy of Arts Announce the 2024 edition of the AXA Art Prize UK
AXA XL is proud to announce its renewed partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, London (RA), for the AXA Art Prize UK 2024. The prize, will award £10,000 to an outstanding piece of figurative art from the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2024 (18 June – 18 August 2024).
January 17, 2024 | AXA XL
Submissions Now Open for the 2024 Edition of the AXA Art Prize US
AXA XL is pleased to announce the seventh edition of the AXA Art Prize in the United States. The competition, which is juried by some of the most renown artists and art curators in the country, is open to figurative paintings, drawings and prints created by undergraduate and graduate art students in the US.
AXA Art Prize 2023
November 9, 2023 | AXA XL
2023 AXA Art Prize US Announces Winner
AXA XL is pleased to announce the first and second prize winners of the 2023 AXA Art Prize US. Toskago, a current student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, was selected as the First Prize Winner by jurors Jules de Balincourt, Damian Loeb and Mickalene Thomas, alongside AXA XL’s Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Fine Art & Specie, Jennifer Schipf. The title of his winning piece is “Knight V Wizard (The Hero).” The Second Prize was awarded to Temple Douglass of the University of Georgia for her artwork “Taking Care of Myself.”
June 14, 2023 | AXA XL
2023 AXA Art Prize UK Announces Winner
AXA XL is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 edition of the AXA Art Prize UK. Olga Mun, a student from University of Salford, Manchester was awarded a £10,000 prize for an outstanding work of figurative art. The title of her work is Impossible Painting. An honorable mention was given to Giorgio Pauri, a student from Cocconi Secondary School in Parma, Italy for his work titled Sitting on the Edge of Nothingness.
June 5, 2023 | AXA XL
AXA Art Prize US announces 2023 exhibition shortlist
AXA XL is pleased to announce the 40 student artists who have been selected for the sixth edition of the AXA Art Prize US 2023 Exhibition. The shortlisted works will go on view in November at an in-person show at the New York Academy of Art and will also be part of a virtual exhibition at axaartprize.com. The Prize winner and runner up will be chosen by VIP artists in November.
April 19, 2023 | AXA XL
AXA XL partners with the Royal Academy of Arts to launch the AXA Art Prize UK 2023
AXA XL is pleased to announce its partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, London (RA) to launch the AXA Art Prize UK 2023. The Prize will award £10,000 to an outstanding work of figurative art by a student from the RA’s 2023 Summer Exhibition.
February 21, 2023 | AXA XL
AXA Art Prize 2023 Announces Jurors
The AXA Art Prize US is pleased to announce that artists Jules de Balincourt, Damian Loeb, and Mickalene Thomas will join AXA XL’s Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Fine Art & Specie, Jennifer Schipf as the 2023 Prize Jurors.
January 19, 2023 | AXA XL
Submissions Now Open for the 2023 Edition of the AXA Art Prize US
Commenting, Joe Tocco, CEO AXA XL Americas said: “Year after year, the talent brought together by this exhibition is unmatched. We are proud to partner with so many esteemed art institutions and artists to find, showcase and award the next generation of leading artists.”
AXA Art Prize 2022
November 9, 2022 | AXA XL
2022 AXA Art Prize Announces Winner
AXA XL is pleased to announce the first and second prize winners of the 2022 AXA Art Prize. Milica Zekic, a current student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was selected as the First Prize Winner by jurors Arcmanoro Niles, Nicolas Party and Robin F. Williams, alongside AXA XL’s Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Fine Art & Specie, Jennifer Schipf. The title of her winning piece is “You and Me.” The Second Prize was awarded to Imelda Jasmine Saenz of the Savannah College of Art and Design for her artwork “The Intertwine.”
June 30, 2022 | AXA XL
AXA Art Prize Announces 2022 Exhibition Shortlist
AXA XL is pleased to announce the 40 student artists who have been selected for the fifth edition of the AXA Art Prize Exhibition. The shortlisted works will go on view in November at an in-person show at the New York Academy of Art in Tribeca and will also be part of a virtual exhibition at axaartprize.com.
February 1, 2022 | AXA XL
AXA XL Announces 2022 Edition of Prestigious Student Art Competition
Commenting, Joe Tocco, CEO AXA XL Americas said: “We are delighted to bring the competition back for it’s fifth year in the United States. Having witnessed the incredible talent and powerful stories of the young artists who participate each year, we are very much looking forward to the 2022 exhibition.”
AXA Art Prize 2021
October 28, 2021 | AXA XL
2021 AXA Art Prize Announces Winner
AXA XL is pleased to announce the first and second prize winners of the 2021 AXA Art Prize. Audrey Rodriguez, a current student at the New York Academy of Art, was selected as the First Prize Winner by jurors Bo Bartlett, Rachel Feinstein, Elizabeth Peyton, Calida Rawles and Peter Saul. The title of her wining piece is “Los Vendedores de Churros y Mangos de la Estación Atlantic-Barclays.” The Second Prize was awarded to Assata Mason of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her artwork “Rattus.”
June 29, 2021 | AXA XL
AXA Art Prize Announces 2021 Exhibition Shortlist
AXA XL is pleased to announce the 2021 exhibition shortlist of the AXA Art Prize. The works of the 40 finalist student artists will go on view in November at the New York Academy of Art and will also be presented as a digital exhibition in the AXA Art Prize virtual gallery. An illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by critic Seph Rodney will be available as well.
February 22, 2021 | Juxtapoz Magazine
Submissions for the AXA Art Prize 2021 Are Now Open with Judges Peter Saul, Rachel Feinstein and More
“We are all hungry and thirst for figurative images” decreed Salvador Dali, who, if he were alive today, might be among the stellar practitioners selecting winners of 2021’s AXA Art Prize, founded by the premier property insurer AXA XL, in partnership with the New York Academy of Art. Dali may not make an appearance, but Elizabeth Peyton, Bo Bartlett, Rachel Feinstein and Peter Saul are lending their time and talent to showcasing American art students committed to figurative art.
January 19, 2021 | AXA XL
AXA XL Announces 2021 Edition of Prestigious Student Art Competition
The AXA Art Prize launches the fourth edition of the prestigious competition in the U.S. Submissions are open from January 19th through March 14th, 2021.
Global property and casualty insurer AXA XL, a division of AXA, developed AXA Art Prize in 2018 in partnership with the New York Academy of Art. The Prize has quickly become one of the premier student art competitions in the nation and is open to figurative paintings, drawings and prints created by undergraduate and graduate art students. Since the launch of the Prize, over a thousand students have submitted work, from hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States.
AXA Art Prize 2020
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The AXA Art Prize 2020 - Art in difficult and uncertain times
Different names, same commitment: Our involvement in supporting the arts community began in the early 2000s in the U.K. and Ireland with the Catlin Art Prize; later iterations included the XL Innovate Art Exhibition (in Ireland) and the XL Catlin Art Prize. Building on this legacy, the AXA Art Prize, launched in the U.S. in 2018, has since become known as an excellent platform for highlighting figurative art and the emerging young artists leading its resurgence.
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Spotlighting the Next Generation of Figurative Artists, the AXA Art Prize Exhibition Opens In New York
If you’re interested in discovering figurative art’s next big thing, be sure to add New York’s AXA Art Prize exhibition to your calendar this month. The exhibition, which runs November 13–18 at the New York Academy of Art, presents 40 undergraduate and graduate art students who are short-listed finalists for the $10,000 prize, awarded by AXA XL, the international insurance provider.
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2020 AXA ART PRIZE Exhibition Goes on View in New York
NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2020 edition of the AXA Art Prize Exhibition will go on view in New York at the New York Academy of Art in Tribeca from November 13-18. Now in its third year, the AXA Art Prize is one of the nation's leading and most prestigious student art competitions devoted to figurative art.
AXA Art Prize 2019
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The AXA Art Prize 2019: Spotlighting figurative art and promoting emerging talent
For decades, critics have deemed figurative art as passé if not irrelevant, citing any number of milestones as evidence: The Industrial Revolution, the advent of Cubism, the ascendance of Abstract Impressionism, the deaths of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon …. But, per Mark Twain’s well-worn riposte, reports of figurative art’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Today, figurative art still serves as a powerful medium for creating narratives around enduring questions of identity and our place in the world; explorations not at all unlike when humans first started painting on cave walls 40,000 years ago.
AXA Art Prize 2018
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Re-emphasizing storytelling in American Art
Art and artists evolve, introducing new movements through differing approaches. One such movement is figurative art. According to the Tate Gallery, figurative art is any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure. The term has been particularly used since the arrival of abstract art to refer to artists that retain aspects of the real world as their subject matter.
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AXA XL expands support for art and emerging artists
Art and artists evolve, introducing new movements through differing approaches. One such movement is figurative art. According to the Tate Gallery, figurative art is any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure. The term has been particularly used since the arrival of abstract art to refer to artists that retain aspects of the real world as their subject matter.
SFAI, San Francisco Art Institute
XL Catlin Art Prize Traveling Exhibition
San Francisco Art Institute will be the first venue in a series of three to present works from 40 student artists selected as finalists for the XL Catlin Art Prize. SFAI is happy to join in the XL Catlin Art Prize’s mission to strengthen the profile of figurative art-making in the United States and provide a valuable platform for emerging artists. The XL Catlin Art Prize in the US builds on a 10-year legacy of the XL Catlin Art Prize in the UK which recognized young artists through a prestigious London exhibition and catalog publication. The prize established a reputation as an insightful overview of emerging talent.