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Best new awards & arts prize winners: November 2025

The article reports on several major arts and literary prize winners announced in November 2025. Swedish photographer Martina Holmberg won the £15,000 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize for her portrait 'Mel,' with other prizes awarded to Luan Davide Gray, Byron Mohammad Hamzah, and Hollie Fernando. Australian author Helen Garner won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for 'How to End a Story.' The Forward Poetry Prizes named joint winners Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie for best collection, while Bogdan Ablozhnyy received the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award. Historian Sunil Amrith won the British Academy Book Prize for 'The Burning Earth,' and the Women's Prize for Playwriting announced its longlist.

Geraldine O’ Neill: ‘It’s for creating space for reflection on life, decay, protection and destruction’

Artist Geraldine O’Neill discusses her upcoming exhibition "Flicker, Flicker" at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery during Dublin Gallery Weekend, reflecting on her career, creative process, and the themes of life, decay, protection, and destruction. O’Neill, a Dublin native who studied at the National College of Art and Design, has built a practice that blends fragments of art history, domestic imagery, and popular culture, with her work held in collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the European Central Bank.

5 art exhibits in Kansas City you should catch this fall

Kansas City's fall art season features five notable exhibitions, including DeAnna Skedel's retrospective 'The Edge of Your Field' at the Bunker Center for the Arts, 'Animate Ground' at Gallery Bogart showcasing clay and pigment works by artists like Mónica Figueroa and Jo Archuleta, and 'The Mother And… Project' at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, which explores mothering ethics through diverse artistic practices. Other highlights include exhibitions focusing on earth, land, motherhood, and the elements, offering a season of reconnection and self-reflection.

Frances Thrasher’s Solo Exhibition ‘The Uncanny Valley’ Under Heaven4theYoung

Multidisciplinary artist Frances Thrasher, working under the name Heaven4theYoung, will present her second solo exhibition, 'The Uncanny Valley,' at ACE/FRANCISCO Gallery opening October 16. The show features new works in ceramics, oil, and watercolor, following her sold-out 2022 debut. Thrasher's painting 'Withered' was recently on view at the Lyndon House Arts Center's 50th Juried Exhibition, and her piece 'Teenage Lobotomy' served as album cover art for Patterson Hood's solo release. At 20, she has also earned a Badge of Honor from the Berlin Music Video Awards for a stop-motion film she made for Hood's song 'The Pool House.'

Nashville International Airport Debuts Fall/Winter Flying Solo Exhibit Featuring Nashville Artists

Nashville International Airport (BNA) has launched the fall/winter edition of its Flying Solo exhibit, featuring works by six Nashville-based artists: Omari Booker, Tamla Boone, Chalet Comellas, Heather Hillhouse, Brian Tull, and Taylor Walton. The exhibit, on display through January 5, 2026, includes oil paintings, acrylics, and ceramic sculptures placed throughout the airport terminals. The show is part of BNA's Arts at the Airport program, established in 1988, which rotates seasonal exhibits to showcase local creative talent.

Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky

The Denver Art Museum will present "Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky," the first museum survey of mixed-media visual artist Andrea Carlson, from October 5, 2025, to February 16, 2026. The exhibition features over 30 works on paper, three large-scale paintings shown together for the first time, and a monumental sculptural work titled "Columns for a Horizon." Carlson, who descends from Grand Portage Ojibwe and European settlers, creates intricate, colorful works that challenge colonial narratives in American landscape painting and museum collections.

Book Honors for Art Museum’s Monhegan Show Publication

A book produced by Bowdoin College faculty, highlighting artistic portrayals of ecological change on Maine's Monhegan Island, has won the 2025 Historic New England Book Prize as one of two Honor Books. The interdisciplinary project was co-created by Frank Goodyear, codirector of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, plant scientist Barry Logan, and Jennifer Pye, director of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, where the accompanying exhibition ran through September 30, 2025. The book and exhibition merge art, science, and history to explore ecological events on the island—such as pastureland formation and abandonment, forest recovery, and land conservation—through visual art and historical artifacts.

Call to Artists: Exhibit Your Work at the Barrymore Film Center

The Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, New Jersey, is issuing a call for local visual artists to exhibit their work on a rotating Gallery Wall in its museum. The center seeks hanging artwork such as paintings, photography, mixed media, textile, or illustration from artists in Fort Lee and surrounding areas, with exhibitions lasting three months and including press, social media, and email promotion. A public opening reception is available, and the center retains a 30% commission on sales. The article also lists several other upcoming art exhibitions in New Jersey, including shows at CARE Gallery, buds & blooms, Gallery Jupiter, the Oyster Point Hotel, the Waretown Library, and the Summit Free Public Library.

Krannert Art Museum exhibition examines significance of early modern European prints

Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present "Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475-1800," an exhibition of over 100 early modern European prints drawn from private collections. The show, curated by Maureen Warren, runs from September 25 through February 28 and includes works by masters such as Rembrandt, Parmigianino, and Goya, exploring how prints functioned as Europe's first visual mass media.

Newport Art Museum opens tennis-themed exhibition featuring artist-athletes

The Newport Art Museum will open "THE COURT: Art in Play" on September 24, an exhibition featuring works by seven artists who also compete in court tennis, the historic precursor to modern tennis. Organized by artist and court tennis champion Frederika Adam, the show runs through April 2026 at the Historic Griswold House and includes animation, book art, painting, photography, and memorabilia. Items from the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s permanent collection are displayed alongside the artists’ works.

Review: “Mark Me, Too: Five Artists” at Hyde Park Art Center

The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago presents “Mark Me, Too: Five Artists,” a group exhibition curated by Dr. Rikki Byrd, the center’s inaugural Radicle Curatorial Resident. The show features works by Lisa DeAbreu, Lex Marie, Natasha Moustache, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Ciarra K. Walters, each exploring mark-making as a conceptual and material practice. Highlights include Walters’ video “Eileen’s Daughters,” which uses fragile eggshell-covered suits to evoke familial intimacy and vulnerability; DeAbreu’s textile works that transform household items into visual heirlooms; Ogbara’s sculptural piece “Hopscotch (A Safe Space to Land),” combining bronze and soil to address Black beauty and West African heritage; and Marie’s reimagined American flags made from hospital blankets and beads, critiquing the nation’s relationship with Black maternity and childhood.

“MAJOR” Exhibit Opens in Eric Dean Gallery

A two-person exhibition titled “MAJOR” opened on September 12 at Wabash College’s Eric Dean Gallery, featuring paintings by alumni Mark Brosmer and Ryan Lane, both among the first art majors to graduate from Wabash in 1985. The show explores everyday complexity, the unseen, and the sublime through Brosmer’s surrealist realism and Lane’s painterly and furniture-making practice. Concurrently, the gallery opened “20th Century Indiana Art: A Private Collection of Midwestern Regional Paintings,” showcasing works from the collection of alumnus Dan Kraft, highlighting the Hoosier Group and Brown County Art Colony.

Reverend Joyce McDonald: ‘Art was like therapy for me’

Reverend Joyce McDonald, a 74-year-old artist and minister, is the subject of her first museum survey, 'Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald,' at the Bronx Museum. The exhibition showcases her ceramic sculptures, which she began creating after an HIV diagnosis in 1995 while struggling with heroin addiction and sex work. McDonald discovered ceramics through an art therapy program with the Jewish Board of Family Services and later connected with Visual Aids, a New York organization supporting HIV-positive artists. Her works, often depicting figures praying or embracing, are held in collections including the Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and CCS Hessel Museum of Art.

Museum Exhibitions On View in East Texas, South Texas & the Valley this Fall

Several museums and art centers across East Texas, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley have announced their fall 2025 exhibition schedules. Highlights include the Tyler Museum of Art’s "Alas…" by Alicia Eggert, a floral sculpture that wilts over three weeks, and "Assembled: A Look at Contemporary Collage" featuring Texas artists. The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi will present three shows: Jason DeMarte’s surrealist photography in "Arcadian Enclosures," the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi faculty biennial "Quarter Turn," and "Breadth of Latino/a Voices" from its permanent collection. The Rockport Center for the Arts opens Jessica Ninci’s "A Field Guide" and Moira Garcia’s "Nepantla: In-Between." The Beeville Art Museum hosts Caprice Pierucci’s "Threads Through Time," and the Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art in Victoria will survey work by Fort Bend County artists.

Hunterdon Art Museum presents Annual Members Show

The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, will host its Annual Members Show from September 21, 2025, to January 11, 2026, featuring 35 artists working in ceramics, sculpture, glass, wood, fiber, printmaking, painting, photography, and collage. The exhibition was juried by Donna Gustafson, a freelance curator and critic with a PhD in Art History, who selected works from 84 artists and nearly 400 slides, noting themes of nature, identity, community, and politics. An opening reception is scheduled for September 21.

Documenta unveils first all-woman curatorial team for 2027

Documenta has announced the first all-woman curatorial team for its 16th edition, set to take place in Kassel, Germany, from June 12 to September 19, 2027. Artistic director Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, selected four curators—Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, and Xiaoyu Weng—to develop the exhibition, publications, and programming. Each curator brings distinct expertise: Acevedo-Yates focuses on diaspora and cultural production; Crawford on race and American visual culture; Rodríguez Castro on writing and editing; and Weng on globalization, feminism, and decolonization.

Exhibition Tour—Arts of Africa | Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reopened its renovated Arts of Africa galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The exhibition tour was led by curator Alisa LaGamma, assistant curator Jenny Peruski, director Max Hollein, and special guests Manthia Diawara and Angélique Kidjo. The reinstallation foregrounds the creativity of artists across the African subcontinent, shifting the narrative to focus on artworks within their original contexts and as masterpieces. It celebrates recognized masters from sculptor Ọlọ́wẹ̀ of Ìsẹ̀ to contemporary photographer Seydou Keïta, and places works such as Afro-Portuguese ivories and Kente cloth in visual dialogue with adjacent European galleries and contemporary pieces.

The Rooftop Gallery Next Door

Adam Zhu, an artist, skateboarder, and photographer, has transformed a 9-by-15-foot former storage shed on his Chinatown rooftop into Market Gallery, a tiny exhibition space. The opening of Tucker van der Wyden's "Savage Love" drew about 200 visitors who walked through Zhu's one-bedroom apartment to reach the show. Zhu, who moved into the apartment in 2015, renovated the shed with contractor Andrew Kass, adding concrete walls and folding glass doors. The gallery has hosted seven shows, featuring emerging and established artists, and has become a platform for art in an unconventional setting.

Exhibition Tour—Arts of Oceania | Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Maia Nuku, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Curator for Oceanic Art, along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and special guests Michael Mel and Arapata Hakiwai, lead an exhibition tour celebrating the renovation and reopening of the Arts of Oceania galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The tour highlights exceptional works from Oceania, including carved bisj poles from the Asmat region, towering slit drums from Vanuatu, and contemporary pieces by Aboriginal artist Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, as well as insights from artists from Mariwai village, Papua New Guinea, on the reconfiguration of panels from the Kwoma ceremonial ceiling.

Exhibition represents lifetime of work by acclaimed artist

Carol LaChiusa, a 95-year-old artist from Grosse Pointe Farms, is the subject of a new exhibition titled "Carol LaChiusa: A Journey in Art" at the Grosse Pointe Congregational Church Arts Ministry Gallery. The show features approximately 28 works spanning her career from age 15 to just months ago, including her 1947 painting "Down by the Tracks," which earned her a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art. A public reception with the artist will be held on August 7, featuring jazz by the Matthew Daher Trio, and the exhibition runs through September 7.

LMU Student Art Featured in Design Museum of Chicago Exhibition

Nine studio arts students from Loyola Marymount University (LMU) have their poster designs featured in the Design Museum of Chicago's 2025 "Great Ideas of Humanity" exhibition. The students—Alfonzo Dave, Nicole Dressel, Olivia Giganti, John Leary, Jestene Passolt, Leila Walker, Dezia Washington, Lucien Weber, and Eddie Young—created the works as part of Professor Garland Kirkpatrick's Typography II course. The museum selected all nine student designs for the professional exhibition, where they are displayed alongside their professor's work, rather than in the museum's student showcase.

Never Before Seen Art From King Charles’s Royal Tours Debuts at Buckingham Palace

A new exhibition titled "The King's Tour Artists" has opened in the Buckingham Palace Ballroom, showcasing over 70 works from King Charles III's private collection. The artworks, created by 43 different artists during 70 royal tours to 95 countries and regions since 1985, are displayed together for the first time. The exhibition was viewed by the King and Queen during a reception marking 40 years of the King's initiative to bring artists on official tours. Highlights include a 1985 watercolor from Italy and 2007 portraits of Charles and Camilla by James Hart Dyke from a visit to the Gulf States. The show runs from July 10 to September 10, 2025, as part of the Palace's summer opening.

‘Our pattern, our document’: this Indigenous Australian community is using design to assert its rights

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) in Sydney, titled 'Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala', showcases the work of 90 Yolŋu artists from the remote community of Yirrkala in Australia's Northern Territory. The exhibition highlights how the community's art centre, Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka, has produced sacred clan designs known as miny'tji for eight decades, and how these patterns were used as legal and political documents to assert land and sea rights. Key moments include the 1963 Yirrkala Bark Petition, the Saltwater Project (1996) initiated by artist Djambawa Marawili, and the subsequent 2008 High Court ruling recognizing Indigenous ownership of the intertidal zone under the Land Rights Act.

Joan Danziger Retrospective in Washington

The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C., will host the first career retrospective of artist Joan Danziger, titled "The Magical World of Joan Danziger," opening February 7, 2026. The exhibition spans six decades of her work, from abstract paintings to mixed-media sculptures, featuring over 100 pieces including 40 sculptures and 25 works on paper and canvas. A concurrent exhibition, "Ravens: Spirits of the Sky," showcases 24 large glass and metal raven sculptures, many never before exhibited. Danziger, who continues to work daily at age 91, traces her evolution from an abstract painter to a multimedia sculptor, with influences ranging from surrealists to Hieronymus Bosch.

When Art Meets Nature

The Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery Singapore have jointly organized "When Art Meets Nature," a children's art exhibition running from July 2 to November 9, 2025, at the Taoyuan Children's Art Center. Featuring five artists from Taiwan and Singapore, the show presents interactive installations, audiovisual works, and immersive environments centered on ecology, sustainability, and the human-nature relationship. Artists include Zul Mahmod, Chen Po-I, Hsu Yenting, Tan Zi Xi, and Soh Ee Shaun, with works inspired by local waterways, forests, and indigenous ecological wisdom.

What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape

The Denver Art Museum has published a feature titled "What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape," showcasing a selection of recent photographic acquisitions focused on the American landscape. The featured works span from the late 19th century to the present, including images by Steve Fitch, Henry Wessel, Jr., Yamamoto Masao, Marion Post Wolcott, William Henry Jackson, John Ganis, Terri Weifenbach, Christina Fernandez, Linda Connor, and Patrick Nagatani. The photographs document diverse terrains—from New Mexico and Colorado to New Jersey and Hawai'i—and employ a range of processes, from albumen and gelatin silver prints to inkjet and pigment prints.

NSIDER: Frist Art Museum Debuts ‘Venice and the Ottoman Empire’

The Frist Art Museum has debuted 'Venice and the Ottoman Empire,' an interactive exhibition exploring the cultural, artistic, and commercial exchanges between Venetians and Ottomans from 1400 to 1800. Featuring over 150 works from seven Venetian museums, the show includes ceramics, glass, metalwork, paintings, prints, and textiles by artists such as Gentile Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio, alongside anonymous craftspeople. Immersive elements like soundscapes, scent stations, and a video installation with Nashville chefs Paulette Licitra and Ilyas Bakla enhance the experience, with rooms dedicated to doges, sultans, shipwreck artifacts, and the spice trade.

The Gallery Children’s Biennale Is Back, With 8 Baby-Friendly Interactive Zones & Free Entry

The Gallery Children’s Biennale returns for its 5th edition at National Gallery Singapore, launching on 31 May 2025. Themed “Tomorrow We’ll Be…”, the exhibition features eight interactive artworks by Singaporean and Asian artists, including Fern Wong, Wyn-Lyn Tan, Hiromi Tango, Souliya Phoumivong, and Vicente Delgado. For the first time, the Biennale is baby-friendly, with zones designed for infants and toddlers. The event runs in conjunction with the National Gallery’s 10th anniversary and SG60, celebrating Singapore’s 60th year of independence.

‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London has opened "Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict," the first major UK museum exhibition to address the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Featuring video testimony from journalist Christina Lamb, the show draws on the IWM's collections and new testimonies from survivors, including propaganda posters, photographs by Lee Miller, and a newly acquired miniature Sonyeosang statue. Curators Maeve Underwood and Helen Upcraft re-examined the museum's holdings to uncover hidden narratives of sexual slavery and humiliation from World War II to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Greek PM Mitsotakis at the ‘Thalatta’ Art Exhibition Opening at UN

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis attended the opening of the art exhibition 'Thalatta' at the United Nations in New York on May 20, coinciding with Greece's Presidency of the UN Security Council. The exhibition features 11 contemporary paintings by Greek artists from the National Gallery in Athens, curated around the theme of the sea. Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris delivered welcoming remarks, and Syrago Tsiara, Director of the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, spoke about the sea's role in cultural diplomacy and international cooperation.