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Praemium Imperiale

Japan · Annual · Est. 1988
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1988
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The Praemium Imperiale is an international art prize awarded by the Imperial family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association for outstanding contributions to the development, promotion and progress of the arts.

Winners & Nominations

2025
Winner Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Film/Theater), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Architecture), Marina Abramović, Peter Doig
2024
Winner Ang Lee (Film/Theater), Doris Salcedo, Shigeru Ban, Sophie Calle
2023
Winner Diébédo Francis Kéré (Architecture), Olafur Eliasson, Robert Wilson, Vija Celmins, Wynton Marsalis (Music)
2022
Winner Ai Weiwei, Giulio Paolini, Kazuyo Sejima, Krystian Zimerman (Music), Ryue Nishizawa (Architecture), Wim Wenders
2021
Winner Glenn Murcutt (Architecture), James Turrell, Sebastião Salgado
2019
Winner Mona Hatoum, William Kentridge
2018
Winner Fujiko Nakaya, Pierre Alechinsky
2017
Winner El Anatsui, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Shirin Neshat
2016
Winner Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Martin Scorsese
2015
Winner Dominique Perrault, Tadanori Yokoo, Wolfgang Laib
2014
Winner Giuseppe Penone, Martial Raysse, Steven Holl
2013
Winner Antony Gormley, David Chipperfield, Michelangelo Pistoletto
2012
Winner Cai Guo-Qiang 蔡国强, Philip Glass
2011
Winner Anish Kapoor, Bill Viola
2010
Winner Enrico Castellani, Rebecca Horn, Toyo Ito, Yayoi Kusama
2009
Winner Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Long, Zaha Hadid
2008
Winner Peter Zumthor, Richard Hamilton
2007
Winner Daniel Buren, Herzog & de Meuron, Tony Cragg
2006
Winner Christian Boltanski, Steve Reich, Yayoi Kusama
2005
Winner Issey Miyake, Merce Cunningham, Robert Ryman
2004
Winner Abbas Kiarostami, Bruce Nauman, Georg Baselitz, Oscar Niemeyer
2003
Winner Bridget Riley, Mario Merz, Rem Koolhaas/Madelon Vriesendorp
2002
Winner Norman Foster, Sigmar Polke
2001
Winner Jean Nouvel, Lee Ufan, Marta Pan
2000
Winner Ellsworth Kelly, Niki de Saint Phalle, Richard Rogers
1999
Winner Anselm Kiefer, Louise Bourgeois
1998
Winner Dani Karavan, Robert Rauschenberg
1997
Winner George Segal, Gerhard Richter, Richard Meier
1996
Winner Cy Twombly, Tadao Ando
1995
Winner Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Renzo Piano, Roberto Matta
1994
Winner Richard Serra, Zao Wou-Ki
1993
Winner Jasper Johns, Max Bill
1992
Winner Anthony Caro, Frank Gehry, Pierre Soulages
1991
Winner Balthus, Eduardo Chillida, Gae Aulenti
1990
Winner Antoni Tàpies, Arnaldo Pomodoro
1989
Winner David Hockney, Umberto Mastroianni, Willem de Kooning
Year unknown
Winner Vija Celmins