2017
 
 
Introduction Of 2017 Prize Winners
First Prize Jyoti Dhar
Title: Distorted Transmissions
Exhibition: Chandragupta Thenuwara: GLITCH +

Jyoti Dhar is an art critic of British and Indian descent based in Colombo. She is a contributing editor for ArtAsiaPacific and regularly writes on artists and exhibitions in and around South Asia for Artforum and The Sunday Times in Sri Lanka. She is the recipient of the Forbes India Emerging Art Writer of the Year award 2014 and was a Forum Fellow at Art Dubai in 2012. Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, Asian Art News, Contemporary Practices, Even, Flash Art, Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia, Isskustvo Arts Journal, Modern Painters, Motherland and The Sunday Times.


She was previously editor and rapporteur of City As Studio programs 02 and 03 at Sarai-CSDS and critic-in-residence for In Context: Public.Art.Ecology at Khoj International Artists' Association in New Delhi. In Dubai she was the curator of the DIFC art collection, In Decay at Carbon 12 gallery and Bagash Art Gallery. She is currently working on a book about contemporary art in post-conflict Sri Lanka.

 
 
Joint Second Prize Liu Jiaqiang
Title: Spirits of an Exhibition – On Printed Matter
Exhibition: Asia Independent Art Publishing Exhibition – Free Anchor: Ambition and Action
Liu Jiaqiang, graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Institute, was nominated for the Zhang Xiaogang Art Scholarship (2013). From 2005 to 2015, he was awarded the Comprehensive Art & New Media Art bachelor's degree and master's degree. He devoted to social participatory art, and explored the relationship between social change and a revolution in art. Recently, he worked in the Resident Planning Research and practice, and prepared for applying the Exhibition Research doctor's degree of The China Academy of Art .

He worked in "Art Intern.net" and "Art Absolute " magazine as an editor and deputy director of new media. He served as a partner for the Eleventh Shanghai Biennale City Pavilion exhibition “Grain God Narrative”, assisting exhibition planning and recording process, and editing the exhibition documents of Taiwan architect Xie Yingjun. In 2017, He launched local art practice "Action in The Stagnation Zone" in the edge of the community.
 
 
Joint Second Prize Sean Ashton
Title: Natural Selection
Exhibition: Andy Holden & Peter Holden: Natural Selection

Sean Ashton writes fiction, criticism and poetry. From 2007-2011, he was an associate editor of MAP Magazine, and from 2012 – 17 wrote for Art Review. In 2007 he published a volume of short stories, Sunsets (Alma Books), a collection of reviews of imaginary artworks and books. He has just published his first novel, Living in a Land (Ma Bibliothèque, 2017). His second, The Way to Work, is forthcoming in the next year. He lives in London and works at Leeds Beckett University.

 
 
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Chen Han
Title: “Radical bodies” – On the consensus in art
Exhibition:Radical Body
Hu Hao
Title: Cold Night Without End
Exhibition:Cold Nights
Kang Xiaoxi
Title: In the face of images where everything vanishes, we must remain silent
Exhibition:Cabins and Canoes: The Unreasonable Silence of the World
Tang Kexing
Title: World of Bamboo, Source of Writing
Exhibition:Wang Dongling: Bamboo Path
Wang Ruiqi
Title: Existing In The Space Between
Exhibition:Henri Michaux, Face To Face
Wang Pengjie
Title: Shifting Subjects and Risky Aesthetics
Exhibition: Unwelcome Person
Wu Ziyu
Title: Boundless: Critique of Song Dong’s Solo Exhibition: I Don’t Know the Mandate of Heaven
Exhibition:I Don’t Know the Mandate of Heaven
  
 
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Adam Hines-Green
Title: Incoming Humans
Exhibition:Incoming: Richard Mosse
Andreas Petrossiants
Title: What’s so Alternative about Alt-Facts?
Exhibition:alt-facts
Chanon Praepipatmongkol
Title: SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now
Exhibition:SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now
Chris Fite-Wassilak
Title: What We Don’t See
Exhibition:Arthur Jafa:‘A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions’
David Blamey
Title: The Artist Will (No Longer) Be Present
Exhibition:Between Object and Architecture
Harry Thorne
Title: A New Visual Code
Exhibition:Tristan Pigott: Juicy Bits 8 June – 1 July 2017
Joshua Leon
Title: The Poetics of Self-Help
Exhibition:Hanne Lippard
Orit Gat
Title: “Baffled by our own interest”: image, photo, or event and what we see today
Exhibition: Luke Willis Thompson: Autoportrait
  
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