2024 AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards Application Guidelines

Overview

The AHL Foundation is pleased to announce the open call for the 2023 AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards. These awards recognize the work of exemplary emerging contemporary artists of Korean descent in the United States and provide them with a monetary prize as well as the opportunity to have their work presented at a group exhibition in New York in November 2024.

About

Established in 2003, the Contemporary Visual Art Awards is an annual competition open to all contemporary artists of Korean descent active in the United States and is part of AHL Foundation’s core program. The awards recognize the work of exemplary young emerging contemporary artists of Korean descent and provide them with a monetary prize and the opportunity to have their work presented at a group exhibition in New York. Since 2016, the award has been generously supported by the T&W Foundation, established by Wonsook Kim and Thomas Park Clement.

  • Application Period: March 1, 2024 – April 30, 2024  (11:59pm EDT)
  • Notification of Result: June 1, 2024

Eligibility & Requirements

Must be a visual artist of Korean heritage based in the United States.

  • Selected winners of the Contemporary Visual Art Awards & AHL Artist Fellowship from the past 3 years are not eligible for this year’s Awards.
  • Award recipients must attend the Awards Ceremony & Exhibition Opening.

Awards

  • Gold Prize: $5,000
  • Silver Prize: $4,000
  • Bronze Prize $3,000
  • Group Exhibition in New York City

*Please note that travel and other costs for the award ceremony and exhibition are included as part of the prize money and will not be reimbursed.

Application Requirements

We recommend having all your information ready to input and upload before starting the online application since it cannot be saved during the process. Please have the following items ready to submit:

  • Artist Statement
  • Work Samples from the past 5 years (Up to 10 work sample images or 3 video links. If you wish to submit both, please upload up to 5 images and 2 video links.
    *Please Do Not upload video clips of exhibition views
  • Full curriculum vitae of education, exhibitions, professional experience, honors, awards, and publications