Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize: 2025 Applications Open
An annual award recognizing previously incarcerated artists, presented in collaboration with WME and The Center for Art & Advocacy
An annual award recognizing previously incarcerated artists, presented in collaboration with WME and The Center for Art & Advocacy
Photo credit: Works by Gary Tyler at Frieze Los Angeles 2024
Frieze and WME are collaborating for the second year in a row with The Center for Art & Advocacy, a non-profit organization advancing the careers of justice-impacted artists, to present the Frieze Los Angeles 2025 Impact Prize. The prize application runs alongside that of the Center’s Right of Return fellowship program, an annual award recognizing previously incarcerated artists whose practices engage with critical projects including the reframing of societal criminal narratives and racial equity.
The Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize will be awarded to a visual artist or experimental filmmaker who is either a Right of Return alumnus, or one of the six new Right of Return fellows. The winner is awarded $25,000 and opportunity to exhibit their work at Frieze Los Angeles in 2025. The prize is dedicated to addressing issues of social justice through their work, and serves as a pivotal platform at the intersection of art and equity. This is the fourth iteration of the Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize, and is part of the fair’s diversity and inclusion initiative with support from WME.
Applications are open until 11 October 2024
About the Frieze Impact Prize
This year marks the fourth iteration of the Frieze Impact Prize, inspired by the presentation of Mark Bradford’s Life Size (2019) at the first edition of Frieze Los Angeles. The Frieze Impact Prize debuted at Frieze Los Angeles 2022, with works on view by inaugural recipients Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Maria Gaspar and Dread Scott. The prize has since been awarded to Narsiso Martinez and Gary Tyler.
