All the Frieze Artist Awards
Since 2014, the Frieze Artist Award, launched to promote emerging or mid-career artists, has offered each winner the opportunity to design an original and ambitious site-specific work, presented during the fair.
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A panorama that reveals diverse trajectories on geographical, media-based, and conceptual levels, reflecting the eclecticism of an award that mirrors contemporary concerns: memory, data, identity, techno-futurism, ecology, society. Since 2023, the award has included an edition connected to its Korean fair. We offer you a panorama of the laureates of these two prizes.
FRIEZE LONDON ARTIST AWARD
Mélanie Matranga (1985, France) — 2014
Mélanie Matranga was the first artist to be distinguished by the Frieze Artist Award. Her project combined online videos and the creation of a café-installation during the fair: in a filmed fiction, she narrated the simultaneous construction of a place and a romantic relationship. This work questioned the emotional, monetary, and relational dynamics that underpin the art world and the lives that unfold within it, contributing to dramatizing an intensity that her work, behind an apparent minimalism, continues to reflect.
Rachel Rose (1986, United States) — 2015
For Frieze London 2015, Rachel Rose designed a scale model of the fair’s structure that visitors could enter: inside, a sound and visual system simulated the sensory frequencies of animals living in the surrounding park. Through this immersive installation, the artist invited viewers to rethink the human / non-human relationship, consciousness, perception, and environment. The work established Rachel Rose as a leading figure in video and installation art, confirming the award’s strength in amplifying immersive and sensory practices.
Yuri Pattison (1986, Ireland) — 2016
Yuri Pattison received the 2016 award for a work centered on data: his installation, consisting of a network of monitors scattered throughout the fair, captured in real time various “trends” such as visitor behavior and interaction data, displaying them visually. Focused on information flows, surveillance, the value of data, and the ways our interactions are mediated and automatically interpreted, his work represents an attempt to connect visual art with the immaterial circulation of information. His installation created for the occasion highlighted the invisible framework of contemporary society.
Kiluanji Kia Henda (1979, Angola) — 2017
Kiluanji Kia Henda won the award in 2017 with a project titled Under the Silent Eye of Lenin. Through an installation-performance, he revisited Angola’s post-independence Marxist-Leninist cult, blending it with stories of witchcraft and science-fiction codes. The work explored postcolonial memory, the power of ideologies, and mechanisms of belief and manipulation, transforming political history into a sensory and critical experience.
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (1987, United Kingdom) — 2018
In 2018, the award turned for the first time toward choreographed performance: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, living between London and Warsaw, was selected to create a choreographic work. His practice explores sensuality, intimacy, desire, and friendship through a queer aesthetic that questions relationships, bodies, identity, and memory. This living dimension asserted a distinctive performative and political vision within the context of the fair.
Himali Singh Soin (1987, India) — 2019
Himali Singh Soin develops speculative narratives where nature, myth, and politics intersect. Her film project for Frieze, we are opposite like that, invents cosmologies for the poles, giving voice to ice as a witness to colonial fears and fantasies. By linking climate, history, and alterity, she transforms glacial imagination into a tool of decolonization and projection toward other futures.
Alberta Whittle (1980, Barbados) — 2020
Alberta Whittle, laureate of the 2020 Frieze Artist Award, develops an engaged practice combining film, performance, and installation to explore colonialism, vulnerability, and collective care. Her award-winning work, nourished by collaborations, connects gothic imaginaries, fears of contagion, and racial violence to propose narratives of healing and hope in a world marked by crises and injustices.
Sung Tieu (1987, Vietnam) — 2021
Sung Tieu explores the psychological dimensions of war, sonic weapons, and Cold War legacies. Her film Moving Target Shadow Detection, created for her nomination to the Frieze Award, reconstructs the site associated with the “Havana Syndrome” to examine fear, opaque power, and vulnerability. Based in Berlin, she develops a body of work in which geopolitics, architecture, and perception intertwine.
Abbas Zahedi (1984, United Kingdom) — 2022
Abbas Zahedi creates systems combining architecture, sound, and participation. Through a sustainable and collaborative approach, Zahedi explores thresholds, networks, and forms of collective support, as seen in his installation for the fair, Waiting With (Sonic Support), inspired by modernist shelters, becoming a space for waiting and listening where performances and radio broadcasts interact.
Adham Faramawy (1981, Egypt) — 2023
Winner of the 2023 Frieze London Artist Award, Adham Faramawy presents a multimedia work tracing the history of the Thames, its links to the colonial economy, and the memory of migrations, articulated through an ecological dimension; And these deceitful waters. Through video, sculpture, and performance, he offers a reflection on identity in a post-colonial context, providing a critical narrative rich in history and environment.
Lawrence Lek (1980, China / Malaysia) — 2024
Artist, filmmaker, and creator of immersive universes blending video games, installation, electronic music, and narrative, Lawrence Lek develops a sinofuturist aesthetic. His project for Frieze London examined human-machine relations, artificial intelligence, memory, and identity within a futuristic technological context. Oriented toward socially engaged science fiction, his work activates a wide range of media in immersive installations, earning him recognition beyond the art world, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence.
Sophia Al-Maria (1983, United States, Qatar) — 2025
In 2025, the award was given to Sophia Al-Maria. Her project, titled Wall Based Work (a Trompe LOL), marks her first foray into stand-up through a blend of performance, satire, poetry, and social critique addressing identity, collective trauma, power, and the absurdity of social codes. With this hybrid narrative form, made of humor and social critique, the artist reactivates détournements of postures that aimed to rethink the very practice of exhibition-making.
FRIEZE SEOUL ARTIST AWARD
Hannah Woo (1988, South Korea) — 2023
The first edition of the Frieze Seoul Artist Award (2023) crowned Woo Hannah. Her installation The Great Ballroom consisted of a monumental suspension of fabrics, continuing her “Milk and Honey” series, exploring themes related to the body, gender, and transformation. Her organic and feminine forms, sensitive and evocative, reference the body, body memory, becoming, and the relationship to material and space, uniting sensibility with sculptural practice.
Choi Goen (1985, South Korea) — 2024
Choi Goen won the 2024 edition of the Frieze Seoul Artist Award. For the occasion, she created two large-scale sculptures: White Home Wall: Welcome and Gloria, made from repurposed industrial materials (ducts, pipes, air-conditioning units, etc.). Through her transformative gestures, she highlights the invisible framework that supports our urban and digital environments. Her work interrogates the relationship between technology, materiality, and urbanism.
Im Youngzoo (1982, South Korea) — 2025
The artist was named laureate of the 2025 Frieze Seoul Artist Award for her video installation Calming Signal, a three-channel work exploring collective behaviors, stress signals, and rituals of appeasement — inspired by the concept of “calming signals” from the study of animal behavior. Through this almost ethological perspective, the artist probes our behaviors and reveals the physiological influence of others’ presence on each individual’s mental ecosystem.
