JORDAN WOLFSON WINS 2009 CARTIER AWARD; CéLESTE BOURSIER-MOUGENOT WINS 2009 GOLDEN DAVID AWARD

The American conceptual artist Jordan Wolfson is the winner of the 2009 Cartier Award, reports e-flux. Wolfson’s winning proposal was selected from over 450 applications. At the 2009 Frieze Art Fair, sponsored for the sixth year by Deutsche Bank, Wolfson will present a new site-specific work. The Cartier Award is supported by Cartier UK. It allows an emerging artist from outside the UK to realize a major project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the Frieze Projects program, curated by Neville Wakefield. The award provides production costs of up to fifteen thousand dollars, an artist’s fee of fifteen hundred dollars dollars, and a three-month residency at Gasworks, an arts organization in South London which houses twelve artists’ studios. The award is open to non-UK-based artists within five years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, or under thirty years of age.

In other news, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is the laureate of the 2009 Golden David Award, the second edition of the French contemporary art prize that honors an artist on the basis of their career. The award is given by the David Contemporary Art Academy, which was created in 2007 by an initiative of collectors, art professionals, artists, and art students. The academy aims to contribute to the development of public interest in contemporary art, as well as the promotion of artists from different disciplines. The laureate of the Golden David is awarded with a prize of sixty-eight thousand dollars. An exhibition will be on view until May 11 at the Espace Pierre Cardin and the Galeries d’art Pierre Cardin.