THEASTER GATES, WINNER OF THIS YEAR’S ARTES MUNDI PRIZE, TO SHARE AWARD MONEY
Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, upon receiving the $60,000 Artes Mundi prize on Thursday night, announced that he’d be sharing the prize money with the nine shortlisted nominees to the award, according to the New York Times’ Christopher D. Shea. Gates received the prize in recognition for his piece A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, or When We Believe, 2014, currently on view at the National Museum in Cardiff. Past prize winners include Teresa Margolles, Yael Bartana, N.S. Harsha, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and Xu Bing. The nine other nominees who’ll now be receiving a part of Gates’s cash: Carlos Bunga, Omer Fast, Sanja Ivekovic, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sharon Lockhart, Renata Lucas, Renzo Marten, and Karen Mirza with Brad Butler.
