LONDON.- Serpentine and The FLAG Art Foundation announced the selection committee for the Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize. The jury comprises Michelle Kuo, Venus Lau, Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine), Jon Rider (FLAG Art Foundation) and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Over the next decade, a total of £1 million (£200,000 biennially) will be awarded to five recipients providing unmatched support at a pivotal moment in their careers. This is the UK’s largest contemporary art prize given to a single artist.

The jury convened in London on Thursday 23 April to select the inaugural prize winner which will be announced on 12 May.

The prize is intended to provide artists, at a significant stage in their careers, with the freedom, time, and material support to develop a substantial new body of work, exhibit it, and then explore new ideas or directions in their practice.

Artists selected for the prize by the jury will be of any generation or age, from all geographies, will have been exhibiting professionally in major global institutions for less than 10 years and will be actively working to grow and sustain a strong record of international museum and gallery exhibitions, including gallery representation, honours, awards, art critic reviews, grants and publications.

This long-term partnership establishes a decade-long collaboration, awarding five prizes to five outstanding artists. The first artist to be awarded funds will be selected in 2026, with the inaugural exhibition set to open at Serpentine in London in Autumn 2027, before travelling to FLAG in New York in Spring 2028. Each presentation will be accompanied by a dedicated catalogue and a dynamic live programme, developed and produced collaboratively by both institutions.

This collaboration reflects the shared commitment between FLAG and Serpentine to support artistic experimentation, and exchange across borders. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize underscores both organisations’ belief in the power of collaboration to shape the future of contemporary art.