India Art Fair announces a powerful partnership with the Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation (MJF) to announce a brand new artist prize, the largest in South Asia.

The first-of-its-kind annual Art Prize will support and nurture one extraordinary artist from India each year through a commissioned art project, to be unveiled at each subsequent edition of India Art Fair. The Prize will serve as the largest art prize awarded to an artist in South Asia, and contribute towards the development of the winning artist’s practice through the realisation of an ambitious, large-scale outdoor art installation. Amidst the exponential rise of the domestic arts sector in India, a partnership of this scale advances India’s rising position in the global cultural landscape with the Motwani Jadeja Foundation at the helm and supported by the expertise and leading position of India Art Fair in the local landscape. The Prize cultivates a thriving legacy of patronage in the region and offers unprecedented visibility to India’s dynamic creative energy and diverse contemporary practices.

For the first edition of the Prize, the Motwani Jadeja Foundation will invite applications from woman artists residing in India. The overarching curatorial direction for the inaugural edition of the Prize will draw from themes including sustainability, community and ecology. The application criteria and themes affirm both organisations’ deep commitment to nurturing domestic talent, and interest in contextualising art within wider communities and lived environments.

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