Warehouse Terrada is pleased to announce that they are now accepting entries for the Terrada Art Award 2023. The award aims to showcase the work of the best and most exemplary contemporary artists. The company started accepting submissions last November 21st, 2022.
The Terrada Art Award is a contemporary art award established to support young artists. To explore artists who can play an active world in the global state, the organization has thoroughly picked a jury with an international perspective and a deeper understanding of contemporary art.
All applicants will undergo a strict, first-round screening period in which their portfolios will be thoroughly checked and evaluated. Also, their exhibition plans and portfolios will be assessed throughout the final round of screening. The finished works will then be showcased at the Terrada Art Award 2023 Final Exhibition.
Last year, the award received 1,346 entries from artists within Japan and even overseas. The works of the five picked finalists, including Shota Yamauchi, Atsuko Mochida, Ana Scripcariu-Ochiai, Gaёtan Kubo, and Rikako Kawauchi, were presented at the Terrada Art Award 2021 Finalist Exhibition in December 2021.
Situated in Tennoz, Tokyo, Warehouse Terrada was founded in 1950. Aside from its artwork storage service that was launched in 1975, the organization has gone on to build a broad spectrum of art-related businesses, ranging from transportation, packing, artwork conservation, and exhibition services to running art facilities and supporting young artists in line with their guiding principles of conveying the artists’ passion and the intrinsic value of art to future generations.
In the past few years, the institution also has been providing services to support the vitalization of the art market via operating art and culture dissemination facilities like the PIGMENT TOKYO (the art materials lab), WHAT CAFÉ (an art gallery café), WHAT MUSEUM (a contemporary art collectors’ museum), and TERRADA ART COMPLEX (Japan’s biggest gallery complex).
According to a spokesperson from the organization, “The Terrada Art Award is established as a contemporary art to support young artists across the globe. We hand-picked a jury with an international perspective and profound understanding of contemporary art to help us find the best artist who can play an active role on the world stage.”
“Every applicant will undergo a screening stage where their portfolios will be carefully evaluated. The final round of screening involves the evaluation of their exhibition plans and portfolios, culminating in choosing of five finalists. Every finalist will get prize money of 3 million yen to generate the actual artworks based on the exhibition plans they’ve submitted in the final round of screening. All their finished works will be showcased at the Terrada Art Award 2023 Finalist Exhibition.”
The primary selection jury will be composed of Ryo Ikeshiro (Artist, musician, researcher, Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong), Reiko Tsubaki (Curator, the Mori Art Museum), Yuu Takehisa (Curator, Artistic Director of Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito), Ryutaro Takahashi (Psychiatrist, Art Collector), Shinji Ohmaki (Artist), and Eriko Kimura (Senior Curator of Yokohama Museum of Art). Meanwhile, the final jury will include Meruro Washida (Director of the Towada Art Center), Daito Manabe (Founder of Rhizomatiks, artist, interaction designer, programmer, and DJ), Takahiro Kaneshima (Art Producer & Visiting Professor of Kyoto University of the Arts), and Yukie Kamiya (Art Critic, Independent Curator).
To participate in the award, artists should submit any contemporary art. It can be all forms of media, including 2-dimensional work like textiles, videos, digital media art, three-dimensional works, photography, paintings, and physical expressions like music, sound, or performances.
All selected finalists will have the opportunity to display their works at one of Warehouse Terrada’s exhibition spaces.
