For the American art award, see: Carnegie Prize

The Carnegie Art Award is a Swedish art award event established in 1998 by Swedish financial group Carnegie Investment Bank to recognize and promote Nordic contemporary painting and artist. With a total prize sum of SEK 2.1m, the Carnegie Art Award is one of the world’s largest art awards.^[1]

The event takes place every second year since 2003 and consists of four parts, an exhibition on tour in all Nordic countries, a book and a film presenting the artists and their work, and the awards proper to the three winning artists. Further, one young artist is awarded a scholarship.

In order to participate, artists have to be born or living in Nordic countries. They can then be nominated by one of about 30 experts on contemporary arts, and may then submit up to five works for the award, among their production of the last 2 years, as the award is meant to be representative of the most recent trends in painting. A jury then selects the works to be included in the exhibition and the award winners.^[2]

[edit] Laureates

Year	First Prize SEK 1,000,000	Second Prize SEK 600,000	Third Prize SEK 400,000	Scholarship SEK 100,000
1998	Ulrik Samuelsson,  Sweden	Nina Roos,  Finland	Torsten Andersson,  Sweden	Jussi Niva,  Finland
1999	Rolf Hansson,  Sweden	Silja Rantanen,  Finland	Clay Ketter,  Sweden	Tal R,  Denmark
2000	Mari Slaattelid,  Norway	Hreinn Friðfinnsson,  Iceland	Petri Hytönen,  Finland	John Kørner,  Denmark
2001	Jan Håfström,  Sweden	Carolus Enckell,  Finland	Johan Scott,  Finland	Jens Fänge,  Sweden
2002	Troels Wörsel,  Denmark	Lena Cronqvist,  Sweden	Tal R,  Denmark	David Svensson,  Sweden
2004	Nina Roos,  Finland	Anette H. Flensburg,  Denmark	Olav Christopher Jenssen,  Norway	Elina Brotherus,  Finland
2006	Karin Mamma Andersson,  Sweden	Eggert Pétursson,  Iceland	Petra Lindholm,  Finland	Sirous Namazi,  Sweden
2008	Torsten Andersson,  Sweden	Jesper Just,  Denmark	John Kørner,  Denmark	Nathalie Djurberg,  Sweden

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Carnegie Art Award official website