At the end of 2025, New York-based interdisciplinary artist and 2018 Yale MFA graduate Antonia Kuo was awarded the 2025 Foundwork Artist Prize.
On Kuo’s work, Foundwork prize judge Hugo Vitrani wrote,
“A first inattentive glance might suggest that Antonia Kuo’s pieces have nothing to do with photography—or, conversely, that her pieces contain nothing pictorial. By stretching languages and the very boundaries of practices and plastics alike, Kuo reveals luminous materialities, impressions drawn from both classical and modern processes, from photo-chemistry to machine inks. In relief, in space, sometimes as assemblage/sample/cut up, her work places our senses within troubled, troubling imaginaries—somewhere in the opacity of the negative and the positive.”
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Photo credit: Antonia Kuo. Water Lilies, 2024 Unique photochemical paintings on silver gelatin paper, silver gelatin prints, powder coated aluminum, patinated cast bronze and ceramic relief in aluminum frame (9 panels)
54 x 82 1/2 x 4 in.