Open to emerging talents aged 25 and over, the prize offers a €40,000 grant, a six-week artist residency at this first edition’s mentor’s art space in Accra (Ghana), a mentorship programme, and the opportunity to design a limited-edition MAISON PERRIER packaging.
The finalists of the MAISON PERRIER Art Prize will be selected by a jury of prominent figures in the art world: Laurent Le Bon (President of the Centre Pompidou), Cathia Lawson-Hall (Co-founder of the Africa Acquisitions Committee of Centre Pompidou), Jimena Blázquez Abascal (Director of the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo - CAAC), Fabrice Bousteau (Editor-in-Chief of Beaux Arts Magazine and Le Quotidien de l’Art), and Thomas E. Moore III (Executive Director of the American Friends of the Louvre).
After a preselection by MAISON PERRIER and the jury, this year’s mentor, Amoako Boafo, will choose the winner. Boafo is a painter and visual artist from Ghana, where he currently lives and works. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and received the Walter Koschatzky Art Prize in 2017. He has gained recognition for his finger-painted portraits that celebrate Black life, engaging in an intimate closeness with his subjects. His work has been exhibited in major institutions, including the Belvedere Museum in Vienna (Austria), Seattle Art Museum (USA), Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco (USA), and The Bass Museum in Miami (USA).
Applications for the MAISON PERRIER Art Prize are open until 31 March 2026.
