Yukako Tanaka Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2022

The Daiwa Foundation is proud to announce that Yukako Tanaka has been shortlisted for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize.  Her installation Recalling the future 2021, an important work in the exhibition Fluctuating Fluctuations: now＝then here＝elsewhere, will be featured at the Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition, along with works from 19 other shortlisted artists who will be in competition for the Main Art Prize and Emerging Art Prize. Winners will be announced at the private view of the exhibition which will be held at the York Art Gallery on the 23rd of June 2022. Coinciding with the exhibition, a collective anthology, Future Now,  will be published and available for purchase in June 2022, featuring a total of 105 artists who were longlisted for the competition alongside the winners and shortlisted artists.

The Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition will be held at the York Art Gallery from Friday, 24 June to Sunday, 18 September 2022. The Daiwa Foundation wishes Yukako Tanaka all the very best and is proud to be a part of her journey ahead. 

About Aesthetica Art Prize
The Aesthetica Art Prize was launched in 2007, pushing through and supporting the next generation of talent across new visual media, the award is an initiative running since 2007 following the birth of Aesthetica Magazine. The award welcomes both established and emerging practitioners to submit pieces on any theme, celebrating innovative works from a range of media. These works were published in the Creative Works Annual. 

In 2013, the prize evolved into an exhibition as well as a publication, presenting longlisted and shortlisted works from March to August in York, UK. Both Main and Emerging prize winners have since been awarded prize money amongst other accolades. The exhibition moved to York Art Gallery in 2017, and has since exhibited works from today’s leading practitioners including Magnum photographers, Turner Prize-nominees, RSA Film directors, World Press Photo winners and Prix Pictet nominees. We have worked with thousands of artists, putting their work in front of a jury of key curators and gallerists from across the globe, including those from Tate Modern, Guggenheim, Brooklyn Museum, British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, British Council, BALTIC, Frieze, V&A, FACT Liverpool and more. The prize attracts thousands of entries from across the globe, from countries including Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, the UK and US. Our alumni have achieved further exhibitions at Tate Modern, The Photographers’ Gallery, MoMA PS1, Foam Amsterdam, V&A, Barbican, Guggenheim Museum, Saatchi Gallery, Centre Pompidou and more. They’ve won, or been nominated for a range of prestigious awards, including the Prix Elysée, FOAM Talent, the Jarman Award and BIFA awards. They’ve achieved further publication in The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The New Yorker, Plastik and New York Times Magazine.