2025 AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards

The AHL Foundation is pleased to announce the open call for the 2025 AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Awards. These awards recognize the work of exemplary emerging contemporary artists of Korean descent in the United States and provide them with a monetary prize as well as the opportunity to have their work presented at a group exhibition in New York in November 2025.

Awards
- Gold Prize: $5,000
- Silver Prize: $4,000
- Bronze Prize $3,000
- Group Exhibition in New York City

Application Period: March 3, 2025 – April 30, 2025 (11:59pm EDT)
Notification of Result: June 2, 2025

Requirements

Eligibility & Requirements

• Must be a visual artist of Korean heritage based in the United States.
• Selected winners of the Contemporary Visual Art Awards & AHL Artist Fellowship from the past 3 years are not eligible for this year’s Awards.
• Award recipients must attend the Awards Ceremony & Exhibition Opening on November 1, 2025.

*Please note that travel and other costs for the award ceremony and exhibition are included as part of the prize money and will not be reimbursed.

Application Instructions

Completed applications and supporting materials must be submitted electronically by April 30, 2025(11:59pm EDT). Guidelines and application forms are available at https://www.ahlfoundation.org/research-fellowship/.

Please have the following items ready to submit:
- Artist Statement
- Work Samples from the past 5 years (Up to 10 work sample images or 3 video links. If you wish to submit both, please upload up to 5 images and 2 video links.
*Please Do Not upload video clips of exhibition views
- Full curriculum vitae of education, exhibitions, professional experience, honors, awards, and publications