MASH seeks to recognise and encourage Indian artists, architects, curators and designers via its program of awards, through which it offers grants and prestigious residency opportunities to support the development of their practice and foster the nation’s next generation of creative talent.
MASH has recently announced the winners of the MASH – Young Artists’ Award Online Exhibition, 2023, receiving an impressive 300 applications during the open call process. The aim of the Award is to offer young artists a platform to showcase their talents and establish themselves in the art world.
The recipients of the Young Artists’ Award Online Exhibition, 2023, with their works, pushed the boundaries of the conventional understanding of art and carved out their own spaces in the art world. The award recognised the talent of Arpita Akhanda (Winner), Debashish Paul (First Runner-up) and Mehak Garg (Second Runner-Up).
Arpita Akhanda is the winner of the Young Artists’ Award Online Exhibition, 2023. Arpita comes from a family who witnessed the traumatic events of partition. Inspired by the trauma of forced migration and displacement inflicted by the Partition of the subcontinent, Arpita employed her own body as a “memory collector” of the past.
Appealing to Indian Contemporary artists from 20-35 years of age is the MASH Young Artist Award 2022.
A one of a kind “MASH Young Artists’ Exhibition: Fleeting Identities” aims to search for and recognise visual artists with an unfiltered and transparent process of Open Call.
Through the MASH Open Call, 10 artists were shortlisted to display their works across a plethora of mediums at India International Centre, New Delhi, from 19th September to 29th September, 2022
Sayantan Samanta is the winner for the MASH Young Artist Award and shall be awarded with 2,00,000 INR. Sayantan’s “Concrete Dinner” and “Dystopia” are on display and his works are heavily inspired from global agrarian issues.
MASH celebrates the work of upcoming South Asian artists. Each year MASH will be awarding one female artist whose practise is experimental, new and has the potential to further explore and question the political through personal and autobiographical artistic interventions.
Ayushi Chaurasia was announced as the recipient of the MASH WOMEN ARTIST AWARD 2022 for her experimental project that had the potential to explore and question political stigmas through personal and autobiographical artistic interventions.
Announcing the recipient of the 2019 edition of the MASH FICA Award – dedicated to supporting artists working in new media.
Amitesh Grover was announced as the recipient of the MASH FICA Award 2019 for his project ‘Missing Bodies | Quantified Self’. Grover’s project looks at the intimate interaction between body and technology in the age of institutional surveillance – asking informed and critical questions around the intersection of art and technology in understanding contemporary social change.
The Jury for the MASH FICA Award 2019 comprised of artists Shilpa Gupta and Ranbir Kaleka, Sabih Ahmed, Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Shalini Passi, art patron and Founder, MASH and Vidya Shivadas, Director, FICA.