VOCA Prize Winners Announced

The winners of the VOCA Prize, which encourages young artists who create two-dimensional artworks, were announced. The Grand Prize of the VOCA was given to SUZUKI Seia, who created ‘E ga miru sekai 11_03’. KUWAKUBO Tōru and TAKESUE Kōichirō jointly received the VOCA Encouragement Prize. OHNARI Tets and KASHIHARA Yuka jointly received the VOCA Honorable Mention Prize. KASHIHARA Yuka also received the Ohara Museum Art Prize. The VOCA exhibition 2012, where the winners’ works were exhibited, was held at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo from March 15 to March 30 in 2012. (Japanese)