VOCA Prize Winners Announced

On December 19, the winners of the VOCA Prize, which encourages young artists who create two-dimensional artworks, were announced. The Grant Prize of the VOCA was given to Nerhol (‘Remove’). KAN Mika (‘A Happy Birthday, #selfiewithme’) and RI Jong Ok (‘Olympia 2020’) jointly received the VOCA Encouragement Prize. KUROMIYA Nana (‘Image – Owarishi michi no shirube ni’) and MIYAMOTO Hanako (‘Shiro ga kieteiku. – Mein Tagebuch –’) jointly received the VOCA Honorable Mention Prize. The Ohara Museum of Art Prize was given to ASANO Yuriko (‘Kuchiake’). The VOCA exhibition 2020, where the winners’ works were exhibited, was held at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo from March 12 to March 27 in 2020. (Japanese)