VOCA Prize Winners Announced

On December 23, 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 HISAKADO Tsuyoshi, who created ‘crossfades #3’. SUZUK Nozomi, who created ‘Other Days, Other Eyes’, and TANIHARA Natsuko, who created ‘Edo’, jointly received the VOCA Encouragement Prize. ŌYAMA Enrico Isamu, who created ‘FFIGURATI #117’, and SATAKE Maki, who created ‘Shōzōki’, jointly received the VOCA Honorable Mention Award. The Ohara Museum of Art Prize was given to OZAKI Shinpey, who created ‘ceremony’. The VOCA exhibition 2016, where the winners’ works were exhibited, was held at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo from March 12 to March 30 in 2016. (Japanese)