Recent Grant Winners: Recipients of the Hopper Prize
All in Photography
Interview with Tang-Wei Hsu
My name is Tang-Wei Hsu. I am 39-years-old and I currently reside in Sunnyside, Queens with my wife and three kids. I was born and raised in Taiwan where I began my career as an artist. I moved to New York when I received an artist abroad subsidy from the Asian Cultural Council. I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in architecture at the Shih Chien University and an MFA in visual arts at the Tainan National University of Arts.
Howard Harris
In his carefully altered digital prints, American-born photographer Howard Harris takes on what is perhaps the most American of themes: the interrelationship of perception and technology.
Eriko Kaniwa
Eriko Kaniwa is an international award-winning fine art photographer based in Tokyo, and the creator of Sensegraphia fine art photography.
Interview with Daria Vorobyeva
Daria Vorobyeva is a photo artist based in Moscow, Russia. She was born in 1994. In 2018, Daria graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2018, Daria completed intensive course on art business at Synergy Art Academy, in 2019 - on history of arts, contemporary art and contemporary cultural process at the Higher School of design.
Edward Lee
Edward Lee specialises in landscape photography of places with arresting, natural scenery. Lee’s distinctive style captures mosaics of contrasting natural features, including mountains, water, terrain, clouds, and sky.
Interview with Benny De Grove
Born 1957 Ghent Belgium. Academy of Fine Arts Ghent. Photographer Since 1986. Publicity and Portrait photography for magazines, books and publicity agencies.
Cecilia Paredes
Cecilia Paredes is a Peruvian photographer noted for her images of camouflaged bodies against patterned surfaces.
“100 Artists Of The Future’ Art Book
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Hopper Prize: Great Opportunity for Artist Grants
The Hopper Prize is a granting agency, digital arts platform, and contemporary arts journal that supports individual artists around the world with grants in the amount of $1,000.00. Twice per year, during Spring and Fall, The Hopper Prize accepts submissions from artists globally, working in any and all media. During each grant cycle, 5 artists are awarded unrestricted grants. The Hopper Prize welcomes submissions from artists residing internationally, with no restrictions on media, genre, or subject matter.
Besik Maziashvili
Besik Maziashvili is a Berlin based artist, known for his latest political art installation ‘65 degrees’. He was born in 1975, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Interview with Carol Brown
Born in Birmingham, England , Carol Brown relocated to New York City where working in Independent Film helped to develop her style as an artist. Winning the best director award from the Thanet International Filmmaker Festival in 2010 for her film 'Jamaica Jamaica'.
Al Mefer
Al Mefer is a visual artist based in Alicante, Spain.
Ruud van Empel
Ruud van Empel. 1958 Breda, The Netherlands. Ruud van Empel works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Interview with Alexandra Mekhanik
How would you describe yourself and your artwork? Clearly readable minimalism and harmony in everything. Dignity is highly appreciated in my heart. About myself,.. open hearted, easygoing and understanding. My credo is “treat others as you want to be treated”.
Fu Wenjun
Fu Wenjun, born in 1955, Chinese contemporary artist, was graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He creates principally through the art media of photography, installation, sculpture and oil painting, and has put forward the concept and practice of “Digital Pictorial Photography”.His works embody his thinking and reflection on many issues related to the Eastern and Western history, culture and humanity, including the relationship between different cultures in the age of globalization, the heritage of traditional Chinese culture in a rapidly changing society, industrialization and urbanization in Chinese cities.
Olga Fine Arts
Born in Russia, based in Switzerland, Olga dedicates all her free time to discovering the beauty of the world with her camera. She traveled over 20 countries to capture exceptional nature, city vibes and culture. Her photos tell us a story of every city and person from a new perspective. Her photos design many homes and galleries.
June Korea - Moments Captured by the Epic Tale of Loneliness
There is an artist who lives with a doll that is not so different from human. Someone would ask, “Why does the man live with a doll?” June Korea, a very ordinary person, is an artist who lives with a doll “Eva.” Eva is his friend and lover, and a safe haven to lean on. He has been documenting every moment of feelings associated with this particular creature, Eva, in a medium called photography.
Interview with Grant Gilsdorf
Grant Gilsdorf is an Ohio based contemporary realistic narrative painter who has harnessed his exquisitely rendered realistic paintings into a visionary storytelling device that combines images of carefully crafted beauty existing within a brutal and gritty reality. His dark, tension-filled works mirror the narrative-driven experience of viewing a feature film, and leave the viewer contemplating their symbolic significance.
Interview with Diamante Lavendar
I am an author and artist. I’ve won awards for both my art and my writing. Since I was a young child, I’ve loved books and art which has carried into my adult life. I’ve always enjoyed the symbolic and visceral attributes of being an artist. I believe art is something one is born with-a desire to create visual pieces from intellectual/emotional attachments and observations. I see all forms of art as being expressed offerings from the artists themselves; a way to help understand and empathize with things of an intellectual and spiritual nature in the world around us.