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Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts

Each year, The Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts (formerly The Hayward Prize) offers US fine arts graduate students or those who have completed their graduate studies within the past two years the opportunity to study at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in Austria.

For detailed course listings and other information about the Summer Academy, please visit their website: http://www.summeracademy.at/?lang=en .

Founded in 1953 by world-famous painter Oskar Kokoschka, the International Summer Academy offers an unrivalled environment, with work sites at the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Old Salt Factory on Perner Insel (Island) on the Salzach River.

This particular international experience gives art students not only the opportunity to study with well-known and respected international artists from around the world, but also the chance to immerse themselves in a program that is both rich in cultural tradition and academically challenging.

Up to three Soros Prize fellows are selected annually by a jury of artists and/or arts professionals to attend a specific course at the Summer Academy. Fellows participate in daily classes for two to five weeks, depending on the length of the course selected, studying with distinguished international artists such as Rona Pondick, Xenia Hausner and the Zhou Brothers.

Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts Fellows 2009

Daisy Soros Prize Fellows 2009
l-r: Raquel Mendoza and Yoni Goldstein

Alumni

2000-2009