{"id":6945325,"date":"2025-12-05T00:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?p=6945325"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:40:42","slug":"prix-etant-donnes-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/press-release\/prix-etant-donnes-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Sinnapah Mary and James Cohan Gallery Awarded the 5th Edition of the CPGA\u2013Villa Albertine \u0116tant Donn\u00e9s Prize at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miami Beach, December 4, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 Kelly Sinnapah Mary<\/strong> and James Cohan Gallery<\/strong> are winners of the 2025 CPGA\u2013Villa Albertine \u0116tant Donn\u00e9s Prize<\/strong>. Now in its fifth year, the award recognizes outstanding contemporary creation and acknowledges the important role of galleries in furthering the careers of artists from the French art scene globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-organized by Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, and the CPGA (Comit\u00e9 Professionnel des Galeries d\u2019Art \/ French Professional Committee of Art Galleries), the CPGA\u2013Villa Albertine \u0116tant Donn\u00e9s Prize sustains the work of contemporary artists through the issuance of a $15,000 award<\/strong> to be shared between a living French or France-based artist and their representing gallery, acknowledging significant artistic contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s winning artist, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, born in Guadeloupe, France, creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrelationships between folklore, literature, inheritance, history, and the natural world. Sinnapah Mary\u2019s work is rooted both materially and narratively in the artist\u2019s immediate environment of the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas department, and her own evolving understanding of her ancestral origins. This landscape, with its verdant forests and mangroves, consistently serves as both character and metaphor: as Sinnapah Mary transfigures her personal history into fantastical narratives, she underscores issues of colonialism and the Anthropocene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winning gallery, James Cohan, is a contemporary art gallery with two locations in New York\u2019s Tribeca, and a third space on the Lower East Side. Its diverse programming includes solo exhibitions and thematic group exhibitions every year, which often span in three galleries. In the fall of 1999, James Cohan opened on West 57th Street. The gallery moved to Chelsea in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thrilled with the jury\u2019s selection of the Kelly Sinnapah Mary, whose work was previously featured in the 2018 Villa Albertine Miami program. Since its inception, Villa Albertine has been committed to supporting new and emerging voices; seeing Sinnapah Mary\u2019s work shine at Art Basel Miami is a striking affirmation of this commitment,\u201d stated Mohamed Bouabdallah<\/strong>, Cultural Counselor of France in the United States and Director of Villa Albertine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am deeply honored to receive the CPGA-\u00c9tant Donn\u00e9s Prize,\u201d stated Kelly Sinnapah Mary.<\/strong> \u201cThis recognition means so much to me, not only as an artist but as someone whose work seeks to bridge histories, geographies, and identities that are often kept separate. My practice is rooted in the complexities of the Guadeloupean experience\u2014the intersections of Indigenous, African, European, and southeast Asian cultures that shape our region and my own heritage. This prize represents an important acknowledgment of voices and narratives from the margins, and I am grateful to Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation for their commitment to supporting artists who are expanding the conversation about what French and Francophone art can be,\u201d the artist continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First introduced in 2019 and brought to Art Basel Miami Beach in 2022, the CPGA\u2013Villa Albertine \u0116tant Donn\u00e9s Prize<\/strong> underscores Villa Albertine and CPGA\u2019s commitment to excellence in contemporary art and amplifying the French art scene worldwide. Any gallery presenting at least one work from a living French or France-based artist is eligible to apply for the CPGA\u2013Villa Albertine \u0116tant Donn\u00e9s Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For its fifth year, CPGA\u2013Villa Albertine \u0116tant Donn\u00e9s Prize was conferred by a jury of respected French and American art patrons and leaders. In total, 21 artists were in competition for this year\u2019s prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s jury was comprised of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n