Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto is the winner of the Cartier Award 2008 at Frieze Art Fair in London. The Cartier Award is one of the world’s leading art awards. It gives the opportunity to an emerging artist from outside the UK of realizing a major project at Frieze Art Fair.
Prieto is a talented young conceptual artist. His proposal was chosen from over 400 applications submitted by artists from across the world.
The Cartier Award includes a three-month residency at the prestigious Gasworks in London, an artist’s fee and the project production costs of a new piece of art that is presented at the Frieze Art Fair.