Monday, February 14, 2011

Mona Hatoum awarded the 2011 Joan MIro Prize

The jury of the 2011 Joan Miro Prize has granted the award to Palestinian-British artist Mona Hatoum for her great skill in connecting personal experience with universal values. Awarded biennially, the prize is worth 70,000. Previously it has gone to Olafur Eliasson (2007) and Pipilotti Rist (2009).