Wai-Kin Sin (photo by André Marc Räubig)
Canadian videographer Wai-Kin Sin and American filmmaker Sky Hopinka have won this year's Baloise Art Prize at the Swiss iteration of Art Basel.
The $44,000 award, presented to emerging artists in the Statements section of the fair, is administered in partnership with Art Basel by the Baloise Group, a Swiss insurance company.
Baloise will purchase works by both artists and donate them to the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt and to MUDAM in Luxembourg.
Sin, born in Toronto and based in London, won for a five-part video suite, Portraits. A 2022 Turner Prize nominee, they examine themes of masculinity, femininity and binaries in their work.
Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people, won for his four-channel film Just a Soul Responding.
Source: Baloise Art Prize