Artadia, a non-profit grantmaking organization and nationwide community of visual artists, curators, and patrons, is thrilled to announce the 2025 Los Angeles Artadia Awardees: Ali Eyal, Roksana Pirouzmand, the 2025 Bank of American Artadia Awardee and Amanda Ross-Ho, the 2025 Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Awardee.

The 2025 Los Angeles Artadia Awards application was open to visual artists working in any visual media, at any stage in their career, who have been living and working within Los Angeles County for a minimum of two years. Following the devastating wildfires in LA earlier this year, the open call deadline was extended by two weeks. We received a total of 497 eligible applications, with 63% of the applicants identifying as African, African American or Black, Multiracial, Arab, Arab American, Asian or Asian American, Latina/e/o/x, Middle Eastern, or North African; 73% as women, gender nonconforming, or nonbinary; and 56% as emerging artists. 

The Awards decision was reached after an extensive two-tiered jurying process. This year’s finalists for the Awards included Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Harold Mendez and Samira Yamin, selected by Round 1 jurors Regine Basha, Independent Curator; Suzy Halajian, Executive Director & Chief Curator, JOAN; and Karsten Lund, Senior Curator, Renaissance Society.

“Being part of Artadia’s 2025 Los Angeles Awards jury process was an energizing reminder of how Los Angeles is full of strong artists who are forging different paths in their work,” shared round 1 juror Karsten Lund. “The six finalists include some artists who were new to me and others I’ve long admired; each of them is making memorable work that is infused with a unique perspective and enlivened by a confident, compelling approach to their chosen mediums.”

All six finalists held virtual studio visits with jurors Suzy Halajian joined by Anna Katz, Senior Curator, MOCA LA.

Suzy Halajian, who was part of both rounds of jurying, said, “Being part of a panel that looked at such varied works was a rewarding experience in itself. One of the things I loved most about being on the jury was the wide range of approaches I got to experience. The artists represented in the submissions were experimenting with new materials, technology, and ways of thinking about art—from multimedia installations to performance art, from digital explorations to sculpture.”

Round 2 juror Anna Katz, added, “It comes as no surprise that seeing and thinking about art through the eyes and minds of this year’s Artadia Awardees left me with a profound sense of gratitude for artists, who, despite it all, get up every day, go to their studios, and make a new object, a new image, a new mark, a new sound, a new word, and then give it to the world freely. Los Angeles is extraordinarily lucky to be the recipient of this group of artists’ gifts of conceptual and material intelligence.”

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