about the young masters art prize
Our mission is to support emerging artists from across the world, bringing their work to a wider audience through a triennial Art Prize and a regular programme of touring exhibitions and fairs as well as maintaining a vibrant online presence that showcases our wide network of hundreds of talented artists. This global visibility and support can be career-making and life-changing, with opportunities for sales, exhibitions, gallery representation, press, and much more.
Young Masters is a not-for-profit international initiative which was launched in 2009 by gallerist Cynthia Valianti Corbett, founder of Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
This unique initiative highlights emerging artists of any gender, age, or nationality, working in any media, whose work responds to the art of the past.
In 2014 the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramic Prize was added to focus more attention on the growing interest in the collection of contemporary craft. 2017 saw the launch of the inaugural Young Masters Emerging Women Award. The fifth edition and 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Prize took place in October 2019.
The most recent Young Masters initiative is the curatorial platform Focus on the Female developed in 2021 as an artistic and philanthropic antidote to the impact of the COVID pandemic on women. Focus on the Female continues as a regular project within Cynthia Corbett Gallery’s exhibition programme.
Featured Artists
Find out more about some of the Young Masters alumni, including previously shortlisted and winning artists. Many of these featured artists have gone on to have incredible opportunities to show their work at museums, galleries and art fairs worldwide.
