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. Between 2009 - 2023, six editions of the Young Masters Art Prize took place in London.

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, with the inaugural edition crowning Matt Smith (UK) as the winner.

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 sixth edition in 2023 was an incredibly successful edition, with a record number of winners receiving prizes and awards, many of whom were women artists.