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Zoo Announces Artist Prizes

By ARTINFO

Published: October 16, 2008
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Courtesy Galerie Laurent Godin
Scoli Acosta won the Champagne Perrier-Jouët Prize for his "Cornucopia Vase Pedestal and Floral Brick Nugget" (2007–08).

LONDON— The Zoo art fair has announced the winners of its two major awards. Scoli Acosta has won the £10,000 Champagne Perrier-Jouët Prize for Best Artist at the fair. Represented by Paris’s Galerie Laurent Godin, Acosta beat out runners up Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Stefan Burger; a special mention went to Studio Voltaire, London.

The fair’s John Jones Art on Paper Award goes to Clunie Reid, represented by London’s MOT International gallery. Reid, who beat out a shortlist of Tim Braden, Charlie Woolley, and Sam Porritt, will be awarded £2,000, and a selection of the artist’s work will be acquired for the John Jones Contemporary Collection.

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