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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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