Shanghai—The jury panel for the Chinese Art Prize announced the 2008 recipients today in Shanghai, with the Gold prize of 66,000 yen ($9,650) going to Min Xiaofang. Xiaofang creates paintings of children's homework — math, grammar, English — as if it had been graded and corrected in red ink by a teacher, complete with what looks like correction fluid. Kang Yongfeng, who paints images of mangled vehicles with thick chunks of paint that resembles metal, won the Silver award, and the Viewers’ Choice prize went to Song Yongjun.

Over 1,000 artists applied to the open call, and the work of 25 chosen finalists will be exhibited at Art Scene Warehouse in Shanghai through January 20, 2009. The 2008 jury included: Gerard Goodrow (director, Phillips de Pury, Germany; former director, Art Cologne), Daniela Bousso (director, Paco das Artes, Brazil), Ami Barak (curator, “Art for the World,” Shanghai World Expo 2010; curator, Art Forum Berlin 2007), Linel Rebenchuk (director, Toronto International Art Fair), Du Xinjian (contemporary Chinese artist and former professor at Central Academy of Fine Arts), and Alexandra Seno (writer and ARTINFO contributor).