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Camille Henrot Takes Home Edvard Munch Award

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

The reinstated Edvard Munch Award was given to Camille Henrot this week during a presentation event in Miami Beach, giving the artist a prize of nearly $59,000 and a solo exhibition at the Munch museum.  “There is always some dimension of challenge in the work that I do, which sometimes I regret because it is really difficult,” she says. “But, I’m more interested in the experience of making work than the final object, and I would like to continue experimenting and challenging myself.” (more…)