The 2026 CHANEL Next Prize is awarded to 10 artists who are shaping the future of creativity.
The Next Prize is designed to catalyse innovation by providing recipients with the time and space to pursue their most ambitious projects with complete creative freedom.
The 2026 winners hail from 10 different countries and work across disciplines, from visual and performance art to design, music, and film.
It marks the latest chapter in the House’s century-long commitment to the arts—a legacy that began with Gabrielle Chanel’s support of avant-garde pioneers, from Salvador Dalí to Jean Cocteau.
Meet the 2026 cohort: https://chanel.com/-NextPrize-2026-winners
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Credits:
Ayoung Kim
Portrait of Ayoung Kim by Kanghyuk Lee(snakepool)
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Pol Taburet
Portrait of Pol Taburet by Gorka Postigo
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Andrea Peña
Portrait of Andrea Peña by Aime-Elle
SACRA, Ballet BC, 2025, Duy Le
Replica, 2024, photograph by Jeanne Terault
6.58 Manifesto, 2021, photograph by Lian Benoit
BOGOTA, 2023, photograph by Felix Delavaud
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Ambrose Akinmusire
Portrait of Ambrose Akinmusire by Balazs Gardi
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Payal Kapadia
Portrait of Payal Kapadia by Ranabir Das
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Portrait of Bárbara Sánchez-Kane by Dorian Ulises López
New Lexicons for Embodiment, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York. Photograph by Gerardo Landa
New Lexicons for Embodiment, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York. Photograph by Gerardo Landa
New Lexicons for Embodiment, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Somos Luz, 2019. Directed by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane. Video by María Medina Jorge
Prêt-à-Patria, 2024. Itinerant performance in the Arsenale for the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere”. Direction: Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Direction of Photography: Andrea De Fusco, Post Production & Colour correction: Martha Maya González
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Emeka Ogboh
Portrait of Emeka Ogboh by Igor Emmerich
Migratory Notes, 2021 © Emeka Ogboh, “Stirring the Pot”, Produced by FRÆME, Marseille.
Event organised as part of La Saison Africa2020, with the support of the Institut Français and the Saison Africa 2020 Patrons Committee © JC Lett
Song of the Union © Emeka Ogboh, courtesy Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival
The Way Earthly Things Are Going II © Emeka Ogboh
The Way Earthly Things Are Going II (Mother Earth’s Lament), by Emeka Ogboh, at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, 2025. © Natt Fejfar / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Ámà: The Gathering Place, 2021, © Emeka Ogboh, installation view, Gropius Bau, Berlin. Photo © Luca Girardini
Emeka Ogboh, Ode to the Channel. Commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2025. Photo by Thierry Bal. / Film by Oliver Parkin
Trading Places © Emeka Ogboh
Pan Daijing
Portrait of Pan Daijing, Photo by Nadine Fraczkowski
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Marco Da Silva Ferreira
Portrait of Marco Da Silva Ferreira by Blandine Soulage
All artworks courtesy the artist.
Álvaro Urbano
Portrait of Álvaro Urbano by Diana Pfammatter, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Performance view, Álvaro Urbano: Skin and bones, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2014. Photograph by Álvaro Urbano. Courtesy of the Artist.
Installation view, Álvaro Urbano: El despertar, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2020. Photograph by Arturo Laso. Courtesy of the artist; La Casa Encendida; ChertLüdde, Berlin; and Travesía Cuatro,Madrid, Guadalajara, Mexico City.
Installation view, Álvaro Urbano: L’Invitation au voyage, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, 2021. Photograph by Pablo Gómez-Ogando. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro Madrid, Guadalajara, Mexico City.
Installation view, Álvaro Urbano: GRANADA GRANADA, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, 2023. Photograph by Ramiro Chaves. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Guadalajara, Mexico City. Installation view, Álvaro Urbano: ACTO I: LA ETERNA ADOLESCENCIA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2023-24. Photograph by M. Laura Benavente. Courtesy of the artist; Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.
Installation view, Álvaro Urbano: TABLEAU VIVANT, SculptureCenter, New York, 2024-25. Photography by Charles Benton. Courtesy of the artist; and SculptureCenter.
Installation view, Álvaro Urbano: TABLEAU VIVANT, SculptureCenter, New York, 2024-25. Photograph by Charles Benton. Courtesy of the artist; and SculptureCenter.
Álvaro Urbano: El Despertar, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
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