
04/09/2025
Applications for the Snider Prize are open through Friday, June 13, 2025!
The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study. Each year, one recipient receives an honorarium of $3,000 with two honorable mentions, each receiving $500 in support of artistic practices while acquiring pieces into MoCP’s permanent collection.
Apply and view previous recipients here: https://bit.ly/45biy6i
The 2024 Snider Prize was awarded to Claire Warden (b. Montréal, Québec). Claire Warden is an interdisciplinary artist who works in still and moving image media. Her work engages questions of identity, representation, and language through abstraction and experimental image-making. Warden’s work resists definition as well as the hegemonic gaze and, instead, emphasizes opacity and illegibility. Warden’s work subverts the historical problematics of representation and agency in photography, particularly in addressing experiences of people of color.
Image: 2024 Snider Prize Award Recipient Claire A. Warden, Lespirit De Lescalier, 2023.