KAHLO ART PRIZE
Coming Soon
The Kahlo Art Prize is a new international biennial award created to celebrate and elevate the work of emerging contemporary Mexican artists.
The inaugural prize will include a $50,000 USD financial stipend, as well as opportunities for the recipient’s work to be exhibited in New York as well as at Museo Casa Kahlo, the recently opened museum in Coyoacán, Mexico City, dedicated to the family life and legacy of Frida Kahlo. Phillips Auction House is proud to be a sponsor.
Details regarding the submision process and the timeline will be available on this page shortly.
Please visit us soon for more details, or email sam@fundacionkahlo.org with questions.
Art Prize Jurors
Magalí Arriola
Magali Arriola is a writer and curator based in Mexico City. For more than thirty years, her projects have navigated the intersection of art and politics, championing the ways artistic practices reveal broader social, economic, and historical contexts.
Through leadership at institutions such as Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, where she served as Director from 2019 to 2025; ArtBasel Miami, where she worked with Meridians from 2019 to 2023; and the KADIST collection in San Francisco and Paris, where she was Lead Curator for Latin America from 2017 to 2020, she has consistently supported experimental practices that question how meaning is produced and disseminated in both local and global art circuits.
Arriola was curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial in 2019 and the 8th Panama Biennial in 2008. Her exhibitions have been presented at institutions such as Museo Tamayo, Museo Jumex, MAM Medellín, MoMA PS1, SMAK, and Kunst Institute Melly, formerly known as Witte de With.
She has written extensively for books and catalogues and has contributed to publications such as ArtForum, Frieze, Mousse, Manifesta Journal, and The Exhibitionist, among others.
Magnolia De la Garza
Magnolia De La Garza is a curator based in Mexico City; she currently serves as Director of the Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection (CIAC). In 2016, she curated the Mexican Pavilion at Dubai Photo, and in 2014 she was among the curators of the XVI Bienal de Fotografía del Centro de la Imagen.
From 2008 to 2013, she served as Associate Curator at Museo Tamayo. Prior to these roles, she worked as a researcher for the Fundación Televisa Art Collection and at Museo Nacional de Arquitectura in Mexico.
Christine Miele
Christine Miele is an art and design professional whose career has spanned contemporary art, design, collecting, and artist-led initiatives.
As a Sales Director at Phillips Auction House, she works closely with artists, estates, foundations, and creative partners to develop projects that introduce artists’ work to new audiences and build meaningful connections with collectors. She has been instrumental in developing Dropshop, Phillips’ artist-led platform, collaborating with artists such as Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Rob Pruitt, and Raul de Nieves, providing them with space to explore new ideas, formats, and ways of engaging with the public.