Arts Prize

Winner Announcement

The “Colours of Humanity” Arts Prize 2022 is pleased to announce the six winners this year. Please refer to the winner announcement press release here.

Each of the 25 shortlisted works has been selected for its unique and insightful exploration of diversity and inclusion, both at home and abroad, from the 83 artworks submitted. Established and emerging Hong Kong artists, community artists, as well as youth artists are represented in the shortlist with a diverse range of media and subject matters including but not limited to the ethnic minorities, migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, people with mental health issues, and the LGBTQI+ community.

The selected works are by artists that come from diverse ethnic backgrounds, often with life experiences of healing and caring, who are ready to share their stories with the world under this year’s theme of ‘Colours of Humanity’. In line with the organisers’ commitment to diversity and inclusion, the judging was conducted without the jury knowing the artists’ age, experience, gender, name, or nationality.

The full shortlist is available here.

About the Arts Prize

Now in its eighth edition, the “Colours of Humanity” Arts Prize 2022 is co-hosted by Justice Centre Hong Kong and the European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao, and supported by the Goethe-Institut Hongkong.

As echoes of humanity at its best, art expressions provide the means to evince positive acts of people towards tragedies around the world and interweave diversely with the colours of our humanity.

Celebrating the extraordinary resilience shown by people across borders and cultures during the Covid-19 pandemic alongside conflicts in Ukraine and beyond, the “Colours of Humanity” Arts Prize is one of the few events in the city that honours arts as a lens through which we see a shared peaceful and dignified future for all, and as a catalyst for introspection, inclusivity and collective healing.