- The ABS Digital Art Prize was founded in 2023 as the first award by a major institution to recognize and celebrate on-chain digital artists.
- Artist of the Year 2025 category has been won jointly by Anna Ridler and Sofia Crespo.
- Emerging Artist of the Year 2025 is announced as Cezar Mocan.
GENEVA, June 12, 2025 -- The creative partnership between Anna Ridler and Sofia Crespo has won the Artist of the Year Category of the ABS Digital Art Prize. The winners have been selected by the judges to reflect the artistic journey and impact on digital art that has been created by these two established artists over the course of their careers. They will be offered significant networking and visibility opportunities with a solo show or an exhibition at a cultural institution within the next 12 months.
The Emerging Artist of the Year category has been won by Cezar Mocan for his artwork World Upstream. Cezar's piece will be included in the Arab Bank Switzerland: Art Collection.
The prize is the first of its kind to recognize digital artists. It's all star jury in the digital art world includes Alejandro Cartegena, an international leading curator for digital art; Eleonora Brizi founder of Breezy Art; Marlène Corbun, Head of Contemporary Art for LaCollection; Mimi Nguyen, PhD a lecturer at Central Saint Martins; Rani Jabban, Managing Director of Arab Bank Switzerland and Sébastien Montabonel President of the third ABS Digital Art Prize and a leading curator of digital art working with museums and major collectors globally.
Rani Jabban, Managing Director of Arab Bank Switzerland, added: "As a patron of the arts, closely involved in the digital asset space, we are proud to establish a global art prize that supports and promotes digital artists whilst raising awareness of this fast-evolving art sector. The extraordinary quality of the beautiful and thought-provoking work shared with us by the competing artists and the rapidly growing interest in Digital Art from our younger clients all send a clear message: Digital Art is the future of Art."
Artist of the Year 2025
The winning collaboration between Anna Ridler and Sofia Crespo commenced in 2023 to combine analog photography and AI to explore the interplay between nature and technology. Well-known works include Snapshots Orchids (pictured) which employs AI-generated imagery to provoke reflection on our interactions with nature framed increasingly through lenses and screens.
Their work has been showcased at prominent venues, including Paris
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