The Drawing Now 2026 Award

For the past 15 years, the Drawing Now Award has been celebrating contemporary creation by highlighting the pioneering role of galleries in rewarding the talent of an artist presented at Drawing Now Paris.

For the 2026 edition, the Drawing Now Award nominees are :

- Guénaëlle de Carbonnières, born in 1986, represented by Galerie Binome;
- Roman Moriceau, born in 1976, represented by Archiraar Gallery
- Chloé Vanderstraeten, born in 1996, represented by Traits Libres Gallery;
- Maxime Verdier, born in 1991, represented by Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou;
- Katarzyna Wiesiolek, born in 1990, represented by Galerie Eric Dupont.

The fair's selection committee chose 5 artists from among the under-50s presented by the 71 participating galleries. For the 2026 edition, the committee is made up of Joana P. R. Neves, Artistic Director of the fair; Christophe Billard, Consultant in art and philanthropy; Claudine Grammont, Art Director of the fair. Manager de service du Cabinet d'art graphique du Centre Georges Pompidou; Jenny Graser, Conservator at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Art; Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Contemporary Art Collector; Carole Haensler, Director of the Museo Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona and President of the Association of Swiss Museums; Catherine Hellier du Verneuil, Art Historian and Collector; Pascal Neveux, Director of the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Picardie and Philippe Piguet, Art Critic and Independent Curator.

The winner will be announced at the Drawing Now Paris vernissage, on Wednesday March 25 at 6.30pm. The award, supported by the Drawing Society, is endowed with 15,000 euros: 5,000 euros for the artist, 10,000 euros for production support for a 3-month exhibition at the Drawing Lab and the publication of a monographic catalogue. A video portrait of each nominated artist is also produced as part of the prize.

Guénaëlle de Carbonnières

Roman Moriceau

Chloé Vanderstraeten

Maxime Verdier

Katarzyna Wiesiolek

The winner of the 2025 Drawing Now Award

The Drawing Now Award once again took an international turn by saluting the work of Susanna Inglada represented by the Dutch gallery Maurits van de Laar (The Hague). The Spanish artist mixes drawing, installation and visual arts, instilling a strong theatrical dimension in them. After studying art and theatre in Spain, she continued her training in the Netherlands and Belgium.

His work has been included in several collections such as Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, (Netherlands), DOM Museum Vienna (Austria), ING Bank Art Collection (Belgium and the Netherlands), Fundacion Monte Madrid (Spain). This year, she is participating in group exhibitions at Casa Encendida (Spain) and the Boijmans Museum (Netherlands).

In addition to an immediate grant of 5,000 euros, Susanna Inglada will benefit from an exhibition at the Drawing Lab (Paris1er) from February to May 2026, which will be open to professional and amateur visitors alike during the 19thedition of Drawing Now Paris.

Susanna Inglada © Grégoire Avenel

All Parts Of Us by Susanna Inglada

The Drawing Now 2025 Award exhibition at Drawing Lab

February 13 - May 10, 2026

Susanna Inglada's exhibition All Parts Of Us brings together the artist's most recent works, offering an immersive journey in which drawing extends into three-dimensional space, transforming it into an expressive scene of contemporaneity. Fragmentation, already underlined by the title, is not only a technique for collage composition, but also a key to revealing a vision of existence in which each fragment takes its place in a collective, shared whole.

Inglada's works function as a reactive mirror of the state of the world, capable of capturing the emotions and traumas of the present moment, a sensibility nourished by her theatrical background. The artist acts as a stage director, guiding the viewer through installations such as Forest: a forest of menacing hands , a dramatic metaphor for unity and conflict, or Ojos Cerrados (Closed Eyes), a collage of closed-eyed figures embodying the archetype of those who look away or are unable to confront conflict. These figures become a powerful warning and a call to collective awakening.