Our warmest congratulations to Johanna Mirabel, artist and graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and her gallery Nathalie Obadia, who have won the CPGA-Étant donnés 2024 prize at Art Basel, Miami Beach.
Organized by the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art (CPGA), the Villa Albertine and the Institut Français pour la Culture et l'Education and endowed with a $15,000 prize, the Prix CPGA - Étant donnés 2024 is awarded each year to a contemporary artist from the French art scene and the gallery exhibiting him or her at Art Basel, Miami Beach. It aims to strengthen ties between France and the United States in the field of contemporary art, and to highlight the essential role of galleries in promoting French artistic creation on the international scene.
“We were impressed by Johanna Mirabel's technical virtuosity and the format of her works and the carnival theme,” said the jury. “[But also] by the potential of her practice and Galerie Nathalie Obadia's commitment to supporting an artist to accompany her promising career."
Born in Colombes in 1991, Johanna Mirabel is currently based in Paris. A French painter of Guyanese origin, she creates ethereal interior scenes, inhabited by languid figures. Johanna Mirabel's paintings depict figures in domestic spaces that are often open to a dreamlike exterior. The interiors draw on the artist's own memories, from Guyanese homes to New York brownstones from the Harlem Renaissance. Childhood memories and recent experiences converse at the heart of the pictorial surface, creating syncretic universes.
Photo Credit : © Galerie Nathalie Obadia et Johanna Mirabel
