Call for Applications: The UC Berkeley South Asia Art (SAAI) Prizes | Deadline: Jan 10, 2026

[Alex Burchmore]

With thanks to Sugata Ray, UC Berkeley:

 

The UC Berkeley South Asia Art (SAAI) Prizes | Deadline: Jan 10, 2026

Dear friends and colleagues,
I am forwarding the announcement for this year's UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Prize for recent PhD dissertations and the UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Prize for recent MFA graduates. Please do share. The list of past awardees can be found here: https://southasia.berkeley.edu/initiatives/artberkeley/saai-awardees
With best wishes,
Sugata

 

Sugata Ray
Associate Professor, Departments of History of Art and South & Southeast Asian Studies

Director, The South Asia Art Initiative, Institute for South Asia Studies 

University of California, Berkeley

https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/sugata-ray

  

View this email in your browser   Call for Applications UC Berkeley South Asia Art (SAAI) Prizes Deadline: January 10, 2026   The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley invites submissions for two annual awards: The UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize PhD dissertations on the art, architecture, or visual cultures of South Asia and its diasporas from any discipline in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. The dissertation may focus on any time period from the prehistoric to the contemporary. The UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Prize MFA graduates with an outstanding body of work by an artist of the South Asian diaspora or by those whose work addresses the politics and cultures of South Asia.  The deadline for submission for both prizes is January 10, 2026. Each prize comes with a $1,500 award. For more information, application details, and prior awardees, click HERE   The South Asia Art Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley promotes research-based conversations and collaborations around the arts of South Asia + its diasporas from the ancient period to the now. To read more about the Initiative and help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE     Join SAAI's Mailing List     Copyright © 2025 UC Berkeley, All rights reserved.

 

 

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