Yuko Mohri has been awarded the 2025 Calder Prize, the Calder Foundation has announced. She will receive $50,000 and one of her works will be placed in a public collection.
Born in Kanagawa and based in Tokyo, Mohri received her MA in Inter-media Art from Tokyo University of the Arts. Her work, which spans installation, sculpture, photography, video and sound, focuses on ‘events’ that shift according to environmental conditions. In 2024, Mohri represented Japan at the Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition Compose that featured acoustic sculptures made of rotting fruit and everyday objects.
‘Yuko’s work is at once enigmatic and inviting, successfully drawing viewers into real-time experiences influenced by many random factors – time, space, and unseen forces such as gravity, sound, air, and light,’ said Alexander Rower, cofounder and president of the Calder Foundation, in a statement. ‘While it is easy to draw parallels between Yuko’s work and Calder’s, her aesthetic voice is powerfully singular.’
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