This year, we have received over 1500 applications for The Hari Art Prize 2026. In collaboration with A Space For Art, we are excited to announce the 21 shortlisted artists for the prize with the winner being awarded a cash grant generously donated by our CEO and Chairman, Dr. Aron Harilela of £10.000.
For over ten years, A Space for Art has been at the forefront of connecting fine art with exceptional spaces in the UK and globally; curating permanent and rotational art exhibitions that inspire and engage audiences. A Space For Art takes pride in the collaboration with The Hari hotels in both London and Hong Kong, honouring and showcasing the emerging generation of artistic talent with The Hari Art Prize.
The exhibition of the shortlisted artists will be open to the public at The Hari Hotel in London starting from Monday, September 28, 2026 and the winners will be annouced at a glittering event on Tuesday, November 17, 2026.
Liquid metal, industrial enamel
and ink on cotton duck
150 × 190 cm
Aaron Kudi (b. 1993, Bauchi, Nigeria) is a London-based painter whose abstraction begins from a ground that Western modernism did not establish.
Monotype painting with watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
75 x 55 cm
Kurkova’s paintings deal with themes of identity and human connection, creating a collaged alternative universe, informed by mythology, iconography, and art historical references.
Pigments, sand, charcoal, oils on canvas
150cm x 120 cm
Caitlin Heffernan is a painter based in Brighton, working with raw pigments, sand, oils and charcoal on large-scale canvas.
Carrara marble
50 x 30 x 30 cm
Caroline Williams is a sculptor working primarily with stone, alongside plaster and bronze.
Oil on Canvas
140 x 120 cm
Daisy Fulton is a Manchester-based visual artist and graduate of Manchester School of Art.
Oil on canvas
100 x 150 cm
Ella is a London-based painter working primarily in large-scale oil painting, who graduated with a First Class Honours from Central Saint Martins in 2024.
Oil on Canvas
107 x 133 cm
Grace McNerney (b. 2001)’s paintings are a pursuit through popular culture in search of the undercurrent of sex, religion, and death that underpins consumer imagery.
Faux fur, oil colour, acrylic, soft pastel oil pastel, charcoal mix medium on raw canvas
80 x 80 cm
Imon Pukhan’s practice explores the intersection of painting, sculpture and architectural space.
Oil on linen
92 x 114 cm
Izzie Beirne (b. 1996) is a London-based artist from Newcastle upon Tyne, who primarily works with painting to explore themes of domesticity, violence and imbalances of power through a feminist lens.
Imitation crystal chandeliers, American black walnut, MDF, varnish, cast acrylic sheet, cable.
60 x 118 x 60 cm (Each of two)
James Sibley (b.1999, Crawley, UK) is a sculptor whose work emerges in the studio but are formed outside, through encountering and gathering.
Acrylic, oil, oil stick and wax on canvas
130 x 130 cm
Jiatong Yuan is a London-based Chinese artist. Her practice draws on plant life, microbiological processes, and everyday experience.
Roman style marble mosaic, hand cut mirror, steel
53 x 83 x 3 cm
Katie Louise Surridge is a sculptor whose practice explores the relationship between material, technology and the environment.
PLA, epoxy resin, epoxy putty,
copper, pewter, mixed patinas
154 x 71 x 205 cm
De Mar creates speculative beings and mythologies through sculpture, exploring kinship, vulnerability and adaptation in the face of ecological crisis and systems of violence.
Oil, oil pen, oil bar, graphite on linen
160 × 160 cm
Mariana Cordoba is a Colombian-American abstract based in London. Her colourful, textured paintings explore the formal qualities of layer, line and texture.
Oil on Canvas
160 x 120 cm
Mary Lou Lawless-Gill (b. 2004) constructs fictional scenes from photographs, film, music and memory.
Embroidery, sapele, 1/2 pennies and wood wax
29 x 13 x 6 cm
Olivia England (b. 1999, London) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the histories objects carry and their relationship to memory and identity.
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 100 cm
Rebecca Munday (b. 2001) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting and sculpture.
UV Printed Photograph on a wooden board, acrylic paint, oil
27 x 35 x 1 cm
Rita Osipova is a multidisciplinary artist and curator working across sculpture, installation, photography, painting and poetry.
Rubber, violin, string, steel
90 x 70 cm
Saki’s practice explores the thresholds between fragility and transcendence, vulnerability and resilience – across sculpture, installation and performance
Oil, cochineal (Dragon’s Blood), cornflowers, wax on canvas
101.6 × 152.4 cm
Silke Weißbach (b. 1984, Germany) creates abstract paintings exploring transformation, ecology and the relationship between body and land.
Oil on canvas
110 x 140 cm
Susanne Baumann (b. 1982, Germany) is a London-based artist exploring memory, loss and the traces of human presence.
