The Brooklyn-based avenue artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez has obtained this yr’s Frieze Affect Prize. The award recognises an artist whose work has had a profound social influence with $25,000 in prize cash and a solo stand at this week’s Frieze Los Angeles truthful (20-23 February).
Marka27 is thought for a particular aesthetic he has dubbed “Neo Indigenous”, which fuses parts of up to date graffiti writing with the imagery of los tres grandes of the Mexican mural motion (Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros).
The artist’s very well timed presentation at Frieze Los Angeles will give attention to his I.C.E Scream collection of work and sculptures, which take the type of popsicles. The work is a touch upon the more and more nativist rhetoric round immigration within the US and threats of much more draconian enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) underneath US president Donald Trump.
Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, Ni de aqui ni de alla paleta, 2025 Courtesy of Marka27 Design Studios
The prize, which is realised in collaboration with WME Affect and in partnership with the Heart for Artwork and Advocacy, was decided this yr by a panel that includes the collector and philanthropist Pamela J. Joyner, the interdisciplinary artist Sable Elyse Smith and the curator Taylor Renee Aldridge. Final yr’s Frieze Affect Prize winner was the textile artist Gary Tyler; previous winners have included Mary Baxter, Maria Gaspar, Narciso Martinez and Dread Scott.
