Sponsorship Opportunities
‘& Gallery Australia’ will be presenting Australia’s richest art prize with a life changing main award of $125,000. 60 artists will be shortlisted for the prize. All works will be exhibited at & Gallery Australia in a comprehensive, eight-week showcase. The exhibition will be enriched with a series of artist talks, forums and events.
28 June - 31 August 2025
We are thrilled to announce that Ugochukwu - Smooth Nzewi - Artist & Curator of Painting and Sculpture from MoMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York will be the judge of The Sorrento Art Prize.
Smooth will be travelling to Australia to Judge the award and will also be involved in a series of events over 10 days. We can’t wait to host Smooth in Sorrento.
About Smooth
Smooth Nzewi joined The Museum of Modern Art in July 2019 as the first Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture. He leads the Africa group in the Museum’s Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), MoMA’s internal research and exchange initiative devoted to art in a global context. His projects at MoMA include the exhibition Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound (2022). Prior to joining MoMA, Nzewi was Curator of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2017–19), where he organized Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art (2020) and co-organized Ama: The Gathering Place (2019). Before Cleveland, Nzewi was Curator of African Art at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum (2013–17). There, his exhibitions included Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art (2016), and he spearheaded the acquisition of works by artists such as Kader Attia, Candice Brietz, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Julie Mehretu, and Obiora Udechukwu.
Nzewi holds a PhD in art history from Emory University. As an artist, he has exhibited internationally and is represented in public and private collections including the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, and Newark Museum, New Jersey.
There are substantial opportunities for national exposure for funding partners due to the richest art prize in Australia title. Opportunities include naming rights of minor prizes, SAP Passes to all events, corporate events and conferencing opportunities. Sponsorships packages can be tailored for maximum benefit. Thanks to all our growing family of supporters… these are the things we still need.
2nd Award Sponsor $25,000
Sponsorship of the of Artist Fee Fund $60,000. Help fund our shortlisted artists attend the opening events.
Or Sponsor one artist fee at $1,000.
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