The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, organized by the Orlando Museum of Art, invites ten artists or collectives from across the state each year, with an invited juror selecting one recipient of a $20,000 award. The 2025 edition, the eleventh iteration, was curated by Coralie Claeysen‑Gleyzon, chief curator at the museum, and juried by Rod Bigelow, executive director and chief diversity and inclusion officer of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Nathalie Alfonso received the award for her practice that included LineScape—Onset, a monumental site‑specific drawing that spanned 87 feet wide by 17 feet high across an entire gallery wall. The work was created over three weeks of continuous bodily action, transforming the wall itself, and was removed at the close of the exhibition.
The exhibition featured ten artists who explored ancestry, personal memory, belonging, displacement, natural and virtual environments, urban change, and the labor of making the unseen visible. Among them, Amanda Linares presented Yo vengo de todas partes, y hacia todas partes voy, an immersive installation that surrounded viewers with materials such as graphite, wood, soil, concrete, plaster, glass, fabric, wallpaper, resin and sand, reflecting themes of movement, multiplicity and belonging.
Press release issued by Orlando Museum of Art:
https://omart.org/news/a-look-back-at-florida-prize-2025/
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