Apollo Awards 2015

The Apollo Award Winners 2015

Announcing Apollo’s Personality, Artist, Museum Opening, Exhibition, Book, Digital Innovation, and Acquisition of the Year

Apollo Awards: Personality of the Year: Maria Balshaw

Personality of the Year

Maria Balshaw, the director of the Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester City Galleries, has been a driving force behind the city’s cultural renaissance

Apollo Awards: Artist of the Year: William Kentridge

Artist of the Year

South African William Kentridge has a remarkable range and is one of the most important artists working today

Acquisition of the Year

The four bronze angels commissioned for the tomb of Cardinal Wolsey are reunited at last at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Apollo Awards: Exhibition of the Year: Silent Partners, Fitzwilliam Museum

Exhibition of the Year

‘Silent Partners’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge was a revelatory show about the role of the mannequin in art history

Apollo Awards: Digital Innovation of the Year: Million Image Database

Digital Innovation of the Year

The Million Image Database is documenting threatened cultural heritage sites all around the world, through the efforts of volunteers

Apollo Awards: Book of the Year: Carrying Off the Palaces

Book of the Year

‘Carrying Off the Palaces’ is one of the most important works on John Ruskin in recent decades and a major contribution to the history of photography

Apollo Awards: Museum Opening of the Year: The Whitney Museum

Museum Opening of the Year

The Whitney Museum’s widely acclaimed move downtown means that American art now has the home it deserves

Apollo Awards 2015: Acquisitions of the Year Shortlist

The most significant artworks and artefacts to enter museum collections in the last 12 months

Apollo Awards 2015: Digital Innovation of the Year Shortlist

Five organisations harnessing digital technology to advance access to, or knowledge of art

Apollo Awards 2015: Museum Opening of the Year Shortlist

Five of the most important new museum or renovation projects completed in the last 12 months

Apollo Awards 2015: Book of the Year Shortlist

Recognising the recent art publications that have contributed significantly to their field

Apollo Awards 2015: Exhibition of the Year Shortlist

Recognising the most revelatory and influential exhibitions of the past year