The BARON Book Prize is an annual prize, which recognises book projects from emerging artists and image-makers who have created projects investigating gender, sex, sexuality and identity politics.

BARON was launched in 2011, stocked worldwide in 26 different markets, many of our books are in collections, including the book collections at MoMA, NYC and The LUMA Foundation.

The prize is open to artists and image-makers working in any medium, from anywhere in the world and will be judged by an industry panel, who will create a shortlist of the best submissions to decide a winner. The winner will be judged on their book’s concept and how this has influenced the rationale behind the construction of their book, outcome and design.

Judges include Rut Blees Luxemburg (artist), Mohammad Al-Hasani (Vice Versa distribution); Stephen Male (art director) and Cinsy Tam (assistant creative director and editor, BARON).

Entry fee is 20 GBP (approx. 27 USD).

Eligibility

Submissions are open to all artists and image-makers, working in any medium and from anywhere in the world, over the age of 18.

Prize

The winner will receive the opportunity to work with BARON in publishing their book project. The winners will be announced in December 2021, and their book published as part of BARON’S summer 2022 catalogue, with global distribution.