After Sharing Turner Prize Win, Lawrence Abu Hamdan Takes Another Top Art Award

Last week, Lawrence Abu Hamdan made headlines when he and his three fellow artist nominees shared the win for the 2019 Turner Prize, the United Kingdom’s top art award. Although he took that prize as a member of a collective, he’s now the sole winner of another major European art award.
The Munchmuseet, a soon-to-open museum dedicated to Edvard Munch in Oslo, has given its 2019 Edvard Munch Art Award to Abu Hamdan, who will now receive 500,000 Norwegian kroner (about $63,000), a solo