The Carnegie Prize is a long-running tradition at Carnegie Museum of Art as old as the International itself, awarded for outstanding achievement in the exhibition in the context of a lifetime of work. Sofu Teshigahara and the Sogetsu Foundation received the Carnegie Prize for a presentation organized in close collaboration with the Sogetsu Foundation, spearheaded by Kiri Teshigahara, Art Director and International Director, with special thanks to Tristan Teshigahara Pollack, Susie Lim, and Yahei Ozawa, Sogetsu Foundation.

Sofu Teshigahara (born 1900, Osaka, Japan; died 1979, Tokyo, Japan) was the founder of Sogetsu, a radical school of ikebana that advanced the centuries-old art of Japanese flower composition by placing it in dialogue with transformations in the Japanese way of life, built environment, and relationship with the world. The presentation features a number of his own works, including Yakumo (Eightfold Clouds) (1962), a major sculpture made from a camphor tree uprooted in the 1959 Isewan Typhoon, as well as the large-scale Sogetsu Ikebana by Kenjiro Katayama, working with Sogetsu Pittsburgh Study Group, and courtesy Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo, and Sogetsu Fukuoka Branch, Fukuoka. The Carnegie Prize includes a Medal of Honor, designed by Tiffany & Co. and cast by J. E. Caldwell & Co., and was first issued to Winslow Homer at the 1896 international.

Miller Robinson’s DOCTORS HAVE THE RITE TO SUCK (2026), was awarded the Fine Prize, which is awarded for an emerging artist in the exhibition. Miller Robinson is a two-spirited, gender-nonconforming, anti-disciplinary Karuk/Yurok artist based in California. DOCTORS HAVE THE RITE TO SUCK (2026) is a newly commissioned two-part installation that occupies the balcony of Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Sculpture and the Hall of Miniatures. Robinson brings over 60 Indigenous baskets out of institutional storage, where they are displayed alongside the artist’s own videos and swarms of fish-bone medicine moths, together asserting Native presence and treating these objects as living relatives.

The Fine Prize was established in 2008 as part of a gift made by the Fine Foundation in support of the Carnegie International.