The Gibbes Museum’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art is awarded to an artist whose work contributes to a new understanding of art in the South. Presented annually, the prize recognizes the highest level of artistic achievement and welcomes applications from artists working across any media. Artists from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are eligible to apply. Previous winners have subsequently received awards from the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and whose work have been received into permanent collections of The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Winners of the prize will receive a cash award, be invited to present at the annual Amy P. Coy Forum in Charleston, and have a work of art installed at the Gibbes Museum for one calendar year. The extraordinary multi-disciplinary artist, Sherrill Roland, was the recipient of the 2023 Prize, receiving a cash award of $10,000 and whose work is now on exhibit at the Gibbes Museum until 2025.