Featured Artist

Each year we invite a digital artist to contribute a body of work that informs the visual identity of the award, and is showcased throughout our website, social media, and other promotional materials. Learn more about the 2026 Featured Artist below.

Lasting Impressions is a series of three works that explores memory, ecology, and the passage of time. Drawing on the symbolism of the Ginkgo leaf (an ancient species often associated with endurance, resilience, and longevity), the series reflects on the traces we leave behind and the ways our lives become intertwined with the natural world. Layered botanical and human forms mirror one another, suggesting cycles of growth, decay, and renewal that connect personal memory to larger ecological histories. The halftone vinyl overlay acts as a veil, partially obscuring the images and evoking the fragmented nature of recollection, where details fade, shift, and transform over time. Memory is considered not as a fixed archive but as a living ecosystem, shaped by experience, environment, and the continual exchange between human and non-human worlds. Through reflection and repetition, the works invite viewers to contemplate what endures, what is lost, and how we are shaped by the impressions we leave behind.