10/2026
Anna Ridler, winner of the 2026 Digital Arts Prize
On Wednesday 21 October, in the Grand Assembly Hall of the Palais de l’Institut de France, the Fondation Etrillard and the Academy of Fine Arts announced the winner of the second edition of the Digital Arts Prize.
In front of a large audience and in the presence of the jury, Gilles Etrillard, President of the Etrillard Foundation, and Laurent Petitgirard, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, outlined the objectives of the Prize and presented the works of the three finalists: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg for Pollinator Pathmaker: Perceptual Field 7SzzLn6GnY97DSo7hCSLMf, the duo Holly Herndon and Mathew Dryhurst for Starmirror, and Anna Ridler for Circadian Nocturne. The Prize, worth 20,000 euros, was awarded to the British artist Anna Ridler.
Selected from 210 entries from across Europe, Anna Ridler was recognised for her unique career in the field of digital arts: she designs her own machine-learning systems and compiles her own datasets, thereby placing her work at the heart of these technologies. Her winning work, Circadian Nocturne (2023), is a perfect illustration of this. In the absence of an official record of nocturnal flowers – deemed to be of no economic interest – the artist compiled her own archive by consulting scientists and cultivating certain plants, before training neural networks using this data.
An exhibition dedicated to the first two editions of the Prize will be held in autumn 2027 at the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen.
Find out more about the winner’s career and the winning work on the Prize’s ‘Winner’ page.
