The Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary is the most recent winner of the CPGA-Villa Albertine Étant donnés Prize, awarded yearly to a French artist exhibiting at Artwork Basel Miami Seaside. Sinnapah Mary’s The E-book of Violette: Marie-Anne (2025) is on show at James Cohan’s stand and bought for $80,000 to a US-based basis.
“It’s significantly significant, as a result of she is from Guadeloupe, which is an abroad territory of France,” says Paula Naughton, a senior director on the gallery. The award is given yearly by France’s gallery affiliation to an artist both from or working within the nation.
