Congratulations to this year’s Neddy Artist Award Recipient in Painting, Sangram Majumdar.

The Neddy Artist Award is one of the most generous and longest-running awards for visual artists in the State of Washington, now providing two awards of $30,000, and six of $3,000, to artists living and working in the Puget Sound region. This year's eight Neddy Awards finalists included alums Dana Blume (MFA 2023) and ralph salazar (MFA 2025). 

Sangram Majumbar is Associate Professor of Painting + Drawing. His solo exhibition Bad Actors at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai, India, is on view through May 2, 2026. It was recently featured on Vogue India. 

You can read more about Majumdar through National Juror Daisy Nam’s final selection text in the official email announcement.