The Ledesma Prize for Visual Arts is a biennial competition that has been held uninterruptedly since 2005. The works distinguished with the First Prize and Stimulus Prize for artists under thirty years of age remain in the possession of Ledesma SAAI and become part of the Ledesma Prize Collection of contemporary art.

The contest is organized and financed by the Ledesma, company , which promotes this contest within the framework of its Corporate Social Responsibility program, for the encouragement of arts and culture in the province of Jujuy.

Participation is open and free, participants over 18 years old, born in the province of Jujuy, or who, having been born outside that territory, have domicile and residence in Jujuy at the time of the presentation of the work. Also participating under the same conditions are students over 16 years of age who are enrolled in the Provincial Art Schools in the category Stimulus Award for artists under 30 years of age.

he contest also has a Prize for Children and an incentive prize for the winner's Plastic Teacher. Here, children between 9 and 12 years old who are enrolled in a school in Jujuy or attend a private art workshop that endorse the participant participate.

The Ledesma Award originally dates from the 1980s when the company promoted the “Ledesma Award for Painters Jujeños”. Until 2012, this contest was the only one that summoned and stimulated Jujuy artists.

On each occasion, the evaluation of the works is in charge of an external jury made up of three members, always with extensive experience in the world of the arts.

Augmented reality from your cell phone

Ledesma Award APP

Jointly with the creative studio Mirá, Ledesma has developed the first application to experience in augmented reality the works that are included in Ledesma Visual Arts Exhibition Hall. The tool is called «Premio Ledesma de Artes Visuales”. It is available to be downloaded without charge from any device with Android system, and it offers browsing the works from the website: www.ledesma.com.ar/Salon-Ledesma. http://www.ledesma.com.ar/Salon-Ledesma .

This application was created, designed and developed from the conception of Art and focused on strengthening Ledesma Award main objective: to disseminate and make visible the works of artists from Jujuy. Created in 2019, this is the first competition of its kind in Latin America.

Jointly with the creative studio Mirá, Ledesma has developed the first application to experience in augmented reality the works that are included in Ledesma Visual Arts Exhibition Hall. The tool is called “Premio Ledesma de Artes Visuales”It is available to be downloaded without charge from any device with Android system, and it offers browsing the works from the website: http://www.ledesma.com.ar/Salon-Ledesma .

This application was created, designed and developed from the conception of Art and focused on strengthening Ledesma Award main objective: to disseminate and make visible the works of artists from Jujuy. Created in 2019, this is the first competition of its kind in Latin America.

2023 Edition

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Organized by: Ledesma S.A.A.I.
E-mail: centrovisitantes@ledesma.com.ar
Phone Nº: 03886 – 429440/39

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If you have already downloaded the Ledesma Award App, you can interact with any of the Works in our Collection. Open any image, enter the App and see each work through the camera of your cell phone.

Winning Works Collection