The Hermitage Artist Retreat, in collaboration with the Philadelphia-based Greenfield Foundation, has announced visual artist Charisse Pearlina Weston as the winner of the 2026 Hermitage Greenfield Prize.

Weston, who was born in Houston and is now based in Harlem, is a conceptual artist whose work contends with the interplay of violence and intimacy through repetition, enfoldment and concealment. She works in media including sculpture, writing, installation and photography, and often integrates glass into her work, whether through photographs, fragments incorporated into a canvas or as an element within a sculpture. Weston received her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas, a master of science degree in modern art from the University of Edinburgh’s College of Art and an MFA in studio art with a critical theory emphasis from the University of California-Irvine. Recent exhibits include group and solo presentations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA PS1, SITE Santa Fe and the Queens Museum, among other venues. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025.

The Hermitage Greenfield Prize is awarded annually, rotating between the fields of visual art, music and theater. Weston will receive a six-week Hermitage fellowship and a $35,000 commission to create a new work or collection of art, which will have its premiere exhibition in Sarasota in 2028. 



In addition to Weston, finalists for the 2026 Hermitage Greenfield Prize included Melissa Joseph, whose work considers themes of memory, family history and the politics of how we occupy space; Lily Kwong, a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores plant-life as both an artistic medium and a platform for community building and collective care; and Patrick Martinez, a Los Angeles-based artist whose work examines language, place, memory, and the social histories embedded within the American landscape. All three will receive a Hermitage residency, in addition to a finalist prize of $1,000.