ROBERTO BEHAR & ROSARIO MARQUARDT WIN THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT THE ELLIES OOLITE ARTS AWARDS
The Argentine duo receives the award in recognition of a practice that merges art, architecture, and public space, creating social sculptures that transform the city.
The $75,000 Lifetime Achievement Award at The Ellies Oolite Arts Awards was presented to Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt. Rosario and Roberto are artists, educators, and childhood friends, as well as the founders of R&R STUDIOS, a multidisciplinary platform that brings together art, architecture, and the city. Their works generate encounters between stories and places, weaving together the everyday and the fantastic, the poetic and the political. They create architectural social sculptures that blur the boundaries between art and life, functioning as instant urban landmarks.
Among the artists’ projects are the largest “M” in the world in Miami; All Together Now in downtown Denver; The Living Room, their iconic Miami home turned inside out; Bésame Mucho at the Coachella Music Festival; Building Blocks, a public square in Seattle; and Peace & Love, a Parkland memorial sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
They recently unveiled three works for the Princeton University Art Museum, documented in The Home We Share: Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University (Park Books, 2025), as well as Beauty for All, a visual manifesto for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
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