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Ali Eyal will receive the $100,000 Mohn Award honoring artistic excellence, in conjunction with Made in L.A. 2025. The museum will also produce a monograph of Eyal's work as part of the Mohn Award.

Carl Cheng will receive the Career Achievement Award honoring brilliance and resilience, and Greg Breda will receive the Public Recognition Award, as chosen by visitors to the Made in L.A. 2025 exhibition. Cheng and Breda will each receive $25,000.

Funded by Los Angeles philanthropists and art collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn, the Mohn Award has been given to artists with each edition of the Made in L.A. biennial, which began in 2012. The Mohn Award ($100,000) and the Career Achievement Award ($25,000) are selected by a professional jury, and the Public Recognition Award ($25,000) is determined through a public vote. All the artists in the exhibition are eligible to receive the awards. 

A jury of professional curators selected the Mohn Award and the Career Achievement Award. This year’s jury includes Gean Moreno, director of the Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Margot Norton, chief curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); and Daniela Lieja Quintanar, chief curator and deputy director, programs, at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT).

In 2023 artist Akinsanya Kambon received the Mohn Award, Pippa Garner received the Career Achievement Award, and Jackie Amézquita received the Public Recognition Award. Artist Kandis Williams received the Mohn Award in 2020; Lauren Halsey received the Mohn Award in 2018; Adam Linder received it in 2016; Alice Könitz received it in 2014; and Meleko Mokgosi received it in 2012.