The 2013 Calder Prize will be awarded to American artist Darren Bader.

The Calder Prize, in the amount of $50,000, honors contemporary artists who have completed exemplary work early in their careers and whose work can be interpreted as a continuation of Calder’s legacy. In addition to the cash prize, the recipient benefits from a residency at the Atelier Calder and the placement of a signature work in a major public collection.

Darren Bader appropriates film, music, text, digital images, and found objects, creating complicated hierarchies of cultural production that mine the intersection between the real and the fictive, and frequently employ double-entendres and wordplay.

He is represented by Andrew Kreps in New York, Sadie Coles HQ in London and Franco Noero in Turin, Italy.

The prize ceremony will take place on May 28 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.