The California-based artist Raymond Pettibon is the 2010 recipient of the Oskar Kokoschka Prize. As this year’s winner of the biannual prize, the artist will be awarded €20,000.  Pettibon will receive the prize in a ceremony to be held at the University for Applied Arts on March 1 at 11:00 o’clock in Vienna.

The Kokoschka Prize was established in 1980 after the painter’s death and has been run by the Austrian government since that time. The prize is granted to an outstanding contemporary artist every two years by the Austrian government.  Past winners include: William Kentridge, Agnes Martin, Gunter Brus and John Baldessari.

Pettibon, whose work graced the cover of Sonic Youth’s 1990 record “Goo,” and who created the now iconic Black Flag logo has also had major solo exhibitions at Los Angeles’ MOCA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, In 2004 he was granted the Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award and in 2002 the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from Cologne’s Ludwig Museum.

Raymond Pettibon, Untitled (I see before me...) from Plots on Loan I, 2000.