The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden awarded Colombian artist Doris Salcedo with the Rolf Schock Prize for Visual Arts. In an official announcement, the institution declared that Salcedo was selected "for her exceptional ability to achieve material manifestations of loss and longing. Her sensitive and deeply engaging work deals with the long-term consequences of war and lethal violence, and evinces the pain, grief, and empty spaces left behind in souls, homes and entire communities." For three decades Doris Salcedo has been working with monumental-scale sculptures, installations and interventions in the public space. But her works can also be intimate and delicate enough to, according to the announcement, "be touched only with a single fingertip." Her work is based on research, memories, and testimonies. The actions on public spaces involve many co-creators. Awarded since 1993, the Rolf Schock Prizes are named after a Swedish philosopher and artist who left his fortune for the establishment of a foundation whose purpose was to award prizes that brought science and the arts together. It is with this spirit that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music grant these prizes in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, music, and visual arts. Each winner of the Prize will receive a purse of 500,000.00 Swedish krona (USD 56,000.00) granted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In addition to the prize won by the Colombian artist, this year the other modalities of the award went to three distinguished US citizens: philosopher Ruth Millikan, mathematician Richard Schoen, and jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter. The prizes will be presented to the winners on November 14 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. According to Göran K. Hansson, the institution's Secretary General, "[The prize] ceremony will be a memorable occasion on which the arts meet the sciences." Beginning with the 2017 edition of the event, the prizes will be granted yearly.