Paez Medal of Art

The Paez Medal of Arts is a decoration awarded by The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA) that is presented once a year to an individual or group that has had an impact and contributed to excellence, growth, support and the proliferation of the arts in Venezuela and the United States.^[1][2] It is named in honor of José Antonio Páez, leader of the Independence of Venezuela, who lived in exile the last years in New York, where he became a philanthropist.^[3]

Paez Medal of Art
Date	2012
Country	Venezuela, United States
Website	vaearts.org/US/paez-medal-of-art

Recipients

• Carlos Cruz-Diez (2012)^[4]
• Robert Wilson (2013)^[5]
• Sofía Ímber (2014)^[6]
• Annie Leibovitz (2015)^[7]
• Marisol Escobar (2016)^[8]
• Bob Colacello (2017)^[9]
• Gustavo Dudamel (2018)^[10]
• Margot Benacerraf (2019)^[11]
• Julian Schnabel (2019)^[12]
• Frank Gehry (2020)^[13]
• James Alcock (2020)^[14]
• Fundacion Empresas Polar and its founder Leonor Giménez de Mendoza (2021)^[15]
• Joshua Bell (2022)^[16]