Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt

Rosario and Roberto are artists, educators, and childhood friends, and the founders of R&R STUDIOS, a multidisciplinary platform merging art, architecture, and the city. Their artworks create encounters between stories and places, weaving together the everyday and the fantastic, the poetic and the political. They create architectural social sculptures that blur the boundaries between art and life and perform as instant landmarks.

The $75,000 Lifetime Achievement Award goes to these trailblazing artists which works include the biggest “M” in the world in Miami; All Together Now in downtown Denver; The Living Room, their iconic Miami home turned inside-out; Bésame Mucho at the Coachella Music Festival, Building Blocks, a square in Seattle and Peace & Love a Parkland Memorial sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies. They recently unveiled three artworks for Princeton University Art Museum documented in The Home We Share: Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University (Park Books, 2025), and Beauty for All, a visual manifesto for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial.