The Vietnamese-born Conceptual artist Danh Vo has won this year’s Hugo Boss Prize, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced on Thursday. The $100,000 award, established in 1996 by the foundation and named for the German men’s wear and lifestyle company that sponsors it, is given every two years for significant achievement in contemporary art. “Danh has a wide-ranging repertory of ideas and executes them with relevance and power,” said Richard Armstrong, director of the foundation.

Mr. Vo, 37, has become something of a darling in contemporary-art circles, where his work has been shown in exhibitions including two recent triennials, one at the New Museum in New York this year, and the other in Yokohama, Japan, in 2011. His work was also recently shown at the Art Institute of Chicago and is still on view at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Read this article