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Liberatum will present Sharon Stone with its Women in Creativity Award this year at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid. For a quarter of a century, Liberatum has stood as one of the world’s most respected champions of cultural diplomacy, creativity, and global dialogue. Honouring Ms Stone, an artist whose work resonates globally will be a defining moment of these celebrations. 

At the Thyssen, Liberatum will honour Ms Stone with the Liberatum Women in Creativity Award, celebrating her remarkable multidisciplinary career, her enduring commitment to creativity as a force for positive global impact, and her emergence as a painter distinguished by a bold, original voice and profoundly resonant storytelling.

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Sharon Stone is recognized internationally as a cultural leader. Her many honors include:

Global Citizen of the Year award by the United Nations Correspondents Association; the Women Making History Award from the National Women’s History Museum; the Nobel Peace Summit Award Laureate; the Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award; the Golden Globe Award; a Primetime Emmy Award; an Academy Award Nomination; the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France; the 2023 Courage Award; the Harvard Humanitarian Award; and the Human Rights Campaign Humanitarian Award are among her many accolades. Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of the book The Beauty of Living Twice.

She was recently honored as a finalist for the 2025 Women in Art Prize. Painting has been part of Stone’s life since she was a child. Her Aunt Vonne had a Master’s degree in painting, and would create murals across the walls of the home of Stone’s grandmother. Her Aunt Vonne’s artist studio was in this home, and the painter nurtured Stone’s talents for painting from an early age by training her to be her studio assistant. In college, Stone studied painting and sold many of her artworks, before she went on to become a fashion model and an actress.

Her work is largely abstract and expressionistic, often drawing on nature, movement, and emotional transformation — motifs like snakes, coiled forms, and layered landscapes appear, reflecting profound themes of shedding, loss, and rebirth. Her new series of portraits is a bold departure for the artist, featuring supernatural subjects throughout time with timely messages for our world. These new works created by Stone are powerful, haunting portraits of the spirits of people from different eras that she recently channeled while painting.

Stone says painting offers her a sense of freedom and healing that complements her acting, but also stands on its own: she now spends up to 17 hours a day in her studio, and her art has drawn praise for its raw emotion and technical ambition. Her immense talents and acute powers of observation have translated through her paintings. The ability to observe and interpret human behavior, and the capacity to turn human frailties into sources of strength, shine through in ways that are combative, conquering, and victorious. The connection to nature is always visually present.