The Premio Faenza is an international prize for contemporary ceramic art.
It is awarded by the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and is the principal Italian prize of its kind.
[3]: 48 The first recipient of the Premio Faenza was Pietro Melandri [it], who also won it in the following year.
In 1963 it became international in scope – although several foreign artists had already been invited to participate in earlier editions – and from 1989 it became a biennial award.
[3]: 48 [4]: 284 Among the recipients of the award are the sculptors Angelo Biancini (1946, 1957), Leoncillo Leonardi (1954, 1964) and Carlo Zauli [it] (1953, 1958 and 1962),[5]: 17 and the ceramic artists Sueharu Fukami (1985) and Ken Eastman (1995).