2011 JURIED AWARDS
In addition to the $449,000 awarded to the top 10 artists based on a public vote, ArtPrize® 2011 has five additional juried awards and two Special Recognition Awards.
2011 juried award categories include
- Two-dimensional work (2D)
- Three-dimensional work (3D)
- Time-Based work (Performance/Film/Video)
- Best use of urban space
- International work
Launched in 2010, the ArtPrize Juried Awards program features an annual selection of judges, experts in their respective fields, to distribute $7,000 in each category to the artist whose work best reflects the category.
2011 Special Recognition Awards
- Sustainability Award
- Ox-Bow Residency Award
The first, which is returning for its third year, the Sustainability Award, rewards a single artist whose work best reflects the importance of sustainable practices and the triple-bottom line.
For the first time, Ox-Bow School of Art, an affiliated program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will award one artist with a five-week residency at its location in Saugatuck, Mich. The selected artist will have their residency fees waived and will be provided room, full board and studio space.
2011 Jurors
Anne Ellegood (2D Award)
Anne Ellegood is the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum. Prior to joining the Hammer, Ellegood was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, since 2005. Previously, she was the New York-based Curator for Peter Norton’s collection of over 2400 works of international contemporary art. From 1998-2003, she was the Associate Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
Glenn Harper (3D Award)
Glenn Harper is the editor of Sculpture magazine, and formerly the editor of Art Papers. He has written for Aperture, Artforum, Public Art Review, Afterimage, Exit Express, and for books on the works of artists John Van Alstine, Athena Tacha, and others. He is the editor of Interventions and Provocations: Conversations on Art, Culture, and Resistance and co-editor of A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980, Conversations on Sculpture, and Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks.
Kathleen Forde (Time-Based Award)
Kathleen Forde is the Curator of Time-Based Arts at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, N.Y. Prior to her current position, she was the Curatorial Director for Live Arts and New Media at the Goethe Institut Internaciones in Berlin and Munich. She has concurrently written and curated on a freelance basis for various organizations that have included the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Independent Curators International; ATA Cultural, Peru; Kunstverein Dusseldorf and Cologne; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Reed Kroloff (Urban Space Award)
Reed Kroloff is the Director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, a principal at jones|kroloff, an international architecture firm, and a nationally known commentator in the world of architecture and urban design. Prior to joining Cranbrook and establishing jones|kroloff, Kroloff served as Editor-in-Chief of Architecture magazine. Under his direction, the magazine received more awards for editorial and design excellence than any publication of its kind, and quickly became the country's leading design publication.
Nuit Banai (International Award)
Nuit Banai is an art historian and critic who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University before joining the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has been an invited critic at MIT, Massachusetts College of Art + Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Art Institute of Boston, Yale University, and Haifa University in Israel and has lectured at New York University, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, The Digital Art Lab for Israeli Art in Holon, l’Institut Nationale d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, and The Alvar Aalto Academy in Jyväskylä, Finland.