Pritzker Architecture Prize 2022
Image: Diébédo Francis Kéré, Léo Doctors’ Housing, 2019, Léo, Burkina Faso.
Photo courtesy of Francis Kéré and Pritzker Architecture Prize.
ARCHITECTURE
Diébédo Francis Kéré
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in Gando, Burkina Faso and based in Berlin, Germany, the architect known as Francis Kéré empowers and transforms communities through the process of architecture. Through his commitment to social justice and engagement, and intelligent use of local materials to connect and respond to the natural climate, he works in marginalized countries laden with constraints and adversity, where architecture and infrastructure are absent.
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Gershon Iskowitz Prize 2021
Image: Faye HeavyShield, Clan, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2020.
© Photo: Blaine Campbell
ART
Faye HeavyShield
Gershon Iskowitz Prize
Faye HeavyShield is the recipient of the 2021 Gershon Iskowitz Prize. The award is presented annually to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to the visual arts in Canada. The artist draws on her experiences of the traditional ways of life of her ancestors to create powerful installations and sculptures that incorporate concepts of family, home and a relationship to the land, in particular that of the Kanai (Blood) Nation in Southern Alberta where she grew up and where she still lives.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art's
Roof Garden Commission 2022
Image: Lauren Halsey, Untitled, 2020.
Enamel, spray paint, marker, collage, remade archival signs, mirror, wood, CD, incense, plastic bags,
rhinestones, du rags, pushpins, stickers, and foil tape on foil-insulated foam and wood.
96 1/4 x 47 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches ; 244.5 x 120.7 x 120.7 cm.
ART
Lauren Halsey
MET's Roof Garden Commission
American artist Lauren Halsey has been commissioned to create a site-specific installation for The Met's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. She will create a full-scale architectural structure imbued with the collective energy and imagination of the South Central Los Angeles Community where she was born and continues to work. Lauren Halsey's work maintains a sense of civic urgency and free-flowing imagination, reflecting the lives of the people and places around her and addressing the crucial issues confronting people of color, queer populations, and the working class.
About the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden Commission
Los Angeles Artadia Awards 2022
Image: Esteban Ramón Pérez, DNA (Bad Blood), 2019.
Leather, Zepol and vintage Everlast boxing gloves, Mexican national football team badge and uniform
catchphrase "Somos Guerreros", heavy bag mounts, steel chains, brass. 144 x 144 x 12 inches.
ART
Esteban Ramón Pérez
Miller Robinson
dana washington-queen
Los Angeles Artadia Awards
The New York–based nonprofit Artadia has named the 2022 winners of its awards in Los Angeles: Esteban Ramón Pérez, Miller Robinson and dana washington-queen.
Esteban’s work pays homage to his roots. He approaches his practice as an interrogation and excavation of his subjective memory, spirituality, fragmented history, and social political reality. Miller Robinson is a 2Spirit, transdisciplinary artis. Tethered by sensibilities that prioritize collaboration, storytelling and the passage of non-linear timelines, themes of growth, transfiguration, temporality and stewardship are routine to their practice. dana washington-queen is a nonbinary writer, photographer and film/video artist. They explore blackness, cultural/knowledge production, and systems of power.
About the Los Angeles Artadia Awards
Pérez Prize 2022
Image: rafa esparza, ...we are the mountain, 2019.
© photo: Kaelan Burkett, courtesy of MASS MoCA.
ART
rafa esparza
Pérez Prize
The Pérez Art Museum Miami in Florida has given its 2022 Pérez Prize to Los Angeles–based artist rafa esparza. Among the most closely watched artists working in the U.S. today, he is best-known for his large-scale installations made of adobe, a skill learned from his father Ramón. His work explores themes around memory, family, community, and various histories, and also includes collaborative elements. He frequently invites artists, primarily Brown and queer ones, to show their work alongside his.
Icelandic Art Prize 2022
Image: Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson, Shooting the Messenger ♂ and ♀ (Iceland), 2021.
From Visitations at Akureyri Art Museum. Photo: Daníel Starrason.
ART
Bryndís Snaebjörnsdóttir
&
Mark Wilson
Art Prize
The duo Bryndís Snaebjörnsdóttir (b. 1955) & Mark Wilson (b. 1954) are the recipients of the Art Prize 2022 for their exhibition Visitations at Akureyri Art Museum. The exhibition is the result of the multi-year research project Polar Bears Out of Place, which they undertook in collaboration with experts in folklore, natural and environmental studies. The aim of the project is to contribute to a growing body of knowledge concerning human/non-human relations in a time of global warming. To this end, particular focus is on polar bear arrivals in Iceland both past and present.
Villa Romana Prize 2022
Image: Neda Saeedi, As part of State and Nature, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
© Photo: Eunice Maurice
ART
Villa Romana Prize
The Villa Romana Prize recipients are Haure Madjid, Jasmina Metwaly, Neda Saeedi and Alexander Skorobogatov. The Villa Romana Prize has been awarded by the non-profit Villa Romana Association since 1905 and comes with a ten-month residency at the Florentine artists' house, prize money and a final publication. It was initiated in order to offer an opportunity to talented, primarily younger artists resident in Germany to further develop their artistic position during a prolonged stay in Florence.
