Smithsonian Museum of American Art announces Best Artist Award Nominees

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced nominees for its award for Best Contemporary Artist. The award was created in 2001 to encourage authors under the age of 50. Over the eleven years of its existence, the award has become very popular, always distinguished by the exceptional creativity of the decisions of the jury.

This year 15 candidates for the prize laureates working in different techniques were selected - painting, sculpture, photography, cinema and video. The prize of $ 25’000 is intended to contribute to the further development of the artist, his new creative experiments.

From 2001 to 2008, the award was known as the Lucelia Artist Award. This award demonstrates the museum’s continued commitment to contemporary art. “The artists nominated this year demonstrate a wide range of cultural and aesthetic experiences in their work, visually stimulating and conceptually rigorous,” said Joanna Marsh, curator of the contemporary art department at the Smithsonian Museum. The march coordinates the selection of the jury and nominees. Five respected jury members, each with extensive knowledge of contemporary American art, were selected throughout the United States.

The composition of the jury was not disclosed until the announcement of the winner in October. In the past, the jury members were John Baldessari, Klaus Beisenbach, Lynn Cook, Richard Flood and other respected artists

Anna Sidorova