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2019.11.24 22:17
2019 여자라는 익명(Anonymous Was A Woman)상 미술가 10인(상금 2만5천 달러) 수상
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40세 이상 여성 작가를 대상으로 하는 여자라는 익명상(Anonymous Was A Woman Award) 2019 수상작가 10인이 발표됐다.
엘리아 알바(Elia Alba, 57), 마샤 코트렐(Marsha Cottrell, 55), 토크와즈 다이슨(Torkwase Dyson, 50), 하이디 파스나츠(Heide Fasnacht, 68), 노나 포스틴(Nona Faustine, 50), 로데싸 존스(Rhodessa Jones, 70), 제니퍼 웬 마(Jennifer Wen Ma, 46), 에이미 시겔(Amie Siegel, 45), 다이앤 심슨(Diane Simpson, 84), 카리나 아귈레라 스크버스키(Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, 52)는 2만5천달러의 그랜트를 받는다.
아티스트 수잔 운터버그(Susan Unterberg)가 1996년 설립한 여자라는 익명상은 이제까지 240명의 여성 미술가들에게 총 600만 달러의 그랜트를 수여했다. 한인 미술가로는 민용순(Yong Soon Min, 2001), 김수자(Kimsooja, 2002), 낸시 천(Nancy Chunn, 2005), 이정진(Jungjin Lee, 2011), 재 고(Jae Ko, 2012)씨가 받았다.
Anonymous Was A Woman awards $250,000 to women artists over the age of 40 Ten artists receive unrestricted grants of $25,000 apiece in recognition of their work
November 20, 2019—Anonymous Was a Woman today announced the ten recipients of its 2019 awards,which recognize women artists over 40 years of age who have made significant contributions in their fields to date, while continuing to create new work. Each recipient receives an unrestricted grant of $25,000.
The 2019 award recipients are:
Elia Alba, 57
Marsha Cottrell, 55
Torkwase Dyson, 50
Heide Fasnacht, 68
Nona Faustine, 50
Rhodessa Jones, 70
Jennifer Wen Ma, 46
Amie Siegel, 45
Diane Simpson, 84
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, 52
Winners were chosen from among a competitive pool of applicants recommended by a group of distinguished art historians, curators, writers, and artists who serve as anonymous nominators. The 2018 award recipients range in age from 45 to 84 and work in mediums including painting, installation, performance, photography, and film. The “no strings-attached” grant is intended to provide them freedom to continue development of their creative vision. Bios of each recipient follow on next page.
Anonymous Was a Woman was founded by artist Susan Unterberg and has awarded over $6 million in grants to 240 women artists to date. In July 2018, after more than two decades of anonymity, Unterberg revealed her identity as the founder and sole patron of the grant program,. The 2019 award cycle is the first since this news, which elevated the profile of the award and led to a significant increase in nominations, as well as an expanded group of nominators (distinguished women curators, writers, critics, and artists). Over the past year, Anonymous Was A Woman has also initiated public programs celebrating past award recipients and emphasizing the vitality of women’s voices, including a panel discussion at the 92nd Street Y, New York.
“I am delighted to congratulate this year’s award recipients—a group of extraordinary artists working in diverse mediums and exploring some of the most pressing issues of contemporary life,” said Unterberg. “I founded Anonymous Was a Woman to fill a void that I witnessed personally: support for women artists in the middle stages of their careers. More than twenty years later, we continue to see data that reveals the delta between how both museums and the market regard male and female artists—which only galvanizes our mission and our commitment to celebrating the voices of women.”
While it is not need-based, the award has often had a transformative impact on the lives and work of the recipients, many of whom received the grant at critical junctions in their careers or before they had received wider recognition. Award winners have gone on to present solo exhibitions at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Venice Biennale, among many others; to create important public art projects, performances, and installations; and to receive significant critical acclaim.
Anonymous Was A Woman
Anonymous Was A Woman is an unrestricted grant of $25,000 that enables women artists over 40 years of age and at a significant junction in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work. The Award is given to ten artists a year in recognition of an artist's accomplishments, artistic growth, originality, and potential. It is not need-based. The Award is by nomination only. The name of the grant program, Anonymous Was A Woman, refers to a line in Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”. As the name implies, nominators and those associated with the program have, until this point, been unnamed. Artist Susan Unterberg created the Award in 1996, partly in response to the decision of the National Endowment for the Arts to cease support of individual artists. Each year, an outstanding group of distinguished women—art historians, curators, writers, and previous winners from across the country—serve as nominators. To date, over [600] notable women have participated as nominators and panelists, and the Award has been given to 240 artists.
