LUCY LIPPARD WINS CCS BARD’S 2010 AWARD FOR CURATORIAL EXCELLENCE

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College is presenting its thirteenth annual award for curatorial excellence to curator, writer, and activist Lucy Lippard.

In addition to authoring twenty books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, including one novel, Lippard has curated some fifty exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, and her arts activities have extended into performances, comics, and street theater. For thirty years she has worked with artists’ groups such as the Artworkers’ Coalition, Ad Hoc Women Artists, Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, Alliance for Cultural Democracy (for which she served as coeditor of How to ‘92: Model Actions for a Post-Columbian World), and WAC (Women’s Action Coalition). She was a cofounder of Printed Matter; the Heresies Collective and its journal; PADD (Political Art Documentation/Distribution) and its journal Upfront; and Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America.

Past recipients of the award include Lynne Cooke and Vasif Kortun (2006), Alanna Heiss (2007), Catherine David (2008), and Okwui Enwezor (2009). This year, the award will be presented by artist Hans Haacke.