ROBYN O’NEIL WINS HUNTING ART PRIZE
Artist Robyn O’Neil was awarded the 2009 Hunting Art Prize on Saturday night, reports the Houston Chronicle‘s Douglas Britt. According to Britt, the fifty-thousand-dollar award, open to established, emerging, and amateur artists throughout Texas, is the most generous art prize presented annually in North America. The oil-services company Hunting PLC launched it in 1981 to recognize an artist from the United Kingdom before moving the prize to Houston in 2006.
More fifteen hundred artists submitted digital files in the fall for the first round of judging. O’Neil was chosen from 129 finalists in the second round of judging for her graphite drawing A death, a fall, a march: toward a better world. O’Neil’s works have been shown at museums and galleries around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 2004, she was included in the Whitney Biennial.
