STUDIO MUSEUM’S 2016 JOYCE ALEXANDER WEIN ARTIST PRIZE AWARDED TO DERRICK ADAMS

Maximilíano Durón of Artnews writes that Derrick Adams has been awarded the $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize from the Studio Museum in Harlem. Adams, a multidisciplinary artist in performance, sculpture, photography, and video, among other media, has been featured in several exhibitions at the Studio Museum (see the artist’s Clockin’ [Hamomons], performed on June 16, 2012, at the museum on artforum.com). Adams was also in three editions of the Performa biennial and appeared in the 2005 iteration of MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” exhibition.

The prize was initiated in 2006 in memory of philanthropist and jazz promoter George Wein’s wife, who was a longtime trustee of the museum. Previous winners of the prize include Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Lorna Simpson, and Trenton Doyle Hancock.