TANIA BRUGUERA WINS NEUBERGER PRIZE

Thom Collins, director of the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York, announced today that artist Tania Bruguera has been awarded the first Neuberger Prize, a biannual exhibition prize to be given to an emerging artist for an early career survey. The exhibition will open at the Neuberger Museum of Art in January 2010 and will be accompanied by a catalogue documenting the artist’s innovative installation and performance work. This will be the first survey of Bruguera’s interdisciplinary work focusing on the relationship among art, politics, and life and will include multiple daily performances throughout the run of the show. The exhibition will be organized by Helaine Posner, chief curator and deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Neuberger Museum.

The Neuberger Prize has been generously funded for a series of five awards by Roy R. Neuberger, founding patron of the Neuberger Museum of Art. “The support of innovative, international art and artists is a major institutional priority and the Neuberger Prize significantly advances this mission,” Collins notes. “It is also a natural extension of Roy R. Neuberger’s historical commitment to support the work of living artists. We are most grateful to him.”