TIFFANY FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES $600,000 IN AWARDS
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has announced six hundred thousand dollars in awards today, marking its sixteenth biennial competition. Established in 1918, the foundation remains one of the largest single sources of unrestricted monetary awards to artists.
Thirty unrestricted grants, each in the amount of twenty thousand dollars, have been awarded to artists residing in the United States and working in the fields of painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, crafts, and video. Angela Westwater, president of the foundation, commented, “Our trustees remain committed to supporting talented artists, and in so doing commemorate our founder, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and his artistic legacy.”
The recipients were chosen from a list of more than four hundred names gathered by nomination. A panel of artists, critics, and museum professionals from across the country convened over a two-day period to review applications. Candidates were evaluated based on the quality and serious promise of their work, and consideration was also given to the amount of critical or commercial recognition their careers have yet received. “The timing of this grant makes a huge difference,” writes recipient Matt Saunders. “It will let me pursue immediately some ideas I thought weren’t possible.”
The recipients of the 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation awards are:
Derrick Adams – Brooklyn, New York
Diana Al-Hadid – Brooklyn
Dawolu Jabari Anderson – Houston
Lisa Anne Auerbach – Los Angeles
Andrea Bowers – Los Angeles
Tania Bruguera – Chicago
Matthew Buckingham – Brooklyn
Beth Campbell – Brooklyn
David Colosi – Brooklyn
Kate Gilmore – New York
Josephine Halvorson – Brooklyn
Michael Hurwitz – Philadelphia
Colter Jacobsen – San Francisco
An-My Lê – New York
Judy Linn – New York
Katherine Newbegin – Brooklyn
John Newman – New York
Sarah Oppenheimer – Brooklyn
Ann Pibal – North Bennington, Vermont
Matthias Pliessnig – Philadelphia
Julika Rudelius – Brooklyn
Matt Saunders – Baltimore
Joseph Scanlan – New York
Gedi Sibony – Brooklyn
Dean Snyder – Providence
Alison Elizabeth Taylor – Brooklyn
Christopher Taylor – Central Falls, Rhode Island
Phoebe Washburn – New York
Suara Welitoff – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joe Zane – Cambridge
2009 Biennial Competition Jury:
Amada Cruz, program director, United States Artists
Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator, painting and sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Gerhardt Knodel, artist/artist-in-residence and director, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1970–2007
Jen Mergel, formerly associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, now the Beal Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
John Perreault, independent curator, critic, artist, poet, and founder of Artopia
Martin Puryear, artist
Robert Storr, artist and critic, dean of the Yale University School of Art
