I am trying to step my contemporary-art-world-name-recognition-game up, so I've HYPERLINKED the winners of the 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. I am familiar with the work of many of the artist featured here, but this exercise allowed me to connect a name to their brilliant efforts.
Mequitta received an MFA from UIC in 2003, mentored by Kerry James Marshall. Her work has been exhibited across the U.S as well as in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, India and Dubai. Mequitta has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s 12X12, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX, BravinLee Programs in New York and Nathalie Obadia Gallery in Paris, France. MORE
Darren Bader has been quietly and sublimely redefining the artist-as-curator archetype for almost a decade now with a flurry of challenging exhibitions in New York, L.A., London and Tokyo. With the new works in his latest show, "Chad Ochocinco," the upstart has matured delicately with a tour de force for the overeducated yet sadly passionless Facebook generation. Bader's curatorial flow is employed as both an antidote to the self-congratulatory big ideas of Conceptual art and an alternative to the snarky strategies of the early 2000s. MORE
(b. 1985, Venice, FL) is an artist living and working in New York, generating mainly video and performance work through a multi-disciplinary practice which engages the formal languages and concerns of sculpture, painting, cinema, music, photography, comedy, and fiction, using common things to guide phenomenological compositions about the acts of looking and recognizing, and the gap in between. MORE
New York Moyra Davey’s first show with Murray Guy was an engrossing demonstration of the camera’s ability to isolate detail, organize content and serve agendas both simple and complex. Since the early ’90s, the New York-based photographer has created photographs, videos and publications whose subject matter—including studio ephemera, domestic objects and books—may suggest more sympathy toward the page than the wall. Davey steadily documents segments of her own world and operates in that narrow gap between the novel and the cinema. She is something of an intimist, and her modestly scaled C-prints, none larger than 20 by 24 inches, feature the things we value and accumulate. MORE
Josh Faught lives and works in San Francisco, California. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the California College of Arts in Oakland and San Francisco and has exhibited widely in the United States. MORE
LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982, Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA) lives and works in New Brunswick, New Jersey and New York, New York. She earned a BFA from Edinboro University (2004), an MFA from Syracuse University (2007), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2007), Artist in the Marketplace at the The Bronx Museum of the Arts (2009), and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (2011). MORE
Mandy Greer is a mixed-media installation artist with an MFA from the University of Washington, where she held a Jacob K. Javitz National Graduate Fellowship. In the Northwest, she has shown at Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Musuem, 4Culture Gallery, Soil Gallery, Consolidated Works, Ohge Ltd. and Center on Contemporary Art. MORE
The artist lives and works in Palestine. Shadi Habib Allah is an emerging artist based in Ramallah, Palestine. His practice incorporates installation, sculpture, video and animation. In his work Shadi investigates the human condition and plays on various themes that highlight man's deficiency in today's modern life. MORE
David Hartt’s project Stray Light inaugurates a new series of media-based exhibitions at the MCA called MCA Screen. Hartt, a Chicago-based Canadian artist, has been working with photographs for many years, attracted to the social, cultural, political, and economic complexities of the subjects he captures, rendering them with a cool, dispassionate eye. MORE
Maren Hassinger has been Director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art, one of the oldest programs of its type in America since 1997. The Rinehart School of Sculpture is at the center of innovation in this evolving medium, where students work in a wide range of mediums and approaches – from stone-carving and metals casting to installations and time-based art such as video and performance. MORE
Jivetin explores the concept of time, stiff interactions within work environments, and body organs. Drawing from diverse studies in engineering, fashion jewelry, illustration, and product design, he creates wildly innovative items fashioned from the most unconventional materials I have seen so far. MORE
Employing a wry wit when commenting on matters of sexuality, race, and meditations on place, Lauren Kelley is a video artist best known for her series of short animated videos that combine clay-mation with her brown, plastic dolls. Stylistically evocative of children’s television programs of her youth, Kelley stages absurd, jittery, and sometimes endearing narratives. MORE
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (born 1948) is an American artist who is also a veteran of the Stonewall riots. MORE
Miguel Luciano received his MFA from the University of Florida. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris; The Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia; The San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico; and Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, and nationally at The Smithsonian Institution, DC; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; El Museo del Barrio, NY; Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Exit Art, NY; Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., NY; The Chelsea Art Museum, NY; The Newark Museum, NJ; and the Jersey City Museum, NJ. MORE
Focusing on the Living Experience—making & consuming, loss, the passage of time—J.J. McCracken constructs immersive installations. McCracken’s landscapes are composed of earth materials and activated by sound, smell, taste, and living models that move through them, focused on tasks they’ve been assigned. MORE
Rodney McMillian (born 1969, Columbia, South Carolina) is an artist based in Los Angeles.
McMillian holds a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. He studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2002. MORE
Miller, fresh from the MFA program at USC, gives us this quirky, slightly cryptic episode and nothing more. But it’s enough, as a small-scale conceptual exercise in transforming the familiar into something alien and disturbing, and as an indicator of her own potential to snag both eye and mind. MORE
Like many people, I spend a lot of time visiting art museums. I especially like to visit the big museums and explore the seemingly endless rows of vitrines that contain artisan objects and old bits of stuff from cultures long gone. I think that all of this perusing and my curiosity about these objects, which aren’t necessarily given much context in the galleries, have affected my approach to making paintings. MORE
A FEW weeks before the opening of his first solo show, “Herald,” at the Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea, Rashaad Newsome rendered himself as a coat of arms. MORE
Chicago artist William J. O’Brien (b.1975) works in multiple mediums, including ceramic, textiles, wood, and metal, along with works on paper. His corpus reflects a playful attention to the expected properties of each material, and a subsequent subversion of their ordinary uses. MORE
Los Angeles-based artist Karthik Pandian uses 16mm film and architectural constructions to examine the relationship between ancient and modern cultures and the ways in which contemporary societies understand and treat the monuments of societies past. MORE
Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973, New York) is an artist based in Chicago and New York City. In 1998 he initiated paraSite, an ongoing project in which the artist custom builds inflatable shelters for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building's heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system. MORE
Shearer is a filmmaker/video artist living and working in New Orleans since 2003. In the last three years his work has been focused on the socio-political ramifications of Hurricane Katrina on the people of New Orleans. MORE
There is a constant dialogue in Shirreff’s work between “the thing itself,” as Stevens would describe it, and photographic representations of the thing. Her silent videos about the moon, or the UN building in New York, or Arizona’s Roden Crater, are based on photographs, both her own and those found on the Internet and in books. MORE
Ms. Shteynshleyger’s life has been largely defined by her separateness: as an immigrant in America, a religious Jew in the art world, a single parent in the Orthodox Jewish community. She has adapted by becoming a keen observer — the quintessential voyeur, whose photographs, some of which are on display at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, reflect both a cool detachment and a quiet yearning. MORE
Founded in 2002 by Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra, Jr., Slanguage is an artist group headquartered in Wilmington, California, a harbor area of Los Angeles. Currently, members make artwork, curate exhibitions, coordinate events, and lead art-education workshops. A diverse group at various points in their careers, Slanguage includes teenagers, street artists, and established mid – to late career artists, the majority of whom live and work in the greater Los Angeles area, especially Wilmington. MORE
Born in Philadelphia, Strauss was given a camera for her 30th birthday and started taking pictures of life in the city’s marginal neighborhoods. She is a photo-based installation artist who uses Philadelphia as a primary setting and subject for her work. Out in the streets, Strauss typically photographs whatever strikes her interest, paying particular attention to the overlooked (or purposefully avoided) details of life. MORE
Born in Rhode Island, Matthew Szosz has received a BFA, a BID (Industrial Design), and a MFA (Glass) from Rhode Island School of Design. He has worked professionally in art and art related fields in Rhode Island, New Mexico and California for the last ten years. Recently he has received the Pilchuck Scholarship, a Stein Fund Grant and the Award of Excellence in Graduate Studies from RISD. He was an Artist in Residence at Pilchuck in 2007, and a Wheaton Fellow in 2008. MORE
WU TSANG is an artist, performer, and filmmaker in Los Angeles. His projects have been presented at X-Initative (New York), Sala de Art Publico Siqueiros (Mexico City), Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany), REDCAT (Los Angeles), the California Biennial. MORE
In recent group shows, the young New York artist Anicka Yi has presented the following works: a light box covered with potato chips and Cheetos dust; an aluminum pot filled with powdered milk, palm tree essence and antidepressants; and a floor made of bread dough (a collaboration with artist Ajay Kurian), which was later baked into fresh loaves. MORE
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