The AXA Art Prize Exhibition will go on view in New York at the New York Academy of Art in Tribeca, from November 18 to November 22.
Having traveled to San Francisco and Chicago, the exhibition finishes its tour in the United States with the official announcement of the first and second prize winners on November 21. The winners have been chosen by artists Sanford Biggers, Will Cotton, John Currin, and Tschabalala Self with Jennifer Schipf, AXA XL's global practice leader for art.
AXA XL, a division of AXA, developed the AXA Art Prize in partnership with the New York Academy of Art, which is devoted to the promotion of figurative art, and boasts an advisory board of 34 major art schools across the United States, including Rhode Island School of Design ("RISD"), Columbia University School of Arts, California College of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pratt Institute, and Bard College.
The traveling exhibition is comprised of 40 student artists who were selected from over 500 entrants from 130 schools. The first prize is $10,000 and the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by former Art in America editor David Ebony. The 40 shortlisted artists were selected by an exhibition jury comprised of Ian Alteveer, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the New Museum, Jennie Goldstein, assistant curator at the Whitney Museum, and Cara Manes, associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art.
The shortlisted artists, 31 young women and nine young men, are enrolled at 30 different schools and hail from 13 states across the United States. California College of the Arts and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University both have two artists among the 40 finalists, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has three finalists, and the New York Academy of Art has seven. Three student artists were named to the shortlist for the second consecutive year: Merritt Barnwell, Luisiana Mera, and Prinston Nnanna.
Learn more: axaartprize.com.
Steven A. Meyerowitz
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