The Gold Art Prize has announced its second set of winners, awarding $25,000 each to five artists of Asian descent. The recipients are Tishan Hsu, Mire Lee, Gala Porras-Kim, WangShui, and the team of Enzo Camacho and Amy Lien. The winners were selected based on this year’s theme of “Technology and the Body.”
Founded in 2021 by art advisor Kelly Huang of KCH Advisory and the California-based nonprofit Gold House, the Gold Art Prize is a biennial accolade to support artists from the Asian diaspora. These winners also gain a spot in the Gold House Futures, a program that offers upcoming standout creatives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers a platform for increased visibility and guidance.
WangShui, known for their work dealing with perception, employs sculpture, video, painting, and installation. Most recently, the artist opened a solo exhibition, “Window of Tolerance,” at the Haus der Kunst Museum in Munich, on view until March 10th. Their work is also featured in a group show at the Guggenheim, “Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility.”
For five decades, Tishan Hsu’s multimedia art has focused on the impact of technology on cognition and the physical realm. In recent years, he presented exhibitions at the 2021 Gwangju Biennale and the 2022 Venice Biennale. His work, such as Lip Service (1997), deals with the intersections of emotional and digital memory, exploring how conception evolves with the changing digital landscape.
Colombian-born artist Gala Porras-Kim uses sculptures, installations, and sweeping canvases to examine institutional representations of artifacts. Her exhibit “Precipitation for an Arid Landscape,” at the New York nonprofit space Amant, documents over 5,000 items in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, featuring drawings of the items to challenge how history is remembered.
South Korean artist Mire Lee forges gruesome sculptures to simultaneously evoke vulnerability and body horror. Her first solo exhibition, “Black Sun,” held at the New Museum earlier this year, presented her massive kinetic sculptures.
Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho are known for their sociopolitical collaborations, which employ various techniques and mediums such as sculpture and video. In their latest solo display at 47 Canal, the featured video piece ⽻化 (wings becoming) (2022), a stop-motion video of a butterfly over a fire, draws inspiration from themes of death, regeneration, and sociopolitical contexts rooted in their Filipino heritage.
Each Gold Art Prize award cycle is commemorated with a catalogue that includes essays and interviews with the artists, further promoting and building academic discourse around artists from the Asian diaspora.
from Artsy News https://ift.tt/47bTOza
No comments:
Post a Comment