Thelma Golden, director and chief curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, has won the 30th Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Presented by the Gish Prize Trust, the award is presented annually to an individual from any artistic field who has championed social change and fostered community within the arts.
The prize, inaugurated in 1994, honors artists and their supporters with one of the most substantial cash prizes that is currently valued at approximately $250,000.
Born in New York City, Golden earned international recognition for her work as an advocate for Black artists. Over the years, she curated major exhibitions such as “Chris Ofili: Afro Muses 1995–2005” at the Studio Museum and “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in American Art” at the Whitney Museum of Art. For over two decades, her work at the Studio Museum has helped cultivate a center for contemporary black art in Harlem and New York City as a whole.
In 2019, Studio Museum closed for major renovations, and during that time, Golden facilitated a partnership between the museum and the Museum of Modern Art to uphold community engagement.
“As a curator and museum director who has been privileged to work for and on behalf of artists for my entire career, I am humbled to receive this prize that was created by an artist and has been given to so many creative leaders I greatly admire,” said Golden. “Working in service of artists in general, and very specifically Black artists, has allowed me to engage broadly in the world.”
Artists and curators honored by this award over the last three decades include Ava DuVernay, Gustavo Dudamel, Spike Lee, Frank Gehry, and Maya Lin, among others.
The selection committee, chaired by the chief executive officer of the National Black Theater Sade Lythcott, included Anna Glass, executive director at Dance Theatre Harlem; Terrance McKnight, host at WQXR, New York Public Radio; Adam D. Weinberg, director emeritus at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and Laura Aden, president and CEO of the Howard Gilman Foundation.
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