The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) has launched a $ 100,000 award for women’s visual artists and named internationally renowned and Boston’s Sarah Sze as an opening recipient. The Meraki Artist Award is funded by Fotene Demoulas. Their family has a new basket in the English supermarket chain of England and celebrates the achievements of genre indirect women artists. Sze will receive the award at the annual lunch of the year ICA Boston on May 5th.
“In Greece, the word giving It means throwing your soul in something and “Jill Medvedow, ICA director, said.” The generosity of this award is echoed in the open spirit of Sarah’s work and artistic expansion. “
Demoulas promised to finance the prize for the next ten years, long-term commitment to raise the profile of women in the arts.
“I’m inspired by the dedication of the first recipient of the Meraki Artist Award and dreaming of the prize,” said Szek in a statement.
The artist was born in Boston in 1969, it is well known for its employed and expandable environments that use daily materials to explore the issues of technology, memory and historical fist. Paints, videos and sculptures, his kinetic practices are married to monumentality, with an intimate sense of tranquility, in individual moments of suspension, as a column for its world construction.
The SZE replaced the United States in the 2013 Venice Biennale, and appeared at Walker Art Center at Minneapolis and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the New York Museum. The recipient of MacArthur Foundation and the Louis Comfort The Tiffany Foundation has been commissioned at Laguardia Airport in New York, London’s Peckham Rye Station and Storm King Art Center, Hudson Valley.
“I am honored to cooperate with the IC with the passion and presence of visual artists who make visual artists through the Meriak Artist Award,” he said. “I want to offer Sarah to Sarah, who encourages his innovative work to see the world in new ways.”
