2009 AICA Awards

The 2008-2009 AICA Awards Ceremony took place in March 23, 2010.

AICA/USA Awards Winners 2009

BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
First Place: William Kentridge: Five Themes,  organized by the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Curator: Mark Rosenthal

Second Place: Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Curators: Sarah Greenough and Jeff L. Rosenheim

BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
First Place: Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Curators: Stephanie Barron and Dr. Eckhart Gillen
Second Place: Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence, organized by the Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute , Williamstown, MA
Curator: Debra Balken

BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective, organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  New York, and the Tate London, in partnership with the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Curators: Gary Tinterow assisted by Anne L. Strauss and Ian Alteveer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Matthew Gale, Tate Modern;  and Chris Stephens, Tate Britain

BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989,
organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Curator: Alexandra Munroe


BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY
Picasso: Mosqueteros, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Curator: John Richardson

BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY NATIONALLY
John Altoon: Drawings 1962-1968, organized by The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

BEST SHOW BY A NON-PROFIT GALLERY OR SPACE
First Place: Unica  Zürn: Dark Spring, organized by The Drawing Center, New York
Curator: João Ribas

Second Place: Other Voices, Other Rooms: Max Cole, Marcia Hafif, Winston Roeth, Fred Sandback, and David Simpson, organized by Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
Curator: Steven Evans

BEST SHOW IN A UNIVERSITY GALLERY
First Place,Tie:
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art, organized by the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
Curator: Lynn Gumpert
and
Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Curators: Ingrid Shaffner and Jenelle Porter

Second Place: Picasso and the Allure of Language, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Curator: Susan Greenberg Fisher


BEST SHOW IN A PUBLIC SPACE
First Place: The High Line NYC, organized by the Friends of The High Line, New York
Curator: Lauren Ross
Second Place: Ernesto Neto: anthropodino, presented by the Park Avenue Armory, New York
Curator: Tom Eccles

BEST ARCHITECTURE OR DESIGN SHOW
First Place: Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Curators: Thomas Krens, David van der Leer, Maria Nicanor, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Margo Stipe and Oskar Muñoz

Second Place: What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944-56 organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Curator: Juliet Kinchin

BEST HISTORICAL SHOW
First Place: James Ensor, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Curator:  Anna Swinbourne

Second Place: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and the Musee du Louvre
Curator: Frederick Ilchman

BEST EXHIBITION OF DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO, or FILM
First Place: Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Curator: Klaus Biesenbach

Second Place: Kenneth Anger, organized by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Curators: Susanne Pfeffer and Klaus Biesenbach

BEST PERFORMANCE
First Place: Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical (2007) and Spiraling Down (2008) presented at REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles, CA in cooperation with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, and the World Performance Project at Yale University
Organizers: Mark Murphy, Emily Coates and Laurel Kishi

Second Place: Tabboo! "the Nightingale"  presented at Participant Inc, New York
Performed by Tabboo ! (aka Stephen Tashjian)