UPDATED! 2011 Annual AICA Awards Ceremony

ANNUAL ARTS AWARDS TO HONOR ARTISTS, MUSEUMS & CURATORS

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The awards ceremony, which has been held annually for more than 25 years, will take place at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on March 14 2011 at 6 PM. Awards will be presented by a group of distinguished artists and curators. Elizabeth C. Baker will be honored with a special Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Criticism. Museum curators, artists and critics from around the country are expected to attend. A select number of seats will be available to the public. Members of the public may contact aicausaprogram@gmail.com for more information about attending the event.
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February 11, 2011 -- new york:  The US section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA announces its annual awards to honor artists, curators, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions in recognition of excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions. The winning projects were nominated and voted on by the 400 active members to honor outstanding exhibitions of the previous season (June 2009-June 2010).  The finalists include exhibitions focusing on contemporary artists Marina Abramović, Tino Seghal and Cai Guo-Qiang, the mid 20th century artists Arshile Gorky and Yves Klein and the 19th-century and early 20th century masters Henri Matisse, Otto Dix and Claude Monet, as well as thematic exhibitions dealing with the presence of women artists in pop art, history of performance art, and the Bauhaus.

Leading New York City cultural institutions being recognized include the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, the Neue Galerie and the Drawing Center. Winning museums located outside New York include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.

Awards will be presented by a group of distinguished artists and critics, the former winners of AICA Awards, among them Shirin Neshat, Christo, Martin Puryear, Connie Butler, Peter Plagens, and Eugenie Tsai. The artistic part of the program will feature works by William Kentridge and Kimsooja.

Elizabeth C. Baker will receive a special Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Criticism. Elizabeth C. Baker studied art history at Bryn Mawr and Harvard. She was editor of Art in America from 1974 to 2008. Before joining Art in America, she was associate editor and then managing editor of Art News. She has taught history of art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City; Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.; and Boston University. She has written on a wide range of contemporary artists, and received the Mather Award for criticism in 1972, and an award for distinguished contribution to the arts in 1992, both from the College Art Association. In recent years she has been the recipient of awards for service to the arts given by ArtTable, Independent Curators Inc., and A.R.T. (Art Resources Transfer). She is currently working as a freelance writer, editor and consultant. Linda Nochlin will present the Award.

To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/Invisible Needle, 2006, sound from Kimsooja's A Weaving Factory (2004) voice performance, shown at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, photo by Luca Campigotto, Commissioned by The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Courtesy of Raffaela Cortese Gallery, Milan and Kimsooja Studio

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UPDATED: Video Excerpts for the 2011 AICA Annual Awards Ceremony

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The Association is pleased to announce the following winners of its 2010 awards:

1/ BEST PROJECT IN A PUBLIC SPACE

First Place:
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms"
Organized by the Fabric Workshop and Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Marion Boulton Stroud, Carlos Basualdo, and Adelina Vlas

Second Places:
"Duke Riley: Those About to Die Salute You"
Organized by the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Curated by Hitomi Iwasaki

"Antony Gormley: Event Horizon"
Organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY
Curated by Debbie Landau

2/ BEST SHOW IN A NON-PROFIT GALLERY OR SPACE

First Place:
"Leon Golub: Live & Die like a Lion?"
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Curated by Brett Littman

Second Place:
"Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World"
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Curated by João Ribas

3/ BEST SHOW IN A UNIVERSITY GALLERY

First Place:
"Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield"
Organized by the Hammer Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Robert Gober

Second Place:
"Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary"
Organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Curated by Helaine Posner

4/ BEST ARCHITECTURE OR DESIGN SHOW

First Place:
"Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity"
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Curated by Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman

Second Places:
"Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art"
Organized by The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Curated by David Revere McFadden and Lowery Stokes Sims

" ...OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project (by Krzysztof Wodiczko)"
Organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Curated by Randi Hopkins

5/ BEST SHOW INVOLVING DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO, FILM OR PERFORMANCE

First Place:
"Tino Sehgal"
Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Curated by Nancy Spector

Second Place:
"William Kentridge, I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine"
Organized by Performa, as part of Performa 09, Cedar Lake, NY
Curated by RoseLee Goldberg

6/ BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY IN NEW YORK

First Place:
"Claude Monet"
Organized by Gagosian Gallery
Curated by Paul Hayes Tucker

Second Place:
"Primary Atmospheres: Works for California 1960-1970"
Organized by David Zwirner
Curated by Tim Nye and Kristine Bell

7/ BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY NATIONALLY

First Place:
"Lines, Shapes and Shadows: Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle and Sol LeWitt"
Organized by Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Curated by Barbara Krakow and Andrew Witkin

Second Place:
"Noriko Ambe: キル - Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project"
Organized by Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX

Curated by Glenn Fuhrman

8/ BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK

First Place:
"Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present"
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach

Second Place:
"Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention"
Organized by The Jewish Museum
Curated by Mason Klein


9/ BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First Place:
"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917"
Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Curated by Stephanie D'Alessandro and John Elderfield

Second Place:
"Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective"
Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA in association with Tate Modern, London and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Michael Taylor

10/ BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK

First Place:
"In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976"
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art
Curated by Christophe Cherix

Second Place:
"100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)"
Organized by MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY and Performa
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and RoseLee Goldberg with additional curatorial advice from Jenny Schlenzka

11/ BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First Place:
"Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968"
Organized by Rosenwald-Wolf, Hamilton Hall & Borowsky Galleries, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Sid Sachs 


Second Place:
"Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-1950s"
Organized by Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Curated by Mary Kate O'Hare

12/ BEST HISTORICAL MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First Place:
"Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers"
Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Curated by Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne

Second Place:
"Otto Dix"
Organized by Neue Galerie, New York, NY
Curated by Olaf Peters
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BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK First Place -  Marina Abramovic – MoMA (Marina Abramovic and Erica Papernik)

 

BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK Second Place - Alias Man Ray – Jewish Museum (Mason Klein)

 

BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY NATIONALLY Second Place – Noriko Ambe – Lora Reynolds (Glenn Fuhrman)

 

Special Award Presentation to Elizabeth C. Baker (Linda Nochlin)

 

SHOW INVOLVING DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO, FILM OR PERFORMANCE First Place - Tino Sehgal

 

BEST HISTORICAL MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY First Place Yves Klein

 

BEST HISTORICAL MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY Second Place Otto Dix – Neue Galerie (Scott Gutterman)

 

BEST SHOW IN A UNIVERSITY GALLERY Second Place - Tania Bruguera – Neuberger (Helaine Posner

 

BEST PROJECT IN A PUBLIC SPACE  Antony Gormley – Madison Square Park (Deborah Landau)

 

BEST PROJECT IN A PUBLIC SPACE Duke Riley – Queen’s Museum (Hitomi Iwasaki)

 

BEST ARCHITECTURE OR DESIGN SHOW Second place (1) Dead or Alive – MAD (David McFadden and Lowery Sims)

 

BEST SHOW INVOLVING DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO, FILM OR PERFORMANCE Second Place William Kentridge – Performa (RoseLee Goldberg)

 

All photographs courtesy of Lisa Paul Streitfeld

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ABOUT AICA-USA
AICA-USA is the United States section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), founded in June 1949 in Paris and originally affiliated with UNESCO as an NGO (non-governmental organization). Currently there are 63 member nations representing more than 4,500 art critics worldwide. AICA-USA, headquartered in New York, is the largest national section, with a membership of over 400 distinguished critics and scholars nationwide.

AICA-USA promotes critical discourse and is dedicated to expanding awareness of the values of art criticism as a discipline and acting in defense of the physical and moral value of art. It is the only organization to award excellence in museum and gallery exhibitions and does so to indicate the standards by which its members judge what they see.
In addition to its annual awards, AICA-USA presents panels, symposia, and a series of lectures and programs each year. These include the AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at the New School University, the AICA Commemorative Lecture at the Studio School in New York, studio visits with artists, a mentoring program for emerging art writers in partnership with the CUE Art Foundation, and an art writers workshop in partnership with Creative Capital Warhol Foundation. AICA-USA provides online resources on art criticism and professional issues on its website www.aicausa.org.
Membership in AICA is a professional honor and open to critics who have been publishing in the fields of modern and contemporary art at a high level and on a continuous basis for at least three years. For more information, visit www.aicausa.org