2018 New York Artadia Awardees Announced

Artadia announces the Awardees for the 2018 New York Artadia Awards: Terence Nance and Jessica Vaughn. As the 2018 New York Artadia Awardees, Nance and Vaughn will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds as well as access to the ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards program.

In the first round of jurying, Monique Long, Independent Curator and Writer, New York and Assistant Curator, Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa; Lorna Simpson, Artist; and Jamie Stevens, Curator, Artists Space, New York, selected five Finalists: Heather Hart, Terence Nance, Christie Neptune, William Staples, and Jessica Vaughn. Carmen Hermo, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, joined Stevens for the second round of evaluations. The jurors conducted studio visits with the five Finalists to determine the Awardees.

Of the Awardees, Hermo stated, "Jessica Vaughn's ongoing project exploring abstraction and the body as located in the social space of transportation-and her upcoming projects considering labor and educational systems-unpack the subtle mechanisms of control in our lives. Terence Nance's performances and films destabilize any expected narratives to focus instead on individuals, bodies, and gestures with a cinematic lushness punctuated by political resonance."

Stevens continued, "Jessica Vaughn's work stood out for its ability to probe large questions about public space and the world of work with intense focus and economy. Terence Nance, on the other hand, is restless and remorselessly energetic in approach but undertakes a similarly critical unlayering of how infrastructures we all depend upon can, both deliberately and unwittingly, re-materialize flawed and violent value systems."