AwardNovember 13, 2020
Deana Lawson awarded the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize
Deana Lawson was selected from a short-list of six finalists, which included Nairy Baghramian, Kevin Beasley, Elias Sime, Cecilia Vicuña and Adrián Villar Rojas. This year, in recognition of the remarkable achievements of the nominees and the challenges presented by the current global pandemic to the field, HUGO BOSS will award each of the remaining artists an honorarium of US$10,000.
Sponsored by Hugo Boss and presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the prize has been awarded biannually since 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. Deana Lawson is the 13th artist and yet first photographer to receive the biennial accolade, carrying a stipend of US$100,000. Lawson’s work will be presented in a solo exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in spring 2021.
“Lawson is the first artist working in photography to be recognized with the award in its history,” Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation said in a statement, “and her contribution to the medium and the larger cultural landscape is indelible.”
Lawson, who is also an educator, has built an important body of work based on how social conflicts, sexuality, violence, and religion interact through the body, and for this she uses photography as a means of expression.
She has an upcoming exhibition at the Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil in September 2021. Her first museum survey will open in 2021 at the ICA Boston.
For more information visit: https://group.hugoboss.com/en/sponsorship/arts-sponsorship/hugo-boss-prize
Sponsored by Hugo Boss and presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the prize has been awarded biannually since 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. Deana Lawson is the 13th artist and yet first photographer to receive the biennial accolade, carrying a stipend of US$100,000. Lawson’s work will be presented in a solo exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in spring 2021.
“Lawson is the first artist working in photography to be recognized with the award in its history,” Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation said in a statement, “and her contribution to the medium and the larger cultural landscape is indelible.”
Lawson, who is also an educator, has built an important body of work based on how social conflicts, sexuality, violence, and religion interact through the body, and for this she uses photography as a means of expression.
She has an upcoming exhibition at the Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil in September 2021. Her first museum survey will open in 2021 at the ICA Boston.
For more information visit: https://group.hugoboss.com/en/sponsorship/arts-sponsorship/hugo-boss-prize
