Inaugural Queer/Art/Prize, Recognizing Achievements of LGBTQ Artists
Professor Catherine Opie’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Her masterful portriture and landscape photography studies the relationships between mainstream and infrequent society, with a large emphasis on sexual identity. Opie has been awarded the inagural Queer/Art/Prize Sustained Achievement Award, supported by HBO, for her lifetime accomplishments.
"The awards, which come with a $10,000 cash prize, will be granted at the November 2 ceremony celebrating LGBTQ artists across disciplines.
LGBTQ artists whose work has made a significant contribution to queer culture will be celebrated during the inaugural Queer/Art/Prize ceremony, which will take place November 2 at Hudson Mercantile. The inaugural awards are supported by HBO.
Two U.S.-based LGBTQ artists will be honored in the categories of Sustained Achievement and Recent Work, respectively. Each honor comes with a $10,000 cash prize.
The Sustained Achievement award will be granted to Los Angeles-based photographer Catherine Opie. Finalists for the Recent Work award, honoring specific projects, include Yance Ford for his documentary Strong Island (2017); Reina Gossett for The Personal Things (2016), an animated short tribute to trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy; Kia LaBeija for her photographic Self Portraits (2016-2017); and Sarah Schulman for Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016)."— Adam Hetrick, Oct. 31, 2017
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