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Hopper Prize
Support for Artists
BRIEF
The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital platform offering a series of individual artist fellowships totaling $5,000.00 USD.
Organization Overview
The Hopper Prize was established for the sole purpose of advancing the field of visual art by providing direct financial assistance to artists in the form of unrestricted fellowships.
We view the field of visual arts in its broadest and most inclusive sense and therefore make our awards available to artists engaged in artistic practices spanning all methods of production. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest curators on the basis of artistic excellence and the promise of future potential. Our program seeks to support artists who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and who currently need direct financial support to further their artistic practice.
SCHEDULE
DEADLINE May 15, 2018
AWARDS
$5,000.00 USD
5 Artists Will Each Receive $1,000.00 USD
30 Artists Will Be Shortlisted and their Work Archived at Hopperprize.org
All Artists Work Will Be Reviewed By The Hopper Prize Team
FEES
There is a non-refundable submission fee due with your application based on the number of images submitted
JURY
Misa Jeffereis, 2017
Misa Jeffereis is Assistant Curator at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. From 2014 to 2017 Jeffereis was Curatorial Assistant in Visual Arts, and Public Programs Associate at the Walker Art Center, where she curated Lee Kit: Hold your breath dance slowly (2016), the artist’s first solo museum show in the US, and co-curated Art at the Center: Guerrilla Girls (2016), as well as organized two conferences, New Circuits: Curating Contemporary Performance (2015) and Avant Museology (2016). From 2012 to 2014, she was Public Programs and Research Coordinator at Independent Curators International in New York, and from 2007 to 2010, Jeffereis was Curatorial Associate at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, where she curated exhibitions on Jeppe Hein, Milton Rogovin, and Chiho Aoshima. She co-curated the exhibition Do Something Else: Robert Filliou, Francis Alÿs, Joseph Grigely, and Michael E. Smith at The Artist’s Institute (2010). Jeffereis has essays published in the exhibition catalogues, Notations: The Cage Effect NOW (2011), Lee Kit: Never (2016), and Ordinary Pictures (2016); and she was a regular contributor to Walker Art Center’s Sightlines. Jeffereis holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Hunter College, New York.
Magdalyn Asimakis
Independent
Curator & Writer
New York & Toronto
Magdalyn Asimakis, 2017
Magdalyn Asimakis is an independent curator, writer and advisor working between Toronto and New York. With a background in both theory-based and object-based curatorial practices, she is currently pursuing a PhD in modern and contemporary art history at Queen’s University. Prior to that Magdalyn was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2016). She has worked with Wedge Curatorial Projects, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of Ontario where she was on the curatorial team for the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time, which travelled to the Guggenheim Bilbao. Additionally, she co-curated, along with Jared Quinton and Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, That I am Reading Backwards and Into for a Purpose, To Go On: at The Kitchen (2017), along with a publication and related programming, including a conversation between Yvonne Rainer and Gregg Bordowitz and a performance by Aisha Sasha John at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Magdalyn’s most recent exhibition, Curtis Santiago: Constructing Return, opened in September 2017 at the University of Saskatchewan College Art Galleries. Magdalyn has also engaged in advisory work with Art Omi and Rebuild Foundation’s Black Artist Retreat. Her writing has been published in BlackFlash Magazine, Brooklyn Rail and in several museum publications.
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