Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2010 Winners Announced at Museum of Arts and Design on September 9, 2009
Art prize recipients honored as part of Museum’s exhibition, "Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2009," celebrating this year’s winners
Dubai-based private equity Abraaj Capital announces the 2010 winners of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in New York in conjunction with the exhibition, Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2009, presented at the Museum of Arts and Design. The coveted Abraaj Capital Art Prize, in its second year, was established to raise awareness of the under-represented work being created by artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region. The winners were chosen from ninety-seven applications selected by an international jury including the Museum's curator Lowery Stokes Sims.
The prize recipients are:
Artist Hala Elkoussy, from Egypt and Jelle Bouwhuis, Curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam;
Artist Marwan Sahmarani from Lebanon and Lebanese-Spanish curator Mahita El Bacha Urieta; and
Algerian artist Abdel Kader Attia and curator Laurie Ann Farrell, Executive Director of Exhibitions for the Savannah College of Art and Design in the United States.
"The Abraaj Capital Art Prize was born out of an essential need and will bring global awareness to artists from the MENASA region who have historically been underrepresented in the Western art world. The Museum is proud to present this significant art prize," states Holly Hotchner, the Nanette L. Laitman Director of the Museum of Arts and Design.
The work of the this year's prize winners, Iran's Nazgol Ansarinia and Leyla Fakhr, Assistant Curator at Tate Britain, Algeria's Zoulikha Bouabdellah and Carol Solomon, Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania's Haverford College and Turkey's Kutlug Ataman and Cristiana Perrella, Curator of the Contemporary Arts Program at the British School in Rome, will be on view through October 4, 2009 at the Museum's Design and Innovation Gallery, which explores emerging trends in art and design through a series of short-term exhibitions guest-curated by leading voices in the field.
Read MoreDubai-based private equity Abraaj Capital announces the 2010 winners of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in New York in conjunction with the exhibition, Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2009, presented at the Museum of Arts and Design. The coveted Abraaj Capital Art Prize, in its second year, was established to raise awareness of the under-represented work being created by artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region. The winners were chosen from ninety-seven applications selected by an international jury including the Museum's curator Lowery Stokes Sims.
The prize recipients are:
Artist Hala Elkoussy, from Egypt and Jelle Bouwhuis, Curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam;
Artist Marwan Sahmarani from Lebanon and Lebanese-Spanish curator Mahita El Bacha Urieta; and
Algerian artist Abdel Kader Attia and curator Laurie Ann Farrell, Executive Director of Exhibitions for the Savannah College of Art and Design in the United States.
"The Abraaj Capital Art Prize was born out of an essential need and will bring global awareness to artists from the MENASA region who have historically been underrepresented in the Western art world. The Museum is proud to present this significant art prize," states Holly Hotchner, the Nanette L. Laitman Director of the Museum of Arts and Design.
The work of the this year's prize winners, Iran's Nazgol Ansarinia and Leyla Fakhr, Assistant Curator at Tate Britain, Algeria's Zoulikha Bouabdellah and Carol Solomon, Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania's Haverford College and Turkey's Kutlug Ataman and Cristiana Perrella, Curator of the Contemporary Arts Program at the British School in Rome, will be on view through October 4, 2009 at the Museum's Design and Innovation Gallery, which explores emerging trends in art and design through a series of short-term exhibitions guest-curated by leading voices in the field.
