Posted on October 1, 2006

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Tremaine Foundation Announces 2006 Exhibition Award Winners

The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation in Meriden, Connecticut, has announced the 2006 winners of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, which recognizes and supports innovation and experimentation at the curatorial level.

This year's recipients are the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, which will receive $100,000 for Amateurs, to be curated by Ralph Rugoff; El Museo del Barrio in New York City, which was awarded $125,000 for Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, to be curated by Deborah Cullen; and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, which will receive $125,000 for Black Is, Black Ain't, to be curated by Hamza Walker. The exhibitions will be mounted between 2007 and 2009.

Established in 1998 to honor Emily Hall Tremaine, a lifelong collector of contemporary art, the biennial award supports strong thematic exhibitions that challenge audiences and expand the boundaries of contemporary art. "The three winning exhibitions are timely and provocative," said Nicole E. Chevalier, the foundation's program director. "The foundation believes the exhibitions will be sources of discourse for the field, just as Emily Hall Tremaine's collection was."

“Tremaine Foundation Announces Winners of 2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award.” Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Press Release 9/18/06.

Primary Subject: Arts and Culture
Location(s): California, Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York City, San Francisco

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