Turner Prize 2022
Nominated Artists
Image: Heather Phillipson, THE END, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, 2020.
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Heather Phillipson
Nominated for the Turner Prize 2022
Heather Phillipson's practice blends poetry, video, and sculpture to form what she calls "quantum thought experiments," or densely montaged arrays of imagery and text. She was nominated for her exhibition RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach at Tate Britain and her Fourth Plinth commission, THE END, which showed a drone pulling at a cherry atop a swirl of whipped cream, which she described as, "a monument to hubris and impending collapse". The jury applauded "the audacious and sophisticated way Phillipson splices absurdity, tragedy, and imagination to probe urgent and complex ideas."
Image: Ingrid Pollard, Self Evident, 1995 (detail). © and courtesy the artist
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Ingrid Pollard
Nominated for the Turner Prize 2022
Ingrid Pollard's practice integrates photography, sculpture, film, and sound. Her work questions our relationship with the natural world and interrogates ideas such as Britishness, race and sexuality. Her nomination was attributed to her show Carbon Slowly Turning at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes. The jury said they were "struck by the bold new developments in Pollard's recent work, especially a new series of kinetic, anthropomorphic sculptures, which build on Pollard's career-long enquiry into the figure moving through space."
Image: Veronica Ryan OBE, Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae), and Soursop (Annonaceae), 2021. Commissioned by Hackney Council; curated and produced by Create London.
Photo: Andy Keate. Courtesy the artist, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Alison Jacques, London.
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Veronica Ryan
Nominated for the Turner Prize 2022
Veronica Ryan creates sculptural objects and installations using containers, compartments, and combinations of natural and fabricated forms to reference displacement, fragmentation and alienation. She was nominated for her exhibition Along a Spectrum at Spike Island in Bristol and her oversized but otherwise hyper-realistic sculptures of a soursop, breadfruit, and custard apple for the Hackney Windrush Art Commission in London. The jury praised, "the exquisite sensuality and tactility of her sculptures".
Image: Sin Wai Kin, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (still), 2021. © the artist. Courtesy the artist,
Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei and Soft Opening, London. Produced by Chi-Wen Productions.
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Sin Wai Kin
Nominated for the Turner Prize 2022
Sin Wai Kin brings fantasy to life through storytelling in performance, moving image, writing, and print. Drawing on their own experience existing between binary categories, their work realises fictional narratives to describe lived realities of desire, identification, and consciousness. Their nomination came from their involvement in the touring exhibition British Art Show 9 and their solo presentation at Blindspot Gallery during Frieze London. The jury were "impressed by the boundary-pushing nature of Sin's work, and how they deftly translated the visceral quality of their live performances into film."
About the Turner Prize 2022 Nominated Artists
CIFO-Ars Electronica Awards 2022
Image: Amor Muñoz, Hybrida, 2020. Sound installation – Bio sculptures at MUAC. Courtesy of the artist.
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CIFO-Ars Electronica Awards
The Miami-based Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) has partnered with one of Europe’s most storied art-and-technology festivals, Ars Electronica, to create a new grant program that will support Latin American artists working with technology. The artists will explore a range of themes, including the impact of the body’s circulatory and respiratory systems on our everyday lives, how technology can advance feminist activism, what happens when an A.I. computer is given a military education based on the detritus of the School of the Americas in Panama. Dora Bartilotti, das Electrobiota Collective, Thessia Machado, Amor Muñoz and Ana Elena Tejera are the inaugural five recipients.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2022
Image: Adam Ferguson, Migrantes 02, 2021. © Adam Ferguson
Stephanie Solano, age 17, from Zacapa, Guatemala. She takes a portrait of herself at an informal
migrant camp at a municipal park in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico on 3 May 2021.
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Adam Ferguson
Photographer of the Year
Australian photographer Adam Ferguson won the Photographer of the Year title for his black and white portrait series Migrantes, which was commissioned by The New York Times. In April and May 2021, he spent 11 days in Juarez and Reynosa covering the surge of migrants arriving at the US border from Central and South America after Donald Trump left the White House. Wanting to subvert what he describes as a narrative of marginalisation, he asked migrants to shoot self-portraits.
Image: Scott Wilson, Anger Management, 2021. © Scott Wilson
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Scott Wilson
Open Photographer of the Year
British photographer Scott Wilson won the Open Photographer of the Year title for his image Anger Management. The image depicts a wild mustang, covered in mud to shield against insect bites, stamping his hooves to ward off rivals at a watering hole. "Viewing mustang behaviour in the wild is a raw and dynamic wildlife experience," Wilson said. "The image tension is symbolic of the conservation challenges facing wild horses in the American West, where these treasured animals are being rounded up in record numbers and removed from public lands."
About the Sony World Photography Awards
Metropolitan Museum of Art's
Facade Commission 2022
Image: Hew Locke, Black Queen, 2004.
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Hew Locke
Met's Facade Commission
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke has been selected to create four sculptures for the institution’s Fifth Avenue facade. Hew Locke is known for fantastical assemblages that tackle the complexity of the Caribbean-British experience, one inextricably tied to power, migration, and perseverance. His intricate, boldly colored sculptures often use symbols of the sovereignty in the form of coats of arms and weaponry.
