Guggenheim Museum Launches New $50,000 Art Prize

"New York City-based artist Catherine Telford Keogh has been selected as the recipient of the Guggenheim Museum's inaugural award devoted to sculptors and installation artists. The Jack Galef Visual Arts Award is a $50,000 prize set to be awarded biennially to support and celebrate "artists of exceptional talent whose work demonstrates innovation, depth, and vision." Through a gift from the Jack Galef Estate,"

"Telford Keough, who was selected from a juried panel comprised of the museum's curatorial department, has cultivated a research- and process-driven practice that analyzes assignments of value and waste, as well as behaviors of consumption and persistence, among other concepts tied to biological and commoditized lifecycles. Now based in Brooklyn, the artist was born in Toronto and pursued studio art and gender studies at the University of Waterloo before earning graduate degrees in Sculpture and Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Yale University."

Catherine Telford Keogh was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Museum's Jack Galef Visual Arts Award, a $50,000 prize to be awarded biennially to sculptors and installation artists. The award derives from a gift from the Jack Galef Estate and follows the museum's discontinuation of the Hugo Boss Prize. Keogh was selected by a juried panel from the museum's curatorial department. Her research- and process-driven practice interrogates assignments of value and waste, and examines consumption, persistence, and biological and commoditized lifecycles. Keogh was born in Toronto, studied at the University of Waterloo, earned graduate degrees from Yale, and teaches at Parsons School of Design.

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