YOUNG CRITICS PRIZE
To encourage young and emerging art critics to engage with topics and geographical regions that are not routinely covered in the media; to encourage new forms of critical expression; and to promote the international circulation of new ideas and new writing.
RESULTS OF AICA AWARDS: INCENTIVE PRIZE FOR YOUNG ART CRITICS 2023
1st prize: Chenoa Baker (USA)
2nd Prize: Katarzyna Cytlak (Poland)
3rd prize: Tabish Rafiq Mir (Indian-administered Kashmir)
Essay: Rumours of Spring—A commentary
Thank You:
AICA-Awards Committee
AICA-Jurors: Jean Bundy (AICA-USA), Sandra Hitner (AICA-Brazil), Marja-Terttu Kivirinta (AICA- Finland), Susana Sulic (AICA-France), Niilofur Farrukh (AICA Pakistan), Esra Yildiz (AICA-Turkey), Rui G, Cepeda (AICA-UK)
RESULTS OF AICA AWARDS: INCENTIVE PRIZE FOR YOUNG ART CRITICS 2022
Ist Place: Anahita Delcorde (Belgian, Iranian researcher working in Paris)
Essay: Silence into sound, erasure into being. A review of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's Postscript: after everything is extracted - Read the essay here.
2nd Place: Lisa Deml (German working in Berlin and London)
Essay: Errata in retro-prospect - Read the essay here.
3rd Place: Yuliia Manukian (Ukraine)
Essay: Residency in the Occupation: Art under Threat of Death - Read the essay here.
ThankYous:
AICA-Awards Committee
AICA-Jurors: Esra Yildiz (Turkey), Rui Gonzales Cepeda ( UK), Karen von Vey (S.Africa). Susana Sulic (France) and Malgorzata Kazmierczak (Poland)
Awards Chair: Jean Bundy MFA, PhD
RESULTS OF AICA AWARDS: INCENTIVE PRIZE FOR YOUNG ART CRITICS 2021, UPCOMING 53RD CONGRESS (NOVEMBER 25TH, 26TH, 2021 - ONLINE)
Ist Prize: Miriam La Rosa (Australia)
Essay: A Guest on the Edge: Manifesta and the Quest for European Unity and Solidarity - Read the essay here.
Honorable Mention: Nimra Khan (Pakistan)
Essay: Rashid Rana, Challenging Notions of Truth - Read the essay here.
Honorable Mention: Zehra Hamdani Mirza (Pakistan)
Essay: Images on Water - Read the essay here.
Distinguished Prize: has been offered to Prof. Dr. Günsel Renda (Turkey)
Special Prize: The editorial staff at Hyperallergic (online) for their continued coverage of the arts and humanities during the dark days of Pandemic-2020. They continue to merge present-day cultural events, book reviews, and academia with extraordinary aplomb.
Comments: Thank you goes to the six essayists who did not win, and I hope they resubmit next year.
ThankYous:
AICA-Awards Committee
AICA-Jurors: Ernesto Munoz (Chile) | Susan Sulic (France) | Malgorata Kazmierczak (Poland) | Esra Yildiz (Turkey) | Willam Messer (USA)
Susana Sulic (AICA-France) and Madeleine Bundy (bfa-NYU/Tish) for help with certificates
Firat Arapoğlu (Director of upcoming 53rd Congress, 2021) | Norman Kleeblatt (President of AICA-USA) | Seph Rodney, Senior editor at Hyperallergic (Board member, AICA-USA) | Liam Kelly (Chair of the AICA Congress Committee) | AICA International President Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves for helping to rebuild the Awards Committee, and further promoting/sharing essay writing internationally.
Sincerely,
Jean Bundy, mfa, PhD
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AICA InCENTIVE AWARD FOR YOUNG ART CRITICS 2019
The winner of the 7th AICA Incentive Prize for Young Art Critics 2019 is Wenting Tao (b. 1996, Hefei, China). The jury praises Wenting Tao’s winning submission, How the Curatorial Stereotyping of Chinese Art Essentializes the Work of Zheng Guogu’s, for its deep critical analysis exposing the bias of reading non-western points of view in exhibition making. Wenting Tao grew up in China. In 2014 she moved to the US, completing a Bachelor Degree in Studio Art and Mathematics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Pratt Institute in New York. She has regularly published reviews on gallery exhibitions in New York in online magazine Hyperallergic and print magazine The Brooklyn Rail. She currently lives in New York. Her winning submission was first published in Hyperallergic in May 2019.
The Awards Committee also congratulates the two recipients of an Honorable Mention. A the first Honorable Mention goes to Jaka Lombar (b.1993 in Kranj, Slovenia) for his text Reactivating the Archive Must Entail Tearing Down the Palimpsest of Populism. The jury was impressed by the text’s rich structure and fresh style in writing about a major retrospective. Jaka Lombar is a postgraduate student in the Preservation and Presentation of Moving Images at the University of Amsterdam. He previously studied film and screen studies at the University of Cambridge (UK) and at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). His research interests include film theory, spatiality of moving images and film and the archive. His recent writing has been published in NANG magazine.
The second Honorable Mention goes to Qianfan Gu (b. 1986 in Shanghai) for her text Whose China?. The jury was impressed by the essay’s critical and provocative review of a publication. Qianfan Gu is a New York based independent art writer and a graduate in journalism (Renmin University of China, Beijing) and Art History (Hunter College, New York). Her writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, artnet China, Flash Art, the Art Newspaper China, Esquire China and other magazines. She also co-founded GONG PRESS, a project for art publications. Her winning text is a slightly different version of that published in Art in America (April 2019).
Jury members for the 7th AICA Incentive Prize for Young Art Critics
Sacha Craddock, Co-President AICA UK, independent art critic and curator based in London, writing for The Guardian and The Times.
Prof. Dr. Jörg Heiser, AICA Germany, Berlin-based Swiss publicist and art critic. He is coeditor-in-chief of Frieze and visiting professor at HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg.
Dr. Jacques Leenhardt, Honorary President AICA International, author and publisher based in Paris, has a Ph.D in sociology and philosophy.
Elisa Rusca, Chair Digital Strategies Committee, AICA Switzerland, art historian, writer and curator based in Berlin.
Incentive Prize for Young Critics 2018
The winner of the 6th AICA Incentive Award for Young Art Critics is Felix Ho Yuen Chan (b. 1994 in Hong Kong), who graduated from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies in 2017 with a focus on avant-garde art in China and Japan and the social history of photography. Living and working in New York, he is currently a curatorial assistant at The Walther Collection, where he is assisting Brian Wallis in organising a series of exhibitions investigating vernacular photography.
The AICA Awards Jury praises Chan’s winning submission A Theater—In Absence as a “well-researched evaluation of artworks and their institutional and social contexts, with a fair and reflective judgment as a whole. His essay demonstrates art criticism at its best – identifying the uneven powers that art and artists may be immersed in and contextualising art and artists in the complexities of institutional, social, cultural, political, and economic realities.”
The Awards Committee also congratulates the two recipients of an Honorable Mention: Alana Victoria Hunt (b. 1984 in Australia) for her paper A mere drop in the sea of what is, and Enkaryon Ang (family name: Mu-Cheng Hung, b. 1981 in Taiwan) for his essay Return to the Psychogenic Theatre: A discussion about Chen Che-wei’s `Yang-Shen-Yuan’.
Alana Hunt lives in Miriwoong country in the remote north-west of Australia. She makes art, writes, and works with a variety of media across public, gallery and online spaces. The jury praises her work as “documenting the compelling reality in Kashmir in terms of representation in daily life as well as in evoking artistic justice, by boldly pushing the limits of artistic discourse which tend to stay within existing orthodoxies.
Enkaryon Ang studied Chemistry and Life Sciences and is now a Ph.D. candidate in chemical biology and biophysics. He has published two poetry collections Rorschach Inkblot (2009) and Hedgehog (2014). The jury praises his essay From bio-politics to Psychoanalysis for “a wide and deep analysis of the modernity of Taiwan.”
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Jury members for the 6th AICA Incentive Prize for Young Art Critics
Ching-Wen CHANG -Taiwan
PhD, Asst. Prof. of National Tsing Hua University, TaiwanYang YEUNG - Hong Kong
Curator, Founding Member & Artistic Director of SoundpocketNhung WALSH - Vietnam
Executive Director and Chief Curator of Indochina Arts PartnershipChien-Mei LIU - Canada
Prof. of Department of East Asian Studies, University of TorontoJeannine TANG - Singapore
PhD, Curator, Art CriticDamian Smith - Australia
Curator, Director of Words for Art, Melbourne, AustraliaMariko Takeuchi - Japan
Curator, and associate prof. of Kyoto University of Art and Design
Incentive Prize for Young Critics 2016
The Jury of the AICA Incentive Prize for Young Critics, 2016 edition − Sara Hermann (Dominican Republic), Michael Asbury (United Kingdom) and Carlos Acero Ruiz (Dominican Republic) − has chosen the text “The Creation of Sanctioned Spaces and the Fall of the Cuban Wall: The 12th Bienal de La Habana”, by Victor Wang (Canada-UK) to be the winner.