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The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize

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Posted by: Burlington Contemporary
Deadline: Fri, July 15th, 2022

The 2022 edition of the Prize is now open for entries. 

The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. 

This year the Prize will be judged by Griselda Pollock and Legacy Russell.

For submission criteria please visit: https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/writing_prize. 

Deadline: Friday 15th July 2022

 

About our Judges:

Griselda Pollock is Professor Emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds, and Laureate of the Holberg Prize 2020 for her work in feminist art history and cultural analysis. Recent Publications include After-Image/ After-Affect: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation (2013),  Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (2018),  Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture (2015) edited with Max Silverman, and Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, The Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-War Literature, Music and the Visual Arts (2019). Recently published in 2022 is a revised all-colour edition of her 1995 monograph on Mary Cassattas part of theThames & Hudson World of Art series. In July 2022 her latest book, on Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and Marilyn Monroe, will be published by Manchester University Press, titled Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting.

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, New York. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow and a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book is Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020). Her second book, BLACK MEME, is forthcoming via Verso Books.

 

 

Posted on Thu, June 9th, 2022
Expires on Fri, July 15th, 2022

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