GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The ArtPrize Eight jurors’ shortlist was announced Monday.
The categories — two dimensional, three-dimensional, installation, time-based and outstanding venue — each included five selections. The artist entry finalists are in the running to win $12,500 category awards and also have a shot at the $200,000 Juried Grand Prize.
Here are the shortlist selections by category:
Two-dimensional
- Charted Memories by Keren Kroul (Calvin College)
- Coherency by Faig Ahmed (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum)
- les bêtes by Isaac Aoki (City Water Building by the Richard App Gallery)
- Survival Does Not Lie in the Heavens by Dario Robleto (Grand Rapids Art Museum)
- Transformation (Metamorphosis) by Chakila Hoskins (Homewood Suites & Jam’n Bean Coffee Company at the Waters Center)
Three-dimensional
- Excavations by William Lamson (SiTE:LAB)
- Grand River by Francisco Pinheiro (CITY FLUX)
- Pose System by Saya Woolfalk (Grand Rapids Art Museum)
- SetOutputWorld (called with a world of the wrong size) by Kayla Anderson (Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts)
- Support Surfaces (I, II, III) by Bailey Romaine (CITY FLUX)
Installation
- Christmas Eve, 1993 by Mark Dion (SiTE:LAB)
- Hybrid Structures by Alois Kronschlaeger, Paul Amenta and Tedd Lott (SiTE:LAB)
- This Space is Not Abandoned by 912 CollABORATIVE (912 Grandville Avenue)
- Untitled by Louise Chen (UICA exit space at Grand Rapids Ballet Co.)
- Wars and Rumors of Wars by Eric Dickson (Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts)
Time-based
- Bang Bang! by Constance Edwards Scopelitis (City Water Building by the Richard App Gallery)
- The Bureau of Personal Belonging by Stacey Kirby (50 Monroe)
- The Magnetosphere by Matthew Steinke (The Fed Galleries at KCAD)
- Search Engine Vision “ISIS” Eric Souther (Urgan Institute for Contemporary Arts)
- Sweeper’s Clock by Maarten Baas (Grand Rapids Art Museam)
Outstanding Venue
- Almost Home: Grand Rapids in Focus, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
- EVERYTHING IS TRANSFORMED, SiTE:LAB
- Re*, The Fed Galleries @ KCAD
- (RE)Compose, 130 Ottawa
- This Space is Not Abandoned, 912 Grandville Avenue
