The first Penny McCall Foundation Ordway Prize has been announced.The first Penny McCall Foundation Ordway Prize has been announced. The prize, which is one of the most generous international art prizes in the world with awards this year totaling $230,000, recognizes mid-career artists who have made important contributions to the field of contemporary arts and letters Arts and Letters (1966-1998) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by American sportsman, and noted philanthropist Paul Mellon, and trained by future Hall of Famer Elliott Burch, the colt began racing at age two. . Two awards of $100,000 each went to Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo (born 1958) is a Colombian-born sculptor. Salcedo completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1980, before traveling to New York, which she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at New York University. , an artist who creates work based on stories of survivors of political violence, and Ralph Rugoff, a prolific curator and writer on contemporary art. The finalists, who received $7500 apiece, were artists Sam Durant Sam Durant (1961 - ) is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist who works in a variety of media. Durant was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA in sculpture in 1986 and later attended the California Institute of the and Senga Nengudi, and curators and arts writers Lynne Cooke Lynne Cooke is the curator of the Dia Art Foundation in New York. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of London, and has taught and lectured regularly at the University College London, Syracuse University, Yale University, and Columbia University, and the and David Rimanelli. The next Ordway Prize will be awarded in 2007. |
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