The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Backyard in Washington, DC is launching a actuality competitors artwork present, The Exhibit: Discovering The Subsequent Nice Artist, which is able to air each on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel. The winner of The Exhibit will win $100,000 and a solo exhibition on the Hirshhorn.
Artists competing in The Exhibit hail from all through the US, with three of the seven primarily based out of the larger New York space, and others from Miami, Atlanta, Chicago and Minneapolis, with work that runs the gamut from portray and sculpture to video, efficiency and extra. Most of the competing artists have already proven their work broadly, each in gallery and institutional settings; they embody multimedia artist Jillian Mayer, who has had solo-shows on the Perez Artwork Museum and elsewhere; sculptor and efficiency artist Baseera Khan, who had a solo present on the Brooklyn Museum in 2021; and Misha Kahn, who’s represented by gallery Friedman Benda. The opposite opponents are Jamaal Barber, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Clare Kambhu and Jennifer Warren.
The present will likely be hosted by MTV information anchor Dometi Pongo, with Hirshhorn museum director Melissa Chiu taking over the function of “lead decide” and accompanied by fellow judges together with artist Abigail DeVille, artwork world digital strategist JiaJia Fei, Maryland Institute School of Artwork president Samuel Hoi, artist Adam Pendleton, artwork collector and former NFL linebacker Keith Rivers, artist and critic Kenny Schachter and author Sarah Thornton. The collection will premiere on 3 March on MTV earlier than re-airing 7 March on the Smithsonian Channel. The winner will in the end be introduced on the Hirshhorn Ball, the museum’s annual gala.
Actuality exhibits set within the artwork world haven’t traditionally been successes: there was the short-lived 2010 Bravo present Work of Artwork: The Subsequent Nice Artist—a contest present with what feels like an successfully equivalent premise to The Exhibit, which ran for 2 seasons and featured judges Jerry Saltz and Simon de Pury, amongst others, and wherein the winner gained $100,000 and a solo-show on the Brooklyn Museum; Gallery Women, which ran for one season in 2012, additionally on Bravo; and Artstar, the 2006 actuality present that was a brainchild of gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, and which lasted one season. Extra medium-specific programmes just like the glass-blowing competitors Blown Away and the ceramics contest The Nice Pottery Throw Down have discovered far larger success.
