Overview
- The award, endowed by the Jack Galef Estate, will be given every two years to artists working in sculpture, installation, and related mediums.
- Telford Keogh was chosen by a juried panel from the Guggenheim’s curatorial department, with Director and CEO Mariët Westermann praising the selection.
- The artist plans to direct funds toward research on microbial life and industrial contamination at Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal Superfund site and a solo exhibition in Portland focused on instruments that regulate eating.
- The Jack Galef Visual Arts Award now serves as the museum’s sole internally facilitated art prize, while the separate Guggenheim LG Award grants $100,000 to technology-focused artists, most recently Ayoung Kim.
- Toronto-born and Brooklyn-based, Telford Keogh works primarily with found materials in a research-driven practice examining material histories and systems of value, and she teaches at Parsons School of Design.