ARTnews Awards, a new editorial project honoring excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions, has announced the inaugural winners for its 2024 edition. To help select the winners, ARTnews invited six closely watched curators based in the US to review exhibitions held between September 1, 2023, and August 31, 2024. The curators joined two ARTnews senior editors to select a group of nominees and a winner in five categories, three for artists and two for group exhibitions.
The jury included Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator, High Line Art; Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director & Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Executive Director & Chief Curator, Forge Project; Tina Kukielski, Susan Sollins Executive Director & Chief Curator, Art21; María Elena Ortiz, Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Curatorial & Collections, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art; as well as ARTnews’s Maximilíano Durón and Alex Greenberger.
The categories are Emerging Artist of the Year, Established Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Best Thematic Museum Show, and Best Gallery Group Show. In selecting these categories, ARTnews celebrates artists at all stages of their careers and the curatorial experimentation happening in museums and galleries.
Emerging Artist of the Year
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
Nominees
• Sasha Gordon
• Char Jeré
• Leslie Martinez
• Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Established Artist of the Year
Delcy Morelos
Nominees
• Firelei Báez
• Hugh Hayden
• Lubaina Himid
• Paul Pfeiffer
Lifetime Achievement
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Nominees
• Judith F. Baca
• Charles Gaines
• Joan Jonas
• Kay WalkingStick
Best Thematic Museum Show
“Scratching at the Moon” — Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nominees
• “The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans”
• “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living”
• “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage”
• “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s”
Best Gallery Group Show
“At the Edge of the Sun” — Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
Nominees
• “Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles”
• “2024 Inaugural Exhibition”
• “Jamal Cyrus + Harold Mendez: On turning ground”
• “Means of Production”
