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The Art Guys Mequitta Ahuja Michael Arcega Melika Bass JD Beltran Samantha Bittman Phyllis Bramson Nick Brown Artadia Awardees in the Whitney Biennial Jeff Carter Nick Cave Juan Angel Chavez Artadia is proud to announce that three Artadia Awardees Xiaowei Chen are featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial: Gaylen Caleb Cole Don Cooper Gerber, Joseph Grigley and Carol Jackson. Santiago Cucullu Congratulations to Gaylen Gerber (2001 Chicago) whose Jamal Cyrus Nathaniel Donnett work in conversation with Trevor Shimizu, David Tirtza Even Hammons and Sherrie Levine is featured on the Liam Everett Kota Ezawa fourth floor of the museum. The New York Times writer Anoka Faruqee Carol Vogel mentioned Carol Jackson (2002 Chicago) in Bruno Fazzolari Andreas Fischer her November preview of the Biennial. 2004 Chicago Julia Fish Awardee Joseph Grigley was included in Holland Vincent Fecteau Cayetano Ferrer Cotter’s The New York Times review of the exhibition. Amy Franceschini Dianna Frid Francesca Fuchs Find out more about these and more of Artadia's Theaster Gates Awardees on our online artist registry. Gaylen Gerber James Gobel Eric Gottesman Joseph Grigley Angelina Gualdoni Caroline Gundersdorf Dan Gunn Trenton Doyle Hancock David Hartt Joesph Havel Frederick Hayes Rachel Hecker J Hill Sarah Hobbs Desiree Holman Gyun Hur Jang Soon Im Diane Jacobs Carol Jackson Vishal Jugdeo Stanya Kahn Brian Kapernekas Xaviera Simmons and the 2014 Atlanta Awards Lauren Kelly Jason Kofke Jason Lazarus Artadia returns to Atlanta for our third Award cycle in the Louise LeBourgeois city. The application, open to all Atlanta based visual Judy Ledgerwood Margaret Lee artists, closes at midnight on March 23, 2014. First round Lisa Lindvay jurors Michael Rooks, The Wieland Family Curator of Kara Maria Eileen Maxson Modern and Contemporary Art at Atlanta’s High Museum; Alicia McCarthy Christopher Lew, Assistant Curator at MoMA PS.1 and Barry McGee Michael Jones McKean Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings at The Whitney Heather Mekkelson Museum of American Art, will convene in late March to Miller & Shellabarger Nicole Miller review all applications and select 10 Finalists. In mid­ Helen Mirra April, Michael Rooks will be joined by Aram Moshayedi, Seth Mittag Delilah Montoya Curator at UCLA’s Hammer Museum and artist Xaviera Katrina Moorhead Simmons in Atlanta. The second­round jurors will Julio César Morales Ramekon O'Arwisters conduct studio visits with the finalists and determine the William J. O'Brien winners of the 2014 Artadia Atlanta Awards. The winners Julia Oldham Karyn Olivier will be announced in late April. Robyn O'Neil Eamon Ore­Giron Lucy Raven While in Atlanta to jury the 2014 Artadia Atlanta Awards, Trevor Paglen Xaviera Simmons will present an ArtPapers Live talk, A. Laurie Palmer John Parot hosted by Artadia and ArtPapers. Simmons will speak at Famahu Pecou The Crosby Museum of Fine Art at Spelman College on J. John Priola Robert Pruitt Thursday, April 17, 6:30. Rocio Rodriguez Clare Rojas Brion Nuda Rosch Accra Shepp Amie Siegel Alice Shaw Allison Smith Travis Somerville Oriane Stender Mary Ellen Strom Stephanie Syjuco Deb Sokolow Temporary Services Hank Willis Thomas Jason Villegas Catherine Wagner Larry Walker Richard T. Walker Allison Wiese Anne Wilson

2014 Artadia­NADA Prize with special commission by 2007 Boston Awardee Hannah Barrett

Artadia is pleased to announce that we are continuing our partnership with the New Art Dealers Alliance for the fourth season. Taking place May 9­11, 2014 at Pier 36­

Basketball City, The 2014 NADA New York Art Fair creatively reinvents the art fair experience and is dedicated to celebrating the talents of rising artists from around the world. Two internationally­renowned jurors will walk through the fair on opening day to determine which artist, amongst the hundreds of artists presented at The NADA art fair, will receive an unrestricted $4,000 award. The award is generously funded by NADA and

Artadia. The Artadia NADA award was inaugurated in

2012. Previous Artadia NADA awardees include Margaret

Lee (2012 Miami), Meg Cranston (2013 New York) and

Ryan Foerster (2013 Miami.)

2007 Boston Artadia Awardee Hannah Barrett has been commissioned to create a special­edition wallpaper, based on Austrian pastries, for Artadia’s booth at NADA.

Barrett’s paintings will be on display alongside works by other Artadia Awardees from across the country.

Caption: Hannah Barrett, Coffee Hour, 2012, oil on linen, 30" x

36". Artadia's 15th Anniversary Exhibition

This September, Artadia will host a 15th anniversary exhibition at Longhouse Projects at 285 Spring Street featuring Artadia Awardees from Atlanta, Boston,

Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Curated by Gianni Jetzer, the exhibition will create a cohesive portrait of a national art community informed by regional trends.

And the Award Goes To... : The 2014 Artadia Los

Angeles Award Exhibition at LACE

To celebrate the work and achievements of the 2013

Artadia Los Angeles Awardees and commemorate

Artadia’s first grant cycle in Los Angeles, Artadia, in collaboration with LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary

Exhibitions) presented an exhibition of work by the five Los Angeles Awardees. The exhibition was on view from

January 23 ­ February 22, 2014. Cayetano Ferrer,

Vishal Jugdeo, Nicole Miller, Stanya Kahn, Kerry

Tribe were selected through Artadia’s rigorous two­ tiered awards process to received unrestricted awards and ongoing support by panel of internationally­ renowned curators and artists. The 2013 Artadia Los

Angeles jury was: Ali Subotnick (Curator, Hammer

Museum UCLA, Los Angeles),Joao Ribas (formerly of

MIT’s List Visual Art Center, Cambridge) and Magnolia de la Garza (Associate Curator, Museo Rufino Tamayo,

Mexico City), Chus Martinez (formerly of El Museo del

Barrio, New York) and artist Spencer Finch (New York).

Caption: Installation view, And the Award Goes to..., Los Angeles

Contemporary Exhibitions. Left: Vishal Jugdeo, Stage Design for

Disassociation, 2011, Mixed-media installation with HD video on flat-screen monitor and four-channel sound track, 13:00 min.

Performers: Cynthia Bond and Patricia Scanlon. Courtesy of artist.

Right: Cayetano Ferrer, Zero Period 2, 2014, Duct tape and carpet fibers, 22 x 28.5 in. Courtesy of artist.

Artadia New York Residency Program

DL Alvarez (2013 San Francisco) and Eileen Maxson

(2006 Houston) recently completed three­month Artadia­ sponsored residencies at The International Studio and

Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York. Alvarez and

Maxon follow Bernard Williams (2001 Chicago) and Deva Graf (2004 Chicago), who participated in Artadia’s residency program in the fall of 2013. Artadia will present work created by Alvarez and Maxson while in residence at

ISCP in our DUMBO exhibition space through June.

Caption: Eileen Maxson, Reality Bites, 2014. Courtesy the artist.

Artadia is pleased to welcome four new appointments to the Board of Directors.

Kimberly Light is the founder and owner of LightBox, an art advisory company based in New York and Los

Angeles. With over 20 years of experience working in the art world, Ms. Light brings an extensive knowledge and perspective to Artadia's board. Ms. Light has run two successful galleries in Los Angeles and earned her masters in contemporary art history and theory from the

Sotheby’s Institute. Currently based in New York, Ms.

Light has expanded her focus from the commercial to manage private collections and independent curatorial projects.

Karen Mehiel is the CEO of Kampack, Inc, a corrugated manufacturing company. With over 20 years of experience in the industrial packaging industry, Ms.

Mehiel brings strategic financial insight and critical leadership qualities to the Artadia board. Ms. Mehiel is also an active supporter of the Democratic Party, a member of the Women’s Business Enterprise National

Council, and a board member of Amani Global Works,

The Climate Group, Women's Voices for Change and

Eleanor's Legacy.

Laurie Ziegler is an expert in the fields of strategic marketing, brand placement, corporate gifting and talent gifting. Ms. Ziegler sits on the board of The Mistake

Room and The Ojai Playwrights Conference and on the advisory board of The Geffen Playhouse. She is also

involved with LAXART and the children’s focused art

groups PS ARTS and Children Mending Hearts, working

with these groups on sponsorship and events. Based in

Los Angeles, Ms. Ziegler is an active contemporary art

collector.

Margot Ziegler is a New York based contemporary art

collector and art­enthusiast. As a long­time Artadia

supporter, Ms. Ziegler brings perspective, commitment

and passion to the Artadia board and the Artadia

Development Committee. Ms. Ziegler is also a supporter

of the Parrish Art Museum Collector's Circle and Johns

Hopkins University Parent Council.

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