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20 Emerging Female Artists to Keep on Your Radar


(via artnet news)

his year was a strong one for female artists, and next year it appears that it might be even better. In 2016, all of the solo shows at SculptureCenter in Queens, New York, will be by women. We’re also looking forward to Catherine Opie’s „Portraits and Landscapes“ at Lehmann Maupin gallery in New York in January, and „Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016“ in March at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles.

Below, we’ve found 20 emerging female artists who we’ll also be tracking in 2016.
1. Martine Syms
Los Angeles-based artist Martine Syms works across publishing, video, and performance. She runs the site Dominica, and was a participant in the 2015 New Museum Triennial in New York. Syms’s current project NITE LIFE will be on view at Locust Projects in Miami until the end of the year.
2. Meriem Bennani
Moroccan-born and New York-based artist Meriem Bennani creates films and animated Instagrams that are playfully surreal. She currently has a solo show „Gradual Kingdom“ at Signal in Brooklyn and work in the Jewish Museum’s „Unorthodox“ exhibition.
3. Casey Jane Ellison
You may know Los Angeles-based arty comedian Casey Jane Ellison from her webseries ‘Touching the Art,‘ and her newest endeavor, The Right & Left Brains of Casey Jane’s. Performance artist and comedian Ellison has brought her unique brand of art world critique to Frieze New York and exhibited at the New Museum’s Triennial and NADA in Miami Beach this year.

Assemble wins UK’s Turner Prize

The artist collective has worked with local communities on neighbourhood regeneration projects
by The Art Newspaper  |  7 December 2015
(via The Art Newspaper)

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Assemble, the artist collective that works with local communities in the UK on neighbourhood regeneration projects, has won this year’s Turner Prize. The £25,000 award, one of the largest given to a contemporary artist in the UK, was presented by artist and musician Kim Gordon at the Glasgow art space Tramway, in partnership with Tate.

Assemble’s long-term collaboration with the Liverpool land trust Granby Four Streets to create affordable housing “shows the importance of artistic practice being able to drive and shape urgent issues in the post-industrial era,” the prize press release states.

The other shortlisted artists, who will receive £5,000 each, are: Bonnie Camplin, for The Military Industrial Complex, a study room installation exploring “consensus reality”; Janice Kerbel, for DOUG, a musical performance consisting of nine songs for six voices; and Nicole Wermers, for Infrastruktur, an installation on the theme of consumerist culture. For the first time, the exhibition of the nominated artists was held in Scotland, at Tramway gallery, where it remains on view until 17 January 2016.

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