GREAT RIVERS BIENNIAL
The Great Rivers Biennial Arts Award Program is a collaboration between the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation, established in 2003 with a mission to strengthen and support the local artists of St. Louis. The goal of this program is to identify talented emerging and mid-career local artists, provide them financial assistance, raise the visibility of their work in both the midwest and national arts community, and provide them with the professional support of visiting critics, curators and dealers.
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation are committed to energizing the spirit of the art scene in St. Louis and feel the Great Rivers Biennial Arts Award Program does just that by providing artists with a tremendous platform to the national art world.
YEAR
July 16 - August 22, 2004
Artists:
Jill Downen
Adam Frelin
Kim Humphries
Jurors:
Lisa Corrin
The Deputy Director of Art and the Jon and Mary Chirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
for the Seattle Art Museum
Debra Singer
The Associate Curator of Contemporary Art of the
Whitney Museum of Art in New York
Hamza Walker
The Educational Directory of the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial 2004,
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January 20 - March 26, 2006
Artists:
Moses
Matthew Strauss
Jason Wallace Triefenbach
Jurors:
Elizabeth Dunbar
Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, MO
Gary Garrels
Senior Curator at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Helen Molesworth
The Educational Directory of the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial 2006,
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February 1 - April 20, 2008
Artists:
Michelle Oosterbaan
Juan William Chávez
Corey Escoto
Jurors:
Cheryl Brutvan
Curator of Contemportary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lillian Tone
Assistant Curator, Departof Painting and Sculpture,
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
Director and Chief Curator, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial 2008,
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April 3 - August 8, 2010
Artists:
Martin Brief
Sarah Frost
Cameron Fuller
Jurors:
Douglas Fogle
Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Exhibitions and
Public Programs Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Melissa Franklin
Director, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Philadelphia
Laura Steward
Phillips Director of SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial 2010,
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May 11, 2012 – August 12, 2012
Artists:
David Johnson
Asma Kazmi
Mel Trad
Jurors:
Lisa Dorin
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at
The Art Institute of Chicago
Jeffrey Grove
Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art
at the Dallas Museum of Art
Lydia Yee
Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial 2012,
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May 9, 2014 - August 12, 2014
Artists:
Brandon Anschultz
Carlie Trosclair
Cayce Zavaglia
Jurors:
Mel Chin
Artist
Lowery Stokes Sims
Curator of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City;
Lynne Warren
Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial 2014,
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May 6, 2016 - August 21, 2016
Artists:
Nanette BoileauÂ
Lyndon Barrois Jr.
Tate Foley
Jurors:
Anne Ellegood
Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum
Valerie Cassel Oliver
Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Paul Pfeiffer
Artist
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial 2016,
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