Special Projects

2009 Special Projects

West Collection Presents the West Prize

The West Prize is an annual international acquisition prize to 10 artists that will receive $125,000 in total awards. The West Prize finalists from each year will have their work documented in a "10" catalog, exhibited at the West Collection in Philadelphia, as well as launched at NEXT.

NEXT Projects

This special section will feature large scale installations by emerging artists including Jeff Carter, Dave and Jenn, Rachel Mason, Angel Otero, Marc Sèguin, and Andrew Witkin.

Goffo, a special section at NEXT, focusing on multiples, editions, artist books, prints and handmade objects, will host an exceptional curated selection of presses, artist collectives and small galleries.

New Insight

An exhibition of top MFA students from some of the country's most influential graduate art programs, New Insight is curated by Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.  A platform for new talent and innovative ideas, New Insight provides the opportunity to view work by some of the brightest young minds working in diverse graduate programs across the country. 

Participating students in the 2009 edition of New Insight include: 

April Totten and Nery Gabriel Lemus, California Institute of Art;  Michael Nixon Carnegie Mellon University, Im Schafer and Terry Conrad, Cranbrook;  Bryan Zanisnik, Julio Grinblatt and Kristof Wickman, Hunter College;  Amita Bhatt and Kim Budd, Maryland Institute College of Art;  Esteban del Valle and Rachel Menashe-Dor, Rhode Island School of Design;  Chaewon Kim  and Cheryl Pope, School of the Art Institute of Chicago;  Kristen van Diggelen, San Francisco Art Institute; Anne McCaddon, Jane Parshnall and Ryan Sluggett, UCLA;  Faheem Majeed  and Jesse McLean, University of Illinois at Chicago;  Bobby Belote and Ryan Thompson, University of Illinois at Urbana; Elaine Stocki  and Lourdes Correa, Yale.

Better to light a candle than curse the dark

Presented by Gallery 400, UIC

A representation of artists who have shown at Gallery 400 – highlighting the talented artists working in Chicago and Gallery 400’s history of supporting and presenting artists from the area. Artists include: Philip von Zweck, Carrie Gundersdorf, Danielle Gustafson-Sundell, William Staples, Shane Huffman, and Carol Jackson.

threewalls

threewalls presents ATTENTION Star People * Light Workers * Indigo, Crystal & Rainbow Children, a special site specific installation by Chicago-based artists Jon Brumit and Christy Matson.

Video Data Bank

The Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The VDB collections feature innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. View a selection of works from the collection.

JELLY ROLL : The Spectacle

 Ongoing performance presented by Tara Strickstein of Bloodshed Event.