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Installation view of Simone Leigh’s 2018 exhibition at Luhring Augustine in New York, which closes October 20.
COURTESY LUHRING AUGUSTINE
Tonight, during a dinner for more than 200 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Simone Leigh was presented with the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize, which is given every two years to a contemporary artist. It comes with a $100,000 check and an exhibition next year at the museum, whose exterior was bathed in purple light for the occasion.
Leigh, who was born in 1967 in Chicago, takes up issues of black history and feminism in her wide-ranging work, which spans across mediums, including installation, performance, and perhaps most notably, sculpture. She has had solo shows at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Tate Modern in London, and the New Museum in New York.
As it happens, the Brooklyn-based artist’s first solo show with Luhring Augustine in New York is also up right now at the gallery’s Chelsea location, through this Saturday, October 20.
The other artists nominated for this year’s prize were Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Stark, and Wu Tsang. Making the tough selection was a jury chaired by the Guggenheim’s artistic director, Nancy Spector.
In past years, the prize, which was inaugurated in 1996, has gone to Anicka Yi (2016), Paul Chan (2014), Danh Vo (2012), Tacita Dean (2006), Pierre Huyghe (2002).
Andy Battaglia contributed reporting.
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