The New York–based organization Artadia has revealed the five finalists for its annual Chicago awards, which give unrestricted funds to artists who have lived in the Windy City for more than two years. Those finalists—Bethany Collins, Assaf Evron, Brendan Fernandes, Caroline Kent, and Alice Tippit—will receive studio visits with second-round jurors, who will then select two awardees to receive $10,000 each.
Collins is a multidisciplinary artist whose work often focuses on interactions between race and language. Her practice spans drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and performance, and she has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Book Arts in New York, Locust Projects in Miami, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Georgia, and elsewhere. Works by Collins have also figured in group exhibitions at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Drawing Center in New York, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.
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