COURTESY RAW MATERIAL COMPANY
Independent Curators International announced today that Eva Barois de Caevel, the assistant curator of Raw Material Company in Dakar, Senegal, and cofounder of Cartel de Kunst, “an international collective of emerging curators,” has been named the 2014 winner of its Independent Vision Curator Award, which supports “international curators early in their careers who have shown exceptional creativity and prescience in their exhibition-making, research, and related writing.”
The prize, which comes with a $3,000 stipend toward a new project, is given every other year. Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s deputy director and chief curator, served as the juror this year.
“Eva Barois de Caevel’s unflinching curatorial practice tackles some of today’s most urgent issues, including sexuality and human rights, in a postcolonial world,” Spector said in a statement released to press. “Working collaboratively to encourage dialogue and participation among her audiences, with issues both local and global, she is courageously expanding the curatorial field.”
The short list for this year’s prize follows below:
- Eva Barois De Caevel: Independent curator and researcher
- Stefan Benchoam: Co-founder, Co-director, Proyectos Ultravioleta and NuMu
- Bao Dong: Independent curator and art critic
- Anne Dressen: Curator, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Inti Guerrero: Associate Artistic Director-Curator, TEOR/eTica
- Agung Hujatnikajennong: Independent curator and lecturer
- Naima Keith: Assistant Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
- Thomas Lax: Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Tevž Logar: Independent Curator
- Emile Maurice: Resident curator, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
- Diana Nawi: Associate Curator, Pérez Art Museum Miami
- Mary Pansanga: Independent Curator
- Marina Reyes Franco: Independent curator, Co-founder and Director, La Ene
- Gaia Tedone: Independent Curator (London, UK / Milan, Italy)
- Natalia Valencia: Independent curator