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After receiving the 2007 Golden Lion Award for an artist under 40 at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Palestinian-born New York-based artist Emily Jacir is the winner of the 2008 Hugo Boss prize.
Jacir has been selected by an independent jury including UCLA’s Russell Ferguson, Bard CCS’s Maria Lind, Guggenheim’s assistant curator of Asian art Sandhini Poddar, Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector and Palais de Tokyo’s Marc-Olivier Wahler. The other candidates for this year’s prize were Swiss artists Christoph Büchel and Roman Signer, American artists Patty Chang and Sam Durant and Danish artist Joachim Koester.
The prize consists of an award of $100,000 and in addition the prizewinner will have the chance to present her work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for a special exhibition from February 6 through April 15, 2009.
“When it was established in 1996, I don’t think anyone was prescient enough to foresee what an invaluable gift the Hugo Boss Prize would become,” said Thomas Krens, senior advisor for international affairs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. “Yes, it gives the Guggenheim the opportunity to identify extraordinary contemporary artists. But it does much more: the equally enduring gift of the Hugo Boss Prize is that it brings global attention and honor to artists such as Emily Jacir – artists whose work demands that we look at life through an entirely new lens. We are enormously proud of our alliance with Hugo Boss and enormously appreciative of the support from Hugo Boss that makes this prize possible.”
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