Vendredi 31 Octobre 2014 17:49:58 par actuphoto dans Actualités

The 2014 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize has been awarded to Lisa Oppenheim of the United States. The announcement was made at a special reception held at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on Wednesday evening. Oppenheim was selected by public vote to receive the 50,000 CAD prize in addition to a six-week, fully funded residency in Canada in early 2015.

Runners-up David Hartt (Canada); Elad Lassry (Israel/USA); and Nandipha Mntambo (South Africa) also each receive a six-week residency as well as 5,000 CAD to support their artistic practices.

Lisa Oppenheim was born in 1975 in New York City, where she lives and works. Oppenheim's photographs and videos, including those that are a part of the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize 2014 Exhibition, are composed of images and materials from the recent and not-so-recent past that she re-processes and transforms through various historical and contemporary techniques. Her process often begins online, where she sources images and objects that she reinterprets photographically using both analogue and digital technologies. Through this approach, the process itself becomes source material, as Oppenheim gives photographic images new forms and new contexts. Recent solo exhibitions include Forever is Composed of Nows, Kunsterverin in Hamburg; From Abigail to Jacob (Works 2004–2014), Kunstverein in Graz; and Heaven Blazing into the Head, The Approach Gallery, London. Oppenheim graduated with an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College in 2002.