Rappaport

Jeremy Frey (b. 1978, Passamaquoddy Indian Township Reservation, Maine) is one of the foremost Passamaquoddy craftspeople of his generation. A descendant of a long line of Indigenous weavers, Frey learned traditional Wabanaki methods from his mother and by apprenticing at the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance.

Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980 in Houston, Texas) combines practices of painting, printmaking, and sculpture with archival research in areas of public infrastructure policy.

Steve Locke (b.1963) was born in Cleveland, OH and lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson, NY. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Locke’s practice critically engages with the Western canon to interrogate the connections between desire, identity, and violence.

Katherine Bradford (b. 1942, New York, NY; lives in New York, NY and Brunswick, ME) started painting at the age of thirty while living in Maine and was among the group of artists who moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1980s.

“This prize is a verdant promise, one that helps to germinate creative impulses my ancestors planted in my DNA long ago.” Sonya Clark 2020 – Rappaport Art Prize Winner at deCordova Museum

Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves.

Barkley L. Hendricks (b. Philadelphia, PA, 1945; d. New Haven, CT, 2017) was an American painter and photographer who revolutionized portraiture through his realist and post-modern oil paintings of Black Americans living in urban areas, beginning in the 1960s and 1970s.

Liz Deschenes (born 1966) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.

Ann Pibal, a Minneapolis-born abstract painter whose work is driven by expressive colors and patterns of lines painted on aluminum, has been awarded the 2013 Rappaport Prize by the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln.

Born in New York City in 1979, Orly Genger lives New York City and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Liza Johnson’s areas of interest include film and media production, video art, screenwriting, art theory and criticism, gender and sexuality studies, and American studies.