The TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS ARTISTS AWARDS PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS ARTISTS AWARDS PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS April 4th, 2017

MEDIA ALERT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS ARTISTS AWARDS PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

NEW YORK, NY- April 4, 2017- The Tribeca Film Festival has unveiled the participants for the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards Program, sponsored by CHANEL. The roster of contemporary artists participating in the 16th edition of the Festival include Urs Fischer, Walton Ford, John Giorno, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jorge Pardo, R.H. Quaytman, Sterling Ruby, Aurel Schmidt, Ryan Sullivan, as well as longtime supporter Stephen Hannock. These artists each participate in the Festival by donating a piece of their art to be given as an award to the winning filmmakers. The tradition of artists supporting each other has been intrinsic to the Tribeca Film Festival since its inception, when Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal brought together downtown creatives for the first Artists Awards program.

The participating artists were curated by the Festival along with Alex Gartenfeld, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Each artist has personally selected one of their original work to be awarded to the winning filmmakers selected by the Festival jury at the 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival. The nine artists join an illustrious group of over 125 past participants including Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Walton Ford, Nan Goldin, April Gornik, Jeff Koons, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Dustin Yellin, and JR. [Full alumni list: http://bit.ly/ArtistAwardsAlumni].

The collection will be featured in a free, public exhibition before being presented to the award-winning filmmakers from April 17 - 30, at the Tribeca Festival Hub, 50 Varick Street, Manhattan. The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival will run April 19-30.

Following is a complete list of the artwork that will be contributed. Artwork images can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/00i39pn5z2tbpwc/AABS88UBgvH0U1Wzf2c7KLuSa?dl=0

Urs Fischer: boomboomboom, 2016, The Transit of Venus (Melanie), 2016, Aluminum, Epoxy, Steel, Acrylic Primer, Gesso, Acrylic Ink, Acrylic Silkscreen Medium, Acrylic Paint, 27 x 52 inches

Audience Award: Documentary

Walton Ford: Study for La Brea, 2017, Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches

Best Narrative Feature (World)

John Giorno: GOD IS MANMADE, 2017, Watercolor on paper, 29 x 29 inches

Albert Maysles New Documentary Director

Stephen Hannock: Study: Flooded Oxbow for Ophelia (MM#38), 2017, Charcoal over digital print on paper with collaged images by: Chuck Close, Gregory Crewdson, Stephen Hannock, 7 x 11 inches

Best Narrative Short

Ella Kruglyanskaya: Untitled, 2014, 5-Color Screenprint, 13 x 22 inches

Founder's Award for Best Narrative Feature

Jorge Pardo: Veridical, 2015, Silkscreen on Paper, FRAMED: 15 x 17 inches

Best New Narrative Director

R.H. Quaytman: Delphi Landscape, 2017, Gold leaf, silkscreen ink and gesso on wood, 20 x 12 3/8 x 3/4 inches (50.8 x 31.4 x 1.9 cm)

Audience Award: Narrative

Sterling Ruby: The Reaper, 2015, Embossed and signed poster, 26 x 20 inches

Best Documentary Feature (World/Domestic)

Aurel Schmidt: Fashion voodoo 3, 2016, Mixed Media on Paper, 21.5 x 15 inches

NORA Ephron Prize

Ryan Sullivan: Untitled, 2016, Oil on Paper, 42 x 30 inches

Best Documentary Short

About the Artists

Urs Fischer (b. 1972, Z rich, Switzerland) Urs Fischer was born in 1973 in Z rich, Switzerland. He studied at the Delfina Studio Trust, London; Visited de Ateliers, Amsterdam; and Schule f r Gestaltung, Z rich. Fischers work is included in many important public and private collections worldwide. Recent selected solo exhibitions include Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York (2009-10); Oscar the Grouch, Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Connecticut (2010-11); Skinny Sunrise, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2013); Madame Fisscher, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2013); YES, DESTE Project Space Slaughterhouse, Greece (2013); Untitled, Lever House Art Collection, New York (2014); Small Axe, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2016); and Mon cher , Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, France (2016). Fischers work was included in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 editions of the Biennale di Venezia. Fischer currently lives and works in New York.

Walton Ford (b. 1960, Larchmont, New York) Walton Fords monumental watercolors expand the visual language and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting, meditating on the often violent and bizarre moments at the intersection of human culture and the natural world. Although human figures rarely appear in his paintings, their presence is always implied. Fords work is included in a number of private and public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A survey of Fords work was organized by the Brooklyn Museum in New York in 2006 and traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas and the Norton Museum of Art in Florida in 2007. In 2010-2011, Fords midcareer retrospective traveled from the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Fur Gegenwart in Berlin, to the Albertina in Vienna and to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. His most recent solo show was at the Mus e de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, 2015-2016. Taschen books has issued three editions of his large-format monograph, Pancha Tantra.

John Giorno (b. 1936, New York) John Giorno has exhibited widely in museums internationally. Most recently, John Giorno has exhibited at Vienna Seccession, MoMA, New York, Artist Space, New York and Centre dart contemporain, Metz, FR. His retrospective, I John Giorno, created by Ugo Rondinone debuted at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2015, and wil

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