Anthea Hamilton Nominated for 2016 Turner Prize for 2015 SculptureCenter Exhibition

SculptureCenter is proud to announce that Anthea Hamilton has been nominated for the 2016 Turner Prize for her 2015 SculptureCenter exhibition Lichen! Libido! Chastity!

The Turner Prize, organized by the UK's Tate, was set up in 1984 and remains one of the best-known prizes for the visual arts. The prize is awarded to a British artist under the age of 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year.

Lichen! Libido! Chastity! (Sept 20, 2015 - Jan 4, 2016) featured new and existing works in Hamilton's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Investigating cultural appropriation and pop culture, Hamilton (born 1978 in London, UK. Lives and works in London) mines countercultures in music, fashion, and design (such as disco in the 1970s) and their entrance into the mainstream. A catalogue for the exhibition is available at SculptureCenter's online Bookstore.

SculptureCenter also congratulates the other nominees: Michael Dean, Helen Marten, and Josephine Pryde (who exhibited at SculptureCenter in the 2013 group exhibition Better Homes). The nominees will be included in an exhibition at Tate Britain opening on September 27 and the winner will be announced in December.

Anthea Hamilton: Lichen! Libido! Chastity! was supported in part by a grant from The Henry Moore Foundation and using public funding through the Artists' International Development fund, which is jointly funded by the British Council and Arts Council England. Project for door (After Gaetano Pesce)(2015) was commissioned by SculptureCenter and fully supported by Valeria Napoleone XX SculptureCenter.