Kira Nam Greene, Kyung's Gift in Pojagi, oil, gouache, colored pencil and acrylic ink on canvas, 50 x 40 inches, 2019

 

뉴욕의 한인 화가 키라 남 그린(Kira Nam Green)의 인물화 'Kyung's Gift in Pojagi, 2019)'가 워싱턴 DC 국립초상화갤러리(National Portrait gallery)의 특별전 ' The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today'에서 전시 중이다. 'Kyung's Gift in Pojagi'는 그린씨가 보자기를 배경으로 화가 경 전(Kyung Jeon)씨를 그린 작품이다. 이 그룹전은 미국과 푸에르토리코 거주 미술가들을 대상으로 열린 공모전 '아웃윈 2022'의 출품작 2천700점 중 선정된 42점을 소개한다. 

 

키라 남 그린은 서울에서 태어나 서울대 외교학과 졸업 후 스탠포드대에서 정치학 박사학위를 받았다. 이후 샌프란시스코아트인스티튜트를 거쳐 뉴욕 스쿨오브비주얼아트에서 석사학위를 받았다. https://kiranamgreene.com

 

 

The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today

 

April 30, 2022 - February 26, 2023

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC 

 

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition encourages artists living and working across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands to submit work that challenges traditional definitions of portraiture. The 42 finalists in this year’s edition were selected from more than 2,700 entries.

 

This year’s competition received entries in a variety of media, including painting, photography, assemblage, sculpture, performance and time-based media. The winning artworks not only reflect the evolving democratization of portraiture but also underscore the genre’s ability to tell once-hidden stories. Finalists represent 14 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Seven artists have been shortlisted for prizes. The winners and allotted prize amounts will be announced at the press preview April 29, 2022. Previous first-prize winners have been David Lenz (2006), Dave Woody (2009), Bo Gehring (2013), Amy Sherald (2016) and Hugo Crosthwaite (2019).

 

“The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition was founded to support the next wave of contemporary portraiture in the United States,” said Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “The diversity of this edition’s entries, from geographic origin to subject matter and media, reflects both the multifaceted story of the United States today and the unique perspectives and lenses through which contemporary artists see that story. Produced in the past three years, it is no surprise that the art provides a powerful affirmation of the human experience focused on the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic, demands for social justice, personal isolation, familial ties, community support, love and loss.”

 

Guest jurors for this competition are Kathleen Ash-Milby, curator of Native American art, Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Catherine Opie, artist, professor of photography and chair of the art department at the University of California, Los Angeles; Ebony G. Patterson, artist, Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica; and John Yau, poet, critic and professor of critical studies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Members of the jury from the National Portrait Gallery include Taína Caragol, curator of painting and sculpture and Latinx art and history; Leslie Ureña, curator of photographs; and Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture and coordinating curator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.

 

Caragol is the director of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and is co-curating the exhibition “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” with Ureña.

 

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition is made possible by the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment, established by Virginia Outwin Boochever and continued by her children. 

 

National Portrait Gallery

8th and G Streets NW

Washington, DC 20001

https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition/2022-outwin-boochever-portrait-competition