SD Art Prize Recipients
2006-2020
Alanna Airitam
Photographer ALANNA AIRTRAM was born in Queens, New York and now resides in San Diego, California. As a portrait photographer, her work focuses on identity and representation, and proposes an investigation into the concept of wholeness. Her use of chiaroscuro lighting creates a painterly effect, that coupled with her use of symbolism allows her to explore the duality of light and dark both metaphorically and literally. Her subjects are illuminated in a way that calls for them to be viewed as the counter to contemporary stereotypes.
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Airitam’s images have been published in a variety of national and international media outlets such as Chicago Tribune, BBC News, VICE!, The Huck, Lenscratch, Range Finder, Feature Shoot, and the San Diego Tribune, among many others. Airitam has exhibited at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, San Diego Art Institute, Art Miami, and Bread & Salt in San Diego, California. An award winning short film From Haarlem to Harlem about Alanna Airitam’s body of work The Golden Age has been screened at various film festivals around the United States.
Kaori Fukuyama
KAORI FUKUYAMA is a multi-disciplinary
artist from Japan, who lives and works in San
Diego. She creates paintings, drawings,
sculptures, and site-specific installations that
explore the interactions of color, light and shadow. Her subtle and delicately balanced work plays with our visual perception, and often invites us to slow down and be present in the moment.
Kaori Fukuyama was an Artist-In-Residence at Bread & Salt in 2018, and recently completed a large-scale public art installation in North Park (San Diego). Her work is a part of private collections internationally and has been exhibited at multiple institutions including Oceanside Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Diego Art Institute, The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, and William D. Cannon Art Gallery. Fukuyama enjoys teaching at The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, and continues to expand her artistic boundaries.
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Griselda Rosas
GRISELDA ROSAS, Born and Raised in Tijuana, Mexico, is an artist and educator from the border region. Her artwork falls under the umbrella of Post-Colonial art, in the way it addresses issues of identity, ethnicity and gender practices creating installation, sculpture, site-specific, curatorial projects and stitching-Paintings decolonizing imagery.
Griselda’s work has been exhibited in national and international venues, The Florence Biennale, Italy, The Barrett Art Centre, New York, art residency at the Camac art Centre- UNESCO program Marnay, France, Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
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Granted a fellowship through the minister of Mexican Culture -FONCA, 2016-2019 - developing a research on the aesthetics of Mexican female traditional clothing, -presenting and publishing her research at the 56th International Congress of Americanists (ICA) Salamanca, Spain 2018. Griselda's work has a strong relationship with poetry and mind wandering, speaks about the ecosystem’s fragility through an implicit construction of historical-imagery-memorabilia.
Melissa Walter
MELISSA WALTER is best known for her optically stimulating sculptures of twisting paper and drawings of detailed geometric patterns. She visually explores concepts concerning Astronomy and astrophysical theories. Walter has worked as a graphic designer and science illustrator for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and as a team member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her experience has inspired her to visually articulate wonders of the Universe, such as black holes, supernovas, neutron stars, dark matter and more recently, dark energy.
Walter has completed artist in residence programs at 1805 Gallery and Bread & Salt, and participated in exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center, Quint Gallery, the San Diego Art Institute, Torrance Art Museum, Helmuth Projects and the San Diego International Airport for a temporary exhibition titled Intergalactic Dreaming in 2017. She received her BFA, cum laude from the University of Rhode Island in 1998.
http://www.melissawalterart.com/
2018
Anne Mudge with Erin Dace Behling
Robert Matheny with Max Robert Daily
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2017
Cy Kuchenbaker with Rizzhel Mae Javier
Fu/Rich with Alexander Kohnke
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2016
Irma Sofia Poeter with emerging artist Shinpei Takeda
Richard Keely with emerging artist William Feeney
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2015
Wendy Maruyama with emerging artist Peter Scheidt
Roy McMakin with emerging artist Kevin Inman
2014
Marianela de la Hoz with emerging artist Bhavna Mehta
Philipp Scholz Rittermann with emerging artist Joseph Huppert
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2013
James Hubbell with emerging artist Brennan Hubbell
Debby and Larry Kline with emerging artist James Enos
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2012
Arline Fisch with emerging artist Vincent Robles
Jeffery Laudenslager with emerging artist Deanne Sabeck
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2011
Rubén Ortiz-Torres with emerging artist Tristan Shone
Jay Johnson with emerging artist Adam Belt
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2010
Gail Roberts with emerging artist David Adey
Einar and Jamex de la Torre with emerging artist Julio Orozco
SD Art Prize Catalog 2010
2009
Kim MacConnel with emerging artist Brian Dick
Richard Allen Morris with emerging artist Tom Driscoll
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2008
Marcos Ramirez ERRE with emerging artist Allison Wiese
Roman De Salvo with emerging artist Lael Corbin
Eleanor Antin with emerging artist Pamela Jaeger
SD Art Prize Catalog 2007/2008
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2007
Raul Guerrero with emerging artist Yvonne Venegas
Jean Lowe with emerging artist Iana Quesnell
Ernest Silva with emerging artist May-ling Martinez
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