2023 TRIBECA FESTIVAL ARTIST AWARDS PROGRAM
The Art Awards annually selects a cohort of esteemed artists who agree to generously donate a work to be presented as an award to winning filmmakers. In doing so, we recognize the intersection between creative fields and celebrate New York City’s continued spirit of cultural innovation. When I was asked to curate the Art Awards for a second year, it was important that this iteration have a profound social impact: a powerful exhibition showcasing the strength, beauty, and diversity of women. Our focus this year is on giving women in the arts their flowers and celebrating their trailblazing contributions to contemporary art.
Throughout recorded history, from the cave painting to the camera, women have been driving forces in all forms of art around the world. Yet female creatives have been, and remain, woefully underrepresented. An analysis of 18 major American art museums found that a shocking 13% of the works are by women and 15% are by people of color. From second-wave feminism to the #MeToo movement, women have been forced to struggle for the most basic recognition, making it imperative that we continue to solicit and showcase the work of women artists.
Racquel Chevremont
Curator, 2023 Tribeca Festival Artist Awards Program
CHANEL is honored to continue its support of the annual Artist Awards Program, which celebrates the leading filmmakers and artists of our time, and the rich tradition of artists supporting artists.
Sheree Hovsepian (American b.Iran) earned an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002.
Her work highlights the physicality of the photograph and photography’s relationship to the human body. Coaxed into sculptural forms, layered with tactile materials, and assembled into larger compositions, Hovsepian’s pictures oscillate between object and image, creating a sensuous, bodily experience of the photographic document.
Hovsepian was included in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, with a room dedicated to her work.
Recent solo exhibitions include exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York and Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Recent group exhibitions include Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; There’s There There, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton, NY; Arches and Ink, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Material Gestures, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; and Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, New York.
Hovsepian is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bronx Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Everson Museum of Art, among others. She currently lives and works in New York City.
