Trenton Doyle Hancock Wins $30,000 Greenfield Prize, Performing in Houston Thursday

by Bill Davenport January 28, 2013
photo courtesy samfoxschool.wustl.edu

photo courtesy samfoxschool.wustl.edu

Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has been named winner of the Greenfield Prize, awarded to a natinally recognized artist whose work is undergoing significant changes. Along with the money, the award comes with a two-year residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Sarasota, FL, where Hancock will create new work.

Hancock was selected from a short list of finalists including Nicole Eisenman, Maureen Gallace, and Byron Kim by a panel of jurors including CAMH head curator, Valerie Cassel Oliver; Dan Cameron, chief curator of the Orange County Museum of Art; and James Rondeau, curator of the department of contemporary art at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Hancock will perform a re-creation of his 1998 grad-school performance piece, “Off-Colored,” as part of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s exhibit “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.” on Thursday, January 31 at 6:30 pm.

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