Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home
Prospect.6 Participating Artists. Images courtesy of the artists and Prospect New Orleans.
Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for
Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home
(November 2, 2024 - February 2, 2025)
New Orleans — January 25, 2024 — Prospect New Orleans is proud to announce the artist list for the 2024 iteration of the triennial, Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, which will open to the public in New Orleans on Saturday, November 2, 2024, and remain on view through Sunday, February 2, 2025. Continuing its legacy as the longest-running, citywide contemporary art triennial, Prospect.6 will feature the work of 49 artists spanning approximately 20 venues and unconventional spaces. Curated by The Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, the vast majority of the works on view will be newly commissioned, with an emphasis on large-scale and ambitious installations in both galleries and public spaces. This year will also mark the US debut of internationally-acclaimed works by six of the participating artists.
Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home will posit New Orleans as a global point of departure for examining our collective future as it relates to climate change, legacies of colonialism, and definitions of belonging and home. With regard to New Orlenians as Prospect’s first audience, the Co-Artistic Directors are inspired by the city’s unique ability to offer poignant lessons and models for how to live in constant negotiation with a warming planet, grounded within a community that reflects the global majority, and in direct proximity to the effects and aftereffects of colonial and exploitative economies. The exhibition urges consideration of the question, What does it mean to think of a harbinger as a gift?
“Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home presents a challenge to our perceptions of 'home' — it asks us to consider that what we hold dear about the places where we live may, in fact, share commonalities with places we've never considered. This triennial is about decentering our understanding and viewing New Orleans through a lens that transcends North American narratives and anchors the city in a global discourse,” said Ebony G. Patterson. “New Orleans is a global place and reflects the fact that most of the world is occupied by people of colour. What does it mean to think about places like New Orleans, as currently living in the future, rather than a future to come? And that places outside of this are actually behind.”
“We are grateful to the artists of Prospect.6 for being part of a layered conversation around the environment, our human search for connection and vibrance, and the ways that New Orleans relates to their communities, histories, and visions for the future, ” added Miranda Lash. “This triennial offers a critique and discussion of how people, communities, and regions like Louisiana have been and continue to be regarded as sites of extraction for resources and labor. At the same time, New Orleans offers profound insight into how culture, neighborhoods, and deep histories tether us to people and places, even in the face of mounting challenges. We see this tension between attachments to home—however one defines it—and the shifting climate as one of the defining issues of our foreseeable future.”
In the spirit of the triennial’s city-wide model, this year’s presentation will envelop the different neighborhoods of New Orleans, mounting major artistic presentations from world-renowned artists across venues like Newcomb Art Museum, The Ogden Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Harmony Circle, and Contemporary Arts Center. Prospect.6 will also champion the work of artists from various backgrounds and disciplines, such as Joiri Minaya, Raùl de Nieves, Abigail DeVille, Brendan Fernandes, Christopher Cozier, Joan Jonas, and Yee I-Lann, to prompt an exploration of New Orleans’s cultural breadths and social histories in relation to the city’s global footprint.
Prospect has a longstanding commitment to New Orleans’s creative communities and takes care to honor the complexity of lived experiences within New Orleans and other regions often framed by tourism, stereotypes, and service economies. Recognizing the often fraught relationship between triennials and their locales, Prospect.6 will aim to articulate an answer to enduring questions, such as “What does it mean to speak from a place, rather than at it?”
“I am very pleased to be able to experience this iteration of Prospect with my city and the rest of the world. This Prospect looks at New Orleans as home for many, and an entry to recently imagine a global community through the rich history of this place once called Bvlbancha, now called New Orleans today,” says artist and Prospect.6 curatorial advisor Ron Bechet.
Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home is strongly informed by contributions of living artists, either based in or with ties to Louisiana, such as Hannah Chalew, Thomas Deaton, Christian Ðinh, Abdi Farah, L. Kasimu Harris, Blas Isasi, Ruth Owens, Brooke Pickett, and Ashley Teamer. The triennial also employs the notion of foresight and futurity in New Orleans and places like New
Orleans, featuring artists from regions connected to Louisiana through historic paths of forced or voluntary migration and diaspora, including the Caribbean, Central and South America, indigenous North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa, to emphasize the very essence of home within an ever-changing environment.
Says Nick Stillman, Executive Director of Prospect New Orleans: “The concept of ‘harbinger ’is the key to this exhibition. Prospect.6 will be a showcase of ambitious projects with a sense of intentionality and wonder, a curatorial vision of big moments, active engagement in creating new narratives, and active interventions within the public sphere and landscape.”
Artist List
Shannon Alonzo (b. 1988, St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago; lives in Trinidad and Tobago)
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (b. 1990, Los Angeles, CA; lives in Los Angeles, CA)
Ewan Atkinson (b. 1975, Barbados; lives in Barbados)
Teresa Baker (b.1985, Watford City, North Dakota; lives in Los Angeles, CA)
Andrea Carlson (b.1979, USA; lives in Northern Minnesota and Chicago, IL)
Hannah Chalew (b. 1986, Baltimore, MD; lives in New Orleans, LA)
Mel Chin (b. 1951, Houston, TX; lives in Egypt Township, North Carolina)
Bethany Collins (b. 1984, Montgomery, AL; lives in Chicago, IL)
Myrlande Constant (b. 1968, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Christopher Cozier (b. 1959, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; lives in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
Ronald Cyrille aka B.Bird (b. 1984, Guadeloupe; lives in Guadeloupe)
Thomas Deaton (b. 1988, Lafayette, LA; lives in New Orleans, LA)
Abigail DeVille (b. 1981, New York, NY; works in Bronx, NY)
Christian Ðinh (b. 1992, St. Petersburg, FL; lives in New Orleans, LA)
Jeannette Ehlers (b. 1973, Denmark; lives in Copenhagen, Denmark)
rafa esparza (b. 1981, Pasadena, CA; lives in Los, Angeles, CA)
Abdi Farah (b. 1987, Baltimore, MD; lives in New Orleans, LA)
Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya; lives in Chicago, IL)
L. Kasimu Harris (b. 1978, New Orleans, LA; lives in New Orleans, LA)
Nadia Huggins (b. 1984, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; lives in St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
Blas Isasi (b. 1981, Lima, Peru; lives in New Orleans, LA)
Deborah Jack (b. 1970, Rotterdam, Netherlands; lives in Cole Bay, St. Maarten and Jersey City, NJ)
Eisa Jocson (b. 1986, Manila, Philippines; lives in San Juan, La Union, Philippines)
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY; lives in New York, NY and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)
Brian Jungen (b.1970, Fort St John BC Canada; lives in Treaty 8 territory, BC Canada)
Arturo Kameya (b. 1984, Lima, Peru; lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Lima, Peru)
Maia Ruth Lee (b. 1983, Busan, South Korea; lives in Salida, CO)
Kelley-Ann Lindo (b. 1991, Kingston, Jamaica; lives in Kingston, Jamaica and Providence, RI)
Cathy Lu (b. 1984, Miami, FL; lives in Richmond, CA)
Tessa Mars (b. 1985, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Jeffrey Meris (b. 1991, Saint Louis du Nord, Haiti; lives in Nassau, Bahamas and New York, NY )
Joiri Minaya (b. 1990, New York, NY; lives in New York, NY)
Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Francistown, Botswana; lives in Wellesley, MA)
Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico; lives in Brooklyn, NY)
Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Saigon, Vietnam; lives in Saigon, Vietnam)
Karyn Olivier (b. 1968, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; lives in Philadelphia, PA)
Ruth Owens (b. 1959, Augsburg, Germany; lives in Metairie, LA, and works in New Orleans, LA)
Ada M. Patterson (b. 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados; lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Venuri Perera (b. 1981, Colombo, Sri Lanka; lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands and works internationally)
Brooke Pickett (b. 1980, Shreveport, LA; lives in New Orleans, LA)
Marcel Pinas (b. 1971, District of Marowijne, Suriname; lives in Suriname)
Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974, Manila, Philippines; lives in Oakland, CA)
Ashley Teamer (b.1991, New Orleans, LA; lives in New Orleans, LA and New York, NY)
Clarissa Tossin (b. 1973, Porto Alegre, Brazil; lives in Los Angeles, CA)
Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran (b. 1987, Hennigsdorf, Germany; lives in Saigon, Vietnam)
Tuan Mami (b. 1981, Hanoi, Vietnam; lives in Hanoi, Vietnam)
Didier William (b. 1983, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives in Philadelphia, PA)
Amanda Williams (b. 1974, Evanston, IL; lives in Chicago, IL)
Yee I-Lann (b. 1971, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia; lives in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia)
Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home is made possible with generous support from The Helis Foundation; Mellon Foundation; Open Society Foundation; Ford Foundation; Wagner Foundation; Gore Family Foundation; TIDES/Lambent Foundation; Hancock Whitney Bank; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Art Production Fund; Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation; Arts New Orleans; Keller Foundation; Selley Foundation; Terra Foundation; and Danish Arts Foundation.
Prospect New Orleans is proud to partner with Ace Hotel New Orleans for Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home. Located at the intersection of Carondelet and Lafayette Streets in a historic 1928 Art Deco building, Ace Hotel New Orleans will serve as the primary hotel partner for Prospect.6 and a convening space for programming throughout the duration of the triennial. Ace Hotel New Orleans is a welcome addition to the expansive list of Prospect.6 partners that signify the city’s legacy as a home to many global communities and catalyst for creativity.
About Miranda Lash
Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lash has organized a wide range of museum exhibitions including Clarissa Tossin: Falling from Earth; Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting/ Rivalizando con el relampágo; Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues; the traveling retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch; Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys; Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; Swoon: Thalassa; and Quintron and Miss Pussycat: Parallel Universe, Live at City Park. In 2016 Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organized the acclaimed exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. In addition to holding curatorial positions at the Speed Art Museum and The Menil Collection, Lash was the founding Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art from 2008 to 2014. Her most recent projects include Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe, a traveling survey and monograph of Jackson's work; and Cowboy, a large-scale traveling exhibition on the myths and realities associated with the American cowboy, co-curated with Nora Burnett Abrams, the Mark G. Falcone Director of MCA Denver.
Lash currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership. She has been a Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a member of the artistic director’s Curatorial Council for Prospect.4. She holds a BA with honors from Harvard University in the History of Art and Architecture and an MA from Williams College from the Graduate Program in the History of Art.
About Ebony G. Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson's expansive practice addresses visibility and invisibility, through explorations of class, race, gender, youth culture, pageantry and acts of violence in the context of "postcolonial" spaces. With the strong sensibility of a painter, Patterson works across multiple media - including tapestry, photography, video, sculpture, drawing and installation - united by her consistent visual language and intention. Each work is intricately embellished and densely layered, in order to draw the viewer closer and to question how we engage in the act of looking. The idea of the garden, both real and imagined, has formed an essential arc of Patterson's practice. Framing the garden as an active site of power, Patterson explores it as a metaphor for "postcolonial" space and an extension of the body. Patterson received her BFA in painting from Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica in 2004. She received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Patterson has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts, Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky, and was the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in the public collections of 21c Museum and Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. In 2021 Patterson was included in both the Liverpool and Athens Biennials. She lives and works in both Chicago, IL and Kingston, Jamaica and is co-represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, and Hales New York/ London, who will co-present Ebony’s monumental installation from the Liverpool Biennial at The Armory Show NY in Platform section curated by Tobias Ostrander.
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