Hopper Prize: Artist Grant Winners
Recent Grant Winners: Recipients of the Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize is a granting agency that provides individual artists with grant awards, a platform for visibility, and an opportunity to get their work in front of cutting edge contemporary art curators.
Twice per year, during Spring and Fall, The Hopper Prize awards 5 individual artist grants in the amount of $1,000 to artists selected through their open call. These awards are available to artists the world over, working in any and all media.
We have previously covered The Hopper Prize in detail, with a full rundown of the opportunities they provide to artists at all career levels.
Today we are featuring work by 5 recent grant winners. Below you’ll find biographies and a selection of recent work by a diverse range of recipients of The Hopper Prize.
Bloomington
Hopper Prize Grant Recipient (Spring 2019)
Genevieve Cohn is a native Vermonter, painter and educator. She received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University and her BA in Art and Culture & Communications from Ithaca College. Her work has been exhibited nationally, with works in exhibitions at Pace University and The Painting Center in NYC, ARC Gallery and Studio Oh! in Chicago and the Grunwald Gallery in Bloomington, IN. She has been featured in New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, A Women’s Thing Magazine and Friend of the Artist Magazine. Genevieve has been awarded artist residencies at AiRGentum in Seville, Spain, The Vermont Studio Center, The Ragdale Foundation outside of Chicago and the Fiore Art Center in Maine.
Los Angeles
Hopper Prize Grant Recipient (Spring 2019)
Born in 1987 in New York, Isabel Yellin received her B.A. from Oberlin College in 2011, and her M.A. from the Royal College of Art, London in 2014. Recent exhibitions include, "Show Me As I Want To Be Seen" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, "Cuddle Puddle", Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, and "Velvet Concrete" at M. Le Blanc Gallery, Chicago. She has been reviewed in Art Forum, The New Yorker, The Art Newspaper, and was a 2018 recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.
London
Hopper Prize Grant Recipient (Spring 2019)
Jinyong Park is a South Korean artist based in London. She has been persistently interested in the daily linguistic experience, which is based on her mother language, Korean, where the words are based on the shapes of the speaker’s mouth when pronouncing them. This enabled her to approach the use of the language as a phenomenological experience. When she moved to London in 2013, her bilingual experience reinforced her interest in the language and brought her painting to a more personal level. Since she graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2015 with her MA in Painting, she has participated in various forms of exhibitions, projects and publications mainly in London. Recent exhibitions include: Salad Days, Young Space; Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize 2018, Ingram Collection; Window Project 2012-2018, Gazelli Art House; Our Universes Meet through the Word-holes (Window Project Spring 2018), Gazelli Art House; Griffin Art Prize 2017, Griffin Gallery.
Baltimore
Hopper Prize Grant Recipient (Spring 2019)
Originally from Monroe, Michigan, Sydney Cook primarily works in photography to investigate the identities and experiences of marginalized communities, and the tension that often comes with displacement. Her practice is deeply rooted in her experiences growing up as a multiracial minority in the rural midwest. Cook uses the inflamed geopolitical and increasingly divided social environment across the United States as a guide to questioning the formation of identity within isolated communities. Her commitment to this work is driven by her care for the stories, lives, and histories of the people she meets. In May of 2018, Cook graduated with a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
San Francisco
Hopper Prize Grant Recipient (Spring 2019)
Mark Baugh-Sasaki was born and raised in San Francisco. He received his BFA in 2004 from Carnegie Mellon University and his MFA in 2017 from Stanford University. Baugh-Sasaki has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has had solo exhibitions at Krowswork in Oakland, CA, and the Brandstater Gallery at La Sierra University in Riverside, CA. He is a former resident artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts and was a James Irvine Fellow at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. In 2016 he was awarded the Cadogan Award by The San Francisco Foundation. His work is included in public collections at the Recology Artist in Residence program, the University of San Francisco, and Summit AIR. In the fall of 2019 he has solo exhibition with re.riddle in San Francisco. Baugh-Sasaki Currently lives and works in San Francisco.
These are just 5 recent winners of The Hopper Prize, an institution committed to supporting a diverse array of artists, working in all types of media, in wide-ranging geographic locations.
To explore work by more grant recipients and finalists, visit their archive of past winners.
To learn more about their grant offerings, visit their homepage.
Read in-depth interviews with recent winners and finalists in their Journal Insights into Contemporary Art.
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