Myriam Mihindou, Johnnie Walker 1/3, from the series Sculpture de chair, 1999-2000, cibachrome, 88 x 62 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Maïa Muller, Paris, France. © ADAGP, Paris, France.
Myriam Mihindou in Conversation with Valerie Smith
Thursday, October 26 at 6:30 PM
A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth Street)
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Please join us on Thursday, October 26 at 6:30 PM for an artist’s talk by French-Gabonese artist Myriam Mihindou. The winner of the 2022 AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize for mid-career French women artists, Mihindou will present on her recent work and current research for two upcoming exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo and CRAC Occitanie in conversation with curator Valerie Smith.
This event marks the conclusion of Mihindou’s two-month AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize residency in New York City, co-organized by Villa Albertine, A.I.R. Gallery, and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions.
Multidisciplinary artist Myriam Mihindou was born in 1964 in Libreville, Gabon into a French-Gabonese dual culture. In her work, she is interested in “bruises of the soul” and the ways in which we absorb the places where we live. Her commitment to environmentalism and feminism has brought an unmistakable political dimension into her current production. An AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize laureate in 2022, she is represented by the Maia Muller Gallery in Paris. Her work has been shown at several solo exhibitions, in France and abroad, and numerous group exhibitions, including those at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, in 2014, the MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, and the CAPC in Bordeaux, in 2021. Her most recent performances have been showcased at the Palazzo Rossini at the Venice Biennale (2017), the Centre Pompidou (2019), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (2019), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Étienne (2019), CNAP/AWARE’s La Vie Bonne (2020), and the CAPC in Bordeaux (2021).
Valerie Smith is an art historian, writer, and curator who teaches exhibition histories at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
About the AWARE Prizes
Since their creation in 2016, the AWARE prizes have shone a new light on the careers of women artists and increased recognition of their work. In 2022, one of the two AWARE prizes, hitherto dedicated to emerging artists, became the Nouveau Regard prize to be awarded to mid-career artists, who are currently less supported by existing prizes and the art world. The winner of this new prize benefits from a residency at the Villa Albertine and tailored accompaniment by A.I.R. Gallery in New York. As part of its partnership with AWARE, the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques) offers the winner of the Nouveau Regard prize the acquisition of works that will join its collection. The winning artist also benefits from a production grant for a solo exhibition to be held within the D.C.A network (French Association for the Development of Contemporary Art Centers). The Outstanding Merit prize for artists with a career spanning over 40 years remains unchanged.
About AWARE
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is a non-profit association dedicated to shining a light on women and non-binary artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since its creation in 2014, AWARE has worked to make thousands of artists visible by creating many different types of innovative content, all available for free in both English and French on the AWARE website, as well as through organizing and participating in academic and non-academic events (symposiums, conferences, curation of art fairs). AWARE also supports contemporary artists by awarding two contemporary art prizes every year.
