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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM ANNOUNCES

SHORT LIST FOR THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2012(NEW YORK, NY November 28, 2011) Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim

Museum and Foundation, and Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, Chairman and CEO, HUGO BOSS AG, today

announced the finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2012. The biennial award was established in 1996 to

recognize significant achievement in contemporary art.

The following artists are finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2012:

Trisha Donnelly (b. 1974, San Francisco) Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) Qiu Zhijie (b. 1969, Zhangzhou, China) Monika Sosnowska (b. 1972, Ryki, Poland) Danh Vo (b. 1975, B Ra, Vietnam) Tris Vonna-Michell (b. 1982, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom)

On behalf of the jury, we are delighted to announce the ninth biennial Hugo Boss Prize finalists, said

Mr. Armstrong. Since its inception in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize has become one of the worlds most

noted juried prizes. The selection of these six exceptional artists for the 2012 short list offers insight into

some of todays most dynamic practices.

A publication featuring the work of the six finalists with accompanying essays will be published in

summer 2012. The winner will be selected and announced in fall 2012, followed by an exhibition of the

artists work to be presented in 2013 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Already in its sixteenth year, the Hugo Boss Prize has become a fixture in our arts sponsorship programand a key feature of our corporate culture, said Mr. Lahrs. We are therefore particularly delighted thatit enjoys such a fine reputation on the international arts scene. We congratulate the six short-listedcandidates and are already looking forward to the award ceremony in the fall of 2012.


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The Hugo Boss Prize 2012 Short ListTrisha Donnelly (b. 1974, San Francisco) lives and works in San Francisco and New York. Donnellyengages the mediums of photography, drawing, sound, video, carving, and demonstration. Her spare,enigmatic gestures evoke shifting perceptions and associations, challenging the confines of time,language, and conventional narrative.

Solo exhibitions of Donnellys work have been presented at Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (2010);MAMbo Museo darte moderna di Bologna, Italy (2009); Institute of Contemporary Art, University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia (2008); Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (2008); and Modern ArtOxford (2007). Donnellys work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, includingVideoSpace,Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2011); Venice Biennale: ILLUMInazioni(ILLUMInations) (2011); I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, Museumof Modern Art, New York (2011); Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Acts, Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, New York (2010), and Museu de arte contempornea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal(2011); Yokohama Triennial, Japan (2008); The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London (200708),and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2008); Il Tempo del Postino, Manchester InternationalFestival (2007, organized with Thtre du Chtelet, Paris), and Theater Basel (2009, organized with ArtBasel and Fondation Beyeler, Basel);Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial: Day forNight(2006); Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York (2006); Berlin Biennial: Of Mice + Men (2006);

A Brief History of Invisible Art, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts,San Francisco (200506); and Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (200405).

Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) lives and works in Brooklyn. Johnsons conceptual photographs,sculptures, and videos draw on personal memories and pop culture, as well as myriad literary and art-historical sources, to explore and complicate notions of racial and cultural identity.

Solo exhibitions of Johnsons work have been held at Power House Memphis (2009); KunstmuseumKloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany (2008); and Indianapolis Museum ofContemporary Art (2005). Johnsons work has been included in group exhibitions such as the VeniceBiennale: ILLUMInazioni(ILLUMInations) (2011); 30 Americans, North Carolina Museum of Art,Raleigh (2011), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (201112), and Chrysler Museum of Art,Norfolk, Virginia (2012); Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion , Museum ofContemporary Art, Chicago (2011); Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence , SchirnKunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2011), and CAPC Muse dart contemporain de Bordeaux, France(201112); From Then to Now: Masterworks of African American Art,Museum of Contemporary ArtCleveland (2010); 30 Seconds off an Inch,Studio Museum, New York (200910);Across the Divide:Reconsidering the Other,Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery (200809); MCA Exposed: Defining

Moments in Photography, 19672007,Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007);AmericanIdentities,Brooklyn Museum of Art (2006); Prague Biennial: In Search of a Continuous Present(2005);Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art,Selections from the Collection of Julia J.Norrell,Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (200405); Inside Out: Portrait Photographs fromthe Permanent Collection,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Only Skin Deep:Changing Visions of the American Self,International Center of Photography, New York (200304),


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Seattle Art Museum (2004), and Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (2005); The SquaredCircle: Boxing in Contemporary Art,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (200304); and Freestyle,StudioMuseum (2001).

Qiu Zhijie (b. 1969, Zhangzhou, China) lives and works in Beijing and Hangzhou, China. Qius diversepractice embraces sculpture, painting, printmaking, video, photography, and performance. His work,which frequently translates traditional techniques into conceptual forms, examines the intersection

between political history and current social realities in China.

Qiu has had solo exhibitions at such institutions as Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China(2010); Haus der Kulturen del Welt, Berlin (2010); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2009);Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2008); Long March Space, Beijing (2007); FundaoOriente, Macau, China (2000); and Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (1999).Group shows featuring Qius work include Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art Since

2000, Museu de arte contempornea da universidade de So Paulo (2011); Photography from the NewChina, Getty Center, Los Angeles (201011); Shanghai Biennial (2010); Thirty Years of ChineseContemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2010); Contemplating the Void: Interventions inthe Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Breaking Forecast:Eight Key Figures of Chinas New Generation of Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (200910); Media Art China 2009: Timelapse, A Swiss-China Media Art Exhibition, National Art Museum ofChina, Beijing (2009), and Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (2010); Fukuoka Triennial, Japan (2009);Venice Biennale (2009); Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); Poetic Realism: A Reinterpretation of

Jiangnan, Centro de arte Toms y Valiente, Madrid (2008); The Real Thing: Contemporary Art fromChina, Tate Liverpool (2007); Moscow Biennial: We areyour future (2007); Trading Place, Museum ofContemporary Art, Taipei (2005); Yokohama Triennial, Japan (2005);Alors la Chine?, CentrePompidou, Paris (2003); Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century,Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago (1999); and Inside Out, PS1 Contemporary Art Center,New York (1998).

Monika Sosnowska (b. 1972, Ryki, Poland) lives and works in Warsaw. Replicating the forms andvocabulary of architecture, Sosnowskas sculptures and immersive installations express the psychologyof the built environment and amplify the particular social or historical concerns that relate to the sites ofher work.

Solo exhibitions by Sosnowska have been presented at the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2011);Artpace, San Antonio (2010); K21 Stndehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dsseldorf,Germany (2010); Primrose Hill (public art project), London (2008); Polish Pavilion, Venice Biennale(2007); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006); Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (2006);Serpentine Gallery, London (200405); and Knstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2004). Selected group

exhibitions include We Will Live, We Will See , Zabludowicz Collection, London (2011); The Power ofFantasy: Imagination at Work, BOZAR, Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels (2011); Venice Biennale:ILLUMInazioni(ILLUMInations) (2011); elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (200911);

XXS: Extra Extra Small, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2007); Stay forever and ever and ever,South London Gallery (2007); START!, Grieder Contemporary, Ksnacht, Switzerland (2006); Satelliteof Love, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2006);ARS 06 Sense


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of the Real, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2006); Bewitched, Bothered andBewildered: Spatial Emotion in Art and Architecture, Migros Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Zurich(2003);Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Womens Art in Poland, Sculpture Center, New York(2003); Polish Pavilion, Venice Biennale: Clandestine (2003); Istanbul Biennial: Poetic Justice (2003);Re:Location 6: re(framed)locations, dis(covered)desires, Villa Arson, Nice (2003), and Laznia Center forContemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland (2004); Manifesta4, Frankfurt, Germany (2002); and GwangjuBiennial, South Korea: Project 1 (2002).

Danh Vo (b. 1975, B Ra, Vietnam) lives and works in Berlin. Vos installations deftly intermingleautobiography with larger cultural narratives of migration, history, and identity. He allows poetic newconnotations to emerge through the staging of meticulously selected images, objects, and documents.

Vos work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2011);Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (201011); Artists Space, New York (2010); Kunsthalle Basel(2009); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2009); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); andBrandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany (2007). Vos work has been featured in such groupexhibitions as Thats the way we do it:The Techniques and Aesthetic of Appropriation,From Ei Arakawato Andy Warhol,Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2011); I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life inContemporary Drawing,Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); To the Arts, Citizens!, Museu dearte contempornea Serralves, Porto, Portugal (201011); Gwangju Biennial, South Korea: 10,000 Lives(2010); Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), Kunsthalle Basel (2010); Berlin Biennial(2010);Morality ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables , Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam,Netherlands (200910); GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words, SMAK Stedelijk Museum vooractuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (200910); Preis der Nationalgalerie fr junge Kunst 2009, HamburgerBahnhof, Berlin (2009);Jahresgaben 2008, Kunstverein Mnchen, Munich (2008); Yokohama Triennial,Japan: Time Crevasse (2008); Manifesta 7: Comitato, Bolzano, Italy (2008); Where the lions are,Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2008); The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural

Memory, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2007);Not a Drop but the Fall, Knstlerhaus Bremen, Germany (200506); Pilot:2, Pilot, London (2005); andEXIT 2004, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen (2004).

Tris Vonna-Michell (b. 1982, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom) lives and works in Stockholm.Vonna-Michells spoken-word performances and multimedia installations, which are constructed fromaudio recordings, slide projections, and related artifacts, probe the operations of storytelling andmemory.

Solo exhibitions of Vonna-Michells work have been held at such institutions as Jeu de Paume, Paris

(200910); X Initiative, New York (2009); Kunsthalle Zrich, Zurich (2009); GAMeC Galleria dartemoderna e contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (2009); Kunstverein Braunschweig Cuboid, Brunswick,Germany (2007); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2007); andBOZAR, Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels (2006). Vonna-Michells work has been featured in numerousgroup exhibitions, including The Other Tradition, WIELS, Brussels (2011); New Frankfurt Internationals:Stories and Stages, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (201011); British Art Show 7: In the


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Days of the Comet, Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom (201011), Hayward Gallery, London(2011), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2011), and Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth, UnitedKingdom (2011); Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (201011); Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museodarte contemporanea, Italy (201011); This World & Nearer Ones, Creative Time, New York (2009);Finding Chopin, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (2009); The Generational: Younger than

Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009); I Repeat Myself When Under Stress, Museum ofContemporary Art Detroit (2009); Tate Britain, London, Tate Triennial:Altermodern (2009); Fia

Backstrm: That Social Space Between Speaking and Meaning, White Columns, New York (2008); TateBritain, Tate Triennial: Prologue 1, (2008); Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word, Royal Collegeof Art, London (2008); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Berlin Biennial (2008); FloatingTerritories, Evens Foundation, Trans Biennial Project, Istanbul, Athens, and Venice (2007); andKlnShow2, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany (2007).

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