APPLICATIONS FOR 2024 LIU SHIMING ARTIST GRANTS FROM 90+ NATIONALITIES
September 16, 2024 – NEW YORK, NY. For its 2024 Artist Grant competition supporting early career visual artists, the Liu Shiming Art Foundation received nearly 1,000 applications from across the globe. The exceptionally diverse applicant pool included submissions from over 90 nationalities representing virtually every region of the world, including 21countries in Africa, 21 in Asia, 8 in the Middle East, 15 in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 26 European countries, along with Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.
Outside of the United States, which counted for just under 30% of the applicant pool, the 10 countries with the largest number of submissions were China, Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, India, Russia, and Israel. Within the United States, artists from 39 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico submitted applications. The Foundation is now beginning a review process that will extend through the fall and conclude with our distinguished selection panel ranking the top applications. Final decisions will be made in December, with an announcement of the five recipients scheduled for early in the new year.
2024 Distinguished Selection Panel
FRAN KAUFMAN
FRAN KAUFMAN is Curatorial Director of the Liu Shiming Art Foundation and the Liu Shiming Art Gallery. She is also a principal in Kaufman Vardy Projects, an international consultancy focused on strategic marketing and curatorial practice, where she worked with The Warhol Museum on special projects. Fran was previously a partner in Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, a contemporary gallery with an international roster of artists and a dedicated center for dialogue between visual art, literature, criticism, and music. She launched the premier International Houston Fine Art Fair, and served as Director of palmbeach3 contemporary art fair. She has been a regular lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, NYU’s Graduate School of the Arts, and Pratt Institute among other venues, and frequently writes about art. Her curatorial projects have been featured in the US, Italy, Germany, and Latin America., including the first solo photography exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires).
PETER WAYNE LEWIS
PETER WAYNE LEWIS has exhibited his paintings extensively in the US, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. Recent solo museum exhibitions include The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington), UCCA - Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (Beijing), and MOCA-North Miami. Upcoming exhibitions include Scully Tomasko Foundation (NYC) and PAHM-Pan African Heritage Museum (Accra). His work is in numerous public and private collections in the US, Europe, and Asia. Peter also served as Chairman of the Department of Painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston) where he held a tenured faculty position for 25 years. He maintains an ambitious studio practice, splitting his time between the New York Metro area and Beijing.
CINDY QI
CINDY QI is an Associate Specialist in Chinese Art at Sotheby’s New York. She previously worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Christie’s. Cindy earned an MA in Chinese Art from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, with expertise in ceramics and works of art of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
YOHANNA M ROA
YOHANNA M ROA is a New York-based transcultural visual artist, art historian, art critic, and a permanent collaborator of ArtNexus and Whitehot art magazines. She has developed curatorial projects and educational art and archive projects for various institutions, including the National Center of the Arts CENIDIAP (Mexico City), WhiteBox (NYC), and La Tertulia Museum of Modern Art (Cali). Yohanna received a PhD in History and Critical Theories of Art from the Universidad Iberoamericana, México. Her most recent solo-performance Pocahontas and La Malinche, took place in May at The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, Spain.
DR. LINDSEY SCHNEIDER
DR. LINDSEY SCHNEIDER is Executive Director of The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), and Editor-In-Chief of the IFAR Journal. A scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, she has over two decades of management experience at institutions including The Bard Graduate Center, American Academy in Rome, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received an MA and PhD from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Lindsey is also an adjunct professor in Columbia's art history department.
