2018 was an amazing year for the arts in Greater Boston. There were so many cool projects, exciting public commissions, new arts venues, and significant exhibitions and performances that showcased artists and ideas overdue for critical acclaim.
We feel inspired and proud to be a part of such a vibrant arts community, and want to celebrate the artists and institutions who represent the best of Greater Boston's creative ecosystem. So, we decided to hand out some awards...
This year's HUBweek Art Awards will recognize 39 projects in 10 categories, from innovative art spaces to provocative performance art to fresh new murals. Nominated and voted on by the Greater Boston arts community, the nominees showcase the vibrancy of this region. Stay tuned for the announcement of this year's winners on February 25, 2019!
So without further ado, the nominees:
ICA Watershed, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Seaport Boulevard, Boston
Studio Allston Hotel, Allston
Significant Survey Exhibitions
Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement, Boston College McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Coded., Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
Nine Moments For Now, The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, Harvard University
Under a Dismal Boston Skyline, Boston University Art Galleries
Bashezo, Space With Those Without Names, CASTLEDRONE
Coleslaw’s Corner, Boston’s Best Drag Queens, Museum of Science Boston
Karen Young, Older and Bolder, Grove Hall Senior Center
Martin Creed, Words and Music, Peabody Essex Museum at the Boston Center for the Arts
Smolnikova + Williams, Rainbow Collapse, Boston Center for the Arts
Various artists, Fog x FLO performances, The Emerald Necklace Conservancy
Beyond Walls, Lynn Lights, Lynn
Cynthia Gunadi and Joel Lamere, Lost House, Now + There in Dorchester
Fujiko Nakaya, Fog x FLO, The Emerald Necklace Conservancy
Liz Glynn, Open House, Now + There at the Commonwealth Avenue Mall
Steve Locke, Three Deliberate Grays For Freddie (A Memorial For Freddie Gray), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
IMAGINE (Sneha Shrestha), For Cambridge with Love from Nepal, Central Square, Cambridge
Marka27 (Victor Quiñonez), Love Thyself, Grove Hall
Percy Fortini-Wright, Central Square mural, Cambridge
Shara Hughes, Carving Out Fresh Options, Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
Caitlin Foley, Heather Kapplow and Misha Rabinovich, Sweat it Out, Fort Point Arts Community
Stephanie Cardon, Unless, Now + There at Prudential Center
Steve Locke, Love Letter to a Library, Boston Public Library and the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture
William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects, ICA Boston
BAMS Festival
ILLUMINUS
Abby Z and the New Utility, abandoned playground, ICA Boston
ANIKAYA Dance Theater, Conference of the Birds, Boston Center for the Arts
Boston Dance Theatre, ICA Boston
Best in Art, Science, and Tech
Ani Liu, Laboratory of Longings: The Experiments of Ani Liu, Boston Center for the Arts
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, ICA Boston
Artificial Creativity: Neural Network and Augmented Intelligence Art, Boston Cyberarts
Joy Buolamwini, AI, Ain’t I a Woman, The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, Harvard University
Stephanie Benenson, Harbor Voices, and Ereni Markos, My name translated is Strength, ILLUMINUS
