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Independent Curators International (ICI), the leading arts organization focused on the role of the curator in contemporary art and culture, announced today that it will honor Patricia Phelps de Cisneros with the 2017 Leo Award. Mrs. Cisneros will be presented with the award at ICI's Annual Benefit & Auction in New York City on Wednesday October 25th 2017, hosted by Co-Chairs Sarah Arison, Agnes Gund and Vik Muniz and Honorary Co-Chairs Sydie Lansing and Ann and Mel Schaffer.
Named after early ICI supporter and legendary art dealer Leo Castelli, the award honors extraordinary commitment to artists and pioneering contributions to the field of contemporary art. Past recipients include Michael Govan, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein, Miuccia Prada, and Dasha Zhukova.
For more than four decades, Mrs. Cisneros has fervently advanced education in the arts, with a focus on Latin America. She has developed a collection of art that reflects the breadth and depth of practice across the region—spanning works by traveling artists to and within Latin America and the Caribbean from the 17th and 19th centuries; furniture and art from the colonial period; to an ethnographic collection from Venezuela's Amazonas region; and contemporary art.
The collection has served as the inspiration and point of departure for the primary art-related program of the Fundación Cisneros, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), which makes the works available to curators and scholars internationally. The CPPC has been the subject of 14 exhibitions in 9 countries, seen by over 7 million people. Through its regular touring, the collection has increased the appreciation and knowledge of art from Latin America among a broad global audience. This achievement reflects the mission of ICI, which, like CPPC, seeks to build a global network for curatorial knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
Mrs. Cisneros says, "I am thrilled to be awarded this great honor by ICI, an organization that has been a pioneer and an inspiration in creating international networks for contemporary art. The art world has become increasingly global over the last decades, and ICI has had a key role in providing intellectual heft and sophistication to this process. I am especially pleased to see their ongoing commitment to art and artists from the Caribbean and Central and South America."
With an extensive vision, Mrs. Cisneros has also supported numerous publications and travel scholarships, and endowed multiple institutional positions allowing artists and curators to further their investigations into Latin America's contributions to the arts.
ICI and the CPPC have worked together for many years, sharing the vision of enhancing international curatorial scholarship with joint initiatives such as the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean. Now in its fifth edition, the curatorial research award supports a contemporary art curator based anywhere in the world to travel to Central America and the Caribbean to conduct research into art and cultural activities in the region. Intended to generate new collaborations with artists, curators, museums, and cultural centers in the area, the award covers curatorial residencies, studio visits, and/or archival research. This year's application deadline for the Travel Award is April 30. More details can be found here: http://curatorsintl.org/events/the-2017-cppc-travel-award-for-central-america-and-the-caribbean.
ABOUT PATRICIA PHELPS DE CISNEROS
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and is the co-founder, with her husband, Gustavo Cisneros, of the Fundación Cisneros, based in New York and Caracas. The Fundación Cisneros supports Latin American educational and cultural initiatives and fosters awareness of the region's heritage and contributions to the arts. With offices in NYC and Caracas, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros comprises five major areas of Latin American material culture, and publishes a website www.coleccioncisneros.org with commissioned editorial content. Mrs. Cisneros is a Trustee of MoMA, where she founded the Latin American and Caribbean Fund, and a founding Trustee of the Fundación Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, and she is on the visiting committee for the Harvard Art Museums, among other organizations. Her international distinctions include Italy's Leone d'Oro di San Marco, Spain's Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de Alfonso X and Medalla de Oro Mérito en las Bellas Artes, and France's Légion d'honneur.
ABOUT ICI
Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research, and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, ICI is a hub that connects emerging and established curators, artists, and art spaces in all 50 US states and 65 countries, forging international networks and generating new forms of collaborations. ICI provides access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
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