We are delighted for artist Ouattara Watts, named the 2023 winner of the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award.
Founded in honor of renowned artists and teachers Gwendolyn Knight (1913–2005) and Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), the Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the visual arts and artists whose prominence is rising in the contemporary art world.
A major figure in the visual arts of Africa and its diaspora, Ouattara Watts is regularly presented in international events such as the Dakar Biennale and the Venice Biennale. His work has been featured in landmark exhibitions such as The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 at MoMa PS1 (2001, cur. Okwui Enwezor), Body of evidence at the Smithsonian Museum for African Art in Washington (2008) or Afriques Capitales at La Villette (Paris, 2017, cur. Simon Njami). More recently, his works were presented at the Gwangju Biennale (South Korea, 2021, cur.Nathasha Ginwala & Dephne Ayas).
THE GWENDOLYN KNIGHT LAWRENCE AWARD : Ouattara Watts
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