2010 Art Awards

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Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards

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Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards
In association with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and White Columns

Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 7 pm
Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street, New York City

7 pm      Red carpet arrivals and cocktail reception
8 pm      Awards ceremony and dinner

The Art Awards celebrates select individuals, exhibitions, and projects that have made a significant impact on the field of contemporary art during the past year. Pruitt, whose conceptual practice is rooted in a Pop sensibility and a playful critique of art-world structures, conceived the event as a performance-based artwork that follows the format of a Hollywood awards ceremony.

The 2010 awards ceremony celebrated artists, curators, and writers in fourteen different categories. The nominating and voting processes were conducted by an international group of more than one thousand artists and arts professionals.

Jonas Mekas and Martha Rosler were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Awards. Marilyn Minter was awarded the Artist-Educator Achievement Award.

The following winners were announced live on December 8:

  • Alternative Space of the Year: Artists Space, New York
  • Alternative Project of the Year: INDEPENDENT, New York
  • Artist of the Year: Louise Bourgeois
  • Blogger or Critic of the Year: Jerry Saltz
  • Curator of the Year: Chrissie Iles
  • Exhibition Outside the United States: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, Tate Modern, London (in association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
  • Group Show of the Year, Gallery: Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960–1970, David Zwirner, New York
  • Group Show of the Year, Museum: In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • New Artist of the Year: Tauba Auerbach
  • The Rob Pruitt Award: Lena Dunham
  • Solo Show of the Year, Gallery: Trisha Donnelly, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
  • Solo Show of the Year, Museum: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York


The gala awards ceremony was a fund-raising event for two not-for-profit visual arts organizations: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and White Columns.