Joyce Award Winners

Edgar Arceneaux with University of Illinois at Chicago Gallery 400

Related

Share

Visual artist Edgar Arceneaux was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, where he continues to live and work. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of Arts and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and at the Fachhochschule Aachen in Germany. He has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums and has had twelve solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe including those at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In his drawings, sculptures, and installations, Arceneaux pushes the viewer to find unexpected connections and relationships between words, places, and ideas.

The Joyce Award supported Gallery 400 in commissioning Arceneaux to create a short 35- mm film installation entitled The Alchemy of Comedy. The subject of the film is a performance of jokes, puns, one-liners, and witticisms performed by comedian David Allen Grier. Gallery 400 and Arceneaux invited students from UIC and two schools from the Alternative Schools Network, Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School and Westside Alternative High School, to participate as both film crew and audience. The project was presented from April to June 2005 and included shooting the film in the gallery with a live audience and coinciding with the ArtChicago and Chicago Contemporary and Classic art fairs.

Related Content

Grantee Spotlight

They Got NEXT — Chicago Sinfonietta Celebrates 35 Years

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chicago Sinfonietta, like so many organizations, was forced to reimagine itself, pivoting programming and performances to a fully virtual space.

Grantee
Chicago Sinfonietta

News

Joyce Awards Information Session

Culture director Mia Khimm and grants manager Lynne Wiora discuss the Joyce Awards program and the application process. LOIs are due on September 12, 2022. New applicants should create accounts by September 7, 2022.

News

2022 Joyce Awards Announcement

Five innovative new projects by pioneering artists of color spanning the visual, performing, and multidisciplinary arts that engage diverse communities in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Minneapolis-St. Paul will receive this year’s annual awards.

News

The “Full-Circle” Moment of Nick Cave and Forothermore

Recent work by Internationally acclaimed, Chicago-based artist and Joyce Awards winner Nick Cave.

Grantee Spotlight

Congo Square Play Promotes Healing, Catharsis in Chicago

Congo Square Theatre is an ensemble dedicated to producing transformative work rooted in the African Diaspora. For 20 years it has committed to telling stories by and for Black people.

Grantee
Congo Square Theatre Company

News

Groundbreaking Lyric Opera Show Led by Two Joyce Award Winners

Profile on Joyce Award Winners Terence Blanchard & Camille A. Brown involvement in new Lyric Opera show

Grantee Spotlight

Building collective power through research

Black Researchers Collective was founded in 2019 with a mission to train and equip communities with the research tools necessary to be more civically engaged and policy informed.

Grantee
Black Researchers Collective

Grantee Spotlight

The nation’s first Black arts museum

South Side Community Art Center is the nation’s first Black arts museum that develops and showcases some of the nation’s most influential Black artists.

Grantee
South Side Community Art Center