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WHAT: Reveal of the winner of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and preview of “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today”
WHEN: Friday, April 29
10–11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
Eighth and G streets N.W.
WHO: Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery
Taína Caragol, curator of painting, sculpture, and Latinx art and history
Leslie Ureña, curator of photographs
Artist nominees:Pao Houa Her (Blaine, Minn.), Tom Jones (Madison, Wis.), Elsa María Meléndez (Caguas, Puerto Rico), Joel Daniel Phillips (Tulsa, Okla.) and Quraysh Ali Lansana (Enid, Okla.), Stuart Robertson (Lawrence Township, N.J.), Alison Elizabeth Taylor (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Vincent Valdez (Houston)
The National Portrait Gallery will announce the first-prize and subsequent award winners of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at a special press preview for “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” April 29. The first-prize winner receives $25,000 and a commission to create a portrait of a living individual for the museum’s permanent collection. Other cash prizes and commendations will be awarded to the shortlisted finalists.
Established in 2006, the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition encourages artists from across the nation to submit artworks that challenge the definition of portraiture. The 2022 exhibition will present the 42 artworks by 43 artists that were selected by a jury from an open call that received more than 2,700 entries. For a list of all finalists in the competition’s sixth edition, visit portraitcompetition.si.edu.
“The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” will be on view at the Portrait Gallery April 30 through Feb. 26, 2023, before embarking on a national tour. The exhibition is co-curated by Taína Caragol, curator of painting, sculpture, and Latinx art and history, and Leslie Ureña, curator of photographs.
