$50,000 Anonymous Was a Woman Grants Go to Candida Alvarez, Park McArthur, and More

"Those artists include Candida Alvarez, a painter who was recently the subject of an El Museo del Barrio retrospective in New York; Park McArthur, an artist who earlier this year staged an ambitious survey that took place concurrently at museums in Vienna and Mönchengladbach, Germany; and Lola Flash, a photographer whose work is now on view at the Museum of Modern Art. Also in this year's class are photographer Kunié Sugiura, who had a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art show in the spring, and sculptor Sonya Kelliher-Combs, whose work is currently included in "An Indigenous Present," a current survey of Indigenous contemporary art at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston."

""Each year reminds me why this work matters," Anonymous Was a Woman founder Susan Unterberg told ARTnews in an email. "In a period when both artistic freedom and women's rights are increasingly vulnerable, I am more inspired than ever by this year's recipients. Their vision, rigor, and originality remind us what is at stake and fuel our mission to stand behind artists pursuing their work with conviction and imagination.""

Anonymous Was a Woman awarded fifteen woman-identifying artists $50,000 grants this year. Recipients include Candida Alvarez, Park McArthur, Lola Flash, Kunié Sugiura, and Sonya Kelliher-Combs among others. Several recipients currently have or recently had major institutional exhibitions, including retrospectives and survey shows at El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, museums in Vienna and Mönchengladbach, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Founder Susan Unterberg created the organization in 1996 and revealed herself as its benefactor in 2018. The program primarily supports artists over forty and has expanded to fund environmentally minded projects.

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