"As the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition rounds the corner on two decades since its founding in 2006, it continues to highlight contemporary artists working in portraiture who push to expand preconceived notions of the centuries-old genre,"
"The 2025 competition-based triennial invites visitors to explore how artists are engaging with portraiture, sometimes embracing its tradition and other times redrawing the boundaries of the genre, with the intent of examining what it means to be human."
"I was specifically interested in this relationship between the person doing the recording and the people being recorded,"
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery awarded Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition prize for his 2023 two-channel video installation Down the Barrel (of a Lens). Neal will receive $25,000 and a commission to create a portrait of a living person for the museum’s permanent collection. Down the Barrel (of a Lens) is included in the exhibition of this year’s 35 finalists (24 January–30 August). The competition highlights contemporary artists expanding portraiture and invites exploration of how artists engage with and redraw the boundaries of the genre. Neal’s work draws on a 2021 residency at New York City’s Department of Records, where he found thousands of reels of NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 70s; the installation pairs footage of protests with projections of police setting up equipment and filming each other.
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