The jury said in its statement that Majoli’s art “keeps history alive.” At Made in L.A., she is exhibiting archival materials related to Blueboys, one of the first gay magazines in the U.S. Majoli is known for her works focused on BDSM and gay liberation. That jury included Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles senior curator Jamillah James and independent curators Mia Locks and Diana Nawi. “In the past few years, she has really distinguished herself as someone whose thinking can help us contend with the current moment, the histories that brought us here, and, importantly, point a way forward.”
“This award is in recognition not only of Williams’s studio practice, but also of her role as a writer, editor, cultural commentator, and public intellectual,” the Mohn Award jury wrote in a statement. She will have exhibitions in 2021 at the Serpentine Galleries in London and 52 Walker, a new David Zwirner–owned space in New York run by dealer Ebony L. She also has an exhibition currently on view at Los Angeles’s Night Gallery focused on the myth of Eurydice, spectatorship, and the Black figure. It is a big year for Williams, whose first institutional solo show is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Williams produced new readers for the platform during a residency at Luma Westbau in Zurich earlier this year. Williams also runs Cassandra Press, a publishing platform for Black feminist scholarship on an array of topics, including Black Twitter, double consciousness, and misogynoir. Other works by Williams have considered structural racism through the histories of plants and the international slave trade.
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