The Socrates Annual 2024
The Socrates Annual 2024
September 14, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Artist Fellows
Kimberly Chou Tsun An, Jill Cohen-Nuñez*, Utsa Hazarika, Landon Newton, Mamoun Nukumanu, Juan-Manuel Pinzon, Vick Quezada, Petra Szilagyi, Nala C. Turner
RELATED EVENTS | EXHIBITION BROCHURE | ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP | PRESS | PRESS KIT
The Socrates Annual 2024 is the culmination of Socrates Sculpture Park’s fellowship program, awarded to nine artists selected through an open call. Since 2001, the fellowship program has supported early career artists who receive financial and technical support to realize ambitious public artworks to be included in a park-wide exhibition.
In June, Socrates unveiled four projects by Kimberly Chou Tsun An, Landon Newton, Mamoun Nukumanu, and Vick Quezada as part of this year’s expanded fellowship. This new ecology-focused cohort of artists harnessed the peak spring and summer growing seasons to create “living” installations that engage the Park’s past, present, and future inhabitants within its former industrial wetland landscape. Incorporating and collaborating with dozens of native and introduced plant species, these ecological interventions have flourished throughout the summer and will continue to evolve with the changing seasons.
Throughout the summer, artists Jill Cohen-Nuñez*, Utsa Hazarika, Juan Manuel-Pinzon, Petra Szilagyi, and Nala C. Turner have been fabricating site-specific sculptures in the Park’s open-air studio. Utilizing a wide range of materials–mud, clamshells, metal, clay, stone, and found wood–these five projects delve into notions of diaspora, displacement, containment and assimilation, linking human adaptability with that of other living species.
*Jill Cohen-Nuñez is the 2024 Devra Freelander Artist Fellow
The Socrates Annual 2024 is organized by Socrates Sculpture Park and curated by Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, Curator & Director of Exhibitions
Related Events
Opening Celebration —>
The Socrates Annual 2024
September 14, 2024 | 3 – 5 pm
Celebrate the new works with the 2024 Fellows! Their site-specific projects consider the legacies of species migration juxtaposed with myths of invasion related to people, animals, and plants. The event will include activations and performances initiated by Artist Fellows.
Apothecary Fridays —>
with Kimberly Chou Tsun An
October 11, 18, 25, 2024
Come make herbal medicine in community, with facilitation from Artist Fellow Kimberly Chou Tsun An. Learn about the plants integrated in her work Yours, Mine, Ours: Community Garden.
Communion —>
A collaboration between Petra Szilagyi and quori theodor
Sunday, March 30, 2025 | 2 – 4 pm
The artists will activate Szilagyi’s sculpture Muddership, an earthen technology for prayer, with bread stamping, eating, drinking, research, parables and telepathic communion.
Press
February 20, 2025. Hyperallergic “Spring 2025 New York Art Guide“
October 2, 2024. The New York Times “Free Things to Do in New York, Every Day of the Week”
September 3, 2024. The Architect’s Newspaper “Architecture and design exhibitions opening this fall that can’t be missed”
September 2, 2024. Cultured Mag “Here Are 11 New York Museum Shows You Do Not Want to Miss This Fall”
August 23, 2024. Hyperallergic “Hyperallergic Fall 2024 New York Art Guide“
August 21, 2024. Queens Gazette “Artists Embrace Invasive Species In The Socrates Annual 2024”
August 17, 2024. Ocula Magazine “Socrates Sculpture Park to Sprout New Installations”
August 16, 2024. Gotham2Go “Socrates Sculpture Park Presents The Socrates Annual 2024”
About the Fellowship
The Socrates Annual 2024 Artist Fellows were selected from over 250 applicants by a selection committee that included Eric Booker, Associate Curator at Storm King Art Center; Carlos Jiménez Cahua, Socrates Fellow, 2018; Patrick Costello, Socrates Fellow, 2020; and Brendan Parker, Senior Farm Manager at Red Hook Farms, along with Socrates Sculpture Park staff members Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, Curator & Director of Exhibitions; Ewart Louie Jordan, Grounds Manager; Eric Mathews, Former Director of Grounds & Horticulture; Terrence McCutchen, Grounds Manager; Marisa Prefer, Former Senior Director of Park Operations.
Each Artist Fellow is awarded a $8,000 production grant, $2,000 honorarium, and three months of seven-days-a-week access to the resources and fabrication facilities of the Park’s outdoor artist studio to realize their proposed project. The Fellowship was formalized in 2000 and has included artists such as Sable Elyse Smith (2016), David Brooks (2009), Leilah Babirye (2018), Orly Genger (2004), Sanford Biggers (2001), and Torkwase Dyson (2015).
Learn more about the open call process HERE>>>
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Support
Major support for The Socrates Annual Fellowship 2024 comes from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Additional support is provided by Charina Endowment Fund, the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, Devra Freelander Artist Fund, Agnes Gund, and Lambent Foundation, with in-kind support provided by Spacetime C.C.
Funding is also provided in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Image: Landon Newton, TILT (what if these plants get out), 2024. Photo Credit: Bob Krasner