On April 12, 2022, London’s Tate announced which four British artists were shortlisted for the 2022 Turner Prize. It was on this day that history was made, with three of the four being women and one of whom is nonbinary. This is the first time since 1997 that the list has excluded men entirely.
In the running for this award are Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, and Sin Wai Kin. Diverse in age and respective bodies of work, these nominated artists are all featured in the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, with the winner announced in December.
Phillipson was born in Wales and is forty-three. Her art incorporates digital media, video, sculpture, and installation into a practice additionally comprising music composition and poetry. Philipson earned a spot on the shortlist for her solo exhibition at Tate Britain, “RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach,” and for her Fourth Plinth commission THE END, occupying London’s Trafalgar Square.
Native of Guyana, Pollard is sixty-nine and explores themes of race and otherness via a practice embracing photography, media, and research. She was named for her solo exhibition “Carbon Slowly Turning” at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.
Ryan, at the age of 63, was tapped for her solo show “Along a Spectrum” at Spike Island, Bristol, and for her Hackney Windrush Art Commission in London. Her work is most famous for her use of container-like objects in marble and bronze.
Last, but surely not least, Sin is the youngest nominee at the age of 31. Their work explores concepts of desire, identification, and consciousness through film, performance, and writing. Sin’s contribution to the British Art Show 9 and their solo exhibition for Blindspot Gallery at Frieze London in naming them to the list.
Here is a link and glimpse at the four person shortlist!
