Cauleen Smith Wins Studio Museum’s $50,000 Wein Artist Prize

Artist Cauleen Smith, whose films and installations examine Black identity, histories of the African diaspora, feminism, Afrofuturism, and other topics, has won the Studio Museum in Harlem’s annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, which comes with $50,000. Previous winners of the prize, which was established in 2006 and is named after a longtime trustee of the museum, include Derrick Adams, Simone Leigh, and Diedrick Brackens.
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