Ibrahim Mahama Wins Dia’s Inaugural Sam Gilliam Award

The Dia Art Foundation in New York has announced that Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has won the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, which comes with $75,000 and a public program at one of Dia’s locations this fall. The Sam Gilliam Award was established last year by the late artist’s foundation and his widow, Annie Gawlak, who serves as president of the foundation. With plans to dole out the prize annually for the next decade, the award will go to “an artist working anywhere in t