January 13, 2026
Meet the Winner of the Guggenheim’s Inaugural $50,000 Visual Arts Award
Aside from its prestigious fellowship, the Guggenheim now offers another honor for accomplished creatives: the Jack Galef Visual Arts Award. Made possible by a generous gift from the Jack Galef Estate, the new prize will recognize contemporary artists of exceptional talent every two years, providing $50,000 to its recipients. To inaugurate the award, the Guggenheim tapped Catherine Telford Keogh, whose interdisciplinary practice focuses on themes such as value, waste, consumption, infrastructure, biology, and commodification.
