Prize Winner 2020:
Seph Rodney
Seph Rodney, Ph.D., was born in Jamaica and came of age in the Bronx, New York. He is a former senior critic and opinions editor for Hyperallergic and now regularly contributes to The New York Times. He has written for CNN, NBC, Art in America, American Craft Magazine, and penned catalog essays on Gary Simmons, Lisa Corinne Davis, Pope.L, Teresita Fernandez, Sarah Oppenheimer, and Meleko Mokgosi, among others. His book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit, was published by Routledge in May 2019. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Prize and in 2022 won the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He is also a curator of contemporary art and a co-curator of the 2024 exhibition Get in the Game, one of the largest exhibitions that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has undertaken.