Prize Winner 2022:
Shana Nys Dambrot
Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. Formerly the arts editor at the L.A. Weekly, she is the co-founder of 13ThingsLA, and a contributor to the Village Voice, Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications. She studied art history at Vassar College, curates and juries exhibitions, writes prolifically for exhibition catalogs and monographic publications, and speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. She is the recipient of the Rabkin Prize, the Mozaik Future Art Writers Prize (twice), and the LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Critic of the Year award (twice). Her oneiric novella Zen Psychosis (Griffith Moon) was published in 2020 and features a suite of pinhole photographs by Osceola Refetoff.