Studio Museum Names 2026–27 Artists-in-Residence; Brognon Rollin Wins €35,000 Prix Duchamp

By Elena Vasquez

The Studio Museum in Harlem has named Turiya Adkins, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Clifford Prince King as its artists-in-residence for 2026–27. The yearlong residency starts this November and runs through October 2027. All three artists will receive individual studio spaces in the museum's new building on West 125th Street.

The program also provides professional development training and material support. It culminates in a group exhibition in one of the museum's galleries. The current cohort's exhibition remains on view through January 3.

Adkins is a multidisciplinary artist. Hunter works as both artist and curator. King is a photographer and filmmaker.

Who won France's largest contemporary art award?

The Prix Duchamp, France's largest contemporary art award, goes this year to Brognon Rollin, the duo of David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin. The prize carries €35,000, roughly $39,200. An exhibition of works by all four nominees runs through February 7 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.

Museum director Fabrice Hergott praised the duo's conceptual practice as "a quiet yet tenacious statement on human vulnerability." He added that their work "gives tangible form to what usually escapes our gaze: the passage of time spent waiting, addiction and inner resilience."

Joël Andrianomearisoa, Laura Henno, and Josèfa Ntjam were also nominated this year.

Where did $1.76 million in grants go?

The New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts awarded $1,760,000 to 59 nonprofit art organizations through Reserve Fund grants. Individual awards range from $15,000 to $50,000. Recipients include Queer|Art, the Bronx Council on the Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, and Visual AIDS. The full grantee list is published on NYFA's website.

What else happened?

• Anthea M. Hartig, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Americans for the Arts named Matt Ryan chief operating officer and Cillonia McKenley chief development officer.
• Patrick Eugène is now represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles.
• Rachel Kanter and Yana Peel joined the Yale Schwarzman Center's advisory board.

Which works entered museum collections?

The New York Public Library received 250 prints by Kiki Smith, gifted by her sister, artist Seton Smith. The trove of hand-colored intaglios, woodcuts, and artists' books forms the most comprehensive collection of Kiki Smith's prints in the United States. Kiki Smith said she "could think of no more wonderful place for my prints to be."

The Cleveland Museum of Art acquired Teresita Fernández's "Soil Horizon (Cleveland)" (2026), a site-specific commission of two large-scale glazed ceramic wall murals. The work goes on view in the museum's Jane and Jon Outcalt Family Concourse beginning in February.

How does a Venice Biennale pavilion close?

Florentina Holzinger will end her Austrian Pavilion installation at this year's Venice Biennale with a "final dinner" featuring all the bodily waste collected from visitors over the past seven months. The event, "Closing Étude," takes place at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice. The pavilion's central conceit involved filtering urine from on-site port-a-potties into a dunk tank. A statement says the "distilled remains serve as a monument for the future" and will be presented outside the closed pavilion on November 22.

With the residency beginning in November and the Prix Duchamp exhibition open through February, the coming weeks test how these announcements translate into gallery outcomes.