2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial
April 9 through June 7, 2009
The call for entries for the 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial were mailed on April 1, 2008. The postmark deadline for submissions was June 30, 2008. Notification of jurors' selection will be mailed to artists by October 3, 2008. If you would like to be added to the Biennial mailing list, please email Sage Lewis with your mailing address.
As a series, the Biennial exhibitions create a visual record of Maine’s evolving contemporary art scene and testify to the profound influence that the landscape, traditions, and people of Maine continue to have on living artists. Maine has nurtured artists for centuries, and its influence reaches far beyond its borders; although the majority of Biennial artists are residents, a number are part-time residents or recent graduates of Maine’s many prestigious art programs. This blending of influences and experiences enriches the state’s artistic community and helps to define its art scene as one that benefits from a diversity of traditions both established and new.
The Portland Museum of Art Biennial is made possible by the William E. and Helen E. Thon Endowment Fund.
Jurors
Elizabeth Burke is co-founder and co-director of Clementine Gallery in New York. Known for launching and developing careers, the Clementine Gallery exhibits emerging and established contemporary artists who work in a variety of media. Burke lectures regularly for undergraduate and graduate programs at New York University, the New School University, the School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Art, to name a few.
Dan Graham is a video, installation, and performance artist also based in New York. Graham has pioneered the use of film and video in performance and installation works since the 1970s and has published numerous critical essays on subjects from music to urban planning. Recent works address architecture and public space and have been exhibited and collected by institutions worldwide.
Denise Markonish is Curator at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. Her most recent exhibition, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape explores the work of contemporary artists who approach landscape through history, culture, and science. Previous to her position at Mass MoCA, Markonish was the Gallery Director/Curator at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut.
Listen to podcasts by the 2007 Biennial artists.
2007 Biennial Prize Winners:
Jurors’ Prize: Sam Van Aken
Purchase Prizes: Tanja Hollander, Jeff Kellar, Scott Peterman
Artists in the 2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial:
Mary Aro (Grosse Pointe Park, MI, Sedgwick, ME)
Christopher Becker (Kennebunkport, ME)
Ian Blethen (West Gardiner, ME)
Catherine Bowen (Portland, ME)
Astrid Bowlby (Philadelphia, PA)
Alan Bray (Sangerville, ME)
Elizabeth Cashin McMillen (Marlboro, ME)
Monica Chau (Warren, ME)
Tillman Crane (Camden, ME)
Daniel E. Davis (Portland, ME)
Angela Devenney (Portland, ME)
Eirene Efstathiou (Portland, ME)
Melanie Fiander (Portland, ME)
Virginia Fleck (Austin, TX)
Denise Froehlich (Kennebunkport, ME)
Jennifer Gardiner (Portland, ME)
Simon Harling (New Castle, NH)
Ethan Hayes-Chute (Freeport, ME)
Adriane Herman (Portland, ME)
Marcy Hermansader (Putney, VT)
Duncan Hewitt (Hollis, ME)
Tom Hibschman (Kittery Point, ME)
Tanja Alexia Hollander (Auburn, ME)
Peter Holzhauer (Los Angeles, CA)
A.D. Jacobson (Newton, MA)
Yvonne Jacquette (New York, NY, Searsmont, ME)
Penelope Jones (Portland, ME)
Christopher Keister (Portland, ME)
Jeff Kellar (Falmouth, ME)
Joe Kievitt (Portland, ME)
Joe Klofas (Bridgeton, ME)
Luke Lamborn (Colorado Springs, CO)
Robert Lieber (Peaks Island, ME)
Lynda Litchfield (Cape Elizabeth, ME)
Sandy Litchfield (Amherst, MA)
Allan Macintyre (Somerville, MA)
Sarah Malakoff (Roslindale, MA)
James B. Marshall (Brunswick, ME)
Frank Meuschke (Brooklyn, NY)
John Meyers (Portland, ME)
Thomas Peter Michelena (Camden, ME)
Elke Morris (Lewiston, ME)
Yeshe Parks (Winthrop, ME)
Meg Brown Payson (Freeport, ME)
Scott Peterman (Hollis, ME)
Tina Rath (Portland, ME)
Justin Richel (Portland, ME)
Benjamin Rush (New York, NY, Orono, ME)
Joel Seah (Portland, ME)
Robert Shillady (Brooklin, ME)
Lynn Simmons (Worcester, MA)
Robert Solotaire (Portland, ME)
Gail Spaien (Kittery Point, ME)
Martin Steingesser (Portland, ME)
Cynthia Stroud (Brooklin, ME)
Ling-Wen Tsai and Nathan Kolosko (Portland, ME)
Sam Van Aken (Syracuse, NY)
Nancy Romines Walters (Wilton, ME)
Gilbert Welch (Ellsworth, ME)
Henry Wolyniec (Portland, ME)
Jessica Yankura (Norwalk, CT)
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