Haines Gallery congratulates Binh Danh, who is the inaugural recipient of the William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art.
The $25,000 annual award, presented by the museum beginning in 2024, honors an American artist or scholar-practitioner who has significantly impacted the American art scene in the spirit of the university's modernist collection strength, grounded in creativity, innovation and experimentation.
“Binh Danh’s art echoes the explorations of belonging and the American experience by modernists represented in the university art collection,” said Cindi Malinick, museum executive director. “By interacting with living artists and their work, students gain a deeper understanding of contemporary art, its social and cultural implications and perspectives that shape the world.”
“Every photograph is like a time capsule,” said Danh. “Every time I take a picture, I think about people in the future, looking at the work. That’s always so fascinating that this object becomes something about the past, the present and the future.”
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