Annual Award Luncheon

18th Annual Award Luncheon

Honoring Jack Shainman

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at the New York Athletic Club, New York City, NY
Opening reception: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Award Luncheon: 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Please note the New York Athletic Club dress code, Business casual dress required. Jeans and sneakers are not permitted.

Registration for the Annual Award Luncheon closed on Monday, April 7.

Jack Shainman

Jack Shainman Gallery

Recipient Award for Excellence in the Arts

Jack Shainman Gallery has been dedicated from its inception to championing artists who have achieved mastery of their creative disciplines and are among the most compelling and influential contributors to culture today. Over the past four decades the gallery has earned a reputation for introducing international artists to American audiences and developing young and mid-career artists, who have gone on to gain worldwide acclaim.

The gallery has presented the first New York exhibitions of artists Nick Cave, Hayv Kahraman, Kerry James Marshall, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard Mosse, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Hank Willis Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among many others. Today, Jack Shainman Gallery is celebrated for its multicultural roster of emerging and established artists and estates who engage in the social and cultural issues of their time.

The gallery was founded in 1984 in Washington, D.C. by Jack Shainman and Claude Simard (1956-2014). Soon after opening, the Gallery relocated to New York City, first in the East Village before moving to Soho and finally, in 1997, to its current location in Chelsea. In 2013, the Gallery opened two additional exhibition spaces, one in Chelsea, which operated until 2022, and a second in a converted 30,000 square foot building in Kinderhook, NY known as The School, which continues today. In January 2025, Shainman launched his new flagship gallery in Tribeca.

Introduction

Jesse Krimes

Jesse Krimes is a multimedia artist whose work explores societal mechanisms of power and control with a focus
on criminal and racial justice. While serving a six-year prison sentence he produced and smuggled out numerous
bodies of work, established art programs, and co-created artist collectives. He is the Founder and Director of the
Center for Art and Advocacy.

Krimes won an Emmy Award for his documentary “Art and Krimes by Krimes.” This fall, Krimes has solo
exhibitions opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Jack Shainman Gallery. He has received fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, Pew Center, Rauschenberg Foundation, Creative Capitol, and Art for Justice
Fund. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Kadist Foundation,
Bunker Artspace, and the Agnes Gund Collection. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

In Conversation

Linda

Linda Yablonsky

Linda Yablonsky is an art critic and journalist renowned for her commentary on, and frontline coverage of, exhibitions, artists, art fairs, biennials and other events around the art world. Over the last forty years, her byline has appeared in The New York Times and T Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Bloomberg News, Artforum, ArtNews, ArtNet, W Magazine, and Palmer Palm Beach, among many other publications. She has contributed critical essays and interviews to monographs on numerous artists, including Elmgreen & Dragset, Keith Sonnier, Jamie Nares, Mark Morrisroe, Pipilotti Rist, Anish Kapoor, and more. As an events and content producer, Ms. Yablonsky created three series of literary readings in New York art spaces that ran from 1991 through 2004, and was a contributing founder of WPS1 MoMA, a streaming arts radio channel that pioneered the form. She is also the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel, and is currently writing a biography of the artist Jeff Koons.

Raffle Emcee


Alasdair Nichol, AAA
Deputy Chairman at FREEMAN’S \| HINDMAN

The luncheon is an opportunity for you to connect with the entire spectrum of art world, including artists, dealers, auction house specialists, attorneys, collectors, and appraisers, while supporting the work of The Appraisal Institute of America, the educational foundation of the Appraisers Association of America.