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On view at NPG March 23, 2013 – February 23, 2014

2013

Prize Winners

Close-up of a green, zip-up jacket, with fingers against the fabric near the zipper.

Jessica Wickham

HD video (5:05 minutes)

Statue of a woman with chin-length hair, made of rice and rice noodles.

People's Choice Awardee

100 Pounds of Rice

Rice, rice noodles, Elmer's Glue, epoxy glue, wood and metal sticks

A man with a quilt pulled up to his nose.

Jennifer Levonian

Buffalo Milk Yogurt

Digital video/animation (6:46 minutes)

A self portrait of an Asian man with black hair and wearking a gray t-shirt, carved from wood and painted in his likeness.

Self-Portrait

Acrylic on wood with steel base

A young African American woman seated in a chair indoors, with her eyes and forearms highlighted by sunshine from a nearby window.

Lillian, New Covenant Church of Deliverance, Chicago, 2011

Inkjet print

Head shot of an African American woman who is standing naked in before a black background.

For Delia

C-print

Pencil self-portrait of a bald white woman with glasses (post-chemotherapy).

Martha Mayer Erlebacher

Self-portrait

Nero pencil on paper

Portrait of a woman's head, lying on a surface with a depressed look upon her face.

Depression

Oil on canvas

Finalists

A framed charcoal drawing of a woman sitting in front of a series of brain MRI images.

Sensazione: A Self-Portrait

Charcoal on paper

An older white woman in an orange shirt sitting at a table covered with a checkered tablecloth.

Veronika Adaskova

Elisabeth

Archival inkjet print

A black & white print of an African American man with shortly cropped hair in a white tank top sitting in a chair, hands clasped in front of his chest, gazing off to the right.

Keliy Anderson-Staley

Kevin

Pigment print from wet-plate collodion tintype

An older couple sitting together on a couch.

Inheritance

Oil on linen

Small white girl in a plaid jacket with a blue shirt standing in a department store.

Aaron Morgan Brown

Girl in a Department Store No. 1

Oil on panel

Portrait of a white shirtless man with tattoos in a bed with a macbook on his lap.

Oliver at 20

Gouache on museum mounting board

A man with a black-eye in a black hoodie with the hood up over his head.

Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams…

Oil on prepared paper

A woven portrait of a face with golden and red strands over a black & white speckled background.

Su Brain Tracts

Hand-woven cotton and rayon

A portrait of a nude woman holding a clear sheet of plastic over herself, as if to cover up.

Modesty2

Oil on canvas

A charcoal portrait of a nude older woman, her hands on her shoulders to cover her chest, her skin depicted with a pebbly texture.

Marie

Charcoal on paper

An oil painting of a middle-aged African American man in a black t-shirt and pants, with a brown ballcap on and wearing a pair of baby blue gloves. The gloves, and part of his shirt and pants are covered in paints of various colors.

Mike

Oil on canvas, 2010

Bald man in round glasses, a dress shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, a black vest and a multicolored striped tie, stands with his arms folded in front of his chest.

Room and Board

Oil on linen

A resin sculpture painted in oil, depicting the torso and head of a young African American woman wearing a green swim cap and pink bikini top.

Carole Feuerman

General’s Daughter

Oil on resin

Mixed media portrait of a Jamaican man watering flowers.

Arthur Waters the Garden

Mixed media

A black & white portrait of a Japanese woman with her hair done up in a bun and a headband around her head.

Aki

Mixed media on acrylic mirror

A young white woman with blonde hair lays with her back to the camera on a bed.

Vincent Giarrano

City Girl

Oil on board

A white plaster bust of a man's head, relatively featureless in detail, mounted on a smooth black metal cylindrical column.

Philip Grausman

César Pelli

Plaster

A young African American man in a military uniform saluting.

Sharrod (Turn/Twirl)

HD video (3:14 minutes)

An oval of skin on a black rectangle.

Body 10/17/11

Oil on canvas

A whimsical portrait of an older white woman with frizzy hair in a a crimson robe.

Portrait (Red Robe)

Oil on linen

A watercolor portrait of an older white man with gray hair and beard, gazing sternly at the viewer.

John H.

Watercolor on paper

A charcoal drawing of three people sitting around a table of a patio, smoking cigarettes together.

David and Anita Visiting Daina

Charcoal on paper

A slender white woman in a white dress kneeling on a raft floating in the middle of the ocean, clouds in the grey sky and a paintbrush in her hand.

Lift Raft

Oil on canvas

A photograph of a wounded Afghan soldier in a U.S. Army helicopter after a bombing during a night raid.

Night Raid

Pigment print

A photorealistic graphite and ink drawing of a close-up of an old woman's face.

Maryanna

Graphite and ink on illustration board

A portrait of a white, brunette woman standing in an unfinished garage, arms folded in front of her and frowning.

Catherine Prescott

Legacy: Portrait of Val

Oil on canvas

A white woman with shoulder length brown hair, icy gray-blue eyes, red lips, and a blue jacket.

Caitlin Teal Price

Leslie

Archival pigment print

A portrait of an old woman wearing a white scarf with red flowers.

Frances at 103

Oil on canvas

An ink print of a man's face, composed of many scratch and stroke-like ink marks.

Michael 67 (Pastor Shelby)

Plexiglas-block print on paper mounted on canvas

A portrait of an old, balding, white man, standing with mason's tools outside on a stone patio.

Burton Philip Silverman

Stonemason

Oil on linen

A photo of two white families sunbathing on a lawn in Iceland with a large red tent behind them.

Michael A. Smith

Two Families at Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Iceland

Archival inkjet print

A painted book cover, the right third covered with a stripe of gold leaf, while the left side is the face of a white woman with brown hair and eyes.

The Birth of Inez Imake

Acrylic and gold leaf on linen and wood panel

A portrait of an African American woman in a white shirt standing in the street with a black scarf wrapped around her head.

Cathy, Market Street, Paterson, NJ

Digital C-print

A close-up of a man's face.

Undefined #2

Pastel on paper

A woman's face transposed over a starry night's sky.

Jill Wissmiller

The Gilding of Lily

Video projected on glitter screen (2:50 minutes)

A portrait of a Japanese woman's face, composed entirely of brads and a single, unbroken black thread on wood.

Constellation—Mana

Brads and a single, unbroken thread on wood

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