The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today presents 42 portraits selected through an open call that garnered more than 2,700 entries from artists working across the United States and Puerto Rico. The artists responded with works that engage contemporary society, many providing new insights into the unprecedented reality we have experienced in the time surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
The selected finalists create artworks in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, textiles, video, and performance. They demonstrate how capacious and changing the genre of portraiture can be, and illuminate the genre's power to make visible a multitude of life experiences.
Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning
Marquetry hybrid (wood veneers, oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, shellac, and sawdust on wood), 2020
Killed Negative #13 / After Arthur Rothstein
Charcoal, graphite, and ink on paper, 2020
Self-Portrait of the Artist
Aluminum, earth, acrylic paint, enamel, paper, metallic bubble wrap, sequins, and gold foil on wood, 2020
Milk
Canvas with silkscreen, embroidery, ink, and other textiles, 2020
American Woman
Performance (approx. 7 hours) and digital video with sound (16:19 min.), 2021
Thank you Jesus, for what you are going to do
Digital video with sound (19:53 min.), 2020
Bertha, I’d like to know where you got the notion
Fabric, zippers, pin cushions, snaps, paper packaging, knitting needles, and other sewing notions, 2020
Kyung’s Gift in Pojagi
Oil, gouache, colored pencil, and acrylic ink on canvas, 2019
A portrait of the comet boy as a bearer of memories
Silk, heat-transfer ink, gold leaf, and oil on canvas, 2019
Risk Picture: Achy Obejas
Charcoal, paper, thread, glass, fluorite, wire, and other media, 2020
She Waited for Her Family from This Point in Place
Acrylic paint, paper, and plastic jewels on canvas, 2021
Deeper into the Isolation of Self Information and Gender
Acrylic paint and charcoal on canvas, 2020
Sobia Ahmad
Sama Alshaibi
Adrian Armstrong
Johannes Barfield
Ria Brodell
Annette LeMay Burke
Howard Carr
Bhasha Chakrabarti
Paul D’Amato
Fred Danziger
Jeremy Davis
Christian Dixon
Susan Doster
Andrew Feiler
Deb Fong
Miguel Gandert
Ghazal Ghazi
June Glasson
Daniel Goncalves
Rebecca Greenfield
Kelly Harmon
Phung Huynh
Dawn Kim
Dong Kyu Kim
Stacey Lorinczi
Jamie L. Luoto
Gayle Madeira
Lisa McCleary
J.J. McCracken
Ania Moussawel
Steve Ozone
Catherine Panebianco
Marybeth Rothman
Laurie Steelink
Lendl Tellington
Shawn Michael Warren
Sara J. Winston