The 2020 Rhonda Wilson Award has been awarded to Jerry Takigawa for his series, Balancing Cultures. The award is given to a  photographer in honor and memory of Rhonda Wilson MBE (1953– 2014). One of the UK’s champions of the photographic arts, Rhonda  Wilson was the creative force behind the Rhubarb–Rhubarb International Portfolio Review Festival, Birmingham, UK. Chosen from  the five Fresh 2020 exhibitor artists, the award has a prize value of $5,500.

Unlike many other artists utilizing vernacular photography, Jerry Takigawa’s work unearths family history and simultaneously uncovers social histories too often forgotten. Every carefully considered element in the images speaks to the workings of memory, history, and family in a manner that is both distinctly personal and all too common.                                —Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator, MFAH, Houston

The selection panel for the Rhonda Wilson Award included: Andy Adams, Independent curator + writer, Madison, WI; Paul Kopeikin, Owner, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Natasha Egan, Executive Director, MoCP, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Darren Ching, Owner/Director, Klompching Gallery, New York, NY; Debra Klomp Ching, Owner/Director, Klompching Gallery, New York, NY, CHAIR OF PANEL.

The Fresh 2020 exhibition is slated to run September 9 through October 10, 2020.

Klompching Gallery
89 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
212 796 2070

Stereotypes Oppress © 2019 Jerry Takigawa