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Headlands Center for the Arts Announces New Larry Sultan Photography Award

Sausalito, CA…..Headlands Center for the Arts announces the establishment of the Larry Sultan Photography Award and Marco Breuer as the inaugural recipient. Presented in partnership with California College of the Arts (CCA), Pier 24 Photography, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the annual Larry Sultan Photography Award recognizes one exceptional artist in the medium. The Award will be presented to Breuer at a special private event at Headlands on October 1, 2015. Breuer and future Awardees will receive a $10,000 cash award and a four-to-ten-week-long residency at Headlands to work alongside a multi-disciplinary cohort of Artists in Residence. Breuer will be in residence in spring 2016. www.headlands.org/program/larry-sultan-photography-award

The Award honors the unique vision of American photographer Larry Sultan (1946-2009), and his unparalleled impact as an artist, educator, and member of the Bay Area community. The Awardee was selected to join five other international artists, writers, and curators invited to participate in the annual Larry Sultan Visiting Artists Program, now in its fifth year and administered by CCA. As part of the Program, Mr. Breuer and the five other Visiting Artists (to be announced) will engage meaningfully with the Bay Area’s photography community through public lectures and working directly with students at CCA. http://pier24.org/programs/

Headlands Executive Director sharon maidenberg said, “We are thrilled to announce this important new award that pays tribute to a devoted Headlands’ community member and celebrates his passion for art-making, teaching, and the larger Bay Area community. It is fitting that the Award enables us to bring ground-breaking artists like Marco Breuer to Headlands. We know that Marco and his fellow artists in residence will be inspired by our breathtaking setting and by one another to explore new territory, providing a window into the artistic process for our visitors.”

The Award and Visiting Artists Program named for Mr. Sultan are made possible through the generous support of Pier 24 Photography, Randi and Bob Fisher, Nion McEvoy, Jamie Lunder, Robert Mailer Anderson and Nicola Miner, and The Black Dog Private Foundation.

About Marco Breuer

Born in Landshut, Germany, in 1966, Marco Breuer is well known for his radical approach to the photographic medium. He employs nontraditional photographic techniques that do not rely on the use of a camera, aperture, or film, but instead utilize a combination of photogrammic, abrasive, and incisive techniques to make marks and capture images.

Breuer is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, and has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and Europe. His solo museum exhibitions include Line of Sight at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, New Pictures 2: Marco Breuer at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and Circa 1999 at the MIT List Visual Art Center in Cambridge, MA. His work is in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany.

Breuer is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006). He has been a guest lecturer at Yale School of Art, Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the San Francisco Art Institute, among others; and has taught photography at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and in the MFA program at Bard College. A traveling retrospective of Breuer’s work opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2017.

About Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan’s photographic images are included in the collections of major art institutions across the country. His work blends documentary and staged photography to create images of the psychological as well as physical landscape of suburban family life. An influential contributor to the canon of 20th-century photography, his career-long dedication to the Bay Area arts communities is widely celebrated. His impact as an artist and educator (he taught in Bay Area institutions for over three decades) is exceptional.

Sultan brought his vision, values, and spirit to Headlands’ Board of Directors (1992-98), CCA’s Photography Program (1993-09), and SFMOMA’s Board of Trustees (2009). These affiliations make the Award particularly meaningful to the partner organizations. A critically acclaimed retrospective of his work, Larry Sultan: Here and Home, was on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from November 2014-July 2015. http://larrysultan.com/

About Larry Sultan and Headlands

As an Affiliate Artist from 1988-89, Sultan brought his boundary-pushing practice to the artists residency program at Headlands, where he worked alongside Ann Chamberlain, Jennifer Dowley, Leonard Hunter, and David Ireland in the early years of Headlands’ establishment. Finding inspiration in the scenic location and natural environment, his work during this period deftly portrayed both landscape and suburban scenes in a new light. Sultan was commissioned as one of five artists-along with Miles DeCoster, Mark Klett, Mike Mandel, and Paul Metcalf – to contribute to the first of what later became Headlands’ extensive journal series; Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden Gate (1989). For two decades to follow, Sultan remained an inimitable member of Headlands’ community. He served on the public programming committee where he advised Headlands’ core leadership, oversaw many fundraising and outreach projects, and continually participated in special events and celebrations with artists and community members.

About Headlands Center for the Arts

Headlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary, international arts center located in the Marin Headlands, and is a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Headlands’ Artists Programs provide opportunities for research, experimentation, professional development, and peer-to-peer exchange for artists working across disciplines at critical times in their careers. Unique among programs for artists, Headlands’ dynamic residency program provides meaningful resources-time, space, community, and financial support-to artists who are engaged in catalyzing new modes of thought, work, and discourse. By bringing together artists from a wide range of disciplines-visual and interdisciplinary arts, architecture, performance and dance, music and sound, writing, criticism, and curating-the programs emphasize a balance in developing an individual practice, a valuable exchange with other artists and visitors, and a meaningful engagement with place. www.headlands.org