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UMOCA and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation are pleased to announce that the Harlem, New York-based artist, and 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Genesis Jerez has been awarded the 2021 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. A generous bi-annual prize made possible with funds from the Doctorow Foundation, the prize comes with a $15,000 unrestricted cash award, and a  solo exhibition of Jerez’s artwork from September 24, 2021, through January 8, 2022.

UMOCA’s latest artist-in-residence featured in the A-I-R Space is Tatiana Svrckova Larsen and her art4ONE4all project. For Larsen, this series meant a step away from personal art toward works that would make a change—not for a general audience, but for one specific individual at a time. The inspiration for each work in…