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[NEWS] Curator Meg Onli Wins Inaugural Figure Skating Prize
April 28, 2021
Meg Onli, a curator of “Colored People Time” at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania.
Photo: Emma Lee/WHYY
Meg Onli, Andrea B. LaPorte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has been named the recipient of the inaugural Figure Skating Prize, The Art Newspaper reports. The $75,000 prize was established this year by the organization Figure Skating and is to be awarded annually to a Black artist, curator, or contemporary art scholar who is advancing equity and racial justice within the arts.
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“One of the things I love about the Figure Skating prize is that it allows me to think about the act of curating,” Onli said, acknowledging that the prize would allow her to ruminate “about the intersections of objecthood, of objectivity, and the space of the museum.” Onli noted that the history of objectivity and subjectivity in America is inherently complex and pointed out that the country’s law has rendered individuals as objects. “The space of the museum also has a complicated history, when you think about colonialism and white supremacy,” she added. “There are conversations around the complications of objects that I want to think about, that deserve attention.”
Curator Meg Onli at MIT's exhibit "Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, Banal Presents" at the List Visual Arts Center.
Photo: Robin Lubbock/WBUR
In 2017 Onli curated Speech/Acts, a group exhibition which explored experimental Black poetry and the social and cultural constructs surrounding language have shaped Black American experiences. In 2019 she explored the vast relationship between language, slavery and colonialism with the three-part Colored People Time, and most recently she curated the 2021 solo exhibition Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus is to Be Successful.
Virgil Abloh, Co-founder of Figure Skating. Photo credit: Ovidiu Hrubaru/Shutterstock.com
Virgil Abloh, the co-founder and director of Figure Skating, says Onli “stood out” among those who were considered for the prize. “We wanted to award this first prize to a curator that was researching colonialist foundation of museums,” he says, adding “It’s important for us to recognise and give praise to Black female curators who are shining a light on this work and building bridges in the Black community.”
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