CINTAS: Foundation Visual Arts and Film Awards

Americas Society announced the winners of the 2005 CINTAS Foundation Art Awards. Traditionally held in Miami, The CINTAS Foundation visual arts awards ceremony began alternating between New York and Miami. The finalists exhibited at Americas Society.

Since 1963, the CINTAS Foundation, Inc. has awarded fellowships annually to creative artists of Cuban lineage residing outside of Cuba. This prestigious award had been granted to many artists whose careers had gone on to play an influential role in the development of their disciplines.

Past recipients of CINTAS fellowships included Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos; multiple Obie-winning playwright Maria Irene Fornes; painters Carlos Alfonzo and Jorge Pardo; photographers Andres Serrano and Luis Mallo; architect Andres Martin Duany; sculptor Maria Elena Gonzales; and composers Julian Orbon, Tania Leon, and Orlando Garcia.

Cuban artists Christian Curiel and Amalia Zarranz received the fellowship from the Cintas Foundation for their works in visual arts and film, respectively. Award finalists were also on exhibit: Felipe Dulzaides, Lilian Garcia-Roig, and Neraldo de la Paz (Guerra de la Paz) for visual arts and Orlando Rojas for filmmaking. The jury was comprised of Gabriela Rangel of Americas Society, Julian Zugazagoitia of El Museo del Barrio, Sandra Antelo Suárez of TRANS Magazine, and David Kiehl of the Whitney Museum.

^{The awards were established with funds from the estate of the late Oscar B. Cintas, a prominent industrialist and patron of the arts. The program was administered by the Cintas Foundation Board and the Institute of International Education, the nation’s oldest and most active organization in the field of international education and cultural exchange.}

Installation views of CINTAS. Americas Society 2005.