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Young Painters, U.S. residents, ages 25 – 35 as of competition entry, are invited to participate in an annual juried competition for the 2027 $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award. Entrants should have achieved a significant degree of success as an emerging artist of noteworthy talent. The Yeck Award-winning artwork becomes part of the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ Painters of the 21st Century Collection.

Juror

2027: Dan Cameron, Curator and Artist, NY

In his 45-year career as a curator, Dan Cameron has organized art exhibitions for museums, galleries, and public spaces around the world, and has specialized in championing significant artists before they became publicly recognized for their work. Currently, Curator for the Courthouse Gallery at Lake George Arts Project, Cameron studied at Syracuse University and Bennington College, where he received a B.A. in 1979, the same year he moved to lower Manhattan. His early years were spent doing administrative work in museums while organizing groundbreaking exhibitions like Extended Sensibilities (The New Museum, 1982), Art and its Double (Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona, 1986), and Cocido y Crudo (Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1994). From 1995 to 2006, Cameron was Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, where he organized career retrospectives of numerous artists, including Faith Ringgold, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Eugenio Dittborn, Carolee Schneemann, Paul McCarthy, Cildo Meireles, William Kentridge, and Carroll Dunham. From 2006 to 2011, Dan was Founder and Artistic Director of the first two editions of Prospect New Orleans triennial, which presented its sixth edition in 2024; and from 2007 to 2010, he was Visual Arts Director at Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). From 2012-2015, he served as Chief Curator and Acting Director of the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA. He has also organized or co-curated numerous biennials and international exhibitions, including the ‘Aperto’ section of the Biennale de Venezia (1988); Istanbul Biennial (2003); Taipei Biennial (2006);, Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969 (Palm Springs Art Museum, 2008); Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2016); Open Spaces: Kansas City (2018); and Liminal: Leandro Erlich (PAMM Miami, 2021). Cameron has published hundreds of books, catalogs, and magazine texts on contemporary art since 1983, and he’s taught critical theory and art history on the graduate faculties of Columbia University, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts (NYC); and at the undergraduate level at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) and CalState Fullerton. Since early 2022, Dan has been co-founder and co-curator of La Capilla Azul, an independent exhibition space on the island of Chiloé, in the Los Lagos region of Chile.

Competition Awards

$10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award
$2,500 Second Place Award
$2,000 Third Place Award

Your Entry

Your entry/submission is to consist of the following: (Incomplete or late entries will be rejected)

1. 1. Submission of Paintings
      2-5 entries; no dimension exceeding 72 inches, artworks completed within the past three years demonstrating the scope and depth of your work. All works submitted must be available for the exhibition and purchase award and cannot be a part of a public or private collection. (Exhibition dates: January/March 2027.)
   2. Entry Images
      All submitted images of paintings should be JPG, 5” x 7”, approx., 355 dpi, RGB color mode. The juror will choose 10 finalists and 2 works from each finalist.
   3. Image List
      A Word document, titled "Image List", should be included with your entry, with the following information per image entry: Artist name, Title of work, Year of work, Media, Dimensions in inches, and an image of the artwork.
2. 1-2 page CV via email to taulbeae@MiamiOH.edu
3. Entry Fee: $25.00

The 10 Finalists chosen by our 2027 Juror will be notified in mid/late October 2026. Images of the finalists' works will be retained by ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ. Artworks of finalists to arrive the week of Dec. 7, 2026. The $10,000 Yeck Purchase Award winner will be invited to have a solo exhibition and serve as a visiting artist to coincide with the 2028 competition. Participation in the exhibition entry process and signing the entry form, constitutes an understanding and acceptance of the conditions set forth herein, including the right of ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ to use submitted images for publicity and educational purposes.

All artworks submitted must be available for the exhibition and for the Yeck Purchase Award.
Artwork entries cannot be part of a public or private collection.

Shipping

All finalists will assume the cost of shipment and insurance of artworks to ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ. Works must be packed in reusable crates/boxes and constructed to withstand the rigors of commercial shipping. Finalists are responsible for the repair of damaged crates before the works are returned. Works may also be hand-delivered. Hand-delivered works must also be picked up from ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ. Miami will assume the cost of return shipping of the finalists' paintings, shipped and insured as delivered to ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ.

Questions

Contact: Ann Taulbee, Director
Email: taulbeae@MiamiOH.edu
Web: Hiestand Galleries
Phone: 513-529-1883