Prospect.1 

Artistic Director: Dan Cameron
November 1, 2008—January 18, 2009

Monica Bovincini Desire, 2006. Installation view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo: John d’Addario.

Monica Bovincini Desire, 2006. Installation view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo: John d’Addario.

When it opened on November 1, 2008, the 11-week Prospect.1 New Orleans was the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the US and the most ambitious art exhibition in New Orleans’ history. Curated by Founding Director Dan Cameron, P.1 spanned the entire city, driving traffic to venues throughout New Orleans.

P.1 is widely viewed as a seminal exhibition for how it asked artists to engage the landscape and consider the entirety of the city. Several projects——for example Mark Bradford’s Mithra, Wangechi Mutu’s Miss Sarah’s House, and Nari Ward’s Diamond Gym——remain some of those most associated with Prospect.

Prospect.1 generated approximately 90,000 admissions and many of its venues broke attendance records. The direct economic impact of Prospect.1 on the city of New Orleans, including hotels and restaurants, goods and services, contract employment and media exposure, was $25 million.

 
 

Prospect.1 Artist list

Allora & Calzadilla
B. 1974, Philadelphia, PA/ 1971, Havana, Cuba
Reside in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Ghada Amer
B.1963, Cairo, Egypt
Resides in New York, NY

El Anatsui
B. 1944, Anyako, Ghana
Resides in Nsukka, Nigeria

Janine Antoni
B. 1964, Freeport, The Bahamas
Resides in New York, NY

Alexandre Arrechea
B. 1970, Trinidad, Cuba
Resides in New York, NY

Luis Cruz Azaceta
B. 1942, Havana, Cuba
Resides in New Orleans, LA

John E. Barnes, Jr.
B. 1971, Bogalusa, LA
Resides in New Orleans, LA

Sanford Biggers
B. 1970, Los Angeles, CA
Resides in New York, NY

Willie Birch
B. 1942, New Orleans, LA
Resides in New Orleans, LA

Monica Bonvicini
B. 1965, Venice, Italy
Resides in Berlin, Germany

Mark Bradford
B. 1961, Los Angeles, CA
Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Candice Breitz
B.1972,  Johannesburg, South Africa
Resides in Berlin, Germany

Cai Guo Qiang
B. 1957, Quanzhou, China
Resides in New York, NY

Cao Fei
B. 1978, Guangzhou, China
Resides in Beijing, China

Francis Cape
B. 1952, Portugal
Resides in Narrowsburg, NY

Chen Chieh-Jen
B. 1960, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Resides in Taipei, Taiwan 

Adam Cvijanovic
B. 1959, Cambridge, MA
Resides in New York, NY

Jose Damasceno
B. 1968, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Resides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Anne Deleporte
B. 1960, Corsica, France
Resides in New York, NY

Leandro Erlich
B. 1973, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina/ Montevideo, Uruguay

Skylar Fein
B. 1968, New York, NY
Resides in New Orleans, LA

Roy G. Ferdinand, JR.
B. 1959, New Orleans, LA
D. 2004, New Orleans, LA

Tony Fitzpatrick
B. 1958, Chicago, IL
Resides in New Orleans, LA

Gajin Fujita
B. 1972, Los Angeles, CA
Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Rico Gatson
B. 1966, Augusta, GA
Resides in Brooklyn, NY

Katharina Grosse
B. 1961, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Resides in Berlin, Germany

Trenton Doyle Hancock
B. 1974, Oklahoma City, OK
Resides in Houston, TX

Victor Harris & Fi Yi Yi
Resides in New Orleans, LA

Arturo Herrera
B. 1959, Caracas, Venezuela
Resides in New York, NY/Berlin, Germany

Jacqueline Humphries
B. 1960, New Orleans, LA
Resides in New York, NY

Isaac Julien
B. 1960, London, England
Resides in London, England

William Kentridge
B. 1955, Johannesburg. South Africa
Resides in Johannesburg, South Africa

Lee Bul
B. 1964, Yeongju-si, South Korea
Resides in Seoul, South Korea

Kalup Linzy
B. 1977, Clermont, FL
Resides in Brooklyn, NY

Srdjan Loncar
B. 1971 Rijeka, Croatia
Resides in New Orleans, LA

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
B. 1967, Mexico City, Mexico
Resides in Montreal, Quebec/Madrid, Spain

Deborah Luster
B. 1951, Bend, OR
Resides in New Orleans, LA

Jorge Macchi
B. 1963, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Shawne Major
B. 1968, New Iberia, LA
Resides in Opelousas, LA

Nalini Malani
B. 1946, Karachi, Pakistan
Resides in Mumbai

McCallum & Tarry
B. 1966, Green Bay, WI/ B. 1963, Buffalo, NY 
Reside in Brooklyn, NY

Dave McKenzie
B. 1977, Kingston, Jamaica
Resides in Brooklyn, NY

Josephine Meckseper
B. 1964, Lilienthal, Germany
Resides in New York, NY

Julie Mehretu
B. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 
Resides in New York, NY

Aernout Mik
B. 1962, Groningen, Netherlands
Resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Beatriz Milhazes
B. 1960, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Resides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tatsuo Miyajima
B. 1957, Tokyo, Japan
Resides in Moriya, Japan

Yasumasa Morimura
B. 1951, Osaka, Japan
Resides in Osaka, Japan

Zwelethu Mthethwa
B. 1970, Durban, South Africa
Resides in Cape Town, South Africa

Wangechi Mutu
B. 1974, Nairobi, Kenya 
Resides in Brooklyn, NY/Nairobi, Kenya

Shirin Neshat
B. 1957, Qazvin, Iran
Resides in New York, NY

Marcel Odenbach
B. 1953, Cologne, Germany
Resides in Cologne, Germany 

Kaz Oshiro
B. 1967, Okinawa, Japan
Resides in Los Angeles, CA

 

Miguel Palma
B. 1967, Lisbon, Portugal
Resides in Lisbon, Portugal

Perejaume
B. 1957, Sant Pol de Mar, Spain
Resides in Barcelona, Spain

Pierre et Gilles
B. 1950, La Roche sur-Yon, France/1953, Le Havre, France
Reside in Paris, France

John Pilson
B. 1968, New York, NY
Resides in New York, NY 

Sebastian Preece
B. 1972, Santiago, Chile
Resides in Santiago, Chile

Navin Rawanchaikul
B. 1971, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Resides in Chiang Mai, Thailand/Fukuoka, Japan

Rosangela Renno
B. 1962, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Resides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pedro Reyes
B. 1972, Mexico City, Mexico 
Resides in Mexico City, Mexico

Robin Rhode
B. 1976, Cape Town, South Africa
Resides in Johannesburg, South Africa/Berlin, Germany

Stephen G. Rhodes
B. 1977, Houston, TX
Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Nadine Robinson
B. 1968 London, England
Resides in New York, NY

Clare E. Rojas
B. 1976, Columbus, OH
Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Kay Rosen
B. 1943, Corpus Christi, TX
Resides in Gary, IN/ New York, NY

Malick Sidibe
B. 1935, Soloba, Mali
D. 2016, Bamako, Mali 

Amy Sillman
B. 1955, Detroit, MI
Resides in Brooklyn, NY

Nedko Solakov
B. 1957, Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria
Resides in Sofia, Bulgaria 

Monika Sosnowska
B. 1972, Ryki, Poland
Resides in Warsaw, Poland

Jackie Sumell
B. 1973, Brooklyn, NY
Resides in New Orleans, LA 

Superflex
Est. 1993, Denmark
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark 

Fiona Tan
B. 1966, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Pascale Marthine Tayou
B. 1966, Yaounde, Cameroon
Resides in Ghent, Belgium

Fred Tomaselli
B. 1956, Santa Monica, CA
Resides in Brooklyn, NY

Jannis Varelas
B. 1977, Greece
Resides in Athens, Greece/ Vienna, Austria/Los Angeles, CA

Xavier Veilhan
B. 1963, Lyon, France
Resides in Paris, France

Paul Villinski
B. 1960, York, ME
Resides in New York, NY

Nari Ward
B. 1963, St. Andrew, Jamaica
Resides in New York, NY

Xu Bing
B. 1955, Chongquing, China
Resides in Beijing, China/ New York, NY

 

P.1 Photos

 
Wangechi Mutu, Mrs. Sarah’s House, 2008. Installation View, Lower Ninth Ward. Photo: John D’Addario.

Wangechi Mutu, Mrs. Sarah’s House, 2008. Installation View, Lower Ninth Ward. Photo: John D’Addario.

Mark Bradford, Mithra, 2008. Installation view in the Lower 9th Ward. Photo: John d’Addario.

Mark Bradford, Mithra, 2008. Installation view in the Lower 9th Ward. Photo: John d’Addario.

 
Nari Ward, Diamond Gym: Action Network, 2008. Installation view at the Battle Ground Baptist Church. Photo: John d’Addario.

Nari Ward, Diamond Gym: Action Network, 2008. Installation view at the Battle Ground Baptist Church. Photo: John d’Addario.

Adam Cvijanovic, The Bayou, 2008. Installation view at the Tekrema Center for Art and Culture. Photo: John d’Addario.

Adam Cvijanovic, The Bayou, 2008. Installation view at the Tekrema Center for Art and Culture. Photo: John d’Addario.

 
Willie Birch, We Come This Far By Faith, 2007. Installation view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo: John d’Addario.

Willie Birch, We Come This Far By Faith, 2007. Installation view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo: John d’Addario.

Participating Artists by Venue        

*indicates works in multiple sites, or moving from site to site

Edgar Degas Foundation

Aernout Mik

       

Battle Ground Baptist Church

Nari Ward

     

Charles J. Colton School

José Damasceno   
Tatsuo Miyajima
Cai Guo-Qiang
Paul Villinski*

Common Ground Relief

Ghada Amer

 

Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)

Allora y Calzadilla
Luis Cruz Azaceta
John L. Barnes, Jr.
Candice Breitz
Cao Fei
Chen Chieh-Jen
Skylar Fein
Gajin Fujita
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Isaac Julien
Lee Bul
Shawne Major
Nalini Malani
Josephine Meckseper
Julie Mehretu
Pedro Reyes
Kay Rosen
Jackie Sumell & Herman Wallace
Fiona Tan
Jannis Varelas

Harrah’s Casino/Plaza of Good Fortune

Alexandre Arrechea

 

Hefler Warehouse

Takashi Horisaki
Xavier Veilhan

        

The Historic New Orleans Collection

Rosângela Rennó

 

Ideal Auto Repair

Jacqueline Humphries

L9 Center for the Arts

Anne Deleporte*
Wangechi Mutu

Louisiana ArtWorks

Arturo Herrera
Srdjan Loncar*
Perejaume
Haegue Yang*

Louisiana State Museum/Old U.S. Mint

El Anatsui
Sanford Biggers
Francis Cape
Anne Deleporte*
Srdjan Loncar*
Deborah Luster
Beatriz Milhazes
Yasumasa Morimura
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Stephen G. Rhodes
Clare E. Rojas
Fred Tomaselli

The Lower Ninth Ward Village

Janine Antoni
Miguel Palma
Superflex

Loyola University

Nadine Robinson

 

The George and Leah McKenna Museum of African-American Art

Marcel Odenbach
Malick Sidibé

 

Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University

Shirin Neshat

 

New Orleans African American Museum

Rico Gatson
William Kentridge
McCallum & Tarry

        

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

Pascale Marthine Tayou
Amy Sillman
Nedko Solakov

 

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation

Roy Ferdinand, Jr.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center

Tony Fitzpatrick
John Pilson
Navin Rawanchaikul/Tyler Russell

New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau

Haegue Yang*

New Orleans Museum of Art

Willie Birch
Monica Bonvicini
Victor Harris & Fi-Yi-Yi
Kalup Linzy
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Jorge Macchi/Edgardo Rudnitzky
Kaz Oshiro
Xu Bing

Tekrema Center for Art and Culture

Adam Cvijanovic
Sebastián Preece*

Universal Furniture

Pierre et Gilles

Lower 9th Ward (various):

Mark Bradford
Leandro Erlich
Katharina Grosse
Robin Rhode
Paul Villinski*

 

Other:

Dave McKenzie
Kalup Linzy
Navin Rawanchaikul/Tyler Russell