Simone Leigh Awarded 2018 Hugo Boss Prize with $100,000 Stipend and Guggenheim Solo Exhibition

Simone Leigh has been named the recipient of the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize, securing a $100,000 stipend and a forthcoming solo exhibition at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The award, presented in its twelfth iteration, is organized through a collaboration between Hugo Boss and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. A jury chaired by the Guggenheim's artistic director Nancy Spector selected Leigh from a shortlist that included Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Stark, and Wu Tsang. Other jury members were Dan Fox, a writer, editor, and AV director for Frieze; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam; Bisi Silva, artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos; Susan Thompson, an associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum; and Joan Young, the museum's director of curatorial affairs. The prize recognizes significant achievement in contemporary art.