May 20th, 2025

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Tribeca Festival and CHANEL Unveil 2025 Artist Awards Program

 

This year's curation of artists bridges film and other media, driving new ideas and encouraging audiences to access untapped perspectives

 

New York, NY, May 20, 2025 – The Tribeca Festival and CHANEL today announced the artists selected for the 2025 Artist Awards Program. Since 2005, Tribeca and CHANEL have partnered to celebrate creative excellence by inviting esteemed artists to contribute original works of art, gifted to the Festival’s award-winning filmmakers.

 

This year, Tribeca and CHANEL, in collaboration with curator Zoe Lukov, invited a vibrant collective of contemporary artists whose innovative approaches to image-making and conceptual framing transcend a single medium. Their transdisciplinary works blur the boundaries between film and the broader visual arts, making them uniquely qualified to honor Tribeca Festival awardees. Participants include Alteronce Gumby, Faith Wilding, Jane Dickson, Jeffrey Meris, Lauren Halsey, Marilyn Minter, Naudline Pierre, Raúl de Nieves, Simphiwe Ndzube and Tuan Andrew Nguyen.

 

“For two decades, Tribeca and CHANEL have stood together in support of artists who dare to tell new stories and challenge the limits of form and genre,” said Tribeca Co-Founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal. “This year’s Artist Awards cohort is a powerful reflection of that mission—visionary artists whose work, like the films they honor, demands we see the world differently. In every medium, these creators are shaping culture and inspiring the future of storytelling.”

 

The Artist Awards Program celebrates the intersection of creative disciples and honors New York City’s enduring legacy of cultural innovation. Rooted in the founding mission of the Tribeca Festival—to revitalize the city’s artistic spirit in the aftermath of 9/11—the program reflects a tradition of championing artistic vision and community. Tribeca’s ongoing impact on the community has inspired studio artists to engage directly with the Festival, supporting and celebrating fellow storytellers. Each year, the Artist Awards Program embodies the Festival’s spirit of solidarity, creativity, and generosity.

 

“As I started to think about who to invite for this prestigious award, I realized that many of the artists I consider to be genius in their approach can’t be defined by any one medium at all. Much like the filmmakers who will win one of these generously-donated artworks, they all are rooted in the knowledge of our past while pushing us to imagine new futures,” said Curator Zoe Lukov. “This cohort is multi-generational and from diverse backgrounds, drawing from the deep wells of their personal experiences and ancestral histories to generate works that resonate with a broad public.”

 

CHANEL continues its support of the annual Artist Awards Program, which celebrates the leading filmmakers and artists of our time. Art has been integral to the House of CHANEL throughout its history. House founder and visionary Gabriel Chanel surrounded herself with the leading artists of her time, drawing inspiration and support from her fellow creative peers. CHANEL’s collaboration with the Tribeca Festival is a testament to the brand’s continuous commitment to creation and artistry in their varied forms.

 

This year’s art collection will be displayed at the Tribeca Festival Hub at Spring Studios throughout the Festival.

 

The following is a complete list of contributed artwork. Artwork images can be found HERE.

 

Alteronce Gumby 031, 2019. Watercolor on hot-pressed paper. 30” x 22”.
Given to Best New Narrative Director

 

Faith Wilding Three Dragons, One Goddess, 2023. Gold leaf and archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle hemp paper, signed and numbered by the artist on front. 22” x 16”. Edition of 40 + 2 APs
Given to The Nora Ephron Award

 

Jane Dickson Tribeca Brunch, 2025. Silkscreen on rag vellum. 20” x 28.5”.
Given to Best Documentary Short

 

Jeffrey Meris Everything is Everything, 2025. Plaster particles on roofing paper, double sided adhesive tape. 81" x 38”, 16” x 24”.
Given to Best Documentary Feature

 

Lauren Halsey Untitled, 2025. Inkjet print. 16” x 20”. Edition TBC.
Given to Best Animated Short

 

Marilyn Minter Absinthe, 2017. C Print. 24” x 16”.
Given to Best Narrative Short

 

Naudline Pierre Eternal Freedom, 2023. Lithograph with monotype hand-coloring. 27” x 20 ½”.
Given to Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature

 

Raúl de Nieves Passage 14, 2022. Found fabric, beads, ribbons, glue, glitter, buttons, on cotton blend paper. 32” x 21.25”.
Given to Student Visionary Award

 

Simphiwe Ndzube Untitled Study, 2024. Pencil and crayons on paper. 72cm x 56cm.
Given to Best International Narrative Feature

 

Tuan Andrew Nguyen Spirit of Bidong, 2020. Pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper. 48 x 32 in, 121.9 x 81.3 cm. Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs (#2/5) (JCG11690)
Given to The Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director

 

About the Artists:

 

Alteronce Gumby:
Alteronce Gumby is a New York City–based artist working across painting, ceramics, installation, and film. A visit to a Picasso museum in Barcelona led him to study at Dutchess Community College, Hunter College (BFA), and the Yale School of Art (MFA). Drawing from the cosmos and the materiality of space, his luminous, iridescent works challenge perceptions of form, color, and identity. His work has been shown at Nicola Vassell Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, and Gagosian, and featured in ARTnews, Frieze, and Vogue. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Studio Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Hirshhorn. He has held residencies at the Rauschenberg Foundation and Fondation des États-Unis. He looks forward to releasing his second documentary feature: COLOR in Nature, and to a 2025 solo show with Jeffrey Deitch.

 

Faith Wilding:
Born in Paraguay in 1943, Faith Wilding has been an instrumental figure in the Feminist Art Movement since the late 1960s. Emerging from Los Angeles, Wilding's artistry melds her eco-feminist stance with poignant depictions of the natural world's degradation, particularly in South America. Her signature dualities—whether open and closed, up and down, or in and out—narrate stories that are personal, mystical, and esoteric, accentuating the force of growth, interconnectedness, and spiritual exuberance. Wilding co-initiated the groundbreaking Feminist Art Programs alongside Miriam Shapiro and Judy Chicago. One of its pivotal outcomes, Womanhouse, showcased collaborative and feminist ideas, aiming to challenge a largely male-dominant art history narrative. Her contributions to the Womanhouse project, particularly the "Womb Room" fiber installation and the performance "Waiting," have become emblematic of 1970s Feminist Art. Faith Wilding's five-decade career is dotted with influential exhibitions across the globe. Her work, which deftly challenges societal norms and the status quo, has been featured at renowned institutions like The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hammer Museum, and the Reina Sofia Museum. The 2014 retrospective, "Fearful Symmetries," celebrated her extensive contribution and traveled across the US. As an educator, Wilding has imparted knowledge at esteemed institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University, where she co-founded the cyberfeminist collective, subRosa. Honoring her immense impact, Wilding received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. Today, she continues her artistic journey from Rhode Island.
To mark the 80th birthday of celebrated artist Faith Wilding, Exhibition A and Anat Ebgi Gallery are thrilled to present Three Dragons, One Goddess. In recognition of Wilding's lifelong commitment to eco-feminism, a portion of the proceeds from this edition will benefit The Rainforest Foundation, an organization that works to protect the world's rainforests and the rights of indigenous communities living within them.

 

Jane Dickson:
Jane Dickson (b. 1952, Chicago) makes paintings and drawings exploring the psychogeography of American life. Emerging from New York’s late-1970s counterculture, she was part of collectives like Fashion Moda and Collaborative Projects Inc. Working from her own photos, especially of Times Square, Dickson depicts strip clubs, motels, businessmen, and suburbia. Using oil, acrylic, and unconventional surfaces like vinyl and astroturf, her work blends social realism with postmodern feminist critique. She showed in The Times Square Show (1980) and was in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Recent shows include Karma LA (2024) and the Museum of the City of NY (2023). Her work is held in the collections of MoMA, the Met, the Whitney, and more.

 

Jeffrey Meris:
Jeffrey Meris (b. 1991, Haiti, raised in the Bahamas) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with the relationship between materiality and larger cultural and social phenomenon. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, and drawing, Meris’s work considers ecology, embodiment, and various lived experiences, while healing deeply personal and historical wounds. Meris earned an AA in arts and crafts from the University of the Bahamas in 2012, a BFA in sculpture from the Tyler School of Art in 2015, and an MFA in visual arts from Columbia University in 2019. Meris has exhibited at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2025); Prospect NOLA 6 (2024); Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts (2024); MoMA PS1, New York (2023); the Amon Carter Museum, Texas (2023); Lehmann Maupin, New York (2022); James Cohan Gallery, New York (2021); White Columns, New York (2021); the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco (2020); Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany (2017); and the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, and Mestre Projects, both in Nassau, Bahamas (2012, 2021). Meris is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alum (2019); a NXTHVN Studio Fellow, New Haven (2020); a Studio Museum in Harlem artist in residence 2022-2023; and a Jerome Hill Artists Fellow 2025- 2028. Always Jeffrey never "Jeff."

 

Lauren Halsey:
Producing standalone artworks and site-specific projects, particularly in South Central Los Angeles where her family has lived for several generations, Lauren Halsey (b.1987) rethinks the possibilities for art, architecture, and community engagement. Combining found, fabricated, and handmade objects, Halsey’s work maintains a sense of civic urgency and free-flowing imagination, reflecting the lives of the people and places around her. Through critiques of gentrification and disenfranchisement paired with real-world proposals that celebrate on-the-ground aesthetics, Halsey creates a visionary form of culture that is at once radical and collaborative. Halsey is currently constructing sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles, a major public sculpture park in South Central LA opening 2026.

 

Marilyn Minter:
Marilyn Minter is an artist and activist based in New York. Through painting, photography, and video work Minter blurs the boundaries between attraction and repulsion. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea (2024), and Salon 94, New York, NY (2023). Her retrospective, Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, traveled to several museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY in 2016. Minter’s work is in the permanent collection of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Whitney Museum, NY, Tate Modern, London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and more. She is represented by Salon 94, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Lehmann Maupin, Asia.

 

Naudline Pierre:
Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA) received an M.F.A. from New York Academy of Art, NY, and a B.F.A. from Andrews University, MI. Pierre has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2023) and the Dallas Museum of Art (2021). Eternal Freedom was created for The Drawing Center in conjunction with the artist’s solo exhibition Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is, the first exhibition to exclusively feature Pierre’s works on paper. Pierre has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Prospect.5 New Orleans, LA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

 

Raúl de Nieves:
Raúl de Nieves is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician, whose wide-ranging practice investigates notions of beauty and transformation. De Nieves’ visual symbolism draws on both classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to create his own unique mythology. Through processes of accumulation and adornment, the artist transforms readily available materials into spectacular objects, which he then integrates into immersive narrative environments. Recent solo institutional exhibitions include and imagine you are here, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2023); A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder..., Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2023); The Treasure House of Memory, ICA Boston, Boston, MA (2021); Eternal Return & the Obsidian Heart, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL (2021); and Reemerge the Zero Begins Your Life, Eternal is Your Light, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2020). De Nieves has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at Hauser & Wirth, The Highline, MoMA PS1, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, K11 Foundation, Documenta 14, Performa 13, ICA Philadelphia, The Watermill Center, The Kitchen, Artist’s Space and numerous other venues. His work is included in public collections at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. De Nieves was born in 1983, in Michoacan, Mexico and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

 

Simphiwe Ndzube:
Simphiwe Ndzube’s (b. 1990, Johannesburg, South Africa) work is Inspired by history, remembering/retelling, language, and music. Ndzube creates worlds of characters and bursting landscapes that challenge the idea of the individual and the nation. In a world he terms The Mine Moon, Ndzube draws influence from his upbringing in a ‘post-apartheid’ South Africa which lingers with the weight of history, subjugation, and violence. His work is collected by the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Geneva, Switzerland; HOW Art Museum, Shanghai; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, France; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; among many others. 

 

Tuan Andrew Nguyen:
Tuan Andrew Nguyen was born in 1976 in Ho Chi Minh City. In 1979, he and his family emigrated as refugees to the U.S. Nguyen graduated from the Fine Arts program at the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received his MFA from The California Institute of the Arts in 2004.
Nguyen has had solo presentations at the New Museum, New York, NY (2023); Fondació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (2024); Zeitz MoCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (2024); and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2024). Nguyen has received numerous awards, including the 2023 Joan Miró Prize. His work is included in the collections of Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.

 

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ABOUT TRIBECA FESTIVAL
The Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, brings artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, music, audio storytelling, games, and immersive. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is synonymous with creative expression and entertainment. Tribeca champions emerging and established voices, discovers award-winning talent, curates innovative experiences, and introduces new ideas through exclusive premieres, exhibitions, conversations, and live performances.

 

The Festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of lower Manhattan following the attacks on the World Trade Center. The annual Tribeca Festival will celebrate its 24th year from June 4–15, 2025 in New York City.

 

In 2019, James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems bought a majority stake in Tribeca Enterprises, bringing together Rosenthal, De Niro, and Murdoch to grow the enterprise.

 

ABOUT CHANEL
Chanel Limited is a private company and parent of the Chanel group, a world leader in creating, developing, manufacturing and distributing luxury products. Founded by Gabrielle Chanel at the beginning of the last century, Chanel offers a broad range of high-end creations, including Ready-to-Wear, Leather Goods, Fashion Accessories, Eyewear, Fragrances, Makeup, Skincare, Jewellery and Watches. Chanel is also renowned for its Haute Couture collections, presented twice yearly in Paris, and for having acquired a large number of specialised suppliers, collectively known as the Métiers d’art. Chanel is dedicated to ultimate luxury and to the highest level of craftsmanship. It is a brand whose core values remain historically grounded on exceptional creation. As such, Chanel promotes culture, art, creativity and “savoir-faire” throughout the world, and invests significantly in people, R&D, sustainable development and innovation. At the end of 2024, Chanel employed over 38,400 people worldwide.