Suné Woods Named 2016 Recipient of The Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer

On March 7th, The Baum Foundation and SF Camerawork (SFC) selected Los Angeles-based artist Suné Woods as the recipient of the 2016 Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer. Now in its 10th year, the national award is given bi-annually to an artist of exceptional talent working in the medium of photography, providing exposure and resources at a critical career-point.

The award is administered by SF Camerawork, one of San Francisco’s alternative venues for photography; The Baum Award consists of a $10,000 cash grant, a publication, and a solo exhibition at the gallery, on view from May 5 through June 25, 2016.

The Baum Award was one of the first national awards dedicated to recognizing an emerging American photographer and remains one of the largest of its kind in the United States.

“Our goal for the Baum Award is to give photography artists a boost in life and to enable them to pursue their dreams and artistic careers by way of recognition from professionals and peers in their field,” says Glenn Bucksbaum, President of the Baum Foundation. “We’ve witnessed a string of successes from Baum Award artists, and it has been a very rewarding experience to see that acknowledgment become such a positive note along their career path.”

Suné Woods creates photographs, collage works, and multi-channel video installations. Woods employs a combination of appropriated and created imagery to address sociological phenomenon, imperialist mechanisms, and formations of knowledge. Her work engages absences and vulnerabilities within cultural and social histories through the photographic image. She is interested in how language is emoted, guarded, and translated through the absence/presence of a physical body. Woods is a recipient of the 2015 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award and the 2012 Visions from the New California initiative. She has participated in residencies at Headlands Center of the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and will be in residence at Light Work (Syracuse, NY) in 2016.

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