The $75,000 prize goes to an artist who has made "a significant contribution in any medium and for whom the award would be transformative."

Since the mid-1960s, the New York artist has fought to have her work—especially her early draped paintings—appreciated in nonsexist terms.

Painting exhibitions predominate, but even among those, the variety is vast.

His draped paintings have recently been canonized, and have been shown widely at U.S. museums.

Collaborating institutions include the Dia Art Foundation, the MFA Houston, the Met, SFMOMA, and other top art museums across the country.

The exhibition explores the parameters of Black representation and expression in America and in the wake of violence.

The space will open with a show of new work by Sam Gilliam.

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As Sam Gilliam's work has gained ever greater recognition, his story has often been characterized as a comeback (though he never left) or a rediscovery (though he wasn't lost).