Andrea Fraser and Liz Glynn to Spend a Season in the Eternal City
The American Academy in Rome has given a handful of artists a unique opportunity for collaboration with people across a range of disciplines while living in the Italian capital. Save to My Ocula
Six artists have appeared on the list of winners of a prize including residencies of five to ten months collaborating across creative fields in the city of Rome.
The American Academy in Rome has announced the 35 scholars who have won the 2025–26 Rome Prize, including performance artist Andrea Fraser and sculptor Liz Glynn.
The winners will be given residencies on the Academy’s eleven-acre grounds from September, in a move which academy president Peter N. Miller said allows scholars from across a range of disciplines to collaborate.
‘Presented with the opportunity to deeply engage with their work and with that of the other fellows, Rome Prize winners return home with perspectives profoundly enriched by their immersion in an interdisciplinary community set in Rome’ he said.
‘The winners form the heart of the Academy, embodying its ethos and extending its international impact through their work now and into the future.’
Fraser was specifically awarded the Philip Guston Rome Prize in recognition of her pioneering work in institutional critique, while Glynn was recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize for her exploration of cultural memory and contested histories.
Other awardees from the arts world include Jennifer Bornstein, T. J. Dedeaux-Norris, Heather Hart, and Jefferson Pinder.
Fraser is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition, Art Must Hang, at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, on view through 8 June 2025. —[O]
Main image: Andrea Fraser. Courtesy the artist and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Photo: Adam Gut.
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