Alumnus and artist Omer Fast will receive the Museum School's Medal Award at the:
15th Annual Medal Award Gala
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
6 pm Linde Family Wing
Cocktails with Omer Fast, silent auction of SMFA student work
7 pm Remis Auditorium
Award presentation, screening, interview with Omer Fast, led by Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
8 pm Linde Family Wing
Buffet reception, music and silent auction of student work
For more information, please call 617-369-3591 or e-mail
medalaward@smfa.edu.
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The Medal Award is one of the many ways that the SMFA supports the education of its young artists. The need is critical at the School—73% of our students receive an average of $14,000 each year in financial aid. You can help us reach our goal of raising $250,000 in scholarships, making possible the creative and inspired education that drives our students to succeed in the art world. The SMFA Medal Award is endowed through the generosity of Carol and Arnold Haynes.
ABOUT OMER FAST
Omer Fast's work explores how fact, fiction, memory and history are increasingly obscured and manipulated in today's world. He blurs the lines of reality, creating stories with snippets of films, video and dialect from personal interviews. These powerful narratives often end without a resolution, leaving viewers to continue to question what they have witnessed long after the final denouement. Holland Cotter of the
New York Times says Fast is "amazingly good, and getting better."
Fast was born in 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel and currently lives and works in Berlin. A recipient of the prestigious 2008 Bucksbaum Award—presented to a Whitney Biennial participating artist "whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination"—Fast is currently exhibiting Nostalgia at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He also recently received the 2009 Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art, honoring a Germany-based artist under 40. These awards are among the most highly regarded and valuable awards in the United States and Europe.
