Art Review
The Power of Making Art From a Prison Cell
A show demonstrates how deeply meaningful creative processes can be for incarcerated people and the larger public.
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Incarcerated Artists Get a Stage for Artistic Expression
Co-curated by Jeremy Deller and John Costi, No Comment is an exhibition of artworks created in criminal justice settings, entries to the 2024 annual Koestler award.
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Challenging the Visual Story of Mass Incarceration
With The Warehouse, James Kilgore and Vic Liu counter the tendency to reduce people to stereotypes or mere statistics.
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Where Does Paño Arte Go From Here?
Hyperallergic Fellow Álvaro Ibarra explored the motifs, circulation, and complex questions around ownership of the art tradition created by incarcerated Chicanos.
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Trans Artist on Parole After 30 Years in Men’s Prison
While incarcerated, Jamie Diaz has made waves through her artworks depicting lived experiences and imagined realities.
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Artepaño Dispatches From the US Carceral System
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Álvaro Ibarra imagines correspondences by Chicano artists who endured incarceration in America.
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How Paño Arte Becomes Artepaño
If paño arte is the private-facing practice of artists serving time in penitentiaries across the United States, then artepaño encompasses the afterlife of the artifact.
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The Private Life of Paño Arte
When I first encountered paño arte in an art institution I was torn in my assessment of whether or not it belonged in a museum.
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Next to a Keith Haring Mural, Original Artworks by Rikers Detainees
An exhibition at NYC’s Woodhull Hospital pairs works from the medical center’s collection with pieces made by people currently imprisoned at the jail.
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Artists Won’t Give Up the Fight as New Chinatown Jail Looms
A public art programming series investigates the relationship between carceral expansion and the neighborhood’s struggle for self-determination.
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Artists Decry Company’s Decision to Pull Mass Incarceration Billboards
Titled 8 x 5 Houston in reference to the minimum required square footage of a jail cell in Texas, the project featured designs by formerly incarcerated artists.
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Incarcerated Artists and Authors Shed Light on Prison Censorship
The exhibition Return To Sender, co-organized by Mariame Kaba with PEN America, explores the prison industrial complex’s mechanisms of silencing.