February 2023
We are thrilled to announce Kerry James Marshall has been elected as an Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts in London. All of the Royal Academicians (RAs) are practising artists who help steer our vision, support our activities and plan for the future. Each Academician is elected by their peers in one of four categories: Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Printmaker. Engaged in an ongoing dialogue with six centuries of representational painting, Marshall has deftly reinterpreted and updated its tropes, compositions, and styles, even pulling talismans from the canvases of his forbearers and recontextualizing them within a modern setting. Marshall received the 2019 W. E. B. Du Bois Medal, which is considered Harvard University’s highest honour in the field of African and African American studies. In 2016, the artist was the recipient of the Rosenberger Medal given by The University of Chicago for outstanding achievement in the creative and performing arts. Other prestigious awards include a 1997 grant from the MacArthur Foundation and a 1991 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at Royal Academy.