Critical Mass 2021 Finalists Announced!

Today is one of our favorite days of the whole year – the 2021 Critical Mass Finalists have been announced! We are so excited to introduce you to the 200 Finalists and Scholarship recipients! These artists will now move on to the next phase of Critical Mass, having their work juried by 200 international jurors. The Top 50 will be announced in September!

But first, we want to give a huge thank you to our fabulous pre-screening team who has spent the last month individually looking at and voting on each entry submitted. We appreciate all of your efforts Mark Alice Durant, Christy Havranek, Bree Lamb, Laura Moya, Audra Osborne, Victor Rivera, Roula Seikaly, Paula Tognarelli, Sara Urbaez, Tracey Woods and Efrem Zelony-Mindell!

And, fun fact – this year we received submissions from 37 different countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, and Vietnam!

Without further adieu, the 2021 Critical Mass Finalists are:

Deb Achak
John Adair
Linda Alterwitz
Debe Arlook
Tom Atwood
Eliza Aviña
Sandra Bacchi
Kat Bawden
Sheri Lynn Behr
Ute Behrend
Logan Bellew
Emily Louise Beresford
Lois Bielefeld
Meg Birnbaum
Thomas Georg Blank
Aaron Blum
Peter Bogaczewicz
Alexandra Brodsky
Sage Brousseau
Torry Brown
Gabriela Bulisova
Nicoletta Cerasomma
Jeremy Chandler
Jo Ann Chaus
Diana Cheren Nygren
Kenji Chiga
Tony Chirinos
Michiko Chiyoda
Beth Chucker
Julianne Clark
Marna Clarke
Caleb Cole
Deana Collins
Lily Colman
Cathy Cone
Emma Creighton Hopson
Rocio De Alba
Eler De Grey
Andrés De Varona
Julie De Waroquier
Regina Deluise
Paloma Dooley
Sharon Draghi
Leah Edelman-Brier
Jesse Egner
David Ellingsen
Odette England
Federico Estol
Heather Evans Smith
Rachel Feinstein
Tracy Fish
Morgan Davis Foehl
Ryan Frigillana
Beth Galton
Preston Gannaway
Jenna Garrett
Jennifer Georgescu
Ariella Gibson
Tria Giovan
Isla Gordon + Ashley Kaye
Marsha Guggenheim
Alexis Joy Hagestad
Alice Hargrave
Naomi Harris
Muriel Hasbun
Joan Haseltine
Charlotta Hauksdottir
Jenica Heintzelman
Jamie Ho
Cable Hoover
Sarah Hoskins
Aimée Hoving
Ashleigh Howard
Kei Ito
Constance Jaeggi
Camilla Jerome
Ethan Jones
Vikesh Kapoor
Karoliina Kase
Tomasz Kawecki
Tommy Keith
Natalia Kepesz
R. J. Kern
Tira Khan
Billy Kidd
Takako Kido
Sandra Klein
Kristina Knipe
David Knox
Eric Kunsman
Galina Kurlat
Patricia Lagarde
Lance Langel
Flynn Larsen
Brian Lau
Victoria Laube
Ruth Lauer-Manenti
Denise Laurinaitis
Christian K. Lee
Shannon Leith
Jessina Leonard
Vanessa Leroy
Elizabeth Libert
Beth Lilly
Wen-hang Lin
Jennifer Loeber
Jennifer Long
Holly Lynton
Akshay Mahajan
Amanda Marchand
Randy Matusow
Jeanette May
Selina Mayer
Jennifer Mcclure
Lisa Mccord
Kelli Mckinney
Daniel Mebarek
Stacy Mehrfar
Yvette Meltzer
Chloe Meynier
Azya Moore
Matthew Moore
Sierra Moreno West
Rebecca Moseman
Dana Mueller
Amanda Musick
Bruce Myren
Freya Najade
Alan Nakkash
Bob Newman
Xuan Hui Ng
Anh-thuy Nguyen
Faith Ninivaggi
George Nobechi
Scott Offen
Lori Ordover
Andrea Orejarena + Caleb Stein
Jessica Paullus
Kosmas Pavlidis
Barbara Peacock
Stefan Petranek
Allison Plass
Walter Plotnick
Julie Rae Powers
Evelyn Pustka
Jared Ragland
Parker James Reinecker
Astrid Reischwitz
Suzanne Révy
Melinda Reyes
Jeff Rhode
Andy Richter
Susan Rosenberg Jones
Claudia Ruiz Gustafson
Charlotte Schmid-Maybach
Erik Schmitt
Sophie Schwartz
Tara Sellios
Angela Shaffer
Aoife Shanahan
Maggie Shannon
Jennifer Shaw
Niv Shimshon
Masumi Shiohara
Sara Silks
Brant Slomovic
C Rose Smith
Michal Solarski
William Mark Sommer
Erinn Springer
Robert Stone
Elizabeth Stone
Riel Sturchio
Krista Svalbonas
Luke Swenson + Jack Dash
Noriko Takasugi
Svava Tergesen
Jp Terlizzi
Raymond Thompson Jr
Maximilian Thuemler
Amy Touchette
Shun Tsuiki
Richard Tuschman
Barry Underwood
Kelda Van Patten
Julia Vandenoever
Dineke Versluis
Melanie Walker
Martín Wannam
Peggy Washburn
Rebecca L. Webb
Sandra Chen Weinstein
Amiran White
Ian White
Becky Wilkes
Lisa Winner
Jaclyn Wright
Paul Yem
Torrance York
Michael Young

And congrats to these Critical Mass scholarship recipients who will also move on the the next round of jurying:

Bruno Barreto
Karolina Cwik
Faiham Ebna Shari
Mariana Guardani
Elena Helfrecht
J Daniel Hud
Alec Kaus
Pedro Kuperman
Catarina Lay
Weronika Perlowska
Alayna Pernell
Olga Sokal
Allie Tsubota
Anne Vetter
Zhidong Zhang

 

*Key Images: Weronika Perlowska, Alec Kaus, Elena Helfrecht, and Allie Tsubota – 2021 CM Scholarship recipients!