Research Awards

Through a nomination process led by Black and Brown educators MFA Brown Art awarded 6 unrestricted cash research prizes. These awards were paid promptly to the nominated artists who had the choice to be listed or remain anonymous.

Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez (b. Mexico City 1987) works with photography, video and multi screen installation to examine the slippage of time in the act of image making. His most recent work has been presented in exhibitions at Worm Gallery, Valparaiso, Chile; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio; Alice Gallery, Seattle; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; MAMA Annex, Los Angeles, and a solo exhibition at the Windor Contemporaneo in Madrid. He has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and the Program in Advanced Studies in Critical Practices at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. He has studied at  the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and received a B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Marisol Ruiz is a Puerto Rican born Baltimore based artist whose oil paintings draw direct references to the flora she was surrounded by in her hometown of Guayanilla. Nature and color play a big part in her work as it connects to her father and his family’s sugarcane-picking background. Ruiz also explores with themes of leaving one’s homeland and her father’s death while also criticizing euro-centric western paintings. She has exhibited throughout Puerto Rico, and in Dallas and Baltimore. She is pursuing a BFA in Painting and Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art.