Simon Leung Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Simon Leung, Associate Professor and head of the New Genres area, is a 2008 recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Leung is well-known for his post-studio practice in contemporary art, which include projects in sculpture, video, photography, drawing, opera, and performance. 

He is also recognized for his work as a writer--earlier this year, he received the 2008 Art Journal Award from the College Art Association for his essay "The Look of Law," a theoretical introduction he published to accompany an exhibition of the same name he curated at the University Art Gallery in 2006. Leung's Guggenheim fellowship will take place during the 2009 calendar year, during which he plans to work on several projects, including a group of essays based on his meditation on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp as an ethical discourse, and a new opera in collaboration with British composer Luke Stoneham, for which Leung will spend part of the year abroad in London and Berlin.

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