Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to announce that Petah Coyne has been awarded the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Established in 1991 by the ISC's Board of Trustees, the award recognizes individual sculptors who have made exemplary contributions to the field of sculpture. Candidates for the award are masters of sculptural processes and techniques who have devoted their careers to the development of a laudable body of sculptural work as well as to the advancement of the sculpture field as a whole.

Past recipients include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, Fletcher Benton, Fernando Botero, Deborah Butterfield, Louise Bourgeois, Sir Anthony Caro, Elizabeth Catlett, John Chamberlain, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Eduardo Chillida, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Tony Cragg, Mark di Suvero, Red Grooms, Nancy Holt, Richard Hunt, Seward Johnson, Jun Kaneko, Phillip King, William King, Manuel Neri, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Nam June Paik, Beverly Pepper, Judy Pfaff, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giò Pomodoro, Robert Rauschenberg, George Rickey, Ursula von Rydingsvard, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, Kenneth Snelson, Frank Stella, James Surls, William Tucker, and Bernar Venet.

The award will be formally presented at the International Sculpture Center's Night of Excellence on April 12, 2024. 

About the Artist

Petah Coyne is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer. Since the 1980s, Coyne has received critical acclaim for using intricate, unorthodox material—trees, human hair, scrap metal, wax, silk flowers, religious statuary, and taxidermy—to create sculptures that are both precise in their attention to detail and baroque in their emotional range. Literature, film, art history, and the depths of an individual’s soul are all springboards for Coyne’s incessant and unrelenting imagination. In Coyne’s hands, materials, like our lived experiences, are endlessly re-purposed and reborn into something new.

Coyne’s sculptures and photographs have been the subject of more than 30 solo museum exhibitions. Her work resides in numerous permanent museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finland; and many others. She is the past recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Anonymous was a Woman, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1953, the artist currently lives in New York City.