Anicka Yi Wins Hugo Boss Prize 2016 (NEW YORK, NY—October 20, 2016)—Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Mark Langer, Chairman and CEO, HUGO BOSS AG, announced tonight that artist Anicka Yi has been awarded the Hugo Boss Prize 2016. Yi is the 11th artist to receive the biennial prize, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art, and marks its 20th anniversary this year. The prize carries an award of $100,000 and is administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Yi’s work will be presented in a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, opening in April 2017. Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, stated: “The Hugo Boss Prize is a pillar of the Guggenheim’s contemporary program and we are proud to be commemorating its illustrious 20-year history. Since 1996, the project has identified and celebrated artists working at the forefront of cultural production, and we thank the many eminent international curators and critics who have served as jurors over the past two decades. We congratulate the 2016 prize winner, Anicka Yi, and applaud each of this year’s nominees for their groundbreaking work.” A jury selected Yi from a short list of six finalists, which also included Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckey, Ralph Lemon, Laura Owens, and Wael Shawky. The 2016 jury comprises Katherine Brinson, Curator, Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dan Byers, Mannion Family Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Elena Filipovic, Director/Chief Curator, Kunsthalle Basel; Michelle Kuo, Editor in Chief, Artforum International; and Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS Map Curator, Latin America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The Hugo Boss Prize honors the work of remarkable artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time. The jury statement describes their decision: “In recognition of the milestone 20th anniversary marked by this year’s prize, we carefully considered the spirit of the project over the past two decades and the innovatory achievements represented by the list of past recipients. In selecting Anicka Yi as the winner from an exceptionally strong group of nominated artists, we wish to highlight the singularity of her vision and the generative new possibilities for artistic production offered by her practice. We are particularly compelled by the way Yi’s sculptures and installations make public and strange, and thus newly addressable, our deeply subjective corporeal realities. We also admire the unique embrace of discomfort in her experiments with technology, science, and the plant and animal worlds, all of which

push at the limits of perceptual experience in the ‘visual’ arts. The artist gives material and olfactory form to complex networks of ideas, imbuing her unusual materials with both political and psychological urgency. We eagerly look forward to her exhibition at the Guggenheim this coming spring.” “The Hugo Boss Prize marks a highlight in our partnership with the Guggenheim Museum and we are proud that it has now been at the core of our arts program for 20 years,” noted Mark Langer, Chairman and CEO, HUGO BOSS AG. “We would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to the winner and express our gratitude to the jury and the Guggenheim Museum for their dedication and support." Anicka Yi (b. 1971, Seoul) lives and works in New York. Yi has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2016); Kunsthalle Basel (2015); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2015); The Kitchen, New York (2015); and Cleveland Museum of Art (2014). The artist’s work has been included in group exhibitions such as the Gwangju Biennial (2016); Under the Clouds, Serralves Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal (2015); THEM, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2015); Taipei Biennial (2014); Lyon Biennial (2014); Love of Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2013); das Ding!, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York (2013); Looking Back/The 6th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (2011); “SKIN SO SOFT”, Gresham’s Ghost, New York (2011); 179 Canal/Anyways, White Columns, New York (2010); and Today and Everyday, X Initiative, New York (2009). A video interview with Yi is available here. The Hugo Boss Prize 2016 is made possible by HUGO BOSS. Hugo Boss Prize History Since its inception in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize has been awarded to 11 innovative and influential contemporary artists: Matthew Barney (1996); Douglas Gordon (1998); Marjetica Potrč (2000); Pierre Huyghe (2002); Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004); Tacita Dean (2006); Emily Jacir (2008); Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010); Danh Vo (2012); Paul Chan (2014); and Anicka Yi (2016). The related exhibitions have constituted some of the most compelling presentations in the museum’s history. Previous finalists include Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Stan Douglas, and Yasumasa Morimura in 1996; Huang Yong Ping, William Kentridge, Lee Bul, Pipilotti Rist, and Lorna Simpson in 1998; Vito Acconci, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Tom Friedman, Barry Le Va, and Tunga in 2000; Francis Alÿs, Olafur Eliasson, Hachiya Kazuhiko, Koo Jeong-a, and Anri Sala in 2002; Franz Ackermann, Rivane Neuenschwander, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Simon Starling, and Yang Fudong in 2004; Allora & Calzadilla, John Bock, Damián Ortega, Aïda Ruilova, and Tino Sehgal in 2006; Christoph Büchel, Patty Chang, Sam Durant, Joachim Koester, and Roman Signer in 2008; Cao Fei, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2010; and Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika Sosnowska, and Tris Vonna-Michell in 2012; and Sheela Gowda, Camille Henrot, Hassan Khan, and Charline von Heyl in 2014.

To see a timeline and a video on the history the Hugo Boss Prize, as well as an overview of past prize catalogues, visit guggenheim.org/hugobossprize. Publication In conjunction with the Hugo Boss Prize 2016, the Guggenheim has published a catalogue featuring artist projects by each of the finalists and newly commissioned critical essays illuminating their practices. The catalogue includes texts by Clare Davies, Tim Griffin, Anthony Huberman, Caroline A. Jones, Alex Kitnick, and Lucía Sanromán, along with an introduction by Katherine Brinson, Curator, Contemporary Art, and Susan Thompson, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The volume also contains a special commemorative section devoted to the Prize’s 20-year history with texts by Thompson. Designed by Frith Kerr and Ben Prescott of the London-based firm Studio Frith, the catalogue is available for $40 at the Guggenheim Store or online at guggenheimstore.org. About HUGO BOSS AG Since 1995, HUGO BOSS has provided critical support to many Guggenheim programs. In addition to the Hugo Boss Prize, the company has helped make possible retrospectives of the work of Matthew Barney (2003), Georg Baselitz (1995), Ross Bleckner (1995), Francesco Clemente (1999–2000), Ellsworth Kelly (1996–97), Robert Rauschenberg (1997–98), and James Rosenquist (2003–04); the presentation Art in America: Now (2007) in Shanghai; the Felix Gonzalez-Torres (2007) and Ed Ruscha (2005) exhibitions in the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; and the exhibition theanyspacewhatever (2008–09) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. At the 54th Biennale di Venezia in 2011, the fashion and lifestyle group HUGO BOSS was the lead sponsor of the Allora & Calzadilla exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion. For more information, visit group.hugoboss.com/en/group/sponsoring/art-sponsoring or hugoboss.com/us/magazine/arts. About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The Guggenheim network that began in the 1970s when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was joined by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, has since expanded to include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (opened 1997), and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (currently in development). The Guggenheim Foundation continues to forge international collaborations that celebrate contemporary art, architecture, and design within and beyond the walls of the museum, including the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative. More information about the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation can be found at guggenheim.org. guggenheim.org/hugobossprize guggenheim.org/social #HBP2016 For publicity images, visit guggenheim.org/pressimages Password: presspass

For videos, visit https://www.guggenheim.org/video/tag/hugo-boss-prize October 20, 2016 #1446 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Sarah Eaton, Director, Media and Public Relations May Yeung, Publicist Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 212 423 3840 pressoffice@guggenheim.org