Tavares Strachan 03 GL has been named as a 2022 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The news was shared by Artforum and Surface.
"The foundation praised his 'break-out' 2005–2006 work The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want, for which he traveled to the Antarctic to remove a four-and-a-half ton block of ice, which he then shipped the Bahamas via FedEx before putting it on display at his old elementary school in a solar-powered chiller...Also cited was his 2018 Encyclopedia of Invisibility, which documents the work of thousands of marginalized individuals who have been left out of the official record." —Artforum, "Paul Chan, Sky Hopinka, Tavares Strachan Named 2022 MacArthur Fellows"
