Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography
For 82 years Guild Hall has reserved space in its exhibition schedule for the Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition. The first installment took place in 1938, shortly after Guild Hall’s inception in 1931. It is the oldest non-juried show on Long Island and one of the few non-juried exhibitions still running. Deeply rooted in the history of the East End artist colony, early participants included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, Perle Fine, Bill King, James Brooks, Charlotte Park, John Little and many more, showing their support of Guild Hall and its role as their community Museum, Theater, and Education Center.
Due to the wonderful popularity of this exhibition, around 400 artists participate each year. The Artist Members Exhibition attracts remarkable art world professionals as awards jurors and we are honored to welcome Susan Thompson, Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum, as this year’s awards juror. Thompson is one of the organizing curators for the Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the museum’s permanent collection, and for the Photography Council, which expands the museum’s holdings in the medium of photography through acquisitions.
Top Honors*: Darlene Charneco
Best Abstract: Bastienne Schmidt
Best Representational Work: Amanda Church
Best Photograph: Johnny Miller
Best Work on Paper: Mary Twomey
Best Sculpture: Tracy Jamar
Best Mixed Media: Renee Gallanti
Catherine and Theo Hios Best Landscape Award: Daniel Jones
Best New Artist: Julie Solomon
Honorable Mentions:
John Wittenberg
Pamela Topham
Sharon Mroz Hopek
David Yohay
Beth Giles
Isabella Rupp
*Top Honors award winner which will be given a solo exhibition in the Museum’s Spiga Gallery.
FAQ
- The Artist Members Exhibition will be open Friday through Monday 12-5pm, June 26-July 13.
- Reservations to visit the Museum are required. To reserve a visit, CLICK HERE or call 631-324-0806 Fri-Mon, 12-5pm.
- Museum visits are FREE to all courtesy of BNB Bank and Landscape Details.
- When you arrive at Guild Hall, please enter through the left most front door of the building and check in with our Receptionist at the box office.
- Masks are required in the building for all patrons over the age of 2.
- Please keep a 6ft distance between your party and others when in the museum galleries or lobby.
- Please reschedule your appointment by calling 631-324-0806 x25 or emailing jennifer@guildhall.org if you or any member of your party have:
- knowingly been in close or proximate contact in the past 14 days with anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or who has or had symptoms of COVID-19
- have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days
- or have experienced any symptoms of COVID-19 in the past 14 days
- Please be on time for your appointment. Visits are for a maximum of one hour and no more than 30 people will be allowed in the museum galleries at a time.
- Please be sure that your registration number includes all members of your party. If it does not, please contact 631-324-0806 x25 or jennifer@guildhall.org.
- Guild Hall restrooms are available to patrons.
- No food or drinks are permitted in the museum galleries.
Works from our 82nd Artist Members Exhibition may be purchased online. Click here to view works
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Susan Thompson
Susan Thompson is Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum, where she has curated several exhibitions including the two-part project Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now (2019–20); Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat (2019); Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap (2017); Paul Chan, Nonprojections for New Lovers (2015). She has also contributed to such exhibitions as Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (2018); Photo-Poetics: An Anthology (2015–16), and Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video (2014). Thompson is one of the organizing curators for the museum’s Young Collectors Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the museum’s permanent collection, and the for the Photography Council, which expands the museum’s holdings in the medium of photography through acquisitions. She holds a BA in Art History and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in Modern Art from Columbia University.
