Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize

Marcus Antonius Jansen, b. 1968, in New York City, was discovered by one of the major connoisseurs of Abstract Expressionism in America. Jerome A. Donson, director of traveling exhibitions at New York's Museum of Modern Art, compared Jansen's art to that of the socio-critical Ashcan School, and hailed him as the innovator of a modern expressionism. Jansen is best known for his faceless colonial portrait criticism and distorted landscape paintings. As his artistic idiom, Jansen has created a personal pictorial alphabet that repeatedly appears in his various paintings or installations.

Jansen is an internationally award winning artist and has held solo museum exhibitions internationally, including recently at La Triennale di Milano Museum, Milan, the Museum Zitadelle Berlin, the Kallmann Museum Ismanning, Munich, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, and Rollins Museum of Art. He has participated in the 12th International Print and Drawing Biennial in Taiwan at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art. Works by Jansen are included in international collections, from the United States , Russia, Europe and Asia and include the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), The Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art (AMOCA) Wales, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rollins Museum of Art, Baker Museum, Florida, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, The Housatonic Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C

Winner, Pathways 2024

Tenee’ Hart is an 'unconventional' fiber sculpture artist pursuing themes

of feminism that delve into topics of beauty, anatomy, and the inequality of

women. Wrapped fibers, gushing forms, and the manipulation of the ‘everyday’ are crucial components within Hart’s works. Her abstract forms remain committed to an intriguing physicality that comes from palpable and intentional material usage. Hart hails from Virginia, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Mary Washington in 2011. Later, Hart earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree from Florida State University, where she has been teaching, at the college level, since the completion of her degree in 2015. Hart is currently the Lead Fibers Instructor and Co-Head of the Online Distance Learning (ODL) program for FSU | Department of Art. Beyond her role as an educator, Hart is the sole Graduate Advisor + Coordinator for the Department of Art at Florida State University.

Photo by Beth Reynolds

Artist Sheldon Scott mines his experiences growing up in the Gullah/Geechee South and his background in storytelling to examine the Black Male form with particular emphasis on biases of usability and expendability in relation to constructs of race, economics, and sexuality.

Scott’s works have been presented at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Katzen Museum of Art at American University, Perez Art Museum Miami, Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis and others. He’s in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA and Nasher Museum of Art, Durham NC and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He is a former resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts Threshold Fellowship and the Aspen Institute’s ESG Summit. He recently served as the Global Head of Purpose at Eaton Workshop and serves on the boards of Teaching for Change, Transformer, Solas Nua, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Scott is represented by ConnerSmith.