meet our honorees

Amanda Williams is an artist who uses ideas around color and architecture to explore the intersection of race and the built environment. Her public art work titled What Black Is This, You Say? was the inaugural work in our Groundworks series and ran from 2021–2024. An illustrated anthology accompanying WBITYS? is forthcoming, and will be published through MIT Press.

Her work is in several permanent collections including the MoMA, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Amanda is co-author of a forthcoming permanent monument to Shirley Chisholm in Brooklyn. Her breakthrough series, Color(ed) Theory was named as one of the world’s 25 most significant works of postwar architecture by the New York Times. Amanda serves on the boards of the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and is a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. Williams has been widely recognized, most recently being named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She lives and works in Chicago.

Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal and Founder of Selldorf Architects, an architecture and design practice that has created public and private spaces since 1988. Selldorf and her firm have participated in several Storefront initiatives including Measure, Letters to the Developer, and OfficeUS. Selldorf's clients in the cultural field include: the Clark Art Institute, David Zwirner, the Frick Collection, Gagosian, Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks, Hauser & Wirth, the Jewish Museum New York, Luma Arles, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The National Gallery London, Neue Galerie New York, Venice Art Biennale, and the Whitney Museum.

Selldorf is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of the Architectural League of New York, the World Monuments Fund, the Chinati Foundation, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She is the recipient of the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recently, she was described as the Architect of Our Moment in Vogue, and the Art World's Favorite Architect in Cultured.

Tom Finkelpearl is a curator and writer who has held several institutional roles during his extensive career in the arts. At MoMA PS1 he served as an Administrator and Curator, at the Queens Museum he was the Executive Director, and at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs he was the Public Art Program Director, then Commissioner. Among his many curatorial projects is one of Storefront’s earliest exhibitions, After Tilted Arc, 1985, which responded to the controversy surrounding Richard Serra’s Titled Arc.

Currently Finkelpearl is writing a book about the state of North American art museums alongside artist and educator Pablo Helguera, and he is a curator of the Whitney Museum’s forthcoming exhibition on Christine Sun Kim, which is slated to open in early 2025. He is a Social Practice Teaching Scholar-in-Residence at City University of New York.

join the circle

The Storefront Circle is a year-long initiative that supports programs, publications, and exhibitions. This special group of individuals comes together to help advance Storefront’s important mission and is among our biggest supporters.

Additionally, this group serves as Storefront’s host committee at our Gala and is invited to intimate events with the honorees throughout the year. Joining the Storefront Circle is a unique opportunity to engage on a personal level with Storefront’s closest community.

All Storefront Circle members receive exclusive Storefront merch and acknowledgement in all Gala materials, as well as a mention in our institutional support credit line for programs.

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circle members

LEADER

Justin Beal and Jane Hait

Ben Blad and Kevin Gan

Helen Brown Bechtel

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Natasha Jen/Pentagram


BENEFACTOR

Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky

Frida Escobedo

Tom Finkelpearl

Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown

Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri

Christian Nyampeta and Mary Wang

Christian Pineda and Laura Lafón

Annabelle Selldorf

James von Klemperer/KPF

SK Development & CB Developers

PATRON

Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons

Jane and Bob Anspach/Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation

Sarah Arison

Eugenia Braniff/Colección FEMSA

Giuliana Bruno and Andrew Fierberg

Casey Kaplan Gallery

Commonwealth and Council

David Zwirner Gallery

Victoria Espinosa

EvensonBest

Mark Fletcher

Flos

Belmont Freeman

Ephraim Gildor

Galerie Gisela Capitain

Agnes Gund

Brett Herschenfeld

Steven Holl and Dimitra Tsachrelia

Lauren Kogod and David Smiley

Michael A. Manfredi and Marion Weiss

Toshiko Mori and James Carpenter

Neugerriemschneider

Paratus Group

Paula Cooper Gallery

Petzel Gallery

PPOW

Linda Pollak and Sandro Marpillero

Pryor Cashman LLP

re:arc institute

Reddymade

Sylvia Smith

Marc Tsurumaki and Carmen Lenzi

Gordon VeneKlasen

Dasha Zhukova Niarchos

*As of August 30, 2024

Graphic Design: Natasha Jen / Pentagram