Winners named in the 2022 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 Yeck Award 

 

Winning painting now part of the Miami University 21st Century Painting Collection

 

The juror of the 2022 Miami University Young Painters Competition announced the awardees in a virtual ceremony Feb. 4 held at the Hiestand Galleries. This national competition for artists ages 25-35 celebrates the current trends in contemporary painting. Meena Hasan is the winner of the 2022 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 William (Miami '36) and Dorothy Yeck Award for her painting “From Tipu’s Tent.” The 2022 juror, José Carlos Diaz, is Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum. 

 

The 2022 winners of the Miami University Young Painters Competition are

 

The 2022 $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award 

Meena Hasan, Brooklyn, New York 

MFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 

BA, Oberlin College, Ohio 

http://meenahasan.com/ 

Artwork: From Tipu’s Tent, spiral top, 2020, 

acrylic, Tyvek, Flashe on Okawara paper, 67 x 77 inches 

2nd Place Award, $2500.00 

Hannah Parrett 

MFA, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 

BFA, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine 

http://hannahparrett.com/ 

Artwork: Game Camera Refractions, 2021, oil on panel, 58 in x 60 inches. 

 

 

 

3rd Place Award, $2000.00 

Nathan Prebonick 

MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island 

B.F.A, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 

http://nathanprebonick.com/ 

Artwork: Terminal, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 57 inches. 

  

 

The winner of the first-place award is invited back the following year for a one-person exhibition of recent works. This exhibition coincides with the annual competition and serves as a celebration of the continuing studio successes by competition winners. Currently in the Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery, Hiestand Galleries, is a solo exhibition of recent work by Kirk Maynard, the 2021 winner of the Miami University Young Painters $10,000 Yeck Purchase Award. His painting, Serenity, #2, was chosen by the 2021 juror, Kelly Baum, the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and is now part of the 21st Century Collection in the College of Creative Arts.