J. Carino is Awarded a 2025 Hopper Prize

One of six artists in the Spring 2025 Cohort
J. Carino has been awarded a Spring 2025 Hopper Prize. The Hopper Prize is awarded to twelve artists annually, and seeks to create new relationships between artists, curators, writers, and collectors in addition to providing unrestricted cash awards to artists.
 
From Carino: "I am interested in the interactions between people and nature, and how the creation of our sense of self is connected with the natural world. My work depicts monumental nude, queer figures in landscapes that are both idyllic and tinged with danger. It wrestles with ideas of traditional fertility and queer intimacy. Queer people are often not afforded the luxury of "permanence" in society, and are viewed as "unnatural". In my work, the figures become a part of the landscapes on different scales of time: the fleeting lives of wildflowers, the multi-decade lives of trees, and the eternity of the mountains and ocean. This work expresses the idea that there is a “naturalness” to nudity, to sexuality, and to queerness that is as elemental a component of the landscape as rocks and trees."
 
See J. Carino's profile on the Hopper Prize website here. More on the Prize's mission can be found here.
August 5, 2025