The second annual ARTnews Awards, an editorial project honoring excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions, has just revealed the winners for its 2025 edition. To help select this year’s winners, ARTnews invited five esteemed US-based curators to review exhibitions held between August 2024 and July 2025. Over the course of two meetings, these curators joined two ARTnews senior editors to select a group of nominees and a winner in each of six categories. Read more about each juror below.
Ryan N. Dennis
Co-Director & Chief Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
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Ryan N. Dennis joined the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2023 as the museum’s senior curator and director of public initiatives; she was promoted to her current role at the beginning of this year. Dennis has organized several shows at CAMH, among them “Rebirth in Action,” a collaboration with Houston’s Freedmen’s Town Conservancy, and “The Gift and The Renege,” a solo exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and installations by Theaster Gates. Prior to joining CAMH, Dennis was chief curator and artistic director of the Center for Art & Public Exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson. There, she co-curated the critically-acclaimed exhibition “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration,” a show of art made in response to the Great Migration.
Anne Ellegood
Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Anne Ellegood was appointed executive director of Los Angeles’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 2019, after a decade at the Hammer Museum, also in LA. Her most recent ICA LA show, “Scratching at the Moon” (co-curated with artist Anna Sew Hoy), won last year’s ARTnews Award for Best Thematic Museum Show. At the Hammer, Ellegood organized a traveling retrospective of the works of Jimmie Durham in 2017 and (with co-curator Erin Christovale) the 2018 iteration of the museum’s long-running “Made in L.A.” biennial. Prior to joining the Hammer, Ellegood held curatorial posts at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the New Museum in New York. In March 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ellegood cofounded the Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition, a collective of visual arts organizations in Los Angeles that support and advocate for one another.
Rosario Güiraldes
Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
Rosario Güiraldes joined the Walker Art Center as curator of visual arts at in 2023. Her recent exhibitions there include “Ways of Knowing,” a group show featuring major works by Anna Boghiguian, Petrit Halilaj, Gala Porras-Kim, Rose Salane, and others, as well as the solo exhibition “Walter Price: Pearl Lines.” Before joining the Walker, Güiraldes was a curator at the Drawing Center in New York, where she organized the contemporary drawing survey “Drawing in the Continuous Present” and monographic exhibitions of Xiyadie, Fernanda Laguna, and Eduardo Navarro.
Ruba Katrib
Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1, New York
Ruba Katrib joined MoMA PS1 in 2018, where she has curated shows dedicated to the work of Yto Barrada, Simone Fattal, Jumana Manna, the Karrabing Film Collective, and many others. “The Gatherers,” a group show addressing the burdens of climate change, globalization, and neoliberalism, was on view there earlier this year. From 2012–18, Katrib was a curator at SculptureCenter, also in New York, where she organized solo shows for artists like Kelly Akashi, Teresa Burga, and Carissa Rodriguez, and group shows like “Puddle, posthole, portal” (co-curated with artist Camille Henrot) and “Better Homes,” featuring artists’ critical takes on homemaking. In 2026, Katrib will curate Art Basel’s Unlimited section, which highlights large-scale sculptures and installations.
Victoria Sung
Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Victoria Sung joined curatorial team at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) in early 2023. She oversees the museum’s long-running MATRIX series of contemporary art (recent exhibitions have featured work by Zeinab Saleh, Berenice Olmedo, and Sin Wai Kin) and works with artists to create exhibitions, publications, and public programs. From 2015 to 2023, Sung was a curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where she organized the touring retrospective “Pacita Abad,” as well as exhibitions with Siah Armajani, Theaster Gates, Pao Houa Her, Candice Lin, Rayyane Tabet, and Laure Prouvost, among others. She is currently organizing a retrospective on the art and archives of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, which will open at BAMPFA in January 2026.
Maximilíano Durón
Senior Editor, ARTnews
Maximilíano Durón is a queer, Chicanx journalist and critic covering contemporary art. His writing focuses on the work of artists of color, specifically Latinx/Chicanx artists, queer artists, and their intersections, as well as curators, collectors, and scholars whose work has transformed the art world. He has been at ARTnews since 2014 and is currently senior editor, managing the publication’s art fair and Top 200 Collectors coverage. Durón is a winner of the 2023 Rabkin Prize for visual art journalists and a founding member of Critical Minded, an initiative that looks to support the work of a diverse intergenerational group of cultural critics of color. He received his undergraduate degree from NYU in journalism and art history.
Alex Greenberger
Senior Editor, ARTnews
Alex Greenberger is a senior editor at ARTnews, having started there as an editorial assistant in 2015. He has covered topics ranging from protests against a former Whitney Museum vice chair in 2018 and 2019 to the controversy involving charges of antisemitism and harassment in Documenta 15 in 2022. In his criticism, Greenberger has addressed body horror, the history of video art, the legacy of Pablo Picasso, and the work of artists Wangechi Mutu, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marlene Dumas, and innumerable others. His articles have also appeared in Artspace and the Village Voice, and in gallery catalogs. He graduated from New York University with a BA in art history and cinema studies.
