The King Awards 2025
All awards are based on artistic merit. In 2013, Gretchen King (BA in English’59) worked with the Department of Art & Art History to establish the King Competition and Exhibition, the department’s first juried student exhibition. Since that time fellow alums, Meridee Moore (BA in Philosophy ’80) and Kevin King (BFA in Fine Arts ’81) have joined Gretchen in generously supporting the annual competition and exhibition, allowing the department to award undergraduate and graduate students monetary prizes, and to showcase their work in the Visual Arts Complex.
All Art and Art History majors and graduate students are invited to apply!
- $3000 for first-place Grad and Undergrad
- $2000 for second-place Grad and Undergrad
- $1000 for third-place Grad and Undergrad
- $500 for 4 honorable mentions
Your award will be paid to your student account. Any balance due will be paid, and the remaining funds will be sent to you via direct deposit (direct deposit set-up instructions)
Deadline for Submission:
MONDAY, FEB. 3RD, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Notifications of the finalists:
MONDAY, FEB. 24, 2024
Please reach out to finearts@colorado.edu
Visit the Visual Resources Center for more information about photographing your work and digital image formatting
The 2025 King Award Jurors
Kealey Boyd is an art historian, writer and museum educator. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and has published art criticism with College Art Association (CAA Reviews), ArtBeat Magazine, and Artillery Magazine. She is also a lecturer in Art History at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her research interests include methodologies for interpreting painting and other visual forms as an integral element of political and cultural discourses.
Stacey Steers is known internationally for her process-driven, labor-intensive films comprising thousands of handmade works on paper. Her work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives. She is a recipient of major grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, and the American Film Institute. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She lives and works in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Colorado.
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The 2025 King Exhibition Details
The award-winning artwork will be displayed both online and in the Visual Arts Complex:
- A virtual showcase of all applicants and awardees will be featured on the art and art history website in conjunction with a curated, in-person exhibition featured at the Visual Arts Complex of the 10 award winners (3 grads and 3 undergrads, and 4 honorable mentions).
- Up to three images for each applicant will be displayed online, chosen at the discretion of the Art & Art History faculty and staff. Please review last year's webpage as an example.
- All forms of artwork will be considered but there might be limited ability to accommodate the installation needs of all work(s) due to space restrictions.
- A compilation featuring award-winning time-based artworks will be displayed.
- The student assumes the responsibility for any liability or damages to work on display.
- Installation: Friday, 2/28 to Monday, 3/5
- Exhibition Dates: Thursday, 3/6 to Monday, 3/31 (5 PM)
- Reception and ceremony: Friday, 3/7 from 4-6 PM
- ​Deinstallation/Repair: Tuesday 4/1- Thursday 4/3
