2010
Ellen Altfest, United States
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, France/Belgium
Marc Ganzglass, United States
Steve Roden, United States
Bill Saylor, United States
Melanie Schiff, United States

2009
Rita Ackermann, United States
Adam Davies, United States
Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Germany
Mischa Kuball, Germany
Sarah McEneaney, United States
Alex Schweder, United States

2008
Mark Flood, United States
Erik Göngrich, Germany
Monika Grzymala, Germany
Charline von Heyl, United States
Jason Tomme, United States
Jeff Zilm, United States

2007
Joanne Greenbaum, United States
Adam Helms, United States
Claudia Hinsch, Germany
Annette Kisling, Germany
Michael Krumenacker, United States
Paul Lee, United States
Daniel Sturgis, United Kingdom

2006
Oliver Croy, Austria
Mikael Levin, United States
Brian Kirk Nelms, United States
Jesus Palomino, Spain
Petra Trenkel, Germany
Christopher Wool, United States

2005
Mai Braun, Finland
Shane Huffman, United States
Maureen Gallace, United States
Isa Melsheimer, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal, Poland

2004
Gail Peter Borden, United States
Christian Freudenberger, Germany
Matthew Day Jackson, United States
Corinna Schnitt, Germany
Monique van Genderen, United States
Heike Weber, Germany
Michael Yoder, United States

2003
Ariane Epars, Switzerland
Lies Kraal, The Netherlands
Thomas Müller, Germany
Avery Preesman, The Netherlands
Erwin Redl, Austria
Judi Werthein, Argentina

2002
Gudrun Flach, Germany
Jaroslaw Flicinski, Poland
Hlynur Hallsson, Iceland
Graciela Hasper, Argentina
Nestor Kruger, Canada
Albrecht Kunkel, Germany
Katherine Merz, United States

2001
Susan Chorpenning, United States
Julian Dashper, New Zealand
Howard Goldkrand, United States
Christina Hejtmanek, United States
Emi Winter, Mexico

2000
Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal, Iceland
Andrea Claire, United States
Katharina Hinsberg, Austria
Michael Meredith, United States
Andreas Schmid, Germany

1999
Alexander Braun, Germany
Katharina Grosse, Germany
Ann-Michele Morales, United States
Makato Sasaki, Japan
Claudia Schmacke, Germany
Richard Wearn, New Zealand

1998
Degenhard Andrulat, Germany
Igor Antic, France
John Beech, United States
Jeff Elrod, United States
Kumiko Kurachi, Japan
Valérie Mréjen, France

1997
Bernhard Härtter, Germany
Leonard Kemp, United States
Ulrike Kessl, Germany
Kathranne Knight, United States
Polly Lanning Sparrow, United States
Jennifer Siegal, United States
Daniela Steinfeld Rau, Germany
Karien Vandekerkhove, Belgium

1996
Angela Ferreira, Portugal
Jutta Glöckner, Great Britain
Mary Ellen Latas, United States
Sigrun Paulsen, Germany
Kate Shepherd, United States
Jurek Wybraniec, Australia

1995
Jim Malone, United States
Elizabeth McBride, United States
Carina Plath, Germany
Richard Schwartzwald, United States
Gwendolyn Smolka, Germany

1994
Rupert Deese, United States
Anders Kruger, Denmark
Joost van Oss, The Netherlands
Regina Stralka, Germany
Karen and Jörg Berg, Germany

1993
Stephan Baumkötter, Germany
Daniel Göttin, Switzerland
Andreas Karl Schulze, Germany
Sonny Thorbjirnsdottir, Iceland

1992
Ingólfur Arnarsson, Iceland
Nadja Nanopoulos, Greece

1991
Brian Wendleman, Sweden

1990
Ragna Hermannsdóttir, Iceland

1989
John Wesley, United States

Sarah McEneaney

Sarah McEneaney is a Philadelphia-based painter who, for almost thirty years, has used the venerable medium of egg tempera to make paintings which record her daily activities and surroundings. McEneaney warps perspective to suit her compositions and portrays her human subjects (most often herself) with an endearing awkwardness. Modest in size, diaristic, and brilliantly colorful, her paintings record the artist's life–studio work, chores, baths, walks, naps, etc.–with zero pretension, a minimum of fuss, and a great deal of humor. Pets appear frequently, acting at once as friends, familiars, and – with the cast slowly changing – as markers of passing time. McEneaney also records the changing face of her Philadelphia neighborhood and landscapes encountered on her travels.

Casual or informal in appearance, McEneaney's paintings are in truth carefully thought out beforehand-egg tempera is a medium which allows for jewel-like colors but little revision once the paint is applied. The artist likes to enlarge the dimensions of the spaces she depicts – her studio, a bedroom, the Locker Plant gallery – making room for great planes of resplendent color. Nested harmoniously within these planes, accompanied by a dog or two, maybe a cat, McEneaney portrays herself calmly at work, at rest, at play. She seems to float serenely within radiant fields of color, a little like Henri Rousseau levitating over the chimney pots of Paris. Just as her use of color suggests the example of artists such as Bonnard or Matisse, the tranquil awkwardness of the paintings – the way they seem to glow with a sense of slightly awkward tranquility – indicates that McEneaney has learned equally from the work of untutored, folk, Sunday, and "naïve" painters.

Sarah McEneaney has exhibited widely since the early 1980s. A survey of her work was held at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art in 2004. She is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.