New York City-based artist Catherine Telford Keogh has won the Guggenheim Museum’s first Jack Galef Visual Arts Award, a new $50,000 prize meant to support and celebrate “artists of exceptional talent whose work demonstrates innovation, depth, and vision.” catherinetelfordkeogh has cultivated a research- and process-driven practice that analyzes assignments of value and waste, as well as behaviors of consumption and persistence, among other concepts tied to biological and commoditized lifecycles. Telford Keogh is also a faculty member at Parsons School of Design within the New School, which recently doled out faculty and program cuts amid a multimillion-dollar budget deficit and dwindling enrollment. “This recognition arrives at a moment when the conditions for making and teaching feel increasingly precarious,” she told Hyperallergic. “So receiving support for my practice right now feels both affirming and clarifying: it reminds me why we fight for institutions that can hold complexit...