Good Times For Ryan Trecartin

Philadelphia artist Ryan Trecartin, just 28, has hit the jackpot this year. Several days ago, he won the inaugural Wolgin Prize, $150,000 awarded by the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and claimed as the largest prize to a visual artist in a juried competition. The Temple Times has the story here.

On Thursday night, he won the "Calvin Klein Collection New Artist of the Year Award" at Rob Pruitt's First Annual Art Awards at the Guggenheim. And earlier this year, he won a fellowship awarded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. 

Trecartin's work has been show in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, the New Museum, the Getty Museum and at the Royal Academy and the Saatchi Gallery in London.

Guess we'll be hearing more about him.

Photo: Re'Search Wait'S (Edit 1: Missing Re'Search Corruption Budget), 2009, Courtesy Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Dee