I have the honor of being selected as a semi-finalist in the The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Portrait Gallery will exhibit my Caja De Memoria Viva II: Constancia Colon Clemente installation in Washington, D.C., where a panel of jurors meets to select the finalists. The finalists works will be installed as a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and in a subsequent national tour.
Jurors include:
- Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,Washington, D.C 
- Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
- Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
- Professor of Art and a Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago 
- Chief Curator, MOCA, Los Angeles 
- Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine 
- Artist, Los Angeles 
