20 Going on 21: Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Looking to the Future April 17, 2009

For '20 Going on 21,' TCM acked the pat TCM Biennial Exhibition artists (52 in eight Biennials) to each nominate up to five contemporary Hawaii artists who they feel are accomplished to be considered for the exhibition. (Fellow Biennial artists were not eligible to be nominated.) The nominees where then invited to submit examples of their work to be juried by a panel of three individuals: Melissa Chiu, Gallery Director and Vice President for Global Art Programs at the Asia Society in New York; Lawrence Rinder, Director of the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California; and Joseph Havel, artist and Director of the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. The jurors met and selected 20 artists to be included in the exhibition. Following the selection of the artists by the jury, TCM Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Collections James Jensen and Exhibitions Curator Inger Tully visited the artists to select the works to be presented in the exhibition. In addition they selected one additional 21st artist to be included in '20 Going on 21.'