Zack Ingram

The inaugural Tito’s Prize is Zack Ingram! 

Ingram is a sculptor and printmaker who combines found images and materials to question the process of identity construction and the relationship between surface and personhood. 

In addition to the $15,000 award, the Tito’s Prize included a solo exhibition in the Big Medium Gallery, which opened with a special reception on Friday, October 27, 2017 and ran through the East Austin Studio Tour. Ingram was also featured on the cover of the November issue of Arts+Culture.

The Tito’s Prize is intended to help grow the recipient’s artistic career and support their life in Austin. We look forward to sharing Ingram’s process as he prepares for the solo exhibition.

“I’m terribly grateful that the Tito’s Prize provides the luxury of time and space to continue the momentum I have as an Austin-based artist, and to indulge any creative impulses I may have without fear of financial repercussion.” - Zack Ingram

Ingram was unanimously selected by a four person curatorial panel, including Ana Esteve Llorens, artist; Joseph Havel, Director of the Glassell School of Art and artist; Kevin McNamee-Tweed, artist and Big Medium Gallery Curator; and Bárbara Perea, Mexico City-based Independent Curator.

“Ingram’s work defies facile categorizations; its well-developed lexicon teases out subtle relationships between objects/subjects signaling an inherent tension that renders me, as a spectator, vulnerable.” -Bárbara Perea

“I find his work communicative in a pretty singular way. His narrative and background resonate for me in the work. For all its sparseness, I detect genuine intensity.” -Kevin McNamee-Tweed

“Ingram’s diversity of media as well as approaches gives him a broad set of ideas to grow. There were many remarkable artists which made the selection difficult.” -Joe Havel

 "The cleanliness and inventiveness of his gestures is appealing" -Ana Esteve Llorens

Big Medium is grateful for our partnership with Tito’s Handmade Vodka that has made it possible for us to elevate an artist in our community.