Huey Copeland will serve as a juror for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

Huey Copeland, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, will serve as a juror for the Smithsonian’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The competition, hosted by the National Portrait Gallery, has invited artists since 2006 to submit one portrait created in the past three years for consideration by a panel of experts. Selected artworks, including three prizewinners, are then featured in a museum exhibition.

Copeland, who joined Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences this fall, will serve as a guest juror for the 2024 competition. Previously on faculty at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania, Copeland is an editor of the MIT Press journal October and a former contributing editor of Artforum magazine. His work has been published in numerous periodicals, international exhibition catalogues and essay collections.