Join Us for the Night of Excellence
May 1, 2026, 6:00 PM, Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Desbrosses St, New York, NY
The Board of Trustees of the International Sculpture Center hosts the annual Night of Excellence to honor and celebrate those individuals who have excelled in their area of practice and those who have dedicated their lives to the field of Contemporary Sculpture.
In 2026, the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture will be presented to Carole A. Feuerman, a leading figure in superrealist sculpture whose career spans more than five decades.
Tickets and additional details about the event are available at the International Sculpture Center Night of Excellence and through the organization’s main website at International Sculpture Center.
A Lifetime Dedicated to The Human Form
Carole A. Feuerman (New York) is an internationally acclaimed superrealist sculptor whose technically exacting, monumentally scaled figurative works have become touchstones in contemporary sculpture. Renowned for her swimmer figures, among them Innertube and The Golden Mean, Feuerman combines detailed surface finish with an architectural sense of presence, producing works that perform equally as intimate portraiture and as civic landmarks. Her practice encompasses indoor and outdoor installations, water-activated projects, and a recent series of mythological iconographies.
Feuerman began her professional career in the 1960s with drawings and paintings for The Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, and the New York Times. In the 1970s, she began a series of fragmented wall pieces. In the 1990s, her work became larger-than-life, cast in resin and bronze. Her technical mastery, from painstaking modeling to finishing, serves a conceptual agenda: to render bodies that register as living presences while prompting reflection on visibility, resilience, and collective memory.
Recognition on a Global Stage
Her work has been exhibited at selected major international venues, including Park Avenue, Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Palazzo Bonaparte and Palazzo Strozzi in Italy; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Her sculptures are in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums and owned by the cities of Sunnyvale, CA, and Peekskill, NY. Distinguished private collectors include Steven A. Cohen, William L. Mack, Alexandre Grendene, former President Bill Clinton, Andrea Bocelli, and Malcolm Forbes.
A Legacy Beyond the Studio
In addition to her artistic output, Feuerman has been actively involved in educational and mentorship initiatives. She has lectured and given workshops at institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2011, she founded the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation to advance sculptural practice and public engagement with three-dimensional art. In 2025, her Foundation started the Feuerman Sculpture Park at the Medici Museum in Ohio.
Recognition for Feuerman’s contribution to contemporary art includes the International Sculpture Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2026), the World of Peace Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (Athens), the EAWC’s Goddess Artemis Lifetime Achievement Award, First Prize at the Huan Tai Hu Museum (Changzhou), Best in Show at the Beijing Biennale, the Amelia Peabody Award, and the Medici Award in Florence.
Honoring Excellence in Contemporary Sculpture
The Night of Excellence highlights the International Sculpture Center’s mission to promote and support sculpture on a global scale. As its primary annual fundraising event, it helps sustain programs that provide resources and opportunities for artists at various stages of their careers.
Previous recipients of recognition at the event include prominent figures in modern and contemporary art such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Fernando Botero, Louise Bourgeois, Anthony Caro, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Red Grooms, Giò Pomodoro, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. Feuerman’s recognition places her among a group of artists whose work has helped shape the direction of contemporary sculpture.
The Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award recognizes both the scope of Feuerman’s work and its influence on contemporary figurative sculpture. Her approach, combining technical precision with an emphasis on human experience, has contributed to ongoing discussions about realism and representation in modern art.
As the event takes place in New York City, it serves as both a formal acknowledgment of achievement and a broader reflection on the role of sculpture in capturing aspects of human experience. All proceeds from the Night of Excellence benefit the programs and services of the International Sculpture Center. The ISC champions the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society by providing support to sculptors worldwide through its programs, website, Sculpture magazine, and more.
