2008
Mark Flood, United States
Erik Göngrich, Germany
Monika Grzymala, Poland
Charline von Heyl, United States
Jason Tomme, United States
Jeff Zilm, United States

2007
Joanne Greenbaum, United States
Adam Helms, United States
Claudia Hinsch, Germany
Annette Kisling, Germany
Michael Krumenacker, United States
Paul Lee, United States
Daniel Sturgis, United Kingdom

2006
Oliver Croy, Austria
Mikael Levin, United States
Brian Kirk Nelms, United States
Jesus Palomino, Spain
Petra Trenkel, Germany
Christopher Wool, United States

2005
Mai Braun, Finland
Shane Huffman, United States
Maureen Gallace, United States
Isa Melsheimer, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal, Poland

2004
Gail Peter Borden, United States
Christian Freudenberger, Germany
Matthew Day Jackson, United States
Corinna Schnitt, Germany
Monique van Genderen, United States
Heike Weber, Germany
Michael Yoder, United States

2003
Ariane Epars, Switzerland
Lies Kraal, The Netherlands
Thomas Müller, Germany
Avery Preesman, The Netherlands
Erwin Redl, Austria
Judi Werthein, Argentina

2002
Gudrun Flach, Germany
Jaroslaw Flicinski, Poland
Hlynur Hallsson, Iceland
Graciela Hasper, Argentina
Nestor Kruger, Canada
Albrecht Kunkel, Germany
Katherine Merz, United States

2001
Susan Chorpenning, United States
Julian Dashper, New Zealand
Howard Goldkrand, United States
Christina Hejtmanek, United States
Emi Winter, Mexico

2000
Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal, Iceland
Andrea Claire, United States
Katharina Hinsberg, Austria
Michael Meredith, United States
Andreas Schmid, Germany

1999
Alexander Braun, Germany
Katharina Grosse, Germany
Ann-Michele Morales, United States
Makato Sasaki, Japan
Claudia Schmacke, Germany
Richard Wearn, New Zealand

1998
Degenhard Andrulat, Germany
Igor Antic, France
John Beech, United States
Jeff Elrod, United States
Kumiko Kurachi, Japan
Valérie Mréjen, France

1997
Bernhard Härtter, Germany
Leonard Kemp, United States
Ulrike Kessl, Germany
Kathranne Knight, United States
Polly Lanning Sparrow, United States
Jennifer Siegal, United States
Daniela Steinfeld Rau, Germany
Karien Vandekerkhove, Belgium

1996
Angela Ferreira, Portugal
Jutta Glöckner, Great Britain
Mary Ellen Latas, United States
Sigrun Paulsen, Germany
Kate Shepherd, United States
Jurek Wybraniec, Australia

1995
Jim Malone, United States
Elizabeth McBride, United States
Carina Plath, Germany
Richard Schwartzwald, United States
Gwendolyn Smolka, Germany

1994
Rupert Deese, United States
Anders Kruger, Denmark
Joost van Oss, The Netherlands
Regina Stralka, Germany
Karen and Jörg Berg, Germany

1993
Stephan Baumkötter, Germany
Daniel Göttin, Switzerland
Andreas Karl Schulze, Germany
Sonny Thorbjirnsdottir, Iceland

1992
Ingólfur Arnarsson, Iceland
Nadja Nanopoulos, Greece

1991
Brian Wendleman, Sweden

1990
Ragna Hermannsdóttir, Iceland

1989
John Wesley, United States

Claudia Hinsch

Claudia Hinsch is an artist from Germany who makes sculptures, collages, and drawings that often reference the idea of landscape. Her collages and assemblages sometimes feature images of landscapes clipped from magazines or brochures combined with other, "unnatural" elements: a glob or swath of brightly-colored paint, a silver-leafed branch. In her approach to sculpture, Hinsch often isolates a particular landscape feature — branch, puddle, thicket, shrub. This form may then become the point of departure for a new work created in the studio, using commercial materials such as plaster, house paint, fiberboard, and jute. The resulting forms are teasingly paradoxical: blunt but graceful, clumsy yet delicate. At her show at the Locker Plant in December 2007, Hinsch exhibited a number of new works. Front and center was a cardboard sculpture resembling a barrier or reef, propped up by a silvered tree branch. Behind this, a green wall painting emanated outward from the corner of the room, stretching nearly floor to ceiling and providing a plush, verdant backdrop for the cardboard piece. Nearby stood a work featuring a plaster moonscape of sorts, mounted on sawhorses and sporting dangling funnels (or tunnels). In another corner, Hinsch constructed a sort of Beckettian still-life: a second silvered, spindly tree branch reared up from an orange tarp and pointed toward a montage of tiny, generic landscape photos (all clipped from magazines) mounted on the wall. The sculptures in the show were constructed from a few spare elements: they were simply and elegantly configured. They quietly inhabited the room. But they displayed an impish side too, with their radiantly artificial hues and incorporation of the organic into the organic, the "real" into the "fake."

Claudia Hinsch was born in Ahrensburg, Germany, in 1966. She studied fine arts at the HFK Bremen and the Kunstakadamie Dusseldorf. She has received a scholarship from the Kulturstiftung Stormarn (2004) and an award from the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. Hinsch has participated in many group shows in Germany and has had solo shows at Speicher U75, Düsseldorf, Best Kunstraum, Essen, and Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven. She lives in Hamburg with her family.