Carole Feuerman to Receive Lifetime AchievementAward from the International Sculpture Center

New York, NY — American sculptor Carole Feuerman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (ISC) on May 1, 2026, recognizing her sustained contribution to the field of contemporary sculpture. Spanning more than five decades, Feuerman’s practice has occupied a significant place within contemporary figurative sculpture. Emerging in the 1970s in the context of Superrealism, her work developed alongside a broader cultural transformation in which feminist discourse and evolving perspectives on representation were reshaping the
body in art.

Feuerman approached realism as a language of psychological presence and interiority. Her early fragmented casts engaged with questions of authorship, sexuality, and representation, positioning the body not as an object of display but as a site of self-possession and endurance.

Carole Feuerman’s sculptures position the human body at moments of suspended time and psychological stillness. Working through a sustained investigation of realism, her figures inhabit thresholds between immersion and emergence, control and surrender. The body becomes a site where vulnerability, presence, and interior life are made visible.

Recurring motifs, water, stillness, and fragmentation, form a visual language that reflects the tension between external composure and inner experience, such as 1980’s “Inner tube” inspired by the Cuban migrant crisis and the most recent “Tattoo Fragmented Series”, in which the body fragment becomes a surface of narrative inscription, exploring identity, memory, and transformation in doing so, Feuerman’s art continues to evolve, positioning the body as both a psychological and mythic container.

Recent exhibitions include Reborn Into the Water at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan (2026–2027), and The Voice of the Body at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome (2025). Her work is also included in the traveling exhibition Ceci n’est pas un corps, which brings together leading figures in hyperrealist and figurative sculpture, including Duane Hanson, John DeAndrea, Maurizio Cattelan, and Ron Mueck.

Recent public presentations further extend the visibility of her work. Her sculpture The Diver was presented during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at the base of the Eiffel Tower, where it functioned as a symbol of the Olympic spirit. Her work has also been exhibited along Park Avenue in New York, situating her sculpture within the context of large-scale public installation.

The award coincides with the publication of I Am Mine (Moebius), a volume bringing together essays by Barbara Buhler Lynes, Tone Lyngstad Nyaas, Helga Marsala, Gloria Moure, Victoria Noel-Johnson, and Leanne Sacramone, examining Feuerman’s work within the cultural and feminist transformations of the late twentieth century. Feuerman’s work is held in numerous museum collections and private collections worldwide, including the collections of President Bill Clinton, the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, and collectors such as Malcolm Forbes, Steven Cohen, and Andrea Bocelli.

In 2011, Feuerman founded the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, extending her commitment to supporting emerging artists and advancing sculpture within contemporary cultural discourse.

With this award, the International Sculpture Center recognizes Feuerman’s enduring contribution to the evolution of figurative sculpture and her role in reconfiguring the human body as a site of psychological and cultural inquiry over the past five decades.