The four nominees for the 2011 Turner Prize

Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...

 are Karla Black

Karla Black

Karla Black is a Scottish sculptor whose work, More of Today, was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011.She was born in 1972 in Alexandria and went to the Glasgow School of Art, where she became a Master of Arts in 2004....

, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd

Hilary Lloyd

Hilary Lloyd is an English artist whose exhibition of film and video at Raven Row arts centre was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011.She was born in 1964 in Halifax and studied art at the Newcastle Polytechnic. She now works and lives in London but has exhibited internationally in cities such...

 and George Shaw

George Shaw (artist)

George Shaw is an Ilfracombe-based contemporary artist who is noted for his highly detailed naturalistic approach and English suburban subject matter...

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The prize exhibition will be held at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is an international centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne alongside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Gateshead, North East England, United Kingdom...

 in Gateshead

Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...

 from 21 October 2011 to 8 January 2012, the first to be held outside London since the 2007 Turner Prize

2007 Turner Prize

This article is about the 2007 Turner Prize for modern British art. It was the 22nd competition .There were four nominees for the prize and the winner was Mark Wallinger.The nominees in alphabetical order were:*Zarina Bhimji**Born in Uganda,1963.*Nathan Coley...

 exhibition was held at Tate Liverpool

Tate Liverpool

Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporation...

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The prize jury for 2011 are Penelope Curtis (Director of Tate Britain

Tate Britain

Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...

 in London), Katrina Brown

Katrina Brown

Katrina Brown is a Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.-Career:Her areas of expertise include examinations of women’s collective action and coping strategies in semi-arid Kenya, and environmental change, biodiversity and conservation...

 (Director of The Common Guild in Glasgow), Vasif Kortun

Vasif Kortun

Vasif Kortun is a Turkish curator, writer and teacher in the field of contemporary visual art, its institutions and exhibition practices....

 (Director of SALT (institution)

SALT (institution)

SALT is a not-for-profit institution located in Istanbul, Turkey. Opened in April 2011, SALT hosts exhibitions, conferences and public programs; engages in interdisciplinary research projects; and sustains SALT Research, a library and archive of recent art, architecture, design, urbanism, and...

 in Istanbul), Nadia Schneider (Director of Kunsthaus Glarus in Glaurus) and Godfrey Worsdale (Director of Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is an international centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne alongside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Gateshead, North East England, United Kingdom...

in Gateshead).