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San Francisco Chronicle: '50 Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards' review
Posted on Monday, January 9, 2012, by Allison Byers
The award, usually bestowed on several artists at once by the institution's oldest auxiliary group, the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, consists of a modest cash prize and an SFMOMA exhibition. Despite the propellant potential of the exhibition, many awardees' careers have seemed inexplicably to stall right afterward. Toi Hoang, the single winner in 1994, offers an extreme example: For reasons both personal and professional, his next solo show did not take place for nearly 17 years.