Grants & Fellowship Opportunities

Europe

MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă
$34,000
Bucharest, Romania
2021

To support “Voiced On,” a series of public programs that accompanies three solo exhibitions of, respectively, the American artists Dan Graham, Matt Mullican, and Cindy Sherman. The programs, which involve the artists as well as invited scholars, are presented in formats for a variety of local audiences to raise awareness of American art in Romania. The programs are recorded and widely disseminated in video and audio formats with the aim of creating a digital platform that can be updated and expanded for audiences going forward.

Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Cultures Anglophones
$25,000
Paris, France
2021

To support “About Time: Temporality in American Art and Visual Culture,” a two-day symposium to be held at the Université de Paris that aims to establish the concept of time and temporality as an essential category in American art from the seventeenth century to today.

Museum der Moderne Salzburg
$50,000
Salzburg, Austria
2021

To support Teasing Chaos. David Tudor at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. This retrospective is a comprehensive look at the pioneering work of David Tudor in the field of live electronics and his interdisciplinary collaborations with significant but lesser-known contemporary visual artists. German- and English-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Barbican Centre Trust
$350,000
London, United Kingdom
2021

To support ISAMU NOGUCHI, an exhibition to take place at four venues: Barbican Centre Trust, Museum Ludwig, Zentrum Paul Klee, and a fourth venue that has yet to be determined. This retrospective seeks to address Isamu Noguchi’s reputation as one of the most experimental and important sculptors of the twentieth century in relation to his involvement with social and political issues of his time. English- and German-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Fachgebiet Architektur und Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt
$11,950
Darmstadt, Germany
2021

To support “Current Research in Germany on Art of the United States” at Fachgebiet Architektur und Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt. The symposium focuses on ways to enrich and cultivate US art history in Germany. Participants may edit their presentations for publication in a German (English-language) journal. A webpage devoted to the symposium accompanies the program on the Architecture and Art History department’s website.

Courtauld Institute of Art
$12,000
London, United Kingdom
2021

To support “Deconstructing America: Art and Politics in the United States” at the Courtauld Institute of Art. This conference looks to American visual culture to interrogate the fabric of the contemporary political moment. The conference will be recorded and posted on the Courtauld’s website and across its social media channels.

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
$150,000
Paris, France
2021

To support Anni and Jose Albers: Art and Life at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. The exhibition is the first in France to focus on the work and lives of Anni Albers and Josef Albers. English- and French-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
$450,000
Madrid, Spain
2021

To support Georgia O’Keeffe at each co-organizing institution: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza; Centre Pompidou; and Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition offers differing approaches at each venue but aims overall to chart the progression of the artist’s entire oeuvre through approximately 100 works, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Spanish-, English-, French-, and German-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
$200,000
Nantes, France
2021

To support United States of Abstraction: American Artists in France, 1946–1964 at each co-organizing institution: the Musée d’arts de Nantes and the Musée Fabre, Montpellier. The exhibition explores the impact made by American artists on the trajectory of abstract art in France from the 1940s to the 1960s. A French-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Museum für Moderne Kunst
$150,000
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2021

To support Marcel Duchamp: A Revision of the Object at the Museum für Moderne Kunst. The exhibition seeks to answer why Marcel Duchamp’s signature innovations—among the most thoroughly debated iconoclastic artistic strategies of twentieth-century avant-garde art—matter today. German- and English-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.