Grants & Fellowship Opportunities

2021

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.

Clark University
$14,904
Worcester, Massachusetts
2021

To support “Race in the History of Design: Objects, Identity, Methodologies,” a two-day, workshop-style program that brings together ten scholars from the US and Europe to share research on the topic of race in the field of design history, an underexamined area in the study of objects. The program is set to take place at the Centre de Formation et de Seminaires in Remich, Luxembourg.

Bard College
$20,000
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2021

To support “Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diaspora on Display,” a three-day program that aims to re-examine the legacy of exhibitions that have featured art by Black artists in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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.

Krannert Art Museum
$25,000
Urbana, Illinois
2021

To support “Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics,” a three-day international, interdisciplinary symposium that accompanies a retrospective exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) on the conceptual photography of Hal Fischer. The symposium presented at the KAM theater aims to expand dialogue between the visual and the verbal, situating Fischer’s photographic work in a range of contexts.

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
$70,000
Miami, Florida
2021

To support In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba and US/Cuba Cultural Exchange at the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum. This exhibition is an exploration of American painters active from 1850 to 1910 whose landscape portrayals of Cuba reflect social, political, and ideological changes in both countries. English- and Spanish-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

Katonah Museum of Art
$50,000
Katonah, New York
2021

To support Arrivals at the Katonah Museum of Art. This exhibition explores a variety of American peoples’ origins and/or arrival stories to the United States. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Harvard Art Museums
$100,000
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2021

To support Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 at the Harvard Art Museums. This exhibition is an investigation into US military activities and their role as the nation’s leading source of pollution through a presentation of more than 100 photographs that explores issues of militarism, pollution, ecology, public health, land use, feminism, race, and activism. An English-language catalogue accompanies this exhibition.

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
$100,000
North Miami, Florida
2021

To support My name is Maryan, an exhibition to take place at two venues: Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and Tel Avi Museum of Art. This retrospective critically examines all periods of the postwar avant-garde artist Maryan. English- and Hebrew-language catalogues accompany the exhibition.

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.

El Museo del Barrio
$200,000
New York, New York
2021

To support Raphael Montañez Ortiz: Breaking The Limits, an exhibition to take place at two venues: El Museo del Barrio and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo. This retrospective showcases the work of El Museo’s founder, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, to highlight the fundamental issues in Montañez Ortiz’s production and contextualize them among consumer products made in the United States and abroad. An English- and Spanish-language companion book accompanies the exhibition.

Swiss Institute
$91,000
New York, New York
2021

To support Rosemary Mayer, an exhibition to take place at four venues: Swiss Institute, Kunstverein (Dusseldorf), Lenbachhaus, and Spike Island. This survey of the career of Rosemary Mayer explores the artist’s radical experiments in sculpture, paintings, drawing, and performance. An English-language catalogue accompanies the exhibition.