Artists & Mothers was founded by artist Maria De Victoria and arts consultant Julia Trotta, who had been “workshopping an idea around a resource for artists who are mothers,” Trotta told ARTnews in an interview.

Initially, they thought the project could take the form of a residency program with studios and childcare, but ultimately they decided to “boil it down to the most impactful path, thinking about what really do people need and what we established that they needed was funding to be able to pay a childcare provider, flexible to their needs,” which can range from daycare to hiring a nanny, Trotta said.

The prize money was calculated at $25,000 based on what the average cost of full-time childcare in New York for a year. “We decided that we wanted it to really be something that would make a difference—$25,000 is really a lot,” Trotta said.

“I am grateful to Artists & Mothers for recognizing that social reproduction—or more simply put, the care work that holds us together as families and communities—is a vital part of what makes art possible,” Rodriguez said in a statement. “By addressing the crisis of care that so many of us are experiencing, Artists & Mothers stepped in to provide much-needed support that the professional sphere has long overlooked.

As the inaugural winner, Rodriguez will receive the funds over the course of the next year. As an artist, she is known for her research-based practice that examines the structures of the art world and how they facilitate the creation of work. She was also a founding member of the collective Reena Spaulings Fine Art, which she collaborated with for over a decade.

Among her best-known works is The Maid (2018), which was commissioned by SculptureCenter in New York and has been shown across the country, including in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. The film follows several “Newborn” sculptures by Sherrie Levine over the course of a day and their lives in different settings, including museums and private collectors’ homes.

Last month, Rodriguez opened her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe at the Kunstverein München in Munich, Germany. Titled “Imitation of Life,” the show presents a new video work that Rodriguez created during the first year of her firstborn’s life. (Trotta said that selected artists’ practices or forthcoming works do not necessarily have to revolve around motherhood in order to qualify for the grant.)

The exhibition, Trotta said, comes at a “critical juncture” in Rodriguez’s career, one of the main criteria for the prize. Artists often “have children, not at the very beginning of their careers, but [after] they’ve had some success, some attention, some momentum, at that moment, where you have to add this other very important, but very consuming, element to your life,” she said. “We want to make sure that that gap is filled, and that they’re able to still meet the projects, opportunities, and attention that they’ve received so far.”

The geographic restriction for Artists & Mothers, Trotta said, came down to the founders’ own experiences of raising children in the city, having to make decisions based on childcare costs, and “exponentially high costs associated with having a kid here.”

Similarly, the grant is currently restricted to artists with children under 3 years old because enrollment for universal 3-K beings at that age in New York. Trotta said that as the nonprofit grows, they will explore introducing additional programs that would accommodate childcare at different stages.

To help realize their vision, De Victoria and Trotta assembled an advisory board consisting of several other art world professionals that included artists Camille Henrot and Maia Ruth Lee, gallerist Bridget Donahue, communications strategist Sarah Goulet, and publisher Elizabeth Karp-Evans, all of whom Trotta described as important figures who “are leading with care.”

The founders and the board all work on a volunteer basis and have been actively fund-raising. The Niki Charitable Art Foundation, founded by artist Niki de Saint Phalle, provided funding for the inaugural 2024 grant, while the James Family Foundation has supported the 2025 grants. Additional donors include artists Sam Moyer, Hilary Pecis, and Arlene Shechet; curators Lumi Tan, Loring Randolph, and Carolyn Ramo; and dealers Hannah Hoffman and Martha Moldovan. “It’s a simple mission; I think people understand the need right away,” Trotta said of her experience soliciting donations. “There’s so much need out there, so, obviously, the more funds we can raise, the more grants we can give out.”

Trotta said the inaugural grant was designed as a pilot program and would differ from subsequent years. For the first year, artists were nominated and selected by the board as a way to “almost move things along faster,” she said. “There was this urgency to getting this project launched,” she said.

Going forward, the grants will have an open-call application that will be decided by an anonymous jury. For 2025, the foundation will dole out at least two grants, though that cohort could rise to three. Trotta said the open-call is key to the program because the board or invited nominators “don’t necessarily know who has children or who doesn’t” and will allow for us to “expand the net wider.”

She added that the application will not be too labor intensive, as “we understand everybody applying to this will already be extremely busy trying to juggle their professional life and their home life.”

This year’s winner of one of Australia’s largest art awards, the Hadley Art Prize, is Yankunytjatjara artist Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan for her 2023 work Ngayuku Ngura (My Country). The annual prize, worth $100,000, is given to “the most outstanding portrayal” of the Australian landscape. “My painting is connected to the Tjukurpa (Ancestral Stories) that I know, but also my paintings are an extension of who I am, and how I interpret my place in the world,” Cullinan said in in a statement. Additionally, the $10,000 Hadley Residency Prize was awarded to Melissa Kenihan, with honorable mentions given to Joshua Andree, Patrick Mung Mung, Joan Ross, and Denise Brady.

The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art named the recipients of its two annual awards. Retired curator Ruth Fine, who handled special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., took the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History, while the Keith Haring Foundation and Indigenous artist, activist, and educator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (who is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum) are the recipients of the Archives of American Art Medal. Together, these awards recognize those who have made substantial contributions to American art. They will be honored at the Archives of American Art annual gala on October 24 in New York.

The nonprofit grant-making organization Artadia named Sofía Córdova, Heesoo Kwon, and Ranu Mukherjee as 2023 San Francisco Bay Area awardees. They will each receive $15,000 in unrestricted funds, as well as access to Artadia’s network of artists, curators, and donors. The amount awarded this year was up by $5,000, the first increase in five years.

Frieze awarded Woo Hannah its inaugural Artist Award at Frieze Seoul. Supported by the luxury jewelry company Bulgari, the award offers a debut platform for a newly commissioned work by an emerging artist at the fair, which will open its second edition next month. The winning piece, titled The Great Ballroom, suspends draped fabric reminiscent of a woman’s gradually aging breasts. The award was selected by a panel of jurors including curator Reuben Keehan, artistic director Kim Sunjung, curator Koh Wonseok, artist Moon Kyungwon, and former ARTnews executive editor Andrew Russeth.

Also selected by Frieze, now in its fifth year, was Adham Faramawy for the 2023 Artist Award at Frieze London. The winner will similarly debut a new commission at the fair in October. Faramawy’s video and sculptural assemblage And these deceitful waters probes the history of the Thames river as a site of colonization and ecological collapse. Previous winners include such artists as Himali Singh Soin, Alberta Whittle, Sung Tieu, and Abbas Zahedi.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded Oliver Lee Jackson the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement. Jackson’s disciplinary practice as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draftsman, and his active support of African American artists earned him this honor. “We are so pleased to recognize Jackson’s innovative experimentation in his practice, his deep commitment to community engagement, his teaching, and his leadership in the arts community with this award for a lifetime of outstanding achievement,” Caroline Black, executive director of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, said in a statement. Additionally, the foundation awarded $2,657,400 in grants to 93 artists and nonprofit organizations around the world.

Sculptor and installation artist Risa Puno is the recipient of the Brookfield Place New York 2024 Annual Arts Commission. Puno, whose artwork will be unveiled next summer, creates work exploring human connection through interactive experiences. Now in its 35th year, Arts Brookfield has a long history of supporting art through the real estate company Brookfield Properties.

The nonprofit Fundación Ama Amoedo announced 10 winners across four categories for the first edition of the Fundación Ama Amoedo Grants. The categories spanned artists, art and social engagement, organizations, and publications. The winning artists included Paula Castro, Sofía Córdova, Rafael Rg, and Campo Sucio, along with Ruta del Castor and Solar dos Abacaxis for art and social engagement. They will each receive $10,000.

The art center NXTHVN, cofounded by Titus Kaphar and Jason Price, named its 2023–24 Studio and Curatorial Fellows, including Adrian Armstrong, Alexandria Couch, Marquita Flowers, Eric Hart Jr., Clare Patrick, Fidelis Joseph, Jamaal Peterman, Eugene Macki, and Alex Puz. The curatorial fellows receive a $45,000 stipend and studio fellows receive a $35,000 stipend along with 24-hour access to a workspace and subsidized housing for the yearlong program. The fellows work toward a group exhibition at the end of each cycle.

The 2023 Film London Jarman Award, which takes its name from filmmaker Derek Jarman, has shortlisted artists Ayo Akingbade, Andrew Black, Sophie Koko Gate, Julianknxx, Karen Russo, and Rehana Zaman for the annual prize. The winner will receive a £10,000 ($12,726) purse.

The Joyce Foundation announced the 2023 Joyce Awards winners: Regina Agu with the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Sonny Mehta with Mandala South Asian Performing Arts, Marisa Morán Jahn with the National Public Housing Museum, Marlena Myles with Franconia Sculpture Park, and Julie Tolentino with SPACES. The Joyce Awards support artists of color in partnership with cultural organizations in the Great Lakes region.

Open Calls

Coinciding with its 20th anniversary, the 2024 Joyce Awards is increasing its grant amounts from $75,000 to $100,000 each. Letters of inquiry are due by September 11.

The 2023 Foundwork Artist Prize, an annual juried grant for emerging and midcareer artists working in any medium, is currently accepting applications. This year’s jury panel includes ICA Miami artistic director Alex Gartenfeld, Night Gallery founder Davida Nemeroff, artist Shinique Smith, Medellín Museum of Modern Art chief curator Emiliano Valdés, and dealer Nicola Vassell. The award comes with an unrestricted $10,000 purse and studio visits with each juror. Additionally, the winner and three shortlisted artists will be invited to participate in long-form interviews.

The Nest Heritage Craft Prize is accepting applications from Texas-based makers, artists, and artisans. The prize focuses on skill, technique, and cultural value. The winner will receive a $25,000 grant, and four semifinalists will each receive a $2,500 cash prize. A partnership with French luxury goods company Hermès will also bring a two-day showcase to Dallas. Judges include artist and philanthropist Heather Winn, Hermès chairman Robert Chavez, curator Christopher Blay, Dallas Contemporary executive director Carolina Alvarez-Mathies, and Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center executive director Cristina Balli.

With a career that spans some four decades, Himid has an influential practice that merges sculpture and installation with her training in set design, collage, and painting. Much of her work deals with the legacies of racism and the experiences of living in the UK as a Black person and an immigrant. She was born in Zanzibar and is now based in Preston, England.

Beyond her work as an artist, Himid has also made important contributions as a curator, critic, and educator. She founded the influential Blk Art Group of Black British artists in the 1980s.

“Lubaina Himid’s bold formal innovations and trenchant historical explorations have established her as one of the most important voices in global contemporary art,” UCCA director Philip Tinari said in a statement. “UCCA is honored and thrilled to be able to present her work to audiences in China for the first time.”

Her art has featured in major biennials, including the Havana Biennale (in 1994), the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea (2014), the Istanbul Biennial (2015), the Berlin Biennale (2018), and the Sharjah Biennial (2019 and 2023), as well as in surveys like “The Place Is Here,” which debuted at Nottingham Contemporary in 2017 before traveling to London and Manchester, and “When We See Us” at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. In 2021, she was the subject of a show at Tate Modern.

Despite her outsize influence, Himid came to greater international recognition only recently, after she won the Turner Prize in 2017, making her the first Black woman to do so. The following year, she was elected to the Royal Academy and made a Commander of the British Empire. Last year, she was also named the winner of 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, which comes with $200,000 and an exhibition at the Contemporary Austin in Texas.

Conceived of by its namesake, the artist Maria Lassnig, prior to her death in 2014 at 94, this prize is awarded every two years to a mid-career artist. In creating the prize, Lassnig, who had only received major recognition for her artistic contributions, hoped she would be able to give artists greater exposure at pivotal moments in their careers. The previous winners include Cathy Wilkes (2017), Sheela Gowda (2019), and Atta Kwami (2021).

“In just a few short years, the Maria Lassnig Prize has emerged as a prestigious award that honors artists in the midst of their careers, recognizing their exceptional talent and the need for greater recognition, according to the esteemed jury,” Maria Lassnig Foundation chair Peter Pakesch said in a statement.  

“The new format of the award takes up the idea of ​​the exhibition as a collective exchange and aims to expand the collection through the purchase of the four new productions,” the museum said in a statement.

The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Sobey Art Foundation have announced the long list for the annual Sobey Art Award, which comes with $100,000. The long list is divided into five regional categories—Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies & North, and West Coast & Yukon—with five artists in each. Among the 25 selected artists are Alan Syliboy, Barry Ace, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Wally Dion, Marigold Santos, Justine A. Chambers, and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill. The short list will be announced in June, with a winner chosen in November. The full list can be accessed on the NGC’s website.

The inaugural K21 Global Art Award, which was established by the Friends of K20K21 in cooperation with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, has gone to South African interdisciplinary artist Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela. Friends of K20K21 has acquired work by the artist totaling 70,000 euros, which will go on permanent loan to the Kunstsammlung.

In a statement, K20K21 director Susanne Gaensheimer said, “Marasela is an artist and a feminist who has achieved so much to give a voice and a visibility to the life and struggles of women living in post-apartheid South Africa. Her work is not only about women and not only about specitic context of South Africa—it captures the emotions and the experiences of something far greater and far more universal.”

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in New York has named the three winners of its 10th annual Isamu Noguchi Award. They are artist Theaster Gates, artist and writer Edmund de Waal, and novelist and T: The New York Times Style Magazine editor-in-chief Hanya Yanagihara.

In a statement, Noguchi Museum director Brett Littman said, “The goal of our museum and this Award is to continue to expand the legacy, philosophy, aesthetics, and values of our founder Isamu Noguchi, and these creative artists do just that. All are deeply influenced by Noguchi and exemplify the integration of art, life, and the world around us to create works in a multitude of mediums that make our understanding of our past, present, and future more nuanced and enhanced.”

The arts nonprofit Artadia recently announced the three winners of its 2023 awards for Chicago-based artists, which this year are underwritten by several foundations. The winners are SaraNoa Mark (as the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation Artadia Award recipient), Nyeema Morgan (The Joyce Foundation Artadia Award recipient), and Julia Phillips (The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation Artadia Award recipient). Additional support for this cycle was provided by the Walder Foundation.

Next month at Frieze New York, artist Jessica Vaughn will present a commissioned artwork as the inaugural winner of the Frieze Artadia Prize. Titled The Internet of Things, the work “draws on the US postal system to spotlight the organizational structures that underlie late-stage capitalism. In a process that began during the pandemic and lasted until earlier this year, Vaughn mailed letters via the US Postal Service to a series of locations, each marking a site of leisure, commerce, or an act of public violence,” according to a release.  

The Orlando Museum of Art has announced the 10 artists who will participate in the annual Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, which comes with $20,000. The selected artists, who will present their work in a group exhibition, are Cara Despain, Miami; Elliot and Erick Jiménez, Miami; Akiko Kotani, Gulfport; Peggy Levison Nolan, Hollywood; Yosnier Miranda, Tampa; Reginald O’Neal, Miami; Amy Schissel, Miami; Magnus Sodamin, Miami; MJ Torrecampo, Orlando; and Denise Treizman, Miami.

The 2023 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award, which is presented by Scotiabank and the National Gallery of Canada, has gone to three lens-based artists: Hannah Doucet, Wynne Neilly, and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez. They will each receive $10,000. In a statement, NGC senior curator for photography Andrea Kunard said the winners “explore the many challenges in contemporary representations of the body, identity, culture, and history. … As much as their images operate as critical statements on contemporary life, they also function to open dialogue and create community.”

Fellowships

Right of Return USA, which was founded in 2017 by artists Jesse Krimes and Russell Craig, has named its 2023 fellows, who will each receive a grant of $20,000 “to support artistic projects focused on transforming our criminal legal and immigration systems and combatting mass incarceration.” The six winners are Adamu Chan, Jaiquan Fayson, Michael Fischer, Gary Harrell, Jeremy Lee MacKenzie, and Beverly Price.

The New York–based arts nonprofit Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) has named the winners of its inaugural fellowships, which are “designed to support and sustain mid-to-late career artists and honor artists’ legacies,” according to a release. The two winners are New York–based E’wao “Rocky” Kagoshima and San Juan–based Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. Funded by the Karsh Family Foundation, with support from United States Artists, the two winners will each receive an unrestricted grant of $75,000.

“CARA is dedicated to amplifying the many perspectives that make up the arts, and through this fellowship, we hope to further our commitment to accommodating artists’ voiced needs,” CARA’s founder Jane Hait and executive director Manuela Moscoso said in a joint statement. “Since our founding, we have endeavored to create an organization driven by cultural workers, artists, curators, and thinkers.”

The Oakland-based Kenneth Rainin Foundation has awarded its 2023 fellowships to three artists and one collective based in the Bay Area. The winners are Mohammad Gorjestani for film, Joanna Haigood for dance, Related Tactics for public space, and Sean San José for theater. Each fellow will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000. In a statement, Ted Russell, the foundation’s director of arts strategy & ventures, said the fellows’ “boundary-pushing creative practices, performances, plays, films, and writings illuminate and further enrich the longstanding history of cultural experimentation and innovation in the Bay Area.”

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans has named its 25th class of graduate student fellows, who were selected from a pool of nearly 2,000 applicants. The merit-based program is awarded annually to students who are immigrants or children of immigrants as they pursue graduate degrees; each fellow can receive up to $90,000 for their studies. Among the 30 selected is Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez, who will pursue an MFA in print media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Cambrón Álvarez was born in Michoacán, Mexico, and when she was seven years old, her family immigrated to Atlanta, where she is still based and has painted several murals. She is the first openly undocumented artist to exhibit at the city’s High Museum of Art.

“Being an undocumented immigrant with DACA, especially in the South, means growing up cultivating unwavering resilience,” Cambrón Alavarez said in a statement. “My parents’ sacrifices and dreams for my future carried me here, and their example of service to others inspires how I want to show up as a leader in my work. Being an Undocumented American also means navigating the bittersweet reality of recreating a home for yourself within a system that refuses to recognize you on paper. … Through my work, I share my lived experience with the hope of helping shape a more nuanced and humanizing narrative about immigrants in America.”

Open Calls and Jury Announcements

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships have also announced that applications for 2024–25 academic year are now open, with an October 2023 deadline. Eligible applicants must be under 30 at the time of applying and are open to “green card holders, naturalized citizens, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, individuals born abroad who graduated from both high school and college in the United States, and the US-born children of two immigrants,” according to a release.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has announced that it will once again stage the de Young Open, after its initial debut in 2020, which exhibited 800 works from nearly 12,000 submissions. The exhibition, which has been turned into a triennial, is “the only exhibition of its kind at a major American museum, inviting submissions from local artists via open call for review by a jury composed of both Bay Area artists and Fine Arts Museums’ curators,” according to a release. The four artists serving on the jury are Clare Rojas, Stephanie Syjuco, Sunny A. Smith, and Xiaoze Xie, and the curatorial jury will consist of eight of the museum’s curators, led by senior curator Timothy Anglin Burgard, who originated the 2020 exhibition.

The Uruguay-based Fundación Ama Amoedo has announced an open call for 10 grants of $10,000 each in the following categories: artists (four grants), art and social engagement (two grants), organizations (two grants), and publications (two grants). Applicants should have “a significant connection with Latin America, either by nationality, cultural heritage and/or the site where the project will be carried out,” according to a release. This year’s jury consists of curators Sonia Becce, Marina Reyes Franco, and Yudi Rafael, along with the foundation’s director, Verónica Flom. Interested parties have until May 15 to apply and can do so on the foundation’s website.

Patterson is known for her monumental, baroque installations that gather together beads, fabric, children’s toys, archival images, and a lot more. Her work is included in the collections of major art institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Whitney Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The High recently acquired her 2018 . . . they stood in a time of unknowing . . . for those who bear/bare witness after it was included in a group show there last year.

Patterson will be the subject of solo exhibitions at the New York Botanical Garden in the spring and at the Arnolfini Museum in Bristol in 2025. Her work is currently on view in “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, which will then travel over the new two years. She was recently named the co–artistic director, alongside curator Miranda Lash, of the Prospect.6 triennial in 2024.

Past recipients of the Driskell Prize include artists Xaviera Simmons, Rashid Johnson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mark Bradford, Amy Sherald, and Jamal D. Cryus, as well as curators Kellie Jones, Franklin Sirmans, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and Naima J. Keith.

In a statement, High Museum director Rand Suffolk said, “Patterson’s striking work commemorates the lives and struggles of marginalized people throughout the world. In doing so, she asks viewers to consider tough questions regarding social and racial inequality globally. We are honored to recognize her important practice and considerable contributions to African American art with the 2023 Driskell Prize.”   

The New York–based nonprofit Creative Capital has named the 50 projects (by 66 artists) that will receive funding up to $50,000 for its 2023 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awards, totaling more than $2.5 million in support. Grants are given in three categories—Technology, Performing Arts, and Literature—with an emphasis socially engaged and multidisciplinary projects. Though they are technically given on the basis of project proposals, the grants are unrestricted and can be used “for any purpose to advance the project, including, but not limited to, studio space, housing, groceries, staffing, childcare, equipment, computers, and travel,” according to a release.

Seventy-five percent of the winning artists are BIPOC; 59 percent are women, gender nonconforming, or nonbinary; and 10 percent are artists with disabilities. The artists range in age from 25 to 69 and are based across the United States, as well as Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Germany, and Japan.  Among the artists who will receive funding in this round are Anicka Yi, Ron Athey, Xandra Ibarra, Kite, Pamela Sneed, and LIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty). The full list of awardees and further information of their projects can be accessed on Creative Capital’s website.

“The 2023 projects creatively, innovatively, and poetically deal with urgent issues shaping our world today, with a particular focus on the health of our bodies and the planet—from carbon offsetting and the sound of climate crisis, to calls for reparations and repair for Native communities, to robots and the pathos of automation, to insomnia, pharmaceutical intervention, and the interconnectedness of AIDS, COVID-19, and other pandemics,” Aliza Shvarts, Creative Capital’s director of artist initiatives, said in a statement.

El Museo del Barrio in New York has partnered with Maestro Dobel Tequila to create the biannual Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize, which is meant to “raise awareness and amplify the cultural production of Latinx artists, a segment that has historically been underrepresented in the artworld at large,” according to a release. The prize will come with $50,000 and the first winner will be announced in the fall. In a statement, El Museo’s executive director Patrick Charpenel said, “We are delighted to partner with Maestro Dobel on this important initiative that brings visibility to the incredible diversity of Latinx cultural production in the United States. El Museo del Barrio continues to lead the vital and much-needed conversations surrounding the importance of representation in the art world. We hope the Prize, will prompt, and encourage meaningful dialogue regarding Latinx art and its important role in the canon of American art.”

The Nairobi-based healthcare nonprofit Amref Health Africa will give its Rees Visionary Award to New York–based artist Julie Mehretu at its annual ArtBall event on February 25. The award is given to artists who are “creating exceptional work that educates, inspires, and emboldens the viewer through these challenging times,” according to a release, and past honorees include Wangechi Mutu, El Anatsui, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Zanele Muholi.

Edra Soto is the winner of the 2022 Ree Kaneko Award, which is given by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, in honor of the organization’s cofounder and first executive director. The prize comes with $25,000 and is given to an artist who has shown at the Bemis Center previously; Soto was included in the museum’s 2017–18 group exhibition “Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly.” Calling that presentation “a memorable highlight of my career,” Soto said in a statement, “What Bemis envisions and supports through their curatorial projects and residency program has propelled so many artistic careers at a national level throughout the years. I couldn’t be prouder of being the recipient of this prestigious award.”

Chosen via an open-call process, Dominique White is the winner of the 2022 Foundwork Artist Prize, which comes with $10,000 and a studio visit with each of the five jury members. Eva Langret, a jury member and director of Frieze London, said in a statement, “We were particularly taken with the formal sensibility of Dominique White’s work, and their engagement with complex ideas around myth, maritime history, and colonial past. We are delighted to award Dominique the Foundwork Prize this year, and would like to thank all participating artists, whose work we look forward to following in the months and years to come.”

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has named the 20 artists who will receive its 2022 Biennial Grants, which come with an unrestricted purse of $20,000 to produce new work that will then be documented in a catalogue published in the spring. The grants are now administered by the National Academy of Design. Among the winners are Farah Al-Qasimi, Nikita Gale, Mark Thomas Gibson, Pao Her, Ronny Quevedo, and Didier William. The full list of winners of can be accessed on the foundation’s website.

The YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award, which comes with $25,000, has been given to Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and designer Cornelius Tulloch, who was a YoungArts award winner in 2016. In a statement, Tulloch said, “It’s one thing to have a creative voice and vision, but it is another to have that creative voice heard and that vision seen. YoungArts has done exactly that for me. To know that for almost a decade this organization has shown me how important my unique creativity is to the world and has given me the encouragement to continue sharing my gifts and talents.”

Fellowships

The Gordon Parks Foundation has named the three recipients of its 2023 fellowship recipients. They are Jammie Holmes and José Parlá, who will be artist fellows, and art historian and scholar Melanee C. Harvey, who is the Genevieve Young Fellow in Writing. Each recipient will receive $25,000. In a statement, the foundation’s executive director Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., said, “This year’s art fellows are both painters whose work moves Gordon Parks’s legacy forward in important ways, while Melanee’s writing fellowship project at Howard University brings forth an important new historical context to his work.”

The San Francisco–based Fleishhacker Foundation has announced the 12 winners of its next three cycles (2023, 2024, and 2025) for its Eureka Fellowship Program, which comes with $35,000 for Bay Area artists “to continue living and creating art,” according to a release. Among the winning artists are Sadie Barnette (2024), Emory Douglas (2023), and Xandra Ibarra (2023).  The full list of winners can be accessed on the Fleishhacker Foundation’s website.

Open Calls

NXTHVN, the closely watched residency program founded by Titus Kaphar and Jason Price in New Haven, Connecticut, is accepting applications for its Studio and Curatorial Fellows until February 27. Fellows receive studio or office space, a stipend, and subsidized housing, as well as a mentorship-driven curriculum that includes professional development sessions. Interested parties can apply on NXTHVN’s website.

The Native-led arts organization Forge Project in Mahicannituck River Valley, New York, is accepting applications for its 2023 fellowships from Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, and educators to create a cohort of six Indigenous fellows; two will be awarded to members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, on which the ancestral lands Forge project is situated. Each fellow will receive $25,000, and the application deadline is February 15. More information can be found on Forge Project’s website and applications can be submitted via Submit Table.

The legendary New York nonprofit Franklin Furnace will accept applications for its FUND for Performance Art from February 1 to April 1. Initiated in 1985 with the Jerome Foundation, the grants are intended for early-career artists who will present a new work of performance art in New York City. An information session on the application process will be held on February 22, and interested applicants can apply via the Franklin Furnace website.  

For its 13th season in Fire Island’s Cherry Grove, the Fire Island Artist Residency is accepting applications until April 15. The four-week residency is open to emerging visual artists who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, two spirit, or queer.

In a statement, Susanne Völker, head of Kassel’s culture department, said, “I am delighted that this year we are able to award the prestigious prize to Wajukuu Art Project. In doing so, the Board of Trustees is following the guiding principle of documenta fifteen, which is to highlight collectives with artistic work that has a positive effect on the common good as a specific form of organization and production.”

Ahead of its upcoming edition next February, Frieze Los Angeles has announced a call for entries for its Frieze Impact Prize 2023, which will be done in partnership with Define American, a nonprofit focused on sharing the stories of immigrants. For the prize, artists are asked to propose works, to be shown at Frieze L.A., that look at inequity within the U.S. immigration system. U.S.-based artists, regardless of citizenship status, are eligible to apply for the prize, which comes with $25,000. The winner will be selected by a jury consisting of artist Tanya Aguiñiga, Define American founder Jose Antonio Vargas, and Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor, Frieze’s parent company. The deadline to apply is November 27, and more information on the application process is available on Frieze’s website.

Jenny Holzer will be awarded the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon 2023 award next January. The award, established in 2014, is given annually to an artist “who has made a profound contribution to a particular medium, influencing their own and subsequent generations of artists,” according to a release. Past winners have included Joan Jonas, Peter Doig, and Mona Hatoum. In a statement, Whitechapel Gallery director Gilane Tawadros said, “We are delighted that Jenny Holzer will be Whitechapel Gallery’s Art Icon in 2023 in recognition of her ground-breaking practice as an artist who has consistently addressed social justice issues with elegance and humour throughout her decades-long career.”

The 2022 Berresford Prize, which is administered by Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists, will go to writer and artist Louise Erdrich. The prize is awarded annually to “cultural practitioners who have contributed significantly to the advancement, wellbeing, and care of artists in society,” according to a release. Erdrich has published 28 books that range from novels to poetry to children’s book and she is the founder of Birchbark Books and Native Arts in Minneapolis. In a statement, Erdrich said, “My vision was that we would serve to bring awareness to Indigenous writing, further Indigenous language revitalization, and that we would support artists by selling the beautiful and creative art that Native people make, often on isolated reservations. Over the years the bookstore has also become a place for artists and writers to find a job that brings them into a community. This prize will help us to more fully realize our vision and I thank you from my heart.”

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced the winners of both the 2021 and 2022 editions of its annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize at its fall gala last month. They are Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent and Harlem-based artist Robert Pruitt, respectively. Each winner receives an unrestricted monetary award of $50,000.

The 2022 Isamu Noguchi Award will be given to two artists this year, Daniel Brush and Thaddeus Mosley, who will be honored at the Noguchi Museum’s fall benefit on November 17. “The Isamu Noguchi Award was created to recognize exceptional individuals whose creative practice shares a boundary-transcending point of view found in Isamu Noguchi’s work, and extends his ideals into our own times,” Noguchi Museum director Brett Littman said in a statement. “We are delighted to present this year’s Award to artists Daniel Brush and Thaddeus Mosley. With long and prolific careers, Daniel and Thaddeus both have a profound attention to material and process, and dedication to craftsmanship and sincerity in their work.

To mark the opening of the 2022 Singapore Biennale, the Japanese company Benesse Holdings, in partnership with the Singapore Art Museum, which hosts the Biennale, has awarded the 13th Benesse Prize to artist Haegue Yang. Since 1995, the prize has “recognize[d] the artistic endeavours of outstanding artists and support those who embody the corporate philosophy of the Benesse Group, which is ‘Well-Being,’” according to a release, and it comes with JPY 3 million and to have their art be collected and exhibited at the Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan, or to create a commissioned work for the Site. In a statement, this year’s jury commended Yang for a “practice [that] interweaves cross-cultural knowledge, a moving regard for materiality and tradition, through a playful visual language. Yang has consistently experimented with form and has challenged the known orientations and functions of materials to create new experiences and aesthetics.”

The 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, which is administed by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in New York, was recently awarded to Indigenous Australian art collective proppaNOW for their exhibition “OCCURRENT AFFAIR” at the University of Queensland Art Museum in St. Lucia, Australia. The prize comes with $25,000 and an editioned work by Yoko Ono, as well as the opportunity to organize “a series of in-depth activities over two years that spawn new scholarship and strengthen teaching and learning opportunities on the role of the arts in advancing social justice,” according to a release. The winning exhibition will also be shown at the Vera List Center next October.

In a statement, the prize’s jury, which was chaired by artist Simone Leigh, said, “Founded in 2003 to combat the invisibility of urban Aboriginal contemporary art that addresses the issues of our time, [proppaNOW] has broken with expectations of what is proper (‘proppa’) in Aboriginal art; created a new sovereign space for First Nations artists internationally outside colonial stereotypes, desires for authenticity, and capitalist capitulations; and opened new political imaginaries. Confronting the ongoing presence of settler colonialism, proppaNOW’s work demonstrates the synergy of the struggles for artistic representation and social change.”

Matt Mullican, who is based in Berlin and New York, recently won the Possehl Prize for International Art, which is awarded every three years and comes with €25,000, as well as an exhibition at the Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck, Germany. That exhibition, which is on view until January 8, looks at Mullican’s five-decade career, from his close association with the Pictures Generation to his large-scale pieces that include various cosmologies of his own making.  

Alessandra Ferrini has won the third edition of the MAXXI BVLGARI Prize, which is administered by the MAXXI—National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome and luxury brand Bvlgari. Her winning work, Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film (2022), will be added to the museum’s collection. In a statement, the jury, which included Sharjah Art Foundation president Hoor Al Qasimi, praised the film’s “ability to represent the controversial facts of contemporary geo-political history, challenging the official and canonized formulas of historical and journalistic narratives. In particular, for the strength and balance in analyzing documentary materials such as photographs, texts, and films, recomposing them into a new narrative that reflects on the role of research as essential in defense of human rights and global citizenship in the post-colonial age.”

Zurich-based artist Jiajia Zhang has won the Shizuko Yoshikawa Art Award, which comes with CHF 25,000 and is awarded every two years to women artists at the beginning of their careers. In a statement, the five-person jury, which included artist Martin Beck, said, “The jury recognizes Zhang’s originality in exploring media-based imagery and distribution channels of our day. Among the things she looks for in her work are the differences and transitions between lived space, housing, and realty. Overlaying her recordings with found text fragments from various literary and popular sources, including advertising slogans, she is able to mediate between the culturally disparate spheres of cities in Asia and Europe. Zhang’s reflection on an everyday life increasingly informed by self-optimization and adding value convinced the jury.”

The 2022 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award has gone to artist wani toaishara for his photographic work do black boys go to heaven (2021). The prize, which is administered by the cultural center HOTA, Home of the Arts in Gold Coast, Australia, comes with $25,000 for the work’s acquisition. An artist statement accompanying the winning work reads, “This is for the bodies painted spectacle long before they could even speak. For that child who was told that their strength was found in silence because speaking made them weak. For those bones so small that their gravestones outsized their casket. For all those tokens who’ve been called broken as they contemplate their suicide. We are worthy. Here. Still.”

Artadia, which administers several artist awards in various U.S. cities, has named the winners of its 2022 editions for Atlanta and Boston. The Boston winners are Stephen Hamilton, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Shantel Miller; the Atlanta winners are Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Ato Ribeiro, and José Ibarra Rizo. Each winner will receive $10,000.

The 2022 Faena Prize for the Arts has been awarded to Paula de Solminihac, who will present her large-scale installation, Morning Glory (2022), at Faena Beach during Miami Art Week later this month. The artist will receive $100,000, and this is the first time the winning work will be presented in Miami, as past editions have been shown in Buenos Aires. In a statement, Alan Faena said, “Actively contributing to Miami Beach as a nurturing site for the community, Paula’s proposed installation—and the artist’s largest-scale work to date—physically embodies this vibrant city Faena Art is deeply committed to.”

The New York–based nonprofit Queer|Art has named the winners of two awards, both of whom were honored at the Whitney Museum on November 10. Alexis De Veaux, a writer, educator, and activist best-known for her 2004 book Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde, has won the Pamela Sneed Award for Black Queer|Art|Mentorship Artists and Organizers, which comes with $10,000. In a statement, the award’s jury, which includes its namesake Pamela Sneed, said, “Alexis De Veaux is a pioneering force within the LGBTQIA community. Her expansive practice is wide-ranging: from poetry and journalism to children’s literature. Alexis has made invaluable contributions to the queer community across mediums. As a writer, educator, and public speaker, Alexis’s longstanding dedication to mentorship is clear across fields and generations. To be in the presence of her generous wisdom and infectious spirit is to be inspired.”

Queer|Art also awarded its 2022 Queer|Art|Prize for Sustained Achievement to New Orleans community leader Wendi Moore-O’Neal, who is being recognized for her “commitment to organizing and storytelling within Black queer communities in the South,” according to a release. The prize’s jury, which was comprised of Barbara Browning, Lia Gangitano, and Alicia Grullon, stated, “Our choice for awarding Wendi comes from prioritizing a different kind of art making rooted in the traditions found in the Queer community which push up against hetero-normative partiarchial capitalist structures.”

Fellowships & Mentorships

Queer|Art also has named the recipients of its year-long Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellows, in which early-career LGBQT+ artists are paired with established LGBTQ+ artists for professional development and to focus “on creative issues and long-term sustainability of artistic practice,” according to a release. The mentorships are given to artists working in visual arts, performance, film, and literature. This year’s cohort includes Lu Yim with mentor Julie Tolentino (Performance), Miller Robinson with mentor Jeffrey Gibson (Visual Art), and Demetri Burke with mentor Camilo Godoy (Visual Art).

The L.A.-based Crenshaw Dairy Mart has launched a new fellowship program, called the Fellowship for Abolition and the Advancement of the Creative Economy (CDM-FAACE), which will go to Black creatives based in Greater Los Angeles, with a specific focus on Inglewood and South Central. The one-year fellowship comes with a stipend of $100,000 that can be used toward living expenses, studio expenses, or arts supplies and materials, as well as access to healthcare insurance for the entirety of the fellowship. The inaugural cohort consists of Autumn Breon, juice wood, and Oto-Abashi Attah, who will work on projects around the theme of “Inglewood and Prototyping the Abolitionist Imagination,” which imagine a future for the L.A. neighborhood through the lens of an abolitionist framework.

Grants & Commissions

The Forman Arts Initiative, founded by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Michael Forman and Jennifer Rice, has named the 2022 grantees of its $3 million Art Works program, which supports Philadelphia-based BIPOC artists and organizations. For this iteration, administered in partnership with the Philadelphia Foundation, the artists grants have increased from $20,000 to $50,000 per grantee, distributed over a two-year period. The four selected artists are Emily Bate, Daniel Park, BL Shirelle, and Cesar Viveros. Similarly, a new grant, the Artist Mentor Award, which goes to an artist known for their long-term commitment to Philadelphia and comes with $25,000, will go to jazz musician Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Additionally, the four selected Philadelphia nonprofits, which have received a combined $500,000, are the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, the Colored Girls Museum, First Person Arts, and the Philadelphia Clef Club. In a statement, Forman said, “Philadelphia has an abundance of talent and organizations that need to be nurtured, fortified and amplified. We trust our commitment to Philadelphia’s creators will resonate both locally and more broadly.”

The Chicago-based grant-making nonprofit 3Arts has named the ten winners of its 15th annual 3Arts Awards, which comes with $30,000 cash grants for each winner. The winners for visual artists are Rozalinda Borcilă and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal, for teaching artists Peregrine Bermas and Simone Reynolds, for dance Winifred Haun and Sarita Smith Childs, for music Akenya and Nashon Holloway, and for theater Miranda Gonzalez and Omar Abbas Salem.

The Menlo Park, California–based Hewlett Foundation has announced the 10 winners of its fifth and final edition of Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions, an $8 million initiative meant to support “artistic expression and public engagement with the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area,” according to a release. The winners, who this year are focused within media arts, will also partner will local nonprofits to complete their proposals. The winners include Stephanie Dinkins (partnering with the Institute of Contemporary Art San José), Postcommodity (Leonardo/ISAST), Susana Ruiz and Huy Truong (Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History), and Skawennati (Gray Area). The full list of winners, descriptions of their projects, and more information on past recipients can be found on the Hewlett Foundation’s website.

Ekin Kee Charles has won the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022. Keen Charles will receive $15,000 toward the production of a new video work that is to be completed by November 2023 and that will then be presented Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in 2024. The film will later be exhibited at other partner institutions, including MoCA TAIPEI, ILHAM in Kuala Lumpur, Center d’Art Contemporain in Genève, Art Hub Copenhagen, and Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing. In a statement, the jury said, “Her profound video works explore in an unassuming way the societal pressures that women face every day. We all agreed that her work speaks clearly of a specific place and moment, while at the same time transcending – by virtue of its deep connection with the local – any particular culture, region or country. Her works combine this universality with a sensitive and poetic approach, offering a space for critical contemplation. We look forward to following her next steps.”

Shortlists

The Max Mara Art Prize for Women, which goes to a woman-identifying artist based in the U.K. and comes with a six-month residency in Italy to work on their project proposal, has announced the five artists who are in consideration for the prize. They are Rebecca Bellantoni, Bhajan Hunjan, Onyeka Igwe, Zinzi Minott,and Dominique White. The prize is administered by the Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara, in collaboration with London’s Whitechapel Gallery; the winner of the prize will be announced in spring 2023. In a statement, Bina von Stauffenberg, chair of this year’s jury, said: “Today, as women’s rights continue to be challenged, it could not be more urgent or relevant to ensure that women artists are championed, and heard on the world stage. For more than a decade, this unique prize has successfully enabled women-identifying artists at different stages of their careers to develop their potential in extraordinary ways.”

Open Calls

Bloomberg Philanthropies has just launched the 2022 Public Art Challenge, in which U.S. cities with 30,000 or more residents can receive up to $1 million in funding to commission temporary works of public art in their cities. Up to 10 winners will be chosen and the projects are to be executed within 24 months. Past winners have included Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Jackson, Mississippi. In a statement, the foundation’s founder Michael Bloomberg said, “The Public Art Challenge provides a creative way for cities to bring residents together, form strong civic partnerships, and make public spaces more inspiring and accessible. As cities emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, public art has the power to help revitalize communities. We know cities will have great ideas for this year’s competition, and we look forward to helping their visions come to life.” The deadline to apply is February 15, and applications can be submitted on the Bloomberg Philanthropies website.

The Queens Arts Fund, which is administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on the Arts, is accepting applications for its Arts Access Grants, which offer $1,000 to $5,000 for Queens-based small-budget nonprofits or artist collectives, and New Work Grants, which offer $3,000 for Queens-based artists and collectives. The Arts Access Grants are intended for organizations to produce public programs in Queens, while the New Work Grants are meant to support the creation of a new work that has not been produced or presented before an audience previously. Applications for both are accepted until January 5 and can be submitted via the NYFA website.

The Hugo Boss Prize was established in 1996 by the Guggenheim Museum in partnership with the fashion brand Hugo Boss to honor “outstanding achievement in contemporary art, celebrating the work of remarkable artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time,” according to the museum’s website.

The award has been given to 13 artists since its founding and it has catapulted artists already at the top of the game to even further heights in the art world. The winners for the prize have been Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potrč (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004), Tacita Dean (2006), Emily Jacir (2008), Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010), Danh Vo (2012), Paul Chan (2014), Anicka Yi (2016), Simone Leigh (2018), and Deana Lawson (2020). Lawson’s win, announced in October 2020, was considered major at the time as she was the first photographer to win the award.

Each of those artists was selected from a shortlist of other artists. Those rosters have been often star-studded, including artists like Cecilia Vicuña, Kevin Beasley, Cai Guo Qiang, Laurie Anderson, Maurizio Cattelan, Vito Acconci, Tino Sehgal, Damián Ortega, Patty Chang, Camille Henrot, Laura Owens, Wu Tsang, Teresa Margolles, and Ralph Lemon, who was announced as the winner of the Whitney Museum’s $100,000 Bucksbaum award earlier this week.

Just as with the artists, the jury for the prize over the years has been equally star-studded, with some of the world’s most influential curators making the final decision, including Bisi Silva, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Okwui Enwezor, Robert Rosenblum, Christopher Y. Lew, and Naomi Beckwith, the recently appointed chief curator of the Guggenheim. The museum’s former artistic director and chief curator Nancy Spector chaired the jury for each edition of the prize.

When asked by ARTnews when the next awarding of the prize would be given, a spokesperson for the Guggenheim Museum said, “The Hugo Boss Prize will no longer continue. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is honored to have collaborated with HUGO BOSS since the Prize’s inception in 1996, to award artists who embrace today’s most innovative and critically relevant cultural currents. At the conclusion of this generative project, we are grateful to Hugo Boss for their long-standing support, and for the many innovative exhibitions, catalogues, and public programs that have grown from the prize platform, which have made an indelible impact on the institution over the years.”

In a statement sent to ARTnews, Beckwith added, “The world was nowhere near as enamored of art, as it is now, before the advent of the Hugo Boss Prize. I believe that the Prize was part of the ascendancy of contemporary art as a major part of programming in all major museums. It allowed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to bring contemporary art to a broader audience and, as such, make art a bigger part of a global cultural and social conversation that you see in fashion, music, cinema, and social media now. We’re in an entirely differently landscape now.”

A request for comment from ARTnews to Hugo Boss was not immediately returned.

Working across sculpture, installation, performance, dance, film, and photography, Nengudi is best-known for her “R.S.V.P.” series, begun in the late ’70s. These pantyhose sculptures are often filled with sand, then stretched and pinned to various points of a wall (often in a corner). They sag and droop in ways best described as poetic.

She and others would often perform within these installations, contorting their bodies to create even more dynamic stretches of the fabric.

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“An artist’s supposed greatest desire is the making of objects that will last lifetimes for posterity after all,” Nengudi said in a statement. “This has never been a priority for me. My purpose is to create an experience that will vibrate with the connecting thread.”

Other major works include the 1978 performance Ceremony for Freeway Fets that she did with David Hammons and Maren Hassinger, as well as her “Water Composition” series in which colored water—in blues, reds, purples, and more—bulge in plastic sacs.

During a press lunch in New York on Tuesday to announce the winner, Jeremy Strick, the Nasher’s director, described Nengudi as an artist who “has developed an expansive practice that defies simple categorization…. In different ways and in different times, these varied forms are brought together in works that speak poignantly to the fragility and resilience of the human body, individual agency, and the importance of collaboration and friendship. Never have these ideas resonated more.”  

Since 2011, Nengudi’s important art historical contributions have begun to receive mainstream recognition, most notably be her inclusion in the important exhibition “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980,” which debuted at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2011 as part of the first Pacific Standard Time. That show was organized by curator Kellie Jones, who also considered Nengudi’s work in her 2017 book South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s.

Since then, Nengudi’s work has been the subject of numerous surveys across the country, and it has been prominently featured in the 2017 Venice Biennale and the 2019 rehang of the Museum of Modern Art. Also in 2019, Nengudi was the subject of a major traveling retrospective that debuted at the Lenbachhaus in Munich before making stops in Denver, São Paulo, and Philadelphia. In 2020, she was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to MoMA, her work is also currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Nengudi’s “R.S.V.P.” series debuted at a 1977 exhibition at Just Above Midtown, the storied gallery founded by Linda Goode Bryant that was a nexus for Black artists working in various experimental and avant-garde moods. Nengudi’s work will feature in MoMA’s forthcoming exhibition “Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces,” curated by Thomas J. Lax, which is set to open next month. Additionally, Nengudi’s work was recently acquired by the Dia Art Foundation, which will mount a long-term exhibition of her work, made between 1969 and 2020 at Dia:Beacon in February.  

Established in 2016, past winners of the Nasher Prize include Doris Salcedo, Pierre Huyghe, Theaster Gates, Isa Genzken, Michael Rakowitz, and Nairy Baghramian. The winner is selected from a longlist of possible artists who are nominated by some 150 artists, scholars, curators, and museum directors.

The jury for this year’s prize also included Baghramian; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the Castello di Rivoli; Lynne Cooke, a senior curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Briony Fer, an art historian at University  College London; Hou Hanru, artistic director of MAXXI in Rome; Yuko Hasegawa, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Pablo León de la Barra, a curator at large at the Guggenheim Museum; and Nicholas Serota, the chair of the Arts Council England.

“For me, Senga Nengudi has made an indelible, undeniable contribution to sculpture as we think of it today,” Cooke said during the lunch on behalf of the jury. Speaking of the “R.S.V.P.” works, she added, “What I think is so remarkable is that she found a very everyday, inexpensive material that’s associated with women and women’s bodies and used it to make an abstract art that thinks about the relationship of a body—a female body—to space.”

Cooke added, “I think she’s an enormously important model for younger artists.”  

In addition to those fellowships, the center also awarded 30 local organizations support for project funding ($7.2 million in total) and unrestricted general operating support ($1.4 million in total). Each institution received a grant between $75,000 and $300,000, with an automatic additional 20 percent for operating support. The winning organizations include BlackStar Projects, Esperanza Arts Center / Nueva Esperanza, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, Monument Lab, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Temple Contemporary, and Vox Populi. (A full list of winners and more information on their projects and practices can be found on Pew Center’s website.)

In a statement, Paula Marincola, Pew Center’s executive director, said, “We are heartened to see such dynamic and thoughtful work coming from the Philadelphia region’s institutions and artists, even as the sector continues to cope with ongoing challenges resulting from the pandemic. The local arts community remains deeply committed to serving audiences by offering resonant cultural experiences while evolving approaches to visitor services, health, and safety. The Center’s new grants affirm that the arts will continue to play a vital and necessary role in the civic life and economic success of our region.”

The Oakland-based Artists’ Legacy Foundation has given its 2022 Artist Award to the influential Nuyorican artist Juan Sánchez, who is known for a wide-ranging body of work that combines aesthetic and political concerns in mixed-media paintings and sculptures drawing on his family histories and the stories of his communities. (Sánchez is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Upper East Side gallery Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary.) The award comes with a $25,000 purse, and Sánchez was chosen from a pool of ten finalists by a jury consisting of artists Miguel Luciano and Derek Fordjour and Monica Ramirez-Montagut, the newly appointed director of the Parrish Art Museum.

In a statement, Luciano said, “Juan Sánchez has achieved a legacy that’s inspired generations of artists through the sublime beauty of his paintings and prints, and his unwavering commitment to social justice and political liberation. He is an icon among Puerto Rican artists in the diaspora and one of the most important artists of our time.”

The Washington, D.C.–based organization Americans for the Arts has named the recipients of its 2022 National Arts Awards, which this year have a “reimagined focus on art as a catalyst for social impact” as a result of the pandemic. The winners, who will be honored in New York City on October 17, are the Gordon Parks Foundation for Arts Education, Joy Harjo for Lifetime Achievement, For Freedoms for the Marina Kellen French Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award, and Robert F. Smith for Philanthropy in the Arts.

The second recipient of the Borlem Prize, which “recognizes a single artist whose work brings awareness to mental health issues and struggles,” is Ebecho Muslimova. The prize comes with a $40,000 prize, half of which goes to the artist and half of which goes to a mental health–focused charity of their choosing. Muslimova has chosen the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline as the recipient of her donation.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed has won the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research, which is administered by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. The prize comes with €15,000 and a solo exhibition at KW that includes a newly commissioned work and a publication. In a statement, this year’s jury said, “A decisive part of Rasheed’s artistic research is dedicated to challenging hegemonic knowledge systems and to dissect their inherently oppressive power structures. Her practice can be regarded as an invitation to the viewer to learn and unlearn, probing ways of how this process can be achieved in a collective setting. Rasheed’s work is characterized and informed by her engagement with local communities, with whom she seeks to define a new collective and empowering mode of knowledge production, one that is oftentimes conceived and produced outside of the art institution.”

BRIC, a multidisciplinary arts organization in Downtown Brooklyn, has named the 10 winners of its third annual Colene Brown Art Prize, which comes with a $10,000 unrestricted grant and supports the work of underrecognized New York–based artists. The winners are Anna Conway, Bernadette Despujols, Aaron Gilbert, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Valerie Hegarty, Camille Hoffman, Sara Jimenez, L.J. Roberts, Rachelle Mozman Solano, and Jeff Sonhouse.

Queer|Art recently announced the winners of two prizes it administers. The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers has gone to Chen Xiangyun, who will receive a $10,000 grant; the runner-up for the prize, Camilo Godoy, will receive $5,000. The 2021 Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant will go to collaborative filmmaking duo Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran, who will receive $7,000. The duo won for Untitled Kilawin Documentary, which “documents the revolutionary convergence of lesbian Filipinas who gathered for the first time in New York City to establish a loving, safe, and affirming community,” according to a release.

The NY Art Book Fair, organized by Printed Matter, has launched a new Volume Grant intended to support artists and publishers who identify as Black or Indigenous, or as people of color. The grant comes with a complimentary table at the fair’s upcoming edition, slated to run October 13–16 in Chelsea, as well as a stipend of $1,000. The winners are Brown Recluse Zine Distro, Further Reading Press, Kwago, and Taller California.

Additionally, Artadia and 21c Museum Hotels announced that Kathy Liao has won their joint artist award for a Kansas City–based artist. Liao will receive an unrestricted grant of $10,000. Artist Monira Al Qadiri has won the top prize for the 15. Triennale Kleinplastik in Fellbach, Germany, which comes with €5,000.

Grants

Palestinian artist Noor Abed has won the Han Nefkens Foundation—Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2022, which comes with $15,000 to support the production of a new editioned work of video art. The work is expected to be completed next year and then will travel in 2024 to the grant’s five partner institutions: the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona; the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; WIELS in Brussels; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in Manila; and the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai.

In a statement, the production grant’s selection committee said, “Noor Abed’s proposal mobilises mythologies and folklore to reclaim past and present realities of communal existence against hegemonic strategies of social and cultural fragmentation. Through a poetic choreography of bodies, sites, narratives, and temporalities, her work encourages reflection on the manifestations of social action and resistance in the everyday life.”

Anonymous Was A Woman recently named the 14 artist projects that have won its Environmental Art Grants, which is administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Each project will receive up to $20,000, for a total of $250,000. The full list of winners and more information on each individual project can be found on NYFA’s website. In a statement, AWAW founder Susan Unterberg said, “With this grant, Anonymous Was A Woman is expanding our impact to fund work that addresses the climate crisis. The enormous response received is proof that artists are eager to confront the practical and existential crises of our current moment creatively, and that this kind of work deserves much more attention and resources.”

Fellowships & Mentorships

Centro, or the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, has announced the winners of its inaugural cohort of Bridging the Divides, which is supported by a $1.2 million grant by the Mellon Foundation. The group of 12 artists, scholars, and journalists from Puerto Rico and its diaspora will “undergo collaborative research on questions of decolonization,” according to a release. The winning artists, who receive $30,000 each, are Bemba PR, Bettina Pérez Martínez, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera, and Mikey Cordero. The winning journalists, who receive $30,000 each, are Ana Teresa Toro and Ed Morales. And the winning scholars, who receive $20,000 each, are Alvin Padilla-Babilonia, José Juan Pérez Meléndez, Mercedes Trelles Hernández, Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Mónica Jiménez,and Rafael Capó. More information on the winners can be found on Centro’s website.

The photography-focused nonprofit Aperture has named the 20 early-career photographers who will receive the 2022 Image Equity Fellowship, which it is awarding in partnership with Google, For Freedoms, and FREE THE WORK. The winners were chosen from more than a thousand applications by a jury that included photographer Lyle Ashton Harris and Whitney Museum associate curator Rujeko Hockley. As part of the six-month fellowship, each winner will receive $20,000. The full list of winners can be found on Aperture’s website.

Social Practice CUNY, an educational network that spans the 25 campuses of the City University of New York that connects artists with scholars, has named the 2022–23 recipients of its Faculty, Student, and Actionist Fellowships. This year’s cohort is co-led by artists Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette, and faculty fellows include artists Alicia Grullon, Alexandra Juhasz, and Valerie Tevere. The full list of fellows can be found on the network’s website.

The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, which was established in 2002 and pairs an established artist with an emerging one, has named its next pairings. For visual arts, Ghanian sculptor El Anatsui has selected South African artist Bronwyn Katz. The mentorship program also includes pairings in literature, film, architecture, and music; those winners can be accessed on Rolex.org.

Threewalls, a Chicago-based, Black-led nonprofit supporting the work of artists of African descent as well as those who identify as Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American, has announced the winners of its inaugural RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship. Coming with $40,000 for the first year and the option to renew for a second year, the fellowship will allow the winning artists “to research a racial justice issue embedded in their neighborhood with the intent to bring about structural change using their artistic and creative practices.” The five winners are jireh drake, Jorge Felix, Tiffany Johnson, Kiela Smith-Upton, and Sojourner Wright.

Residencies

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University in Columbus has named the winners of its annual Artist Residency Awards for 2022–23. Intended “to offer unique experiences across multiple disciplines and to fuel the creative expression behind them,” the awards allow recipients to realize a new work through financial support and technical assistance from the Wexner. The residencies are awarded in four categories: Film/Video, Learning & Public Practice, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts. The winners for visual arts are Jonas N. T. Becker and Tanya Lukin Linklater. The full list of winners, including more information on each individual artist and their projects, is available on the Wexner’s website.

BRIC has also named the winners of its BRIClab 2022–2023 Artists-in-Residence, which are given in four tracks: Contemporary Art, Film + TV, Performing Arts, and Video Art. The Contemporary Art winners, who will receive studio space for a year as well as mentorship and curatorial support, are Ezra Benus, Naima Green, Banyi Huang, Madjeen Isaac, and Jenny Polak. The full list of winners is available on BRIC’s website.

Silver Art Projects, an arts nonprofit based at 4 World Trade Center, has named the 2022–23 cohort of 28 artists who will take part in its year-long residency. Selected through an open-call process from a pool of 1,200 submissions, the winners were chosen by a jury that included artists Jammie Holmes, Tyler Mitchell, and Mickalene Thomas; curators Larry Ossei-Mensah and Eugenie Tsai; collectors Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean and Roxane Gay; and art world influencers Suzy Delvalle and JiaJia Fei. The winning artists include Nona Faustine, Jesse Krimes, Chloë Bass, Anthony Akinbola, Sasha Wortzel, Russell Craig, and Cielo Félix-Hernández. The complete list of winners can be accessed on the organization’s website.  

Hong Kong–based artist Beatrix Pang will be the inaugural artist in residence for the Loewe Foundation / Studio Voltaire Award. The year-long residency comes with a £25,000 stipend and studio space at Studio Voltaire in London. Pang is an artist and independent publisher who founded Small Tune Press in 2011 and the ZINE COOP in 2017. In a statement, Pang said, “My research at Studio Voltaire will involve various engagements with creative individuals from independent publishing, the queer community, artists, curators, activists, archivists and South London locals. Through these interactions, I will open up dialogues and exchange ideas on art production, publishing and archiving practices.”

Open Calls and Jury Announcements

Los Angeles–based organization Foundwork has an open call for emerging and mid-career artists to receive a grant of $10,000 and studio visits with members of the jury, which includes artist Edgar Arcenaux, gallerists Javier Peres and Lauren Kelly, Frieze London director Eva Langret, and César García-Alvarez, the founding executive and artistic director of the Mistake Room in L.A. The deadline to apply is September 26, and applications can be submitted via Foundwork’s website.

The New Museum in New York has announced the jury that will select the inaugural winner of its new Hostetler/Wrigley Sculpture Award, a biennial prize that will support the production of a new sculpture by a woman artist. The award comes with $400,000, which includes an artist’s honorarium, and will be used to support the production, installation, administration, and exhibition of the newly created work. The jury will be comprised of only artists and consists of Teresita Fernández, Joan Jonas, Julie Mehretu, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith.

Brooklyn-based artist Yto Barrada is the winner of the Queen Sonja Print Award, the world’s largest artist prize dedicated to the graphic arts. Awarded every two years, the award comes with 1 million Norwegian Krone (around $99,000). The artist, whose film installation A Day is a Day is included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, was cited for her “continuous search for new forms of expressions, pushing the boundaries of her own practice and our understanding of printmaking and graphic art.”

Mary Gabriel’s 2018 book Ninth Street Women won the 2022 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize, which comes with $100,000 and is meant to “support distinguished work in artistic literary narrative nonfiction by a writer whose career is in full vibrancy,” according to a release. The book focuses on the life and art of five pioneering Abstract Expressionist artists: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. The year of its publication, ARTnews published an excerpt from Gabriel’s book that focused on Hartigan.

New York–based artist Shahzia Sikander recently won the Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize 2022, which comes with a purse of 3 million yen ($21,500). It has been awarded, alongside a Grand Prize and Academic Prize, annually since 1990 by the city of Fukuoka in Japan. In her award citation, the jury wrote, “By making full use of the latest digital technology in the world of miniature painting, which follows conventions dating back to the Mughal Empire, she has brought new life and contemporary significance to traditional art forms, and has pioneered an innovative mode of artistic expression. The way she has pioneered new artistic expressions has made her a role model for female artists in South Asia, and she continues to pave the way for future younger generations to follow.”

Installation view of Saodat Ismailova’s solo exhibition, “Qo’rg’on Chiroq,” at CCA Tashkent, 2019.

The EYE Art & Film Prize 2022, which comes with a £25,000 purse and an exhibition at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam next year, has gone to Saodat Ismailova, who is based in Paris and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she was born in 1981. Her work has been influential in both the film and art worlds, screening at major festivals like the Turin Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival, and was exhibited in the Central Asian Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Her work is currently on view at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany, and in the main exhibition of the 2022 Venice Biennale, “Milk of Dreams.”

In a citation, the prize’s jury wrote, “Saodat maintains close ties with her native region as a source of creative inspiration. Her powerful work feels both refreshing and urgent. We viewed her work with tremendous excitement and fascination. Saodat succeeds in creating an almost spiritual space beyond images and soundtracks. She seduces us into ‘hearing’ image and ‘seeing’ sound. Her work is intriguing, mysterious and committed, while form and aesthetics are balanced rather than overwhelming.”

The 2022 Frieze Artist Award was won by Abbas Zahedi. The prize comes with a production budget to realize a new commission that will debut at the 2022 edition of Frieze London (October 12–16) and will be sited adjacent to the fair’s entrance in Regent’s Park. According to a release, “Titled Waiting With {Sonic Support}, the work can be seen as a conflation of two particular sites: a public waiting area and a public support space, the commission builds upon Zahedi’s long-standing interest in borders, thresholds and how things can move within systems or networks.” This year’s edition of the award required artists to think about sustainable approaches to realizing the commission; Zahedi’s new work will “utilize reusable and sustainably sourced materials and will seek to minimize any disruptive impact on the installation’s site.”

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 45th Parallel, 2022, installation view at Mercer Union, Toronto.

After completing its run last month, the Toronto Biennial of Art has announced the winners of two additional awards for the exhibition. (Shortly after its opening in March, the Biennial announced Camille Turner and Aycoobo / Wilson Rodríguez as the winners of the Artist Prize and the Emerging Artist Prize, respectively.) Its final two awards for the 2022 edition have gone to Lawrence Abu Hamdan for the Audience Prize and Ange Loft and Derya Akay for the Programs Prize. Abu Hamdan, who will receive CAD$10,000 ($7,700), won for his film 45th Parallel. Loft and Akay will each receive CAD$5,000 ($3,900); Loft for the Dish Dances Movement Workshops and Akay for the Queer Dowry: Sikma Günü program.

The Los Angeles–based Korea Arts Foundation of America has named Berlin-based artist kate-hers RHEE as the winner of its 2022 KAFA Award, which is given biennially and comes with $20,000 and an exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center gallery in L.A. next year. In a statement, the jury, comprised of curators Helen Molesworth, Virginia Moon, and Rebecca Rowley, said, “RHEE’s trajectory as an artist has been propelled by a dedication to learning about and confronting the Korean culture from which she was separated as an adopted child; her clever, thoughtful mixture of mediums in this endeavor deftly traffics in complexity and humor. What impressed us most about RHEE’s work was its sophisticated layering of motifs borrowed from historical Korean art with contemporary conceptual sensibilities: it is a rich and compelling admixture that we have no doubt will continue to expand in depth and breadth.”

The 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awards will go to Miguel Arzabe, Gregory Rick, and Astria Suparak. Open to artists at any stage of their career, the Artadia awards come with $10,000 for each artist; the Bay Area awards were open to artists who have worked for at least two years in the Northern California counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The three winners were chosen from a cohort of seven finalists by a two-person jury consisting of SFMOMA associate curator Joseph Becker and Project for Empty Space founder and co-director Jasmine Wahi.

Installation view of “Shahpour Pouyan: We Owe This Considerable Land to the Horizon Line,” 2019, at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.

Fellowships and Grants

The New York–based Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) has given its 2022 Ellsworth Kelly Award, which supports an institution in realizing a solo exhibition for a contemporary artist, to the Frist Art Museum in Nashville. The Frist will use the grant money to mount a show in 2024 for Iranian-born artist Shahpour Pouyan, marking his first solo presentation in the United States. The annual prize, which was established in 2016, comes with $45,000, and was recently increased from $40,000. The 2022 edition was restricted to institutions in the eastern U.S., and the 2023 edition will go to an institution in the western U.S. In a statement, Frist senior curator Trinita Kennedy said, “Pouyan’s work is astonishing for its intense beauty, sophistication, and virtuosity. While his art is political, Pouyan never announces his agenda, leaving the door open for dialogue and understanding.”

The New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts have announced the recipients of its 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program, which comes with a $7,000 grant per artist. This year the program will disburse $661,000 to 99 artists in five disciplines. Among the winners in the photography category are Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Joiri Minaya, Daniel Ramos, and Jessica Magallanes Martinez. The full list of winners can be found on the NYFA website.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced the recipients of its 2022 Art + Technology grants, which “include monetary and in-kind support for projects that engage emerging technologies,” according to a release. The four winners, who were chosen from over 600 submissions, are Kelly Akashi, Nancy Baker Cahill, Lauren Lee McCarthy, and Daniel R. Small. The funded projects will explore “the materialization of microscopic imaging technology, the distributive properties of mycelium networks, artificial intelligence, and relationships between diverse fields of research and the inquiries of contemporary artists.”

The Vera List Center artist fellowship winners for 2022–24.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York has announced the five artists who have received fellowships for 2022–24, which is titled Correction* and each fellow will explore “the perils and potentials of the political, social, and metaphorical implications of ‘correction.’” The winners are Carmen Amengual, Anna Martine Whitehead, Omar Mismar,  Beatriz Cortez, and Fox Maxy.

The Joyce Foundation has named the five winners of its annual Joyce Awards, which “support the creation of innovative new work by pioneering artists of color working in collaboration with communities in the Great Lakes [region],” according to a release. The five winners, who will each receive $75,000, are playwright Nancy García Loza with the National Museum of Mexican Art, musician and educator Nabil Ince (a.k.a. Seaux Chill) with the Harrison Center, dancer and choreographer Michael Manson with Living Arts, artist Aram Han Sifuentes with the HANA Center, and choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Pramila Vasudevan with Public Art Saint Paul.

Johanna Mirabel, Cascade, 2019.

Residencies

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which hosts editions in New York, London, Paris, and Marrakech, have awarded the 2022 Ritzau Art Prize to Johanna Mirabel, a French artist from Guyana and the West Indies. The prize comes with a three-month residency at ISCP and is given to an artist from the African continent or the African diaspora.

The Fire Island Artist Residency in Cherry Grove has announced its 2022 cohort, which consists of six artists. They are St. Louis–based Jen Everett, New York–based Sunny Leerasanthanah, New York–based Adam Liam Rose, Chicago-based Moises Salazar, Detroit-based Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, and New York–based Willa Wasserman. The organization also recently announced that Jarrett Earnest has been selected as its Inaugural Critic & Writer in Residence for 2022.

Last year curator Dexter Wimberly established the four-week Hayama Artist Residency in Hayama, Japan, a town on the Miura Peninsula outside of Yokohama where the Imperial Family maintains a residence. After a pandemic-related travel delay, the residency program will welcome its first four residents: Nadia Liz Estela, Linn Meyers, Francisco Maso, and Asim Waqif. The residency comes with round-trip airfare, shared accommodations, and an $800 stipend. The program has also announced an open-call for its 2023 edition, which runs through January 15, 2023.

View of Hayama, Japan.

Applications Currently Open

Through July 29, #BlackVisionaries, which is a partnership between Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum, is accepting applications for its 2022 grant program, which are awarded to Black artists and designers as well as Black-owned small businesses. Doling out a total of $650,000, #BlackVisionaries will give five grants of $100,000 for U.S.-based, Black-led small businesses that focus on design, and five $30,000 grants for emerging U.S.-based Black artists and designers.

The Hyundai Motor Group has announced an open call for its 5th VH AWARD, which supports new media artists. Applications will be accepted until July 28, and “individual artists, teams, and collectives who engage with Asia and its future” are all eligible for this edition. The five shortlisted artists will each receive $25,000 that will go toward the production of a new work that will then be exhibited in a group show.

Until October 14, young artists (ages 15–18) can apply for the 2023 YoungArts Awards, which are awarded to hundreds of high school students each year. The awards are given out in 10 disciplines, including visual arts, photography, film, dance, theater, design, and writing, and come with cash prizes between $100 and $10,000 depending on the level awarded: Finalist (between $1,000 and $10,000), Honorable Mention ($250), and Merit ($100).

Updated, July 15, 2022: An earlier version of this article included the news of a new photography award that is forthcoming from the Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia. This mention has been removed as the details of the prize are still being finalized.