Anna Betbeze, Mike Cloud, Nicholas Galanin, Lotus L. Kang, Park McArthur, Lorraine O’Grady and Dyani White Hawk are among the many 28 visible artists who’ve acquired 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships. One other 17 fellows are practising photographers.
Administered by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Basis, the fellowships are meant to help particular initiatives in 52 totally different disciplines. This yr’s cohort consists of 188 fellows from the US and Canada, chosen from amongst almost 3,000 candidates. The fellowships include financial help that ranges from about $30,000 to $60,000. For the reason that fellowship’s creation in 1925, the Guggenheim Basis has awarded upwards of $400m to greater than 19,000 fellows.
The fellowship is “a celebrated funding into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, students, scientists, writers and different cultural visionaries who’re assembly these challenges head-on and producing new prospects and pathways throughout the broader tradition as they achieve this”, Edward Hirsch, the inspiration’s president, mentioned in a press release.
Tasks supported by way of this yr’s fellowships embody the photographer Sara Bennett documenting the lives of girls after incarceration and the photographer Ada Trillo chronicling the experiences of LGBTQ+ migrants arriving within the US. For O’Grady, a pioneering efficiency and conceptual artist, the fellowship will assist her revive an previous character for a brand new efficiency challenge. Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist based mostly in Alaska, will use the fellowship to help the event of recent items and workshops increasing the present discourse about Indigenous up to date artwork.
One in every of this yr’s cohort is the octogenarian painter Arvie Smith, whose fellowship has been underwritten by the actor Robert De Niro in honour of his father, the late painter Robert De Niro Sr, who was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1968.
