List of Creative Capital Grant recipients

2021[]

Moving image[]

• Suha Araj
• Shirley Bruno
• William D. Caballero
• Reid Davenport
• Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Terence Nance
• Crystal Kayiza
• Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer
• Jenny Lion
• Jules Rosskam
• Elaine McMillion Sheldon
• Débora Souza Silva
• Martine Syms

Socially-Engaged Art[]

• Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Jocelyn Jackson, Saqib Keval
• Joseph Cuillier III, Shani Peters
• Sherrill Roland
• Bayeté Ross Smith
• Anna Tsouhlarakis
• Jordan Weber
• Shana M. griffin

Technology[]

• Wafaa Bilal
• Lars Jan
• Literature
• Anne Finger
• Mitchell S. Jackson
• Meng Jin
• Sabrina Orah Mark
• Marc Anthony Richardson
• Simone White
• Legacy Russell

Performing Arts[]

• Marie Lorenz, Kurt Rohde, Dana Spiotta
• Derek McPhatter
• Julian Terrell Otis
• Will Rawls
• Tomeka Reid
• Visual Arts
• Sandy Rodriguez
• Jessica Vaughn

2020[]

Literature[]

• Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, J Mase III
• Wendy Walters
• Marcia Douglas
• Randa Jarrar
• Tonya Foster
• Kamau Patton
• Mark Nowak

Performing Arts[]

• Becca Blackwell
• Dorian Wood
• Estrellx supernova
• Eisa Davis
• Yahdon Israel, Tyehimba Jess, Janice A. Lowe
• Papel Machete
• Nia Witherspoon
• Jawwaad Taylor
• Jumatatu m. Poe
• Jibz Cameron, Sue Slagle
• Ebony Noelle Golden

Visual Arts[]

• Mercedes Dorame
• Jesse Krimes
• John W. Love, Jr
• Steffani Jemison
• Jarett Mellenbruch

Moving Image[]

• Stephanie Wang-Breal
• Nikyatu Jusu
• Jasmin Mara López
• Diane Paragas
• Rodrigo Reyes

Socially-Engaged Art[]

• Not an Alternative
• Jackie sumell
• Cannupa Hanska Luger

Technology[]

• Angela Washko
• Nathan Shafer
• Amitis Motevalli
• Tamara Shogaolu

2019[]

Visual Arts[]

• Alison O’Daniel
• Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
• Alan Ruiz
• Nathaniel Corum & Joseph Kunkel
• Polly Apfelbaum
• MAOF
• Alejandro Durán
• Allison Janae Hamilton
• Bahar Behbahani

Literature[]

• Elissa Washuta
• Maaza Mengiste
• Joanna Fateman
• CAConrad

Moving Image[]

• Nomi Talisman & Dee Hibbert-Jones
• Ramona S. Diaz
• Michael Premo
• Wes Hurley
• Kathryn Ramey
• Todd Chandler
• Daresha Kyi
• Ja’Tovia Gary
• S. Leo Chiang
• Kia LaBeija & Taina Larot
• Michelle Handelman
• Leslie Tai

Performing Arts[]

• Alice Sheppard
• Martha Redbone & Aaron Whitby
• Ni’Ja Whitson
• Charlotte Brathwaite
• Meshell Ndegeocello
• Linda Parris-Bailey
• Samora Pinderhughes
• Paul S Flores, Yosvany Terry & Rosalba Rolon
• Shontina Vernon
• Cristal Chanelle Truscott
• Larissa FastHorse
• Raja Feather Kelly
• Lauren McCarthy

Emerging Fields[]

• Stephanie Dinkins
• Jen Liu
• Brandon Ballengée
• Ekene Ijeoma
• Sharita Towne & Lisa K. Bates (since split)
• Victor Payan & Sandra Pocha Peña
• Niv Acosta
• Michele Stephenson
• Caleb Duarte
• Garrett Bradley
• Laura Doggett
• Elissa Moorhead

2016[]

Emerging Fields[]

• Tanya Aguiñiga
• Zach Blas
• Peter Burr and Porpentine
• Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo and Sable Elyse Smith
• desert ArtLAB (April Bojorquez and Matt Garcia)
• Heather Dewey-Hagborg
• Liz Glynn
• Heather Hart and Jina Valentine
• Marisa Morán Jahn
• KCHUNG
• Yotam Mann
• Eva and Franco Mattes
• Irvin Morazan
• Laura Parnes
• Kenya (Robinson)
• Evan Roth, Paris
• Chris E. Vargas

Literature[]

• Jesse Ball, Chicago
• desveladas (Macarena Hernández, Sheila Maldonado, Nelly Rosario)
• LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
• Percival Everett
• Eileen Myles
• Dao Strom

Performing Arts[]

Cornell Alston and Kaneza Schaal

Jeff Becker

Peter Born and Okwui Okpokwasili

Ligia Bouton, Matt Donovan and Lei Liang

Sharon Bridgforth

Ben Thorp Brown

Ann Carlson

Mallory Catlett

Ellen Sebastian Chang and Amara Tabor-Smith

Jim Findlay

Robin Frohardt

Sean Graney, Chicago

Brian Harnetty

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Carmelita Tropicana

Joseph Keckler

Heather Kravas

Ahamefule J. Oluo

Pegasus Warning (Guillermo E. Brown)

Graham Reynolds

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (Tei Blow and Sean McElroy)

James Scruggs

Erika Chong Shuch

Yara Travieso

2015[]

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Moving Image[]

• Michael Almereyda (New York, NY)
• Martha Colburn (Gettysburg, PA)
• Cherien Dabis (Los Angeles, CA)
• Christopher Harris (Oviedo, FL)
• Lauren Kelley (New York, NY)
• Maryam Keshavarz (Los Angeles, CA)
• Klip Collective (Josh James and Ricardo Rivera) (Philadelphia, PA)
• Andy Kropa (Brooklyn, NY)
• Lily & Honglei (New Haven, CT)
• Shola Lynch (New York, NY)
• Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen (Los Angeles, CA)
• Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva (Mayer\Leyva) (Miami, FL)
• Lotfy Nathan (Los Angeles, CA)
• Pat O'Neill (Pasadena, CA)
• Carlo Ontal (Jersey City, NJ)
• Lorelei Pepi (Vancouver, Canada)
• Shawn Peters (Brooklyn, NY)
• Jennifer Reeder (Hammond, IN)
• Jon Rubin (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Ry Russo-Young (New York, NY)
• Lee Anne Schmitt (Altadena, CA)
• Dan Schneidkraut (Minneapolis, MN)
• Travis Wilkerson (Los Angeles, CA)

Visual Arts[]

• A.K. Burns (Brooklyn, NY)
• Heather Cassils (Los Angeles, CA)
• Carolina Caycedo (Los Angeles, CA)
• Mike Crane (Brooklyn, NY)
• Danielle Dean (Los Angeles, CA)
• Abigail DeVille (Bronx, NY)
• Maria Gaspar (Chicago, IL)
• Mariam Ghani (Brooklyn, NY)
• (Cambridge, MA)
• Titus Kaphar (New Haven, CT)
• Jon Kessler (New York, NY)
• Narcissister (Brooklyn, NY)
• Brittany Nelson (Richmond, VA)
• Lorraine O'Grady (New York, NY)
• Jeanine Oleson (Brooklyn, NY)
• Gala Porras-Kim (Los Angeles, CA)
• Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• Carrie Schneider (Brooklyn, NY)
• Anna Sew Hoy (Los Angeles, CA)
• Amie Siegel (New York, NY)
• Katrin Sigurdardottir (New York, NY)
• Wu Tsang (Los Angeles, CA)
• Ivan Velez (Bronx, NY)

2013[]

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Emerging Fields[]

• Juan William Chávez, St. Louis, MO
• Julia Christensen, Oberlin, OH
• Design 99 (Mitch Cope & Gina Reichert), Detroit, MI
• Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener & Austin Young), Los Angeles, CA
• Ghana Think Tank (John Ewing, Maria del Carmen Montoya & Christopher Robbins), Roxbury, MA
• Nick Hallett & Shana Moulton, Ridgewood, NY
• Natalie Jeremijenko, New York, NY
• Maryam Keshavarz & Roya Rastegar, Los Angeles, CA
• Ali Momeni, Pittsburgh, PA
• Laurie Jo Reynolds, Chicago, IL
• Susan Robb, Seattle, WA
• Chemi Rosado-Seijo, San Juan, PR
• Steve Rowell, Los Angeles, CA
• Gregory Sale, Phoenix, AZ
• Miriam Simun, New York, NY
• Elaine Tin Nyo, New York, NY
• Quintan Ana Wikswo, Los Angeles, CA

Literature[]

• Jessica Anthony, Portland, ME
• Jen Bervin, Brooklyn, NY
• John McManus, Norfolk, VA
• Maggie Nelson, Los Angeles, CA
• Srikanth Reddy, Chicago, IL
• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, New York, NY

Performing Arts[]

• Kyle Abraham, Brooklyn, NY
• luciana achugar, Brooklyn, NY
• Jesse Bonnell, Brooklyn, NY
• Taylor Ho Bynum, New Haven, CT
• Wally Cardona, Brooklyn, NY
• Jace Clayton, Brooklyn, NY
• Complex Movements (Carlos Garcia, Invincible, Wesley Taylor & Waajeed), Detroit, MI
• Corey Dargel, Brooklyn, NY
• Degenerate Art Ensemble (Joshua Kohl & Haruko Nishimura), Seattle, WA
• DD Dorvillier, New York, NY
• Faye Driscoll, Brooklyn, NY
• Michelle Ellsworth, Boulder, CO
• Trajal Harrell, New York, NY
• Emily Johnson, Minneapolis, MN
• Dohee Lee, Oakland, CA
• Miwa Matreyek, Los Angeles, CA
• Neal Medlyn, Brooklyn, NY
• Mondo Bizarro (Millicent Johnnie, Sean LaRocca & Nick Slie), New Orleans, LA
• Queen GodIs & Makeda Thomas, Brooklyn, NY
• The TEAM (Jessica Almasy, Rachel Chavkin, Matt Hubbs & Libby King), Brooklyn, NY
• Arturo Vidich & Daniel Wendlek, Brooklyn, NY
• Wakka Wakka Productions (Gabrielle Brechner, Kirjan Waage & Gwendolyn Warnock), Brooklyn, NY
• Holcombe Waller, Portland, OR

2012[]

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Film/Video[]

• Cam Archer
• Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo
• Amy Belk & Matt Porterfield
• Brad Butler
• Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel
• Eric Dyer
• Daniel Eisenberg
• Yance Ford
• Brian L. Frye & Penny Lane
• Sonali Gulati
• Kenneth Jacobs
• Nina Menkes
• Akosua Adoma Owusu
• Brian Pera
• Rick Prelinger
• Michael Robinson
• Mark Elijah Rosenberg
• Norbert Shieh
• Stacey Steers
• Deborah Stratman
• Jesse Sugarmann
• Christopher Sullivan
• Jake Yuzna

Visual Arts[]

• Janine Antoni
• Patty Chang
• LaToya Ruby Frazier
• Theaster Gates
• Ken Gonzales-Day
• Taraneh Hemami
• Tahir Hemphill
• Simone Leigh
• Eric Leshinsky & Zach Moser
• Phillip Andrew Lewis
• Carlos Motta
• My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon & Alexandro Segade)
• Postcommodity (Raven Chacon & Nathan Young)
• The Propeller Group (Matt Lucero & Tuan Andrew Nguyen)
• Teri Rofkar
• Paul Rucker
• Connie Samaras
• Lisa Sigal
• Jim Skuldt
• Kerry Tribe
• Joan Waltemath
• Women (Scott Barry & Neil Doshi)
• Amy Yao

2009[]

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Emerging Fields[]

• Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA)
• Cesar Cornejo (Tampa, FL)
• James Coupe (Seattle, WA)
• Beatriz da Costa (Long Beach, CA)
• eteam (Queens, NY)
• Futurefarmers (San Francisco, CA)
• Catherine Herdlick (San Francisco, CA)
• Shih Chieh Huang (New York, NY)
• Lisa Jevbratt (Santa Barbara, CA)
• Jae Rhim Lee (Cambridge, MA)
• neuroTransmitter (Queens, NY)
• Richard Pell (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Stephanie Rothenberg (Buffalo, NY)
• Mark Shepard (Brooklyn, NY)
• Karolina Sobecka (Brooklyn, NY)
• Sam Van Aken (Portland, ME)

Innovative Literature[]

• Paul Beatty (New York, NY)
• Kenny Fries (Toronto, ON, Canada)
• Ben Marcus (New York, NY)
• Bernadette Mayer (East Nassau, NY)
• Rebecca Solnit (San Francisco, CA)
• Deb Olin Unferth (Lawrence, KS)

Performing Arts[]

• Byron Au Yong (Seattle, WA) and Aaron Jafferis (New Haven, CT)
• Victor D. Cartagena, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Violeta Luna, David Molina and Antigone Trimis (San Francisco, CA)
• Nora Chipaumire (Brooklyn, NY)
• Steve Cuiffo, (New York, NY) Trey Lyford (New York, NY) and Geoffrey Sobelle (Philadelphia, PA)
• Lisa D’amour (Brooklyn, NY) and Katie Pearl (Austin, TX)
• Chris M. Green (Brooklyn, NY)
• Miguel Gutierrez (Brooklyn, NY)
• Robert Farid Karimi (Minneapolis, MN)
• Zoe Keating and Jeffrey Rusch (Camp Meeker, CA)
• Heidi Latsky Dance (New York, NY)
• Young Jean Lee (Brooklyn, NY)
• Los Angeles Poverty Department (Los Angeles, CA)
• Taylor Mac (New York, NY)
• Barak Marshall (Los Angeles, CA), Tamir Muskat (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Margalit Oved (Los Angeles, CA)
• David Neumann and Richard Sylvarnes (Brooklyn, NY)
• Ken Nintzel (New York, NY)
• Tere O’Connor (New York, NY)
• Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts (Brooklyn, NY)
• Deke Weaver (Champaign, IL)

2008[]

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Film/Video[]

• Kenseth Armstead (Brooklyn, NY)
• Anita Chang (San Francisco, CA)
• Erin Cosgrove (Altadena, CA)
• Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman (Brooklyn, NY)
• Rodney Evans (Brooklyn, NY)
• Lynn Hershman Leeson (San Francisco, CA)
• Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (Brooklyn, NY)
• Brad Lichtenstein and Vernon Reid (Milwaukee, WI)
• Billy Luther (Los Angeles, CA)
• Tara Mateik (Brooklyn, NY)
• Cat Mazza (Troy, NY)
• Leighton Pierce (Iowa City, IA)
• Laura Poitras (New York, NY)
• Anayansi Prado (Los Angeles, CA)
• Jay Rosenblatt (San Francisco, CA)
• David Russo (Seattle, WA)
• Luke Savisky (Austin, TX)
• Cauleen Smith (Boston, MA)
• Danial Sousa (Providence, RI)
• Banker White and Zach Niles (San Francisco, CA)
• Julie Wyman (Berkeley, CA)

Visual Arts[]

• Sanford Biggers (Richmond, VA)
• Susan Brandt and Kristine Woods (Baltimore, MD)
• Kianga Ford (Boston, MA)
• Joseph Grigely (Chicago, IL)
• Wayne Hodge (New York, NY)
• Jennie C. Jones (Brooklyn, NY)
• Kalup Linzy (Brooklyn, NY)
• Naeem Mohaiemen (Dhaka, Bangladesh and New York, NY)
• Matthew Moore (Goodyear, AZ)
• Otabenga Jones & Associates (Houston, TX)
• Angela Reginato (Oakland, CA)
• Kaneem Smith (Houston, TX)
• Eve Sussman (Brooklyn, NY)
• SuttonBeresCuller (Seattle, WA)
• Mark Tribe (New York, NY)
• Trimpin (Seattle, WA)
• Lauren Woods (San Francisco, CA)
• Mario Ybarra, Jr. (Wilmington, CA)
• Bruce Yonemoto and Juli Carson (Los Angeles, CA)
• Emna Zghal and Michael Rakowitz (Grinnell, IA)

2006[]

Emerging Fields[]

• Cory Arcangel
• Luca Buvoli
• REDUX CALLSPACE
• Laura Carton
• Brody Condon
• Hassan Elahi
• MTAA + RSG
• Auriea Harvey (Tale of Tales)
• Kenjji & Kito Jumanne-Marshall
• Amelia Kirby, Donna Porterfield, & Nick Szuberla
• Brian Knep
• Golan Levin
• Jane Marsching
• Sheryl Oring
• Jakub Segen, Marek Walczak, & Martin Wattenberg

Digital Arts[]

• Paul Vanouse
• Stephen Vitiello
• Allison Wiese

Literature[]

• Jeffrey Allen
• Alan Gilbert
• Christian Hawkey
• Cole Swenson

Performing Arts[]

• Mason Bates & Anne Patterson
• Lisa Bielawa
• Michael Bryant, Grisha Coleman, Jesse Gilbert, John Oduroe, & Robert Peagler
• Rude Mechanicals
• Radiohole
• Danny Hoch
• Joan Jeanrenaud & Alessandro Moruzzi
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph
• Gulgun Kayim
• Locust
• Ledoh Ledoh
• Mickle Maher
• Sarah Michelson
• Bebe Miller
• David Rousseve
• Sophiline Shapiro
• Susan Simpson
• Tamango Van Cayseele
• Ricki Vincent
• Kristina Wong
• Nami Yamamoto

2005[]

Visual Arts[]

• Edgar Arceneaux
• Olga Koumoundouros and Rodney McMillan
• James Bidgood
• Max King Cap
• Bruce Chao
• Liz Cohen
• Nancy Davidson
• Peggy Diggs
• Jeffrey Gibson
• Pablo Helguera
• Carolyn Lathan-Stiefel
• Deborah Lawrence
• Annie Han & Daniel Mihalyo
• Mark Newport
• Ruben Ochoa
• Karyn Olivier
• Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves
• Artemio Rodriguez
• Joseph Schneider
• Kerry Skarbakka
• Noelle Tan

Video and Film[]

• Natalia Almada
• Usama Alshaibi
• Ina Archer
• Bill Daniel
• Paula Durette
• Edgar Endress & Lori Lee
• James Fotopoulos
• Jennifer Fox
• Jacqueline Goss
• Brent Green
• Christina Ibarra
• Braden King
• James Lyons
• Jake Mahaffy
• Peter Sillen
• Alex Stikich
• Naomi Uman
• Edin Velez
• Glenda Wharton
• Christopher Wilcha
• Eric Wolf

2002[]

Performing Arts[]

• Homer Avila
• Sujata Bhatt
• Maureen Brennan, Ellen Baird, Kerry Lowe, and Ashley Smith
• Ronald K. Brown
• Nick Cave
• Joanna Haigood and Wayne Campbell
• Shelley Hirsch
• Dan Hurlin
• Vijay Iyer and Michael Ladd
• John Leanos
• James Luna
• Kari Margolis
• Bob Massey
• Cynthia Oliver
• Daniel Roumain
• Rafael Sanchez
• Andrew Simonet
• Donna Uchizono
• Victoria Vazquez
• Richard Winberg
• Yasuko Yokoshi
• Pamela Z

Emerging Fields[]

• Steven Badgett
• Cindy Bernard
• Sawad Brooks
• Tana Hargest
• Kelly Heaton
• Miranda July
• Eduardo Kac
• Heidi Kumao
• Steven Kurtz
• Suzanne Lacy
• George Legrady
• Sharon Lockhart
• Jennifer McCoy
• Mark Napier
• Sabrina Raaf
• Marie Sester
• Eddo Stern
• Faith Wilding

2001[]

Media[]

• Steven Bognar                          
• Bill Brown
• Ellen Bruno
• Erica Cho                                  
• Ricardo Dominguez
• James Duesing  
• Kevin Everson        
• Vicki Funari
• Joe Gibbons
• Sam Green
• Vanalyne Green
• Rachel Mayeri
• Leslie McCleave
• Jon Moritsugu    
• Bill Morrison
• Suzan Pitt                
• Reynold Reynolds
• Erik Saks              
• Jeffrey Scher      
• Elizabeth Subrin
• Chel White                  
• David Wilson          
• Caveh Zahedi             
• Marina Zurkow

Visual Arts[]

• Chris Burnett, Michael Rees
• Gaye Chan                            
• Mel Chin
• Elena del Rivero
• Sam Easterson
• Hirokazu Kosaka
• Catherine Lord
• Jeannette Louie
• Mary Lucier
• Beverly McIver
• Kay Miller
• Franco Mondini-Ruiz
• William Pope.L
• Dread Scott
• Paul Shambroom
• Arthur Simms
• Bentley Spang
• Christine Tarkowski
• Christine Yamamoto

2000[]

Emerging Fields[]

• Betty Beaumont
• Natalie Bookchin
• Josely Carvalho
• Maya Sara Churi
• Patrick Clancy
• Alison Cornyn
• Leah Gilliam
• Jessica Irish
• Prema Murthy
• John Simon, Jr.
• Ray Thomas
• Helen Thorington

Media[]

• Peggy Ahwesh
• Craig Baldwin
• Roddy Bogawa
• Portia Cobb
• Adam Cohen
• Jem Cohen
• Todd Downing
• Sandi DuBowski
• Jeanne Finley
• Barbara Hammer
• Jon Jolles
• Lewis Klahr
• Chris Munch
• Spencer Nakasako
• Diane Nerwen
• Joanna Priestley
• Scott Saunders
• Philip Solomon
• T. Tran
• Ela Troyano

Performance[]

• Djola Branner
• Jane Comfort
• Fred Curchack
• Brian Freeman
• Janie Geiser
• Joe Goode
• David Hancock
• Rennie Harris
• Jon Jang
• John Jasperse
• Daniel Alexander Jones
• Lisa Kron
• Ralph Lemon
• Richard Maxwell
• Meredith Monk
• Jennifer Monson
• Tracie Morris
• Jarrad Powell
• Amelia Rudolph
• Carl Hancock Rux
• Elizabeth Streb
• Sekou Sundiata
• Basil Twist

Visual Arts[]

• Xenobia Bailey
• Conrad Bakker
• Erika Blumenfeld
• Tony Cokes
• Chris Doyle
• Matthew Geller
• Maria Elena Gonzalez
• Fred Holland
• Martha Jackson-Jarvis
• Wendy Jacob
• Shannon Kennedy
• Zoe Leonard
• Zhi Lin
• Jyung Park
• Alex Rivera
• Jason Salavon
• Joseph Scanlan
• Sue Schaffner
• Mary Ellen Strom
• Mel Ziegler

See also[]

• Creative Capital

References[]