The Creative Capital Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual grant awards, worth $2.45 million, awarded to 55 artists and collectives for 49 individual projects. Each grant provides $50,000 in unrestricted project funding, in addition to multi-year professional development and community building opportunities.
Founded in 1999, Creative Capital deliberately drills “risky, underinvested artists‘who work in the fields of visual and performing arts, architecture and design, film and literature to facilitate socially engaged and culturally meaningful projects. Harmony Holiday, Rashaad Newsome, Morehshin Allahyari, Susan Chen and Ilana Savdie are among the winners selected from a pool of more than 5,600 applicants.
The foundation outlined in a press release that 75% of the 2,025 recipients are artists of color, 56% identify as women and 18% identify as gender non-conforming, transgender or non-binary. Artists with disabilities make up 11% of the winners’ cohort. The recipients range from 29 to 72 years old, with artists representing 18 US states and 29 cities in total – including Berlin, Germany and Demorestville, Canada.
Among the beneficiaries, 14 are visual artists, 15 work in the performing arts, 12 in the film and moving image sector, three were awarded for projects in the field of technology and five received grants for literary projects.
“From a landscape opera that tells ancestral stories about the environment in the Jurassic Canyons in southern Colorado, to an experimental documentary about migration and forensics on the South Texas border, to a project that transforms a plantation in Louisiana into a place of reckoning: these 55 visionary Artist Proposals boldly push form and ideas forward,” said Angela Mattox, Director of Artist Initiatives at Creative Capital, in a press statement.
The details of each recipient and their project are available here. A list of each beneficiary and its category award is attached below.
Recipients of the Creative Capital Awards 2025
Visual arts
Kathy Aoki
Santa Clara, California
Koons ruins Atlas
Painting and graphics
Susan Chen
Long Island City, New York
Chinatown Girl Scouts: Past and Present
Painting and graphics
Jen de los Reyes and Oscar Rene Cornejo
Ithaca, New York and Chicago, Illinois
COUNTRY
Ecological art, social practice
Katie Grinnan
Los Angeles, California
The safe
Ecological art, sculpture, video art
Vishal Jugdeo
Los Angeles, California
Throw a stone, feel a flame
Installation, Socially involved visual arts, Video art
Kameron Neal
Brooklyn, New York
What year is it?
Installation, video art
Samantha Nye
Philadelphia, PA
Possible pleasures
Installation, performance art, video art
Jared Owens
New York, New York
Memory of Attica: the optics of the uprising
Painting and graphics, sculpture, social practice
Steve Parker
Austin, Texas
HOUSTON IS SINKING
Public art, sculpture, sound art
Julia Phillips
Chicago, Ill
Pentasomnia
Installation, sculpture, video art
Lee Pivnik
Miami, FL
The living room: a symbiotic home
Architecture and design, ecological art, sculpture
Ilana Savdie
Brooklyn, New York
Festejeros
Painting and printmaking, installation, video art
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Richmond, Va
There the eyes looked
Architecture and design, ecological art, public art
Christine Wong Yap
Daly City, California
Bay windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花
Craft, social practice, socially committed visual arts
Technology
Morehshin Allahyari
Berkley, California
The Remaining Signs of Future Ages
Digital media, socially engaged technology
Shayla Blatchford
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Anti-uranium mapping project
Data visualization, digital media, socially engaged technology
Alice Bucknell
Los Angeles, California
Earth engine
Data visualization, digital media, games
Performing arts
Thana Alexa
Jackson Heights, New York
Resonance
Jazz, music, socially involved performance
Dahlak Brathwaite and Christopher Marianetti
Ridgewood, New York, and Jackson Heights, New York
COMMERCIAL
Multimedia performance, music, theater
Ash fur
Boston, MA
ANIMAL [the underground]
Music, socially involved performance, opera
Susie Ibarra
Berlin, Germany
CAN
Multimedia performance, music, opera
yuniya edi kwon and holland andrews
Brooklyn, New York
How does it feel to watch nothing
Multimedia performance, music, opera
Kate Ladenheim
Los Angeles, California
Signing audience
Dance, multimedia performance
Leilehua Lanzilotti
Honolulu, Hawaii
Lili’u
Opera
Damon locks
Chicago, Ill
Live from CPS
Dance, music, socially involved performance
Rashad Newsome
Oakland, California
I come as one, but stand as a thousand
Dance, multimedia performance, music
Paola Prestini
Brooklyn, New York
Sensorium Ex
Music, Opera, Socially involved performance
Ashwini Ramaswamy, Aparna Ramaswamy and Ranee Ramaswamy Minneapolis, Minnesota, and La Cañada Flintridge, California
The Liminal Museum
Dance, multimedia performance, socially committed performance
Zane Rodulfo
Saint Albans, New York
SHOUT!
Jazz, multimedia performance, socially committed performance
Marike Spalk
Los Angeles, California
SHOW FULL HISTORY
Multimedia performance, theatre
Sister Sylvester
New York, New York
Ghost genes
Multimedia performance
Takahiro Yamamoto
Portland, Ore
Hollow center
Dance, multimedia performance
Film/moving image
Sophia Nahli Allison
Los Angeles, California
No kisses like yours
Experimental film, narrative film
Amber Bemak
Dallas, Texas
Cosmic elk and grizzly bears Ville
Documentary film, experimental film
Lori Felker
Chicago, Ill
Patient
Narrative film
Ash Goh Hua
Woodhaven, New York
Confinement (坐月)
Narrative film
Juan Pablo Gonzalez
Glendale, California
The measure of time
Documentary film
Darol Olu Kae
Los Angeles, California
Without a song
Narrative film
Angelo Madsen
Burlington, Vermont
OUT OF ME INTO YOU
Documentary film, narrative film, experimental film
Dolissa Medina
Brownsville, Texas
A light for ambiguous loss
Documentary film, animation, experimental film
Emily Mkrtichian and Kamee Abrahamian
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Demorestville, Ontario, Canada
Portals
Narrative film
Clyde Petersen
Anacortes, Washington
Our Forbidden Land
Animation
Tshay
Philadelphia, PA
Tell me when you get home.
Animation, narrative film
Janelle VanderKelen
Knoxville, Tenn
The Golden Thread
Animation, experimental film
Literature
Thi Bui
New Orleans, Louisiana
NOWHERE
Graphic novel
Harmony holiday
Los Angeles, California
After the end of the world
Literary non-fiction, poetry, socially engaged literature
Jonah Mixon-Webster
Flint, Mich
The hauntology of slavery
Literary non-fiction, poetry, socially engaged literature
Aaron Robertson
Brooklyn, New York
A special ritual
Literary fiction, socially engaged literature
Divya Victor
East Lansing, Michigan
Family
Literary non-fiction
