The Guggenheim Basis has named Brooklyn-based American Artist, textile artist and educator Sonya Clark, and interdisciplinary artist Allison Janae Hamilton as members of their a hundred and first class of Guggenheim Fellows, together with 27 different tremendous artists. The total cohort contains 223 artists, students, and scientists throughout 55 disciplines. Every Fellow will obtain a monetary stipend that they will put in direction of pursuing their work in “the freest attainable circumstances,” in keeping with a press assertion.
“Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is consultant of the world’s finest thinkers, innovators, and creators in artwork, science, and scholarship,” mentioned Guggenheim Basis president and poet Edward Hirsch in a press assertion. “Because the Basis enters its second century and appears to the long run, I really feel assured that this new class of 223 people will do daring and galvanizing work, undaunted by the challenges forward. We’re honored to help their visionary contributions.”
This yr’s class was chosen in a rigorous, peer-reviewed course of that featured 5,000 candidates. They have been chosen primarily based on each their previous accomplishments and their promise. The 2026 Fellows hail from 10 totally different international locations, and practically one third aren’t affiliated with a college. At a second when sharp funding cuts are threatening creativity and inventive expression, purposes within the artistic arts and humanities are up by 50% from final yr.
The Guggenheim Basis has supported visible artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, architects, musicians, choreographers, and different artistic practitioners since its founding in 1925. Earlier artists who’ve been named as Guggenheim Fellows embrace painter and sculptor Louise Bourgeois, painter Milton Avery, and photographer Ansel Adams.
The total checklist of 2026 Guggenheim Fellows within the tremendous arts is beneath:
- John Ahearn
- American Artist
- Fia Backström
- Elena Bajo
- Amy Bessone
- Raymond Boisjoly
- Sonya Clark
- Kota Ezawa
- Jude Griebel
- Iva Gueorguieva
- Karl Haendel
- Fariba Hajamadi
- Allison Janae Hamilton
- LaMont Hamilton
- James Hoff
- Julia M. Kunin
- Monica Majoli
- Aspen Mays
- Leeza Meksin
- John Miller
- Marina Rosenfeld
- Michael Ross
- Francis Ruyter
- Kate Shepherd
- Claire Sherman
- Kenneth Tam
- Alina Tenser
- Juana Valdes
- Jennifer West
- Anne Wilson
