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41 Contemporary Artists Awarded 2026 Creative Research Grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2026 Creative Research Grants

Christopher Cozier, installation view of Turbulence (Version 2) at the Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway, 2021. Photo by Markus Johansson.

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Christopher Cozier, installation view of Turbulence (Version 2) at the Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway, 2021. Photo by Markus Johansson.

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Four dancers in mid-movement. In the left corner, one dancer lays face down on the ground. In the center of the image, another dancer straddles their knees while they sway to their left side, opening their mouth and closing their eyes. Behind them is an ethereal white sparkle coming from a light, which also reflects onto the entire room in white and blue hues. Behind them, also in the center, are two more dancers who are standing up and holding each other’s shoulders with their heads touching. In the background are several squares covered in a green texture that look similar to moss. The floor may or may not be marble, but appears to be one that is cold to the touch.
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41 Contemporary Artists Awarded 2026 Creative Research Grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2026 Creative Research Grants

Ogemdi Ude, performance still from MAJOR at New York Live Arts, New York, NY, 2026. Pictured: Junyla Silmon, song tucker, Jailyn Phillips-Wiley, and Chanel Stone. Photo by Maria Baranova, courtesy of New York Live Arts.

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Ogemdi Ude, performance still from MAJOR at New York Live Arts, New York, NY, 2026. Pictured: Junyla Silmon, song tucker, Jailyn Phillips-Wiley, and Chanel Stone. Photo by Maria Baranova, courtesy of New York Live Arts.

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Olivia Block mid-performance. She is sitting down in front of a piano that she is playing with one hand while singing into a microphone that hangs in front of her sheet music. There is a table of electronic equipment with a red beverage in a plastic bottle laid out in front of her. Wires are plugged into and coming out of her gear. Behind Block are room dividers, panels, and a bit of a wall that is lit up with solid blue, sea green, and purple projections, as well as white dots and white amorphous shapes. She is wearing a black turtleneck with a gold necklace over it.
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41 Contemporary Artists Awarded 2026 Creative Research Grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2026 Creative Research Grants

Olivia Block, performance still from Before the Air Was Born at Taktlos Festival, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland, 2025. Photo by Michelle Ettlin.

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Olivia Block, performance still from Before the Air Was Born at Taktlos Festival, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland, 2025. Photo by Michelle Ettlin.

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Lai Yi Ohlsen and Pareena Lim performing, moving in a circle. They are both wearing costumes inspired by Eastern Asian performance traditions. Lai Yi Ohlsen is facing the audience is in light purple dress, while Pareena Lim, facing back stage, is in light yellow. Both of their hands are in the air to their sides, and they each have one foot in front of the other. Behind the duo is a white curtain that is just a bit short of reaching the ground, the pitch-black of back stage is visible from below. The floor is light purple, matching Lai’s dress.
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41 Contemporary Artists Awarded 2026 Creative Research Grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2026 Creative Research Grants

Benjamin Akio Kimitch, performance still from Tiger Hands at The Shed, New York, NY, 2022. Pictured: Lai Yi Ohlsen and Pareena Lim. Photo by Erin Baiano.

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Benjamin Akio Kimitch, performance still from Tiger Hands at The Shed, New York, NY, 2022. Pictured: Lai Yi Ohlsen and Pareena Lim. Photo by Erin Baiano.

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Lukas Avendaño mid-performance, lying down with her back on a stone table, arms to the side and eyes closed. Avendaño is naked, but covered from the waist down by a hospital linen, which matches the bare white brick wall in the background and the white lamp that hangs above the center of her body. White cloths are neatly stacked on the table along her body and head, which is decorated with a gold crown of thorns. There are also several trays and a small bouquet of white, purple, and red flowers beside her.
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41 Contemporary Artists Awarded 2026 Creative Research Grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2026 Creative Research Grants

Lukas Avendaño, performance still from Buscando a Bruno at Casa Nacional del Estudiante, Mexico City, Mexico, 2018. Photo by Mario Patiño.

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Lukas Avendaño, performance still from Buscando a Bruno at Casa Nacional del Estudiante, Mexico City, Mexico, 2018. Photo by Mario Patiño.

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Installation view of “Negotiated Difference,” a rhizomatic sculpture consisting of carved wood and 3D-printed filaments in wood, metal, and plastic, connected with various objects including balusters, pipes, and bowling pins. The sculpture spreads throughout the grey floor of a gallery room, which has white walls and a pipe grid.
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41 Contemporary Artists Awarded 2026 Creative Research Grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the 2026 Creative Research Grants

Shirley Tse, installation view of Negotiated Differences, shown as part of Stake and Holders, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 2020. Photo by Ringo Cheung.

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Shirley Tse, installation view of Negotiated Differences, shown as part of Stake and Holders, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 2020. Photo by Ringo Cheung.

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24 artists working in 5 disciplines

Black and white portrait of Maggie Cloud. She is sitting on a wooden ladder, smiling at the camera in jeans and a sleeveless fringe shirt. Maggie’s feet are bare, pointed down on the last step of the ladder and the floor. Behind her is a white backdrop.
Maggie Cloud
Viola Farber Award
Dance
Headshot of Onyx Ashanti in a studio, looking at the camera with their hands by their ears as they display their multi-colored exodermal mesh interface over the top half of their body. The interface begins at the top center of their head, going down their forehead to their nose, at which point it becomes symmetrical. It also rests on their cheeks, lips, beard, chest, forearms, and hands.
Onyx Ashanti
Grants to Artists
Music/Sound
Portrait of Edgar Garcia in Teotihuacan, an ancient Mesoamerican city in Mexico. Garcia is wearing a faded light blue button down shirt, a tan wide brimmed hat, and tortoise eyeglasses. In the background is a row of rectangular stone pillars carved with what appears to be glyphs and symbols representing the cosmos and nature. Garcia is captured in quarter profile looking outwards.
Edgar Garcia
Grants to Artists
Poetry
Headshot of Olivia Block looking directly at the camera. She is wearing a black shirt and a black vest. Behind her is dark fig color backdrop with wrinkles.
Olivia Block
Alvin Lucier Award for Music
Music/Sound
Portrait of Timmy Straw. Straw is sitting down and looking towards the camera, wearing an unzipped grey collared jacket with a black shirt and a thin gold chain. They are in front of a greenish brown door. At the top and bottom of the portrait there is a pinkish grey border containing white text. The top reads
Timmy Straw
Grants to Artists
Poetry
Headshot of Denise Newman in the woods. Newman is smiling at the camera, wearing a bright blue bucket hat, and a denim collared t-shirt over a black turtleneck. Her necklace hangs over her clothing. The sun is shining on the greenery and trees behind her.
Denise Newman
Grants to Artists
Poetry
Maayan Tsadka mid-performance. She is wearing a black sweater, glasses, and her hair pulled up. In one hand, Tsadka is holding a couple of dried plants close to a microphone on a mic stand. The mic is pointing downwards and is very close to one of the dried plants. In the other hand, she is holding a tuning fork close. Tsadka is looking intensely at the close mic’d plant and in the foreground of the photo blurred leaves are visible. The background, also blurry, is softly lit by a purple light.
Maayan Tsadka
Grants to Artists
Music/Sound
Headshot of Lukas Avendaño. Avendaño looks at the camera, her hair is covering her left eye and folded into various parts of the beaded turquoise necklace wrapped around her neck in multiple layers. She is wearing a dangling silver earring in her right ear and is shirtless. There is a black backdrop behind Avendaño.
Lukas Avendaño
Grants to Artists
Performance Art/Theater

Since 1963, FCA has awarded over $31.5 million to artists and arts organizations through more than 8,000 grants

Since 1963, FCA has awarded over $31.5 million to artists and arts organizations through more than 8,000 grants

Suneil Sanzigiri, installation view of An Impossible Address at The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2025.

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FCA: Artists for Artists

In 1962 Jasper Johns, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and other painters and sculptors came together to help Merce Cunningham and his dance company finance a proposed season on Broadway by arranging for a sale of their artworks. Their fund-raising efforts were so successful that there was money to spare, and when they asked Cunningham what he thought they should do with it, he replied, “We’re all in the same boat—why don’t you give it to other performing artists?” Thus in 1963 Jasper Johns and John Cage established the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts based on the belief that visual artists—painters and sculptors—were sufficiently concerned about the state of the performance arts—dance, theater, and music—enough so to donate artwork to benefit performing artists. 

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2014 Grants to Artists | Poetry

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The Accordion Player #1, Donald Baechler, 1995
Donald Baechler
The Accordion Player #1
Untitled, 1988, Keith Haring, Date unknown
Keith Haring
"Untitled, 1988"
Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces), Jasper Johns, 1968
Jasper Johns
"Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Target with Four Faces)"
A semi transparent peach-colored asymmetrical rectangle shape with an oval cut-out superimposed atop gray brushstrokes resembling a checkerboard weave pattern.
Sam Moyer
Untitled

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