Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Learn more about all of our individual awards & fellowship winners here. Recipients listed include winners of the Art of the Spanish Americas Awards, Art Writing Awards in Digital Arts, as well as non-profit organizations that received grants to sponsor awards programs for individuals.

Chicago Artist Coalition ENVISION Grant

Launched in 2020, the new ENVISION Grant program is an unrestricted award opportunity for Chicago-based new media artists making time-based work in the fields of digital, electronic, computer, internet, virtual reality, and ...

Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Jennifer Cohen, 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellow

Jennifer Cohen is the Thoma Foundation’s inaugural Fellow for the 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellowship. The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation Research Fellowship in Twentieth-Century Abstract Painting will provide an ...

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Becky Bevins, 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellow

Becky Bevins is the Thoma Foundation’s 2017 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellow. Read Bevins’ abstract below: “1960s critics writing about Post Painterly abstraction often discussed it in terms of feeling or emotion. ...

Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients

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Joanne McNeil, Emerging Digital Arts Writer

Joanne McNeil received the $15,000 award for an emerging arts writer in the U.S. who demonstrates great potential in writing in the digital arts. Joanne McNeil is a New York based writer ...

Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients

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Jon Ippolito, Established Digital Arts Writer

Jon Ippolito received the $30,000 award for an established arts writer in the U.S. who has made significant contributions to writing in the digital arts. Jon Ippolito is Professor of New Media ...

Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients

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Nora Khan, Emerging Digital Arts Writer

Nora Khan received the $20,000 award ($15,000 award plus the opportunity for a $5,000 project grant) for an emerging arts writer in the U.S. who demonstrates great promise in writing about digital art. Nora ...

Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients

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Christiane Paul, Established Digital Arts Writer

Christiane Paul received the $40,000 award ($30,000 award plus the opportunity for a $10,000 project grant) for an established arts writer in the U.S. who has made significant contributions to writing about digital art. Christiane ...

Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients

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Dawn Chan, Emerging Digital Arts Writer

With an early background in computer vision and artificial intelligence research, Dawn Chan uses art criticism to confront the identity politics embodied in digital art. Underlying Chan’s work is the understanding that ...

Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients

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Legacy Russell, Emerging Digital Arts Writer

Emerging writer who advocates black excellence in digital art Legacy Russell is a writer and curator. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio ...

Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients

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McKenzie Wark, Established Digital Arts Writer

Established writer who challenges the value systems of internet culture McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born media theorist who teaches at The New School in New York City. Among their books are A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard, ...

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