The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has revealed that it will award grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to ninety-three artists and nonprofit organizations around the world. The recipients represent fifteen countries and fourteen states and territories. The grants are intended to provide artists and organizations with professional support, enabling them to create new work, purchase equipment, rent a studio, prepare and mount exhibitions, and attend residencies. Funds can also be used to offset living expenses.
The 2022-2023 Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award was presented this year to Oakland, Calif.-based painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman Oliver Lee Jackson. The St. Louis native is honored for his innovative work, which oscillates between figuration and abstraction, as well as for his support of African-American artists over his six-decade career. Jackson has taught Pan-African art, philosophy, and humanities at St. Louis Community College, Southern Illinois University, Washington University in St. Louis, Oberlin College, and California State University, Sacramento.
Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander was announced earlier this year as the recipient of the 2023 Pollock Prize for Creativity for her multimedia exhibition “Havah…for Breathe, Air, Life.” Exploring issues of women and justice, the exhibit opened last spring in New York’s Madison Square Park before heading to Houston in June. Brooklyn-based artist María Elena González has received both a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship and the Brian Wall Foundation Fellowship for Sculptors. The $25,000 prize recognizes an outstanding sculptor and is awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
The organization provides funding each year to organizations that engage directly with artists. Among this year’s recipients are New York’s ArtTable, benefiting its Artist Talk series; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, in support of PKF Fellow Stanley Whitney’s retrospective monograph; Laguarres, Villa Bergerie in Spain, for the expenses of the residency program; and the Bronx, Wave Hill in New York, in support of artists’ residency and exhibition costs.
The full list of 2022-2023 recipients is below.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2022–23 Fellow Artists
Isabelle Aguera, Montreuil, France
Ian Andrews, Birmingham, England
Miguel Arzabe, Oakland, CA
Rogelio Baez Vega, San Juan, PR
Joan Bankemper, New York
Yevgeniya Baras, Long Island City, NY
Jagoda Bednarsky, Berlin
Anna-Sophie Berger, Brooklyn, NY
Laura Bielau, Berlin
Vicente Blanco, Lugo, Spain
Renee Bouchard, Bennington, Vermont
Sarah Cale, Brussels
Josely Carvalho, Hoboken, New Jersey
Sydney Cash, Marlboro, NY
Sofia Clausse, London
Armen Daneghyan, Yerevan, Armenia
Josh Dorman, New York
Ben Durham, Richmond, Virginia
Karina El Azem, Buenos Aires
Rehab El Sadek, Austin
Sarah Faux, Brooklyn, NY
Alanna Fields, Upper Marlboro, MD
Avram Finkelstein, Brooklyn, New York
Emmanuela Fiorelli, Rome
Linda Fleming, Benicia, CA
Farima Fooladi, Spring, TX
Bernhard Fuchs, Dusseldorf
Bastien Gehbauer, Berlin
Ina Gerken, Dusseldorf
Nicola Ginzel, Brooklyn, NY
Maria Elena Gonzalez, Brooklyn, NY
Jesus Hdez-Güero, Madrid
Alex Heilbron, Los Angeles
Mary Henderson, Philadelphia
Hong Hong, Beverly, MA
Patricia Hurl, Roscrea, Ireland
Oliver Lee Jackson, Oakland, CA
Bethany Johnson, Austin
Yongjae Kim, Brooklyn, NY
Felix Kultau, Berlin
Elvira Lantenhammer, Triefenstein, Germany
Georges Le Chevallier, Garner, North Carolina
Kakyoung Lee, Brooklyn, NY
Miguel Angel Madrigal, Morelos, Mexico
Junko Maruyama, Yokosuka, Japan
Christina Massey, Brooklyn, New York
Miroslaw Maszlanko, Rychliki, Poland
Rita McBride, Los Alamos, CA
Gideon Mendel, London
Jeffrey Meris, New York
Mark Milroy, Brooklyn, NY
Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn, New York
Bidemi Oloyede, Toronto
Ingrid OlsonChicago
Steve Parker Austin
Aviva Rahmani, Vinalhaven, ME
Rachel Rotenberg, Tekoa, Israel
Jayanta Roy, Kolkata
Frauke Schlitz, Stuttgart
Davide Sgambaro, Torino
Dee Shapiro, Great Neck, NY
Shahzia Sikander, New York
Cary Smith, Farmington, Connecticut
Tracey Snelling, Berlin
Cammie Staros, Los Angeles
Kazumi Tanaka, Beacon, NY
Yukiko Terada, Berlin
Cheryl Ann Thomas, Ventura, CA
Francine Tint, New York
Sara VanDerBeek, Brooklyn, NY
Madhu Venugopalan, Ernakulam, India
Patrick Waterhouse, London
Chuck Webster, Ridgewood, NY
Birgitta Weimer, Gummersbach, Germany
Ellen Wetmore, Groton, MA
Richard C. Whitten, Cranston, RI
Kevin Wixted, New York
Ralf Ziervogel, New York
Matthias Zinn, Berlin
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Organization 2022-2023
ArtTable, New York: support for its Artist Talk series
Artadia, Brooklyn, NY: funding for an artist grant
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY: support for the Artist in Marketplace program
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY: support for the PKF Monograph Grantee Stanley Whitney Retrospective support
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA: Residency Program Support
MacDowell, New York: support for its residency program
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York: funding online resources for artists
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY: funding for the In Practice program
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY: Program Support Funding
Villa Bergerie, Laguarres, Spain: financing of the residency program
Wave Hill, Bronx, NY: support for its artist residency and exhibition program
Whitechapel Gallery, London: financing of the exhibition “Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–70”
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Residency Program Funding
