THE Teiger Foundation recently announced that it has awarded a total of $4.2 million to support “conservative-led projects, coalitions, and climate action in contemporary art.” Established in 2008, the Teiger Foundation expanded its grantmaking activities following the posthumous sale of the collection of its benefactor, American management consultant and art collector David Teiger (1929 – 2014); it is now one of the largest such organizations, focused on supporting the work of curators. “The grants we make in our fiscal year 2023 reflect the foundation’s exciting trajectory,” the foundation’s executive director, Larissa Harris, said in a statement, “one of the increasingly ambitious activities supporting projects and coalitions of conservatives that push the boundaries”.
Of the $4.2 million total, $3.3 million has been awarded to thirty-nine recipients under the Foundation’s first call for proposals, a new program designed to “fill critical gaps in funding.” curators of contemporary art”. These grants will fund a variety of major new exhibitions, curatorial research, multi-year programming for smaller-scale organizations, and the presentation and community integration of traveling shows. Among the recipients are The Kitchen’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Legacy Russell, who will curate the upcoming exhibition “Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art”; Olivian Cha, curator and collections manager at the Corita Art Center, who will be digitizing the archives of Sister Corita Kent; artist, curator and educator Drew Kahu’āina Broderick, who, in partnership with the Pu’uhonua Society in Honolulu, will undertake research for an exhibition inviting artists to reconsider a 19th-century monument to Captain Cook on the island from Hawaii; and St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art Associate Curator Misa Jefferies, who in addition to bringing the Walker Art Center’s “Paul Chan: Breathers” to her institution, will develop a new program where each new voter who registers with the museum will receive a free copy by Chan. The remaining $900,000 has been allocated for the continued support of past grantees, including the Los Angeles Visual Art Coalition (LAVA), Artists Commit, Art into Acres, Art + Climate Action, and Ki Culture, whose work focuses on ” advancing climate action and coalition building through the visual arts.
A full list of 2023 Teiger Foundation grants is below.
Single Exhibition Grants
Alex Klein, contemporary Austin
“Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses”
Alexis Lowry, Dia Art Foundation
Delcy Morelos
Dan Leers, Carnegie Museum of Art
“Broadening the lens: photography, ecology and contemporary landscape”
Diya Vij, Creative Time
“New Red Order: The World is Unfair”
Howie Chen, Jayne Cole, christina ong, 80 Washington Square East, NYU
“Legacies: The Asian American Art Movement on the East Coast (1969-2001)”
Kathleen Goncharov, Boca Raton Art Museum
“Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art”
Kelly Kivland, Wexner Center for the Arts
“Tanya Lukin Linklater”
Lauren Haynes, Caitlin Julia Rubin, Queens Museum
“Lyle Ashton Harris: Our First and Last Love”
Legacy Russell, the kitchen
“Code Switch: Distributing Darkness, Reprogramming Internet Art”
Ozi Uduma, Paul M. Farber, University of Michigan Museum of Art
“Please”
Stefanie Hessler, Swiss Institute
“Spore”
Tina Kukielski, Jurrell Lewis, Art21
Art in the 21st century (Seasons 11 and 12)
Vic Brooks, Nida Ghouse, EMPAC—Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Moving Center”
Three-Year Programming Grants
Andrea Andersson, Jordan Amirkhani, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought
Arnaldo Rodríguez-Bagué with Beta-Local, Beta-Local
Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, Xandra Eden, DiverseWorks
Dan Byers, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Gean Moreno, Natalia Zuluaga, [NAME] Works
Kalaija Mallery, The light
Makayla Bailey, Michael Connor, Celine Wong Katzman, Rhizome
Mary V. Bordeaux, racing magpie
Olivian Cha, Corita Art Center Sohrab Mohebbi, Kyle Dancewicz, SculptureCenter
Sophia Cosmadopoulous, Anna Schechter, Summertime Gallery
Tempestt Hazel, Kate Hadley Toftness, Sixty Inches From Center
Tizziana Baldenebro, SPACES
Fellowship
Abby Chen, Vicky Do, Việt Lê, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, Museum of Asian Arts
Amara Antilla, Contemporary Art Center
Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Puʻuhonua Society
Grace Deveney, Art Institute of Chicago
Jessamine Batario, Colby College Museum of Art
Lian Ladia, 500 Capp St.
Sarah Rifky, Noah Simblist, Dominic Asmall Willsdon, Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Contemporary Art
Grants for traveling exhibitions
Jamillah James, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
“Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022”
Jill Dawsey, Lauren Schell Dickens, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
“Kelly Akashi: Formations”
Misa Jeffereis, Pavel S. Pyś, Matthew Villar Miranda, Saint-Louis Museum of Contemporary Art
“Paul Chan: Respirators”
Naine Terena, Claudia Mattos Avolese, Dina Deitsch, Thierry Fonseca de Freitas, Jr., Tufts University Art Galleries “Véxoa: We Know”
Patricia Lee Daigle, Christine Y. Kim, Dr. Liz Andrews, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
“Black American Portraits”
Sheila Bergman, Curlee R. Holton, Heather Sincavage, UCR ARTS, The David C. Driskell Center, Sordoni Art Gallery
“David C. Driskell and his friends: a collaboration between creativity and friendship”
Additional grants
Art + Climate Action, San Francisco, CA
Art in Acres, California, United States
Artists’ Commitment, New York, NY
Culture Ki, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA), Los Angeles, CA
