Portrait of Antonietta Grassi by Emma Hason
The 2024 list of Guggenheim Fellows has been announced and several Canadians are on the list. The Fellows working in the arts and visual arts include:
Fine Arts: Antonietta Grassi, artist and faculty, Department of Visual Arts, Dawson College, Montreal. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the Université du Québec in Montréal. Her work is in public, corporate and private collections including the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian Embassies in Dubai and in Tunisia and the Conseil des Arts et lettres du Québec. She is represented by the Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Montreal.
Fine Arts Research: Laura U. Marks, Grant Strate University Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Marks programs experimental media around the world, as well as works on media art and philosophy and on small-footprint media.
General Non-Fiction: Christina Sharpe, writer and professor, Canada Research Chair, Department of Humanities, York University, Toronto. With research interests that include Black Diaspora visual cultures, literature and theory, Black Queer studies and feminist theory, Sharpe has written for myriad artist catalogues and journals, including Frieze, The Funambulist and Paris Review. Her books include Ordinary Notes, which The New York Times named a Best Book of the Year in 2023.
Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Carl Knappett, Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair of Aegean Prehistory, University of Toronto. Knappett specializes in the Aegean Bronze Age and, in particular, Minoan Crete. His current research includes creativity in Minoan Art.
Choreography: Victor Quijada, choreographer, Montréal. A world-renowned hip-hip and breakdancer who worked with Tharp! in New York City as well as Montreal’s Les Grands Ballets canadiens. In 2002, he founded RUBBERBAND. He has choreographed music videos including Elton John’s Blue Wonderful and Man I Used to Be by k-os.
Film, Video and New Media Studies: Jonathan Sterne is the James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Nicholas Galanin, an American Tlingit/Unangax̂ multidisciplinary artist and the 2012 University of Victoria Audain Professor in Contemporary Arts of the Pacific Northwest, was also named to this year’s list. Galanin’s work is in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.
Each new Fellow will receive a cash grant. The amounts of grants vary, depending on the project but the idea behind it is "to provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible," according to the foundation.
For a complete list of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows, including the full list of Canadians, click here.
This year, Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded to 188 people chosen from close to 3,000 applicants. The Fellowships were created in 1925 by Simon Guggenheim.
“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges,” said Edward Hirsch, poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, in the news release.
“The Guggenheim Fellowship is a life-changing recognition. It’s a celebrated investment into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, scholars, scientists, writers and other cultural visionaries who are meeting these challenges head-on and generating new possibilities and pathways across the broader culture as they do so.”
Source: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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