Creative Capital announces the recipients of the 2024 “Wild Futures” art awards.
Portrait of Dyani White Hawk. Courtesy of artist.
Creative Capital, an organization dedicated to funding innovative artworks and promoting diversity, has announced the recipients of its 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Award. This year, the organization selected 50 projects from 54 artists, 80% of whom are artists of color.
Each winner will receive up to $50,000 in direct project funding, advisory services, mentorship, and community-building opportunities.
Portrait of Jes Fan. Courtesy of artist.
Among the awardees, 20% were Native or Indigenous artists, including Dyani White Hawk—a recent recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant.” She was awarded the prize for her project, “Love Language: see, honor, nurture, celebrate,” an immersive exhibition at the Walker Art Center. White Hawk’s work, deeply rooted in her Sičáŋǧu Lakota heritage, aims to create a nurturing space that acknowledges the Dakota homelands on which the museum stands.
Brooklyn-based artist Jes Fan was awarded for “Soy Skin,” combining performance art, sculpture, and video art to delve into the intersections of biology and identity. Another artist from New York, Chase Hall, presents “Memorial to African American Surfing History and Future,” a tribute to California’s surfers of African American and Latino descent. Hall’s 10-foot bronze sculpture is set for installation at Santa Monica’s Bay Street Beach.
Portrait of Chase Hall by Clement Pascal. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery.
Renowned feminist artist Mary Kelly was selected for “Addendum,” a collage-based project reflecting on late-life experiences that builds on her famous 1970s work Post-Partum Document that explored the minutiae of the mother-child relationship after birth. Other notable names include Mexican artist Aliza Nisenbaum, whose paintings focus on the daily lives of factory workers in northern Mexico and multimedia artist Rachel Rossin.
Since its inception in 1999, Creative Capital has helped fund more than 900 artists’ projects. Some winners from 2023, which focused on performing arts, technology, and literature, include Yvonne Meier, Indira Allegra, and Kimi Maeda.
Still from “Rachel Rossin’s Digital Homes,” 2021. © Art21, Inc. 2021. Courtesy of Creative Capital.
The full list of award winners in visual arts can be found below:
- Jordan Ann Craig, Brigit Johnson
- Emily Barker
- Andrea Carlson
- Nani Chacon
- Christy Chan
- william cordova
- Sofía Córdova
- Russell Craig
- Azza El Siddique
- Jes Fan
- Avram Finkelstein
- Beatrice Glow
- J Jan Groeneboer
- Chase Hall
- Nona Hendryx, Mickalene Thomas
- Chaz John
- Mary Kelly
- Gavin Kroeber
- Erica Lord
- Chico MacMurtrie
- Jackie Milad
- Meleko Mokgosi
- Aliza Nisenbaum
- Jonathan Rajewski, Kyle Daniel-Bey
- Rachel Rossin
- Charisse Pearlina Weston
- Dyani White Hawk
- Şerife (Sherry) Wong
And the award winners in film and moving image are as follows:
- Carmen Amengual
- Ephraim Asili
- Mamadou Dia
- Nazlı Dinçel
- Chris Eyre
- Billy Gerard Frank
- Kelly Gallagher
- Leah Gipson, Dwayne Young
- Elisa Harkins
- Marnie Ellen Hertzler
- Jason Fitzroy Jeffers
- Miatta Kawinzi
- Sofian Khan
- A.S.M. Kobayashi
- Loira Limbal
- Tchaiko Omawale
- Lourdes Portillo
- Tiare Ribeaux
- Anocha Suwichakornpong
- Colleen Thurston
- Thanh Tran
- TRINH T. Minh-ha
Correction: This article featured an out-of-date title and description of Chase Hall’s project. The text has been updated.