Open Call 2025
Required Materials:
Resume in PDF format
Saved as “lastname_firstname_Resume” (e.g., Jane_Doe_Resume). Include details of your artistic experience and educational background.
Artist Statement (250 Words Max)
A succinct overview of your artistic practice. This statement should introduce the core ideas, themes, and methodologies that characterize your work. Discuss how and why you create, emphasizing the concepts and inspirations pertinent to the samples you are submitting.
Cultural Statement (Optional, 250 words max)
This supplemental statement allows you to elaborate on how your work is connected to a specific cultural practice, tradition, or community. You may also share how your artistic endeavors are influenced by your culturally-specific lived experiences.
Portfolio
5-8 high-resolution images of your recent work completed within the past TWO years. We encourage the inclusion of pieces that have not been previously exhibited.
Important Guidelines:
- Exclusions: Do not submit works that have received other prizes or fellowships.
- Image Format: All images must be in JPEG format, with a maximum file size of 3MB or 1500 pixels in any dimension.
- Video Works: For video submissions, provide a document with a link to a video no longer than 5 minutes, along with 4 accompanying images.
- Please ensure that your name does not appear in the title of your images or video works.
- Please include a list of your works in PDF that provides the title, date, medium, and dimensions (or video duration for video works) for each piece.Project Proposal (500 words max)
Please provide a detailed outline of a specific project you plan to develop if awarded funding. Your proposal should include the project's concept, objectives, anticipated timeline, and expected outcomes.
TWO exceptional artists will be chosen for this award and each artist will receive a one-time grant of $3,000. The selected artists will automatically become members of the foundation, with their artworks prominently featured on the foundation's website, as well as across various marketing channels and printed materials.
Grantees' Responsibilities
— Grantees must submit project reports on time as specified in their proposals. The foundation reserves the right to revoke the grant if reporting requirements are not met.
— Grantees are required to publicly acknowledge the foundation's financial support and grant permission for the foundation to share information about the project's achievements and impact in promotional materials and communications.
No application fee required.
Application deadline is 11:59 PM EDT on August 15, 2025. No applications will be accepted after this date.
Results are expected to be announced by September 15, 2025, and only awarded artists will receive notifications via email. We appreciate your understanding and ask that you refrain from contacting the office before this date or if you do not receive a notification by then. Thank you!
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Open to artists aged 25 and older, regardless of their background or discipline.
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Applications are reviewed over the course of two phases:
Phase 1: The jury will conduct an independent review of assigned applications.
Phase 2: The jury will convene to collectively discuss and finalize the selection of award recipients from the applications that advance to this stage.
The selection will be conducted by an independent jury to ensure fairness and integrity in the award process. The jury will assess applications based on the following criteria:
Artistic Merit:
Applications demonstrating excellence through strong submitted work will highlight creativity, technical skill, and overall artistic vision.
Clarity and Cohesiveness
A competitive application will present clear and compelling statements that provide insights into the artist’s practice and motivations, complementing the submitted work.
Originality and Innovation:
Applications should showcase innovative methods and concepts that distinguish their work within the discipline, including the quality of execution and the impact of the overall presentation.
2025 Selection Committee
David Max Horowitz
David Max Horowitz joined the curatorial staff in 2015 and specializes in postwar art and the histories and legacies of abstraction. He was the curator of Jean Dubuffet: Ardent Celebration (Guggenheim Bilbao, 2022) and Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction (2019–21), as well as the co-curator of R. H. Quaytman + ×, Chapter 34 (2018–19). He served on the curatorial teams for Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future(2018– 19), Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi (2017–21), Agnes Martin (2016–17), and Guggenheim Collection: Early Modernism (2016–2017).
Horowitz’s writing has been featured in the catalogues Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century (2025), Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 (2024), Hilma af Klint (2024), Alex Katz: Gathering (2022), Joan Mitchell (2021), and Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (2018), as well as in the revised edition of Guggenheim Museum Collection: A to Z (2019). He works closely on the stewardship of the collection and is one of the organizing curators for the Young Collectors Council.
Nathalie Anglès
Nathalie Anglès is the Executive Director and co-founder of Residency Unlimited (RU). Having studied history and political science as an undergraduate, Anglès was selected for the prestigious year-long École du MAGASIN curatorial independent studies program affiliated to Le MAGASIN, Centre National d'Art Contemporain in Grenoble (France).
Before founding Residency Unlimited in 2009, Anglès worked in a wide range of curatorial and administrative capacities in institutions including Sotheby's London, Impressionist and Modern art department; in Paris at The American Center, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (ENSBA) and Union centrale des Arts décoratifs (UCAD).
Anglès’ first experience with artist residencies began at the Frank Gehry designed American Center in Paris where she managed residencies for US based artists. In 2000, she moved to New York and worked as Director of the international residency program at Location One. In 2008, Anglès was awarded the French government distinction Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (The Order of Arts and Letters).
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