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The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of over 580,000 USD for 54 new grants to organizations that support projects internationally. The funded projects include exhibitions, publications, films, new media projects, and public programs that tackle urgent contemporary questions, illuminate historic work with new perspective, promote experimental research, and support critical conversations in and around architecture. These organizations are located in cities such as Berlin, Lagos, London, Oslo, São Paulo, Zurich, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. The innovative projects are led by eminent and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and scholars, among others.
The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported through the award of more than 4,600 grants over the past 63 years in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.
Exhibitions (19)
Àkéte Art Foundation (Lagos, Nigeria)
ArchiteXX (Syracuse, NY)
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago, IL)
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL)
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera (Buffalo, NY)
Equitable Vitrines (Los Angeles, CA)
Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, IN)
LIGA–Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
Madison Square Park Conservancy (New York, NY)
Materials & Applications (Los Angeles, CA)
National Building Museum (Washington, DC)
National Trust for Historic Preservation—Farnsworth House (Plano, IL)
Oslo Architecture Triennale (Oslo, Norway)
Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
Toronto Biennial of Art (Toronto, Canada)
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Film/Video/New Media Projects (4)
Architectural Association School of Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
The Funambulist (Paris, France)
MASS Design Group (Boston, MA)
University of Chicago—South Side Home Movie Project (Chicago, IL)
Public Programs (6)
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design—African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA)
Independent Curators International (New York, NY)
Lampo (Chicago, IL)
New Architecture Writers (London, United Kingdom)
University of Michigan—A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (Ann Arbor, MI)
Publications (25)
Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
ETH Zurich—gta exhibitions (Zurich, Switzerland)
Flat Out Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design—New Geographies (Cambridge, MA)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany)
Instituto Bardi/Casa de Vidro (São Paulo, Brazil)
The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL)
Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Places Journal (San Francisco, CA)
PRAXIS, Inc. (Boston, MA)
Produzioni Nero Scrl (Rome, Italy)
REAL foundation (London, United Kingdom)
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
The School of Architecture at Taliesin (Scottsdale, AZ)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY)
Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles, CA)
Standpunkte (Basel, Switzerland)
The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY)
Terreform (New York, NY)
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture (Gainesville, FL)
University of Maryland, College Park—School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (College Park, MD)
University of Miami—School of Architecture (Coral Gables, FL)
Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)
Upcoming grant application deadlines
Grants to individuals: September 15, 2019
Grants to organizations: February 25, 2020
About the Graham Foundation
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.
