Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists has named the 50 recipients of its annual 2024 USA Fellows, which includes an unrestricted cash prize of $50,000 per winner.
Fellows are selected from 10 different disciplines, including visual arts, writing, film, crafts and traditional arts. Winners come from 22 different states as well as Puerto Rico and range in age from their 20s to their 80s.
“With this year’s cohort of USA Fellows, we are thrilled to support a group of artists who, in their diverse approaches and contexts, offer invaluable modes of healing, expression and collaboration,” said USA President and CEO USA Judilee Reed in a statement. “Together, they invite us to join them in imagining endless possibilities for ourselves and our communities.”
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This year, four artists and two collectives won in the plastic arts category. They are New York-based Trisha Baga, San Juan-based Sophia Gallisa Muriente, Los Angeles-based EJ Hill and Nashville-based Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Zack Khalil, and Fronterizx Collective, which consists of Gabriela Muñoz and M. Xenea Sánchez.
Campos-Pons was recently the subject of a mid-career survey at the Brooklyn Museum and was also a consulting curator for the 2023 Tennessee Triennial of Contemporary Art. New Red Order recently completed a stunning outdoor installation in Queens through a commission from Creative Time.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, WHEN WE MEET (yet), 2021.
Courtesy of the artist and Wendi Norris Gallery
Gallisá Muriente won the 2023 Latinx Artist Fellowship and her work was a highlight of the 2022 exhibit “There Is No Post-Hurricane World: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria” at the Whitney Museum. Hill’s long-term 2022 installation will end its run at MASS MoCA next month, and was one of the breakout stars of the 2018 edition of Made in LA
The Fronterizx collective is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum, for winning the institution’s 2023 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award. Last year, Baga was included in the major themed exhibition “The Irreplaceable Human – Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
In a statement, the chairman of the board of directors of EE. Ed Henry, USA, said: “The common threads in this year’s cohort, including collaborative and research-based practices, remind us that the impact of our awardees’ contributions reaches far beyond any individual or small group, but across the world, communities and regions for decades”.
Other notable winners include Garrett Bradley, the director of the acclaimed documentary Time, whose work regularly appears in museum exhibitions; Cristóbal Martinez, member of the artist duo Postcommodity; Mimi Nồọha, who created a commission in 2022 for the Whitney Museum Artport in 2022; ceramist Linda Nguyen López in crafts; and Haida artist Sgwaayaans TJ Young, who won in the Traditional Arts category.
The full list follows below.
Architecture and Design
Ifeoma Ebo (she/her)
Architect, Artist and Community Designer
Brooklyn, NY
Selina Martinez (she)
Architect in Training
Penjamo-Scottsdale, AZ
Maya Bird-Murphy (she/her)
Architectural Designer
Chicago, IL
DK Osseo-Asare (he/she)
Design scientist
State College, PA
AD-WO (Emanuel Admassu [he/him] and Jen Wood [she/her])
Architects and Artists
New York, NY
handicraft
Linda Nguyen Lopez (she)
ceramist
Fayetteville, AR
John Paul Morabito (they/them)
Transdisciplinary weaver
Kent, OH
Tanya Crane (she)
Jewelry artist and creator of objects
Providence, RI
Helen Lee (she/they)
Glass artist
Madison, WI
Kira Dominguez Hultgren (she/they)
Textile Artist
Urbana, IL
Tammie Rubin (she)
Ceramic Sculptor and Installation Artist
Austin, TX
dance
Mythili Prakash (she/her)
Choreographer and Dancer
Los Angeles, CA
Sean Dorsey (he/she)
Choreographer, Dancer, Educator and Trans Activist
San Francisco, CA
Jerron Herman (he/she)
interpreter
Brooklyn, NY
Petra Bravo (she)
choreographer
San Juan, PR
Marjani Forté-Saunders/7NMS (she)
Choreographer, conjurer, corporal spellcaster and storyteller
Pasadena, CA and Brooklyn, NY
Erin Kilmurray (she/they)
Dance artist
Chicago, IL
movie
Ciara Leina`ala Lacy (she)
filmmaker
Honolulu, HI
PJ Raval (he/they)
filmmaker
Austin, TX
Blackhorse Lowe (he/she)
Filmmaker, writer, director and producer
Santa Fe, NM
Garrett Bradley (she)
Artist and Filmmaker
New Orleans, LA
means
Cristóbal Martinez (he/she)
Installation artist
Tempe, AZ
Yo-Yo Lin (she/they)
Interdisciplinary artist
New York, NY and Taipei, Taiwan
Mimi Shunoha (her)
artist
Brooklyn, NY
music
Sarah Hennies (she)
Composer and Percussionist
Red Hook, NY
Samora Pinderhughes (he/she)
Multidisciplinary composer
New York, NY
Val Jeanty aka Val-Inc (she/them)
Composer, Turntablist and Afro-Electronica drummer
Lowell, MA
Holland Andrews (they/them)
Composer, vocalist, clarinetist, producer and performer
Brooklyn, NY
Jerod Impichcha̱ achaaha’ Tate (he/she)
Classical Chickasaw Composer
Oklahoma City, OK
Theater and performance
Muriel Miguel (she)
Creator of theater and weaver of stories
Brooklyn, NY
Philip Kan Gotanda (he/she)
Playwright and Filmmaker
Berkeley, CA
Kholoud Sawaf (she)
theater director
Fayetteville, AR
Diana Oh “Zaza D” (them/them)
Multidisciplinary creative artist, actor, musician and writer
New York, NY
Traditional Arts
Karen Collins (she/her)
Narrative miniaturist
Compton, CA
Kelly Church (she)
Artist Activist
Hopkins, MI
Sgwaayaans TJ Young (Sgwaayaans TJ Young)
Haida artist
Hydeburg, Alaska
Corey Alston (he/she)
Sweetgrass basket
Mount Pleasant, SC
Michael Winograd (he/she)
musician
Brooklyn, NY
Visual Art
Sofía Gallisá Muriente (she/her)
Visual artist
San Juan, PR
Trisha Baga (they/them)
Interdisciplinary artist
Queens, NY
EJ Hill (he/she)
Artist, Musician and Educator
Los Angeles, CA
Fronterizx Collective (Gabriela Muñoz [she/ella] and M. Janea Sánchez [she/ella])
Interdisciplinary Social Practice
Arizona
New Red Order (Adam Khalil [he/him]Jackson Polys [he/him]and Zack Khalil [he/him])
Artists and Filmmakers
New York, NY
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (she/her)
Multidisciplinary artist
Nashville, TN
writing
Dantiel W. Moniz (she/her)
writer
Jacksonville, FL
Nafissa Thompson-Spires (she)
writer
Brooklyn, NY
Farid Matuk (he/they)
Poet and Writer
Tucson, AZ
Jeffery U. Darensbourg (he/she)
Writer and Performer
bulbancha
Monica Ong (she)
Visual poet
Connecticut
Danielle Evans (she)
Fiction writer
Baltimore, MD
