The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to 93 artists and non-profit organizations around the world. Winners represent her 15 countries, 14 states and territories. The grant aims to provide professional support to artists and organizations, enabling them to create new works, purchase materials, rent studio space, prepare and hold exhibitions, and participate in residencies. Funds can also be used to cover living expenses.
The 2022-23 Lee Krasner Prize for Lifetime Achievement of the Year was awarded to Oakland, California-based painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman Oliver Lee Jackson. The St. Louis native is celebrated for his groundbreaking work that straddles the line between figurative and abstract, and for his support of African-American artists over his 60-year career. Jackson has taught Arts, Philosophy, and Pan-African Humanities at St. Louis Community College, Southern Illinois University, Washington University in St. Louis, Oberlin He College, and California State University, Sacramento.
Pakistani-American artist Shazia Sikander was announced earlier this year as the winner of the 2023 Pollock Award for Creativity in her multimedia exhibition Havatu Breath, Air, Life. The exhibition, which explores issues of women and justice, opened in New York’s Madison Square Park this spring before traveling to Houston in June. Brooklyn-based artist Maria Elena Gonzalez received both a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and a Brian Wall Foundation Sculpture Grant. The $25,000 prize, which recognizes outstanding sculptors, is awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by the Pollock-Her Krasner Foundation.
The organization provides annual funding to organizations that work directly with artists. Among this year’s winners is his ArtTable in New York in support of an artist talk series. The Buffalo AKG Museum of Art supports the retrospective monograph of PKF grantee Stanley Whitney. Accommodation program costs at Villa Bergerie, Laguares, Spain. Wavehill, The Bronx, New York, to help cover the artist’s residency and exhibition costs.
The full list of 2022-23 winners is below.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2022–23 Artist Grant Eligible
Isabelle Aguera, Montreuil, France
Ian Andrews, Birmingham, England
Miguel Alzave, Oakland, CA
Rogelio Baez Vega, San Juan, PR
Joan Vankemper, New York
Evgeny Ballas, Long Island City, New York
Jagoda Bednarski, Berlin
Anna Sophie Berger, Brooklyn, NY
Laura Bierau, Berlin
Vicente Blanco, Lugo, Spain
Renee Bouchard, Bennington, Vermont
Sarah Kayle, Brussels
Joseli Carvalho, Hoboken, NJ
Sydney Cash, Marlborough, NY
Sophia Krause, London
Armen Danegyan, Yerevan, Armenia
Josh Doman, New York
Ben Durham, Richmond, Virginia
Carina El Azem, Buenos Aires
Rehab El Sadek, Austin
Sarah Four, Brooklyn, NY
Alana Fields, Upper Marlborough, Maryland
Avram Finkelstein, Brooklyn, NY
Emmanuela Fiorelli (Rome)
Linda Fleming, Benicia, CA
Farima Hooradi, Spring, TX
Bernhard Fuchs (Dusseldorf)
Bastian Gebauer, Berlin
Ina Gerken, Düsseldorf
Nicola Ginzel, Brooklyn, NY
Mary Helen Gonzalez, Brooklyn, New York
Jesús Dez-Güero, Madrid
Alex Heilbronn, Los Angeles
Mary Henderson, Philadelphia
Hong Hong, Beverly, Massachusetts
Patricia Harle, Roscrea, Ireland
Oliver Lee Jackson, Oakland, CA
Bethany Johnson, Austin
Kim Young Jae, Brooklyn, NY
Felix Curtau, Berlin
Elvira Lantenhammer, Trieffenstein, Germany
Georges Le Chevalier, Garner, North Carolina
Kakyoung Lee, Brooklyn, NY
Miguel Angel Madrigal, State of Morelos, Mexico
Junko Maruyama, Yokosuka, Japan
Christina Massey, Brooklyn, NY
Miroslaw Maslanko, Riciliki, Poland
Rita McBride, Los Alamos, CA
Gideon Mendel, London
Jeffrey Mellis, New York
Mark Milroy, Brooklyn, NY
Nicholas Moennig, Brooklyn, NY
Bidemi Oloede, Toronto
Ingrid Olson, Chicago
Steve Parker, Austin
Aviva Rahmani, Vinalhaven, Maine
Rachel Rotenberg, Tekoa, Israel
Jayanta Roy, Kolkata
Frauke Slot (Stuttgart)
Davide Sugambaro, Turin
Dee Shapiro, Great Neck, NY
Shazier Sikander, New York
Cary Smith, Farmington, Connecticut
Tracy Snelling, Berlin
Cammy Staros, Los Angeles
Kazumi Tanaka, Beacon, NY
Yukiko Terada, Berlin
Cheryl Ann Thomas, Ventura, CA
Francine Tinto, New York
Sarah Vanderbeek, Brooklyn, NY
Madhu Venugopalan, Ernakulam, India
Patrick Waterhouse, London
Chuck Webster, Ridgewood, New York
Birgitta Weimer, Gummersbach, Germany
Ellen Wetmore, Groton, MA
Richard C. Witten, Cranston, Rhode Island
Kevin Wickstead, New York
Ralph Ziervogel, New York
Matthew Zinn, Berlin
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2022-23 Organizational Grant Recipients
ArtTable, New York: Support for Artist Talk Series
Artadia, Brooklyn, NY: Funding Artist Awards Grants
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY: Supporting the Artist in Marketplace Program
Buffalo AKG Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY: Support for PKF Grant Recipient Stanley Whitney’s Retrospective Monograph
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts: Support for residency programs
McDowell, New York: Residency Program Support
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York: Funding Online Resources for Artists
SculptureCenter in Long Island City, NY: Funding Practice Programs
Pollock-Krasner House and Learning Center in East Hampton, New York: Funding Program Support
Villa Bergerie, Laguares, Spain: Funding of the residency program
Wavehill, Bronx, NY: Supporting Artist Residence and Exhibition Programs
Whitechapel Gallery, London: Funding for the exhibition “Action, Gesture and Paint: Female Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70”
Yad in Saratoga Springs, NY: Funding Residency Programs
