Grants in Action

Since 2013, VIA Art Fund has awarded more than $9 million in funding to support visionary artists, organizations, and initiatives in contemporary art. VIA’s Artistic Production Grant Program funds the production, exhibition, (semi)permanent installation or institutional acquisition of new artistic commissions in the public realm. VIA’s Incubator grant program (2013-2023) supported small-scaled nonprofit organizations, whose activities are rooted in programs, platforms and/or initiatives that embrace innovation, progress and risk.

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Theaster Gates:  Freedmen’s Town Pavilion (working title)  — 2025 — Houston, TX — Artistic Production
Auriea Harvey:  Edmonia Triumphalis  — 2025 — Bozeman, MT — Artistic Production
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer:  Undercurrents — 2025 — Houston, TX — Artistic Production
Precious Okoyomon: Courtyard Commission  — 2025 — Long Island City, New York — Artistic Production
Amie Siegel : I Diseredati / The Dispossessed  — 2025 — Pompeii, Italy — Artistic Production
Nick Cave: Mammoth  — 2025 — Washington D.C. — Artistic Production
Chaw Ei Thein: Artists’ Street  — 2025 — Berlin, Germany — Artistic Production
Tau Lewis:  No one ascends from the underworld unmarked  — 2025 — Artistic Production
Whitney Lynn: Atomic Open House  — 2025 — Nye County, NV — Artistic Production
Edison Peñafiel: De Profundis Clamavi ad Astra
(From the Depths, I Cried Out to the Stars) — 2025 — Miami, FL — Artistic Production
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Out of Bounds  — 2025 — Paris, France — Artistic Production
Chloë Bass: If you hear something, free something  — 2025 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Hugh Hayden: the End  — 2025 — Williamstown, MA — Artistic Production
Beatriz Cortez: Nomad 2  — 2025 — Boston, MA — Artistic Production
Allison Janae Hamilton: Venus of Ossabaw  — 2025 — Savannah, GA — Artistic Production
Wendy Red Star: New work — 2025 — Washington D.C. — Artistic Production
Saya Woolfalk: Archive of Earth: Ark  — 2024 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Harmonia Rosales: Unbound and Untitled Ceiling Mural  — 2024 — Boston, MA — Artistic Production
Joiri Minaya: Fleurs de liberation: an ecology of resistance  — 2024 — New Orleans, LA — Artistic Production
Gerard & Kelly: Saints at a Disco  — 2024 — Artistic Production
Sonya Clark: Declaration House  — 2024 — Philadelphia, PA — Artistic Production
Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me  — 2023 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
Chakaia Booker: Untitled Lock 3 Project  — 2023 — Akron, OH — Artistic Production
Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane for Madison Square Park  — 2023 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Sovereign  — 2023 — Los Angeles, CA — Artistic Production
Tavares Strachan: Ruin of a Giant (Marcus Garvey)  — 2023 — London, UK — Artistic Production
Jordan Weber: Detroit Remediation Forest  — 2023 — Detroit, MI — Artistic Production
Eamon Ore-Giron: Tlaloc’s Eyes  — 2023 — Los Angeles, CA — Artistic Production
Kara Walker: Unmanned Drone  — 2023 — Los Angeles, CA — Artistic Production
Dario Robleto: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice  — 2023 — Multiple Venues — Artistic Production
Delcy Morelos: El abrazo  — 2023 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market  — 2023 — Los Angeles, CA — Artistic Production
Howardena Pindell: Autobiography: Circles  — 2023 — Austin, TX — Artistic Production
Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava (Scott Joplin)  — 2022 — St. Louis, MO — Artistic Production
David Adjaye: Asaase III  — 2022 — St. Louis, MO — Artistic Production
Garrett Bradley and Arthur Jafa: a Negro, a Lim-o (2022)  — 2022 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
EJ Hill: Brake Run Helix  — 2022 — North Adams, MA — Artistic Production
Charles Atlas The Mathematics of Consciousness  — 2022 — Brooklyn, New York — Artistic Production
Em’kal Eyongakpa: sǒ bàtú reflections (bath for the ears)  — 2022 — San Francisco, CA — Artistic Production
Imani Jacqueline Brown: What remains at the ends of the earth?  — 2022 — Berlin, Germany — Artistic Production
Jean Shin: Freshwater  — 2022 — Philadelphia, PA — Artistic Production
Wu Tsang: Of Whales  — 2021 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
Simone Leigh: Simone Leigh: Sovereignty  — 2021 — Boston, MA — Artistic Production
Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve  — 2021 — Cleveland, OH — Artistic Production
Reynier Leyva Novo: Methuselah  — 2021 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Lydia Ourahmane: Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili  — 2021 — Queens, NY — Artistic Production
Sarah Oppenheimer & Tony Cokes: Sensitive Instrument  — 2021 — Cleveland, OH — Artistic Production
Maya Dunietz: Root of Two  — 2021 — Omaha, NE — Artistic Production
Rose B. Simpson: Transformance  — 2020 — Reno, NV — Artistic Production
Maria Hassabi: And there’s also gravity  — 2021 — Cleveland, OH — Artistic Production
Amie Siegel Asterisms  — 2021 — São Paulo, Brazil — Artistic Production
Fred Wilson: Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds  — 2021 — Columbus Park, Brooklyn, NY — Artistic Production
Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things  — 2021 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Jill Magid: Tender: Presence  — 2021 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Ian Cheng: Life After BOB  — 2021 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Jacolby Satterwhite: Dawn  — 2020 — Cleveland, OH — Artistic Production
Ebony G. Patterson: … when the cry takes root … — 2020 — Liverpool, England — Artistic Production
Tiona Nekkia McClodden: Play Me Home — 2020 — New Orleans, LA — Artistic Production
Josh Kline: Adaptation  — 2020 — Multiple venues — Artistic Production
Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson: Water Moves Life  — 2020 — Anchorage, AK — Artistic Production
Charles Gaines: Moving Chains and Mound — 2020 — New York, NY, Cincinnati, OH, Covington Riverfront, KY — Artistic Production
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Crimes of Solidarity / Crimes de Solidarité — 2020 — Marseille, France — Artistic Production
Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre — 2020 — Multiple venues — Artistic Production
Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas: The Blessings of the Mystery — 2020 — Marfa & Austin, TX — Artistic Production
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: the input of this machine is the power an output contains — 2019 — Los Angeles, CA — Artistic Production
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Border Tuner/Sintonizador fronterizo — 2019 — El Paso, TX — Artistic Production
Jeffrey Gibson: Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House — 2019 — Queens, NY — Artistic Production
Anicka Yi: Biologizing the Machine (Tentacular Trouble)  — 2019 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Shadow Stalker — 2019 — Multiple venues — Artistic Production
Paul Pfeiffer: Amazing Grace / RGB — 2019 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Dread Scott and John Akomfrah: Slave Rebellion Reenactment — 2019 — New Orleans, LA — Artistic Production
Glenn Ligon: James Baldwin: From Another Place — 2019 — Istanbul, Turkey — Artistic Production
Kahlil Joseph: BLKNWS — 2019 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
Sarah Sze: Fallen Sky — 2019 — New Windsor, NY — Artistic Production
Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances — 2019 — Cambridge, MA — Artistic Production
Isaac Julien: “Lessons of the Hour” — 2018 — Rochester, New York — Artistic Production
Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà — 2018 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
David Hammons: Day’s End — 2018 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Iván Argote: A Point of View — 2018 — Palm Springs, CA — Artistic Production
Tavares Strachan: The Encyclopedia of Invisibility — 2018 — Pittsburgh, PA — Artistic Production
Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape: A cotton gin motor — 2018 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Primary Information: The Collected Writings of Tony Conrad — 2018 — New York, NY — Incubator
Artpace: Spring 2019 International Artist-in-Residence Program (IAIR) — 2018 — San Antonio, TX — Incubator
Artists Space: Openings — 2019 — New York, NY — Incubator
Redwood Library and Athenaeum: Since 1960- Contemporary Art and the Stakes of Criticism — 2018 — Newport, RI — Incubator
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts: Adam Linder: Full Service — 2018 — San Francisco, CA — Incubator
For Freedoms: Town Hall Series 2018 — 2018 — New York, NY — Incubator
Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism: X-TRA Volume 20 Number 4 — 2018 — Los Angeles, CA — Incubator
Tacita Dean: Antigone — 2017 — Artistic Production
Yinka Shonibare CBE: The American Library — 2017 — Cleveland, OH — Artistic Production
Zanele Muholi: The Women’s Mobile Museum — 2017 — Philadelphia, PA — Artistic Production
Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress — 2017 — Beacon, NY — Artistic Production
Pope.L: Whispering Campaign — 2017 — Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany — Artistic Production
Heather Hart: The Oracle of Lacuna — 2017 — New Windsor, NY — Artistic Production
Daniel Buren: Voile/Toile – Toile/Voile  — 2017 — Minneapolis, MN — Artistic Production
Ann Carlson: Symphonic Body / Water Work  — 2017 — Bozeman, MT — Artistic Production
Jose Dávila: Sense of Place — 2017 — Los Angeles, CA — Artistic Production
The Renaissance Society: Unthought Environments — 2017 — Chicago, IL — Incubator
International Studio & Curatorial Program: Brooklyn Commons — 2017 — Brooklyn, NY — Incubator
Antenna: Spillways — 2017 — New Orleans, LA — Incubator
Triple Canopy: Issue 24 – Risk Pool — 2017 — New York, NY — Incubator
Independent Curators International: The Curatorial Forum and The Curatorial Assembly — 2017 — Chicago, September 12–15; and New Orleans, December 1–3, 2017 — Incubator
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day — 2016 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
John Akomfrah: Precarity  — 2016 — New Orleans, LA — Artistic Production
Andrea Zittel: Planar Pavilions at A-Z West — 2016 — Joshua Tree, CA — Artistic Production
Sam Durant: The Meeting House
Jeppe Hein: A New End — 2016 — Hingham & Concord, MA — Artistic Production
Josiah McElheny: Prismatic Park — 2016 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
JJ PEET: THE VACANT AMERICAN — 2016 — Berkeley, CA — Artistic Production
Barry McGee: Untitled — 2016 — San Francisco, CA — Artistic Production
Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss — 2016 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
The Artist’s Institute: 2016-2017 Season, Sharon Lockhart — 2016 — New York, NY — Incubator
Logan Center for the Arts: The Ties that Bind  — 2016 — Chicago, IL — Incubator
Art21: New York Close Up — 2016 — New York, NY — Incubator
Cambridge Arts Council: Common Exchange — 2016 — Cambridge, MA — Incubator
SculptureCenter: In Practice — 2016 — New York, NY — Incubator
Esopus: Issue 23 — 2016 — New York, NY — Incubator
Recess: Session — 2016 — New York, NY — Incubator
The Kitchen L.A.B. Conference — 2016 — New York, NY — Incubator
Kathryn Andrews: Sunbathers I & II — 2015 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Jenny Holzer — 2015 — North Adams, MA — Artistic Production
Robin Rhode – Erwartung: A Street Opera — 2015 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Josephine Pryde: lapses in Thinking By the person i Am — 2015 — San Francisco, CA — Artistic Production
Allora & Calzadilla: Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos) — 2015 — Guayanilla, Puerto Rico — Artistic Production
Rhizome: The Born-Digital Art Institution — 2015 — New York, NY — Incubator
Random International: 15 Points — 2015 — Boston, MA — Artistic Production
The Underground Museum: Non-Fiction — 2015 — Los Angeles, CA — Incubator
Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art: ONE FOR ALL — 2015 — New York, NY — Incubator
Robert Irwin: Untitled (Dawn to Dusk), 2016  — 2014 — Marfa, TX — Artistic Production
Oliver Laric: Untitled & The Hunter and the Dog — 2014 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Charles Gaines: Skybox I — 2014 — New Orleans, LA — Artistic Production
John Gerrard: Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada), 2014 — 2014 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Ai Weiwei: @Large — 2014 — San Francisco, CA — Artistic Production
Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains — 2014 — Las Vegas, NV — Artistic Production
Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word — 2014 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
Allora & Calzadilla: Temperament and the Wolf — 2014 — Gwanjgu, South Korea — Artistic Production
Alex Israel: SPF 18 — 2014 — USA — Artistic Production
Danh Vo: We The People — 2014 — New York, NY — Artistic Production
Common Practice New York — 2013 — New York, NY — Incubator
The Exhibitionist — 2013 — New York, NY — Incubator
Doug Aitken: Station to Station – A Nomadic Happening — 2013 — USA — Artistic Production
Sharon Hayes: Ricerche: three — 2013 — Venice, Italy — Artistic Production
Chandra McCormick & Keith Calhoun: Slavery –The Prison Industrial Complex — 2015 — New Orleans, LA — Artistic Production
PARTICIPANT, INC — 2023 — New York, NY — Incubator
Indigo Arts Alliance — 2023 — Portland, ME — Incubator
All My Relations Art (AMRA) — 2023 — Minneapolis, MN — Incubator
516 ARTS — 2023 — Albuquerque, NM — Incubator
1708 Gallery — 2023 — Richmond, VA — Incubator
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art — 2022 — Salt Lake City, UT — Incubator
Racing Magpie — 2022 — Rapid City, SD — Incubator
Project for Empty Space — 2022 — Newark, NJ — Incubator
Granary Arts — 2022 — Ephraim, UT — Incubator
Boston Art Review — 2022 — Boston, MA — Incubator
Wave Pool — 2021 — Cincinnati, OH — Incubator
The Union for Contemporary Art — 2021 — Omaha, NE — Incubator
Stove Works — 2021 — Chattanooga, TN — Incubator
Santa Fe Art Institute — 2021 — Santa Fe, NM — Incubator
MOCA Tucson — 2021 — Tucson, AZ — Incubator
The Luminary — 2020 — St. Louis, MO — Incubator
The Lab — 2020 — San Francisco, CA — Incubator
Oregon Contemporary — 2020 — Portland, OR — Incubator
Locust Projects — 2020 — Miami, FL — Incubator
Artspace — 2020 — New Haven, CT — Incubator
SPACE — 2019 — Portland, ME — Incubator
Midway Contemporary Art — 2019 — Minneapolis, MN — Incubator
Public Space One | Center for Afrofuturist Studies — 2019 — Iowa City, IA — Incubator
Coleman Center for the Arts — 2019 — York, AL — Incubator
Burnaway — 2019 — Atlanta, GA — Incubator