The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its fellows for 2018. Among the winners are Southerners Craig Drennen of Atlanta, who currently has an exhibition at Hathaway Gallery, and Amy Pleasant of Birmingham, who shows in Atlanta with Whitespace. Also on the list is Janet Biggs, who was in Atlanta on March 20 to give a talk and visit MFA studios at Georgia State University.
This year, the foundation has awarded 173 fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists selected from almost 3,000 applications. The fellowships are given on the basis of “prior achievement and exceptional promise.” Winners receive cash grants of varying amounts, which are undisclosed. The average grant is around $45,000.
Fine Art fellows:
•Dennis Adams, New York City; Professor, School of Art, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science
•Mequitta Ahuja, Baltimore, Maryland
•Dave Hullfish Bailey, Van Nuys, California
•Janet Biggs, Brooklyn, New York
•Phillip Chen, Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Art, Drake University
•Julia Christensen, Oberlin, Ohio; Associate Professor of Integrated Media Arts, Oberlin College
•Esperanza Cortés, New York City
•Craig Drennen, Atlanta, Georgia; Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University
•Amy Feldman, Brooklyn, New York
•Richard Fleischner, Providence, Rhode Island
•Kate Gilmore, Jackson Heights, New York; Associate Professor of Art and Design, Purchase College, SUNY
•Todd Gray, Los Angeles, California
•Hiroyuki Hamada, East Hampton, New York
•Dave Hardy, Brooklyn, New York
•Stephen Hayes, Portland, Oregon
•Lies Kraal, Venice, California
•Elizabeth LaPensée, East Lansing, Michigan; Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Information, Michigan State University
•Chris Larson, St. Paul, Minnesota; Associate Professor of Art, University of Minnesota
•Robert L. Lobe, New York City
•Nicole Miller, San Diego, California; Acting Associate Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
•Amy Pleasant, Birmingham, Alabama
•Annabeth Rosen, Davis, California; Professor and Arneson Endowed Chair, Department of Art & Art History, University of California, Davis:
•Margo Sawyer, Austin, Texas; Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media, University of Texas at Austin
•David Schutter, Chicago, Illinois; Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art, University of Chicago
•Charles Yuen, Brooklyn, New York
Photography fellows:
• Tsar Fedorsky, Gloucester, Massachusetts; Photography Teacher, The Taft School
• Lukas Felzmann, San Francisco, California; Lecturer in Art, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
• Anthony Hernandez, Los Angeles, California
• David Maisel, Sausalito, California
• Pradip Malde, Sewanee, Tennessee; Professor of Art, University of the South
• Rania Matar, Brookline, Massachusetts
• Nicholas Muellner, Los Angeles, California; Associate Professor and CoDirector, Image Text MFA and Press, Ithaca College
• Kristine Potter, Nashville, Tennessee:
• Meghann Riepenhoff, Bainbridge Island, Washington
• Nadia Sablin, New Paltz, New York; Assistant Professor of Art, SUNY New Paltz
• Hank Willis Thomas, Brooklyn, New York
• Ian van Coller, Bozeman, Montana; Associate Professor of Photography, Montana State University
