184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded Fellowships NEW YORK (April 8, 2021): Today, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding for Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists. (See the full list here.) These exceptional candidates were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process…

Photograph by Paul Waldman, Courtesy Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr. ©The Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Robert De Niro and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation are pleased to announce a Fellowship in Fine Arts in honor of Mr. De Niro’s father, the painter Robert De Niro Sr.,…

The Guggenheim Foundation is extremely pleased to recognize the five Guggenheim Fellows who won 2020 Pulitzer Prizes, announced by Columbia University on May 4. They are Colson Whitehead, Fellow 2013, for his novel The Nickel Boys: he also won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2017 for The Underground Railroad. Jericho Brown, Fellow 2016, the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in…

2020 Guggenheim Fellowship winners announced On April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists. 2020 Fellows are drawn from 53 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 78 different academic institutions, 31 states and the District of…

Philip Roth, a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, has made an extraordinary gift to the Foundation.  Roth died in 2018, and in a stunning act of generosity, he left the Foundation $1,600,000 to support the Guggenheim Fellowships. He  designated a portion of his gift for the Joel Conarroe Fund, which honors his life-long friend, the Foundation’s President Emeritus, and provides funding for…

Guggenheim Fellow, Jo Kreiter (Choreography, 2019), and her company, Flyaway Productions, are currently on tour to Ossining, NY to present THE WAIT ROOM: PART 1 OF THE DECARCERATION TRILOGY at the Sing Sing Prison Museum. For further information, please see this article in the New York Times from September 19, 2019: Read more ->

Guggenheim Fellow, Mary Beth Keane (Fiction, 2015), is pleased to announce the publication of Ask Again, Yes (Scribner, May 28, 2019). Follow this link for more information and news about appearances and events.

“Shari Mendelson: Amphorae and Apparitions,” is on exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum through September 1. Mendelson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2017.

Karen Russell, Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, 2011, will discuss her new short story collection on Friday, May 24, at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon.

Brad Temkin (Photography, 2017) is pleased to announce the publication of Brad Temkin: The State of Water (Radius Books, 2019) which will be released on May 21. An exhibition will open at The Field Museum on September 13 and will run through January 12. Follow this link for more information about the book. Temkin’s Guggenheim Fellowship supported his work on this project.

Stanley Greenberg, Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, 2005, is pleased to announce the publication of Codex New York: Typologies of the City (The Monacelli Press, 2019). Follow this link to read the press release.

Join Shalini Shankar on May 1 at 6 PM. Shankar (Fellow in Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 2017) is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist concerned with issues of race and ethnicity, youth and migration, language use, and media. Her latest book, Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’s New Path to Success, will be released April 30.

PBS will present an American Masters Film, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable (April, 2019) directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, on April 19 at 9/8c. Garry Winogrand was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 1964, 1969 and 1978.

On April 9, 2019, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 168 scholars, artists, and writers. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-fifth competition. Follow…

The MoCP, Chicago, is pleased to present Chicago Stories: Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol, showcasing photographs and films by Carlos Javier Ortiz, Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video, 2016, and David Schalliol from the museum’s permanent collection and the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP).

A Soldier’s Tale, by Guggenheim Fellow, Kasumi (Film and Video, 2011) will be presented in concert with the Cleveland Institute of Music’s New Music Ensemble on Friday, April 5, at 7:30. Follow the link for more information about this event.

Guggenheim Fellow, Phyllis Galembo (Photography, 2014) is pleased to announce the publication of her newest book, Mexico, Masks & Rituals (Radius Books/D.A.P., 2019). Galembo photographs cultural and religious traditions as well as the transformative power of ritual dress in Africa and the Americas. Her interest in these traditions began in 1985 during her first visit to Nigeria. Since then…

A new grant from the National Science Foundation has been awarded to Armin Moczek, Guggenheim Fellow in Organismic Biology & Ecology, 2017.

Etienne Charles, Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, 2015, featured in the New York Times. On Friday, March 22, he will release “Carnival: The Sound of a People, Vol. 1.”

Join Guggenheim Fellow, Akosua Adoma Owusu (Film-Video, 2015) on Friday, March 29, for her juror presentation, Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu, at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival.