Visual Arts

• Sherrill Roland | Creative Capital Project Premiere | /ˈhintərˌland/: | Gatewood Studio Arts Center, UNC Greensboro | Greensboro, North Carolina | Through March 17, 2025
• Avram Finkelstein | Creative Capital Project Premiere |  Something Terrible Has Happened (Corpus Fluxus) | Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY | Through April 27, 2025
• American Artist | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Shaper of God  | Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY | Through April 13, 2025
• Karthik Pandian | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Surrendur | Midway Contemporary Art | Minneapolis, MN | March 15–June 10, 2025
• Wafaa Bilal | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me | MCA Chicago, Chicago | Through October 19, 2025
• Marina Zurkow | Parting Worlds | Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | April 2025
  

  Installation view, Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me, MCA Chicago, Feb 1–Oct 19, 2025. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.

• Caleb Duarte | EDELO | UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA | Through April 20, 2025
• Sheryl Oring | Secretary to the People  | Parkway Central Library, Philaldelphia, PA | Through April 30, 2025
• Jennie C. Jones | Ensemble | 2025 Roof Garden Commission | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | April 4–October 19, 2025
• A.K. Burns | What is Perverse is Liquid | The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA | Through May 4, 2025
• Jeffrey Gibson | POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT | MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA | Through May 2026
• Black Quantum Futurism | The Memory Vortex Inn | Performance Space, NYC | Through June 30, 2025
• Cannupa Hanska Luger | Speechless  | Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | February 13–July 6, 2025
• Tanya Aguiñiga | Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall Height  | BAMPFA | Berkeley, CA | Through July 13, 2025
• Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Corrections | The Met, New York, NY | Through July 13, 2025
• Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Making Home: Cooper Hewitt Triennial | Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY | Through August 10, 2025
• Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Edgar Arceneaux | Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 3, 2025
• Jennie C. Jones | Year of Construction | Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada | April 17–August 3, 2025
• Sandy Rodriguez | Currents of Resistance  | The Ringling Museum of Art | Sarasota, FL | April 5—August 10, 2025
• Carlos Motta | Pleas of Resistance  | Museu d’Art Contemporarni de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | Through October 26, 2025
• Dyani White Hawk | Love Language | Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MN | October 18, 2025–February 15, 2026

Work-in-progress image from Pioneer Winter’s Apollo at Miami Theater Center. Photo by Passion Ward.

Performance

• Joan Osato and Sunhui Chang | Creative Capital Project Premiere | the boiling | The Magic Theater, San Francisco, CA | April 2– 20, 2025
• Pioneer Winter |  Creative Capital Project Premiere |  Apollo  | Miami Light Project, Miami, FL | April 25– 26 2025
• Rennie Harris | Losing My Religion  | The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL | April 4 & 5, 2025
• Reggie Watts | Livenation Presents: Reggie Watts | Spirit, Pittsburgh, PA | April 5, 2025
• Kristina Wong | #FoodBankInfluencer | ASU Gammage, Tempe, AZ | April 5, 2025
• Will Rawls | [siccer] | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | April 10,11,12, 2025
• Moor Mother, Black Quantum Futurism | Black Quantum Futurism presents Moor Mother | Performance Space New York, New York, NY | April 15, 2025
• Neal Medlyn | Neal Medlyn Has A Job  | Joe’s Pub, The Public Theater, New York, NY | April 15, 2025
• Kaneza Schaal | KLII  | MCA Chicago,  Chicago, IL | April 17–19, 2025
• Mariana Valencia | Jacklean (in rehearsal) | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | April 24 & April 25, 2025
• Terry Jenoure | Flame | Chicago Jazz String Summit, Chicago, IL | April 25, 2025
• Suzanne Lacy| Uncertain Futures  | n.b.k. Berlin | Berlin, Germany | Through May 4, 2025
• Miguel Gutierrez | Super Nothing | On the Boards, Seattle | May 1–3, 2025, 8PM PT
• Ethan Lipton | Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra | The Public Theater, New York, NY | May 14, 2025

Still from And So It Begins by Ramona S. Diaz (2019 Awardee).

Film

• Ramona S. Diaz | And So It Begins | National broadcast premiere on Independent Lens (PBS) | May 12, 2025
• Titus Kaphar | Exhibiting Forgiveness | Streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube
• Jasmín Mara López | Silent Beauty | Creative Capital project | Streaming on Amazon Prime
• Elaine McMillion Sheldon | King Coal | Creative Capital project | Streaming on PBS Documentaries Amazon Prime
• Cyrus Moussavi, Camae Ayewa and Rasheeda Phillips (Black Quantum Futurism) | Moor Mother: Jazz Codes | Mubi x Chanel Next Prize Collection | Streaming on Mubi 

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