Award Year

The 2020 Creative Capital Awards represent 35 projects by 41 artists from all over the country. The projects span a range of genres, including literature, performance, the visual arts, moving image, technology, and socially engaged art. Read more about the selection process.


Selection Committee

Cassils | Creative Capital Awardee; Artist
Ken Chen | Executive Director, Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Gina Duncan | Vice President, Film and Strategic Programming, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Carlos Gutiérrez | Executive Director, Cinema Tropical
Angela Mattox | Performing Arts Curator; Former Artistic Director, PICA
Laleh Mehran | Creative Capital Awardee; Professor of Emergent Digital Practices at University of Denver
Roderick Schrock | Executive Director, Eyebeam
Stacy Switzer | Curator and Executive Director, Fathomers
Tara Aisha Willis | Associate Curator of Performance, MCA Chicago

Reviewers

Jasmine Amussen, Burnaway; Amara Antilla, Guggenheim Museum; Jessica Anthony, writer, Creative Capital Awardee; Steve Bailey, National Performance Network; Eric Banks, NYU; Maria Bauman-Morales, MBDance; Madeline Bell, Flynn Center; Makeda Best, Harvard Art Museums; Bianca Beyrouti, ITVS; Clint Bowie, New Orleans Film Society; Loris Bradley, Loris Creative Productions; Claire Breukel, YES Contemporary; Heidi Broadhead, Wave Poetry; Alrick Brown, NYU; Victoria Camblin, 032c; Mario Caro, MIT; Sophie Cavoulacos, MOMA; Robert Y. Chang, American Documentary; C. Ondine Chavoya, Williams College; Solana Chehtman, The Shed; Erin Christovale, Hammer Museum; Deb Clapp, League of Chicago Theatres; Michael Connor, Rhizome; Charlotte Cook, Field of Vision; Liz Cook Mowe, Kickstarter; Nerissa Cooney, Mana Contemporary; Dean Daderko, CAM Houston; Samantha De Tillio, Museum of Arts and Design; Carl Deal, elsewhere films; Makeba Dixon-Hill, Spelman College Museum of Art; Sonia Epstein, Museum of the Moving Image; Amber Esseiva, ICA VCU; Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC; Courtenay Finn, moCa Cleveland; Novella Ford, Schomburg Center; Sylvie Fortin, Bemis Center; Lisa Gedgaudas, Create Denver; Sarah Greenbaum, Dance Place; Sonia Guiñansaca, CultureStrike; Casandra Hernandez, CALA Alliance; Stefanie Hessler, TBA21 London; Megan Heuer, Whitney Museum; Marcus Hu, Strand Releasing; Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum; Marjon Javadi, Doc Society; Stephanie Jeter, Searching Productions; Curtis John, The Luminal Theater; Jeffrey Johnson, University of Kentucky School of Architecture; Ladi’Sasha Jones, The Laundromat Project; Jane Jung, Ping Chong & Co.; Kristan Kennedy, PICA; Benjamin Kimitch, Performance Space New York; Melanie Kress, Friends of the High Line; Jennifer Lange, Wexner Center; Jordana Leigh, Lincoln Center; Andrew Mer, BigFuss; Jocelyn Miller, MOMA PS1; Lucy Mukerjee, Tribeca Film Festival; Diana Nawi, Prospect New Orleans; Kelani Nichole, TRANSFER Gallery; Sara O’Keeffe, New Museum; Meg Onli, ICA Philadelphia; Sara Ortiz, Black Mountain Institute; Kendra Patrick, Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick; Sheetal Prajapati, Lohar Projects; Ben Pryor, Kelly Strayhorn Theater; Chris Reitz, Hite Art Institute; Jonathan Rider, FLAG Art Foundation; Michael Rooks, The High Museum of Art; Saidah Russell, Jacob Burns Film Center; Joshua Sanchez, filmmaker; Bently Spang, artist, Creative Capital Awardee; Shawn Sides, Rude Mechs, Creative Capital Awardee; Tony Stone, Heathen Films; Leslie Tamaribuchi, Tamaribuchi HMC; Claire Tancons, curator; Tashima Thomas, Pratt Institute; Stephanie Todd Wong, Asia Society Texas Center; Sean Uyehara, Headlands Center for the Arts; Ivan Velez, artist, Creative Capital Awardee; Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Museum of Arts and Design; Wolfgang Wachalovsky, Mugwumpin; Jasmine Wahi, Project for Empty Space; Chloe Walters Wallace, Firelight Media; Ella Watson, School of Art at Montana State University; Michael Wiegers, Copper Canyon Press; Stephanie Ybarra, Baltimore Center Stage; Joey Yates, KMAC Museum; Jessica Fallon Young, New Orleans Film Society; Natalia Zuluaga, NAME Publications