Explore Artists
Discover Creative Capital Awardees and State of the Art Prize artists by name, discipline, award year, or location.
1171 Artists
1171 ArtistsA.K. Burns
Negative Space
Visual Arts, Installation
2015
Installation, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2015
A.S.M. Kobayashi
Electric Neon Clock
Kobayashi transforms her family’s WWII internment file into a live documentary interweaving archival material, video, sound and immersive performance.
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2024
Documentary Film, Film, Moving Image, 2024
Aaron Jafferis
Stuck Elevator
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2009
Musical Theater, Opera, Performing Arts, 2009
Aaron Landsman
Night Keeper
Night Keeper is a two-part experimental album by Aaron Landsman in collaboration with guitarist Norman Westberg.
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2023
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Performance, Theater, 2023
Aaron Robertson
A Separate Rite
In 1980s Detroit, a Black priest fights to revive his dwindling congregation and stop inner-city church closures following the miraculous discovery of two missing children.
Literature, Literary Fiction
2025
Literary Fiction, Literature, Socially-Engaged Literature, 2025
Aaron Whitby
Black Mountain Women
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2019
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019
Abigail DeVille
The Bronx: History of Now
Visual Arts, Installation
2015
Installation, Visual Arts, 2015
Ada Ferrer
Aponte: An Opera
This opera brings to life the fascinating story of Aponte, a free Black carpenter in nineteenth-century Havana who created a “Book of Paintings” to inspire and organize an island-wide rebellion against slavery in Cuba, then one of the richest, most powerful, and violent slave societies in the world.
Performing Arts, Installation
2022
Installation, Opera, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2022
Adam Cohen
City Poem 3
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2000
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2000
Adam Khalil
Nosferasta
Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction, Nosferasta is a film that tells the story of Oba, a Rastafarian vampire, and Christopher Columbus, Oba’s original biter, as they spread the colonial infection throughout the “new world.”
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2021
Moving Image, Narrative Film, Video Art, 2021
Ahamefule J. Oluo
Susan
Performing Arts, Comedy
2016
Comedy, Jazz, Performing Arts, Theater, 2016
Ain Gordon
Condolence (working title)
Condolence asks who contemporary death and dying practices actually comfort—and how we can lovingly/responsibly release a body into the ecosystem.
Performing Arts, Theater
2023
Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Akosua Adoma Owusu
On Monday of Last Week
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2012
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2012
Alan Gilbert
Late in the Antenna Fields
Literary Arts, Poetry
2006
Literary Arts, Poetry, 2006
Alan Ruiz
Spatial Alchemy
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2019
Architecture & Design, Installation, Visual Arts, 2019
Alejandro Durán
Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape
Visual Arts, Installation
2019
Installation, Photography, Visual Arts, 2019
Alessandro Moruzzi
Aria
Performing Arts, Music Performance
2006
Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2006
Alex Galloway
Want
Technology, Digital Media
2006
Digital Media, Software, Technology, 2006
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Both and Neither
Both and Neither is a work of memoir and haunted nonfiction about life beyond the binary.
Literature, Literary Nonfiction
2026
Literary Nonfiction, Literature, 2026
Alex Rivera
Sleep Dealer
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2000
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2000
Alex Stikich
Honesto-Corrupt Politician
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2005
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2005
Alexandra Chreiteh
Sweetmeats or, Who Killed Issam Sukkar?
Sweetmeats or, Who Killed Issam Sukkar? is a novel written in Arabic, set in a border town between Lebanon and Syria that explores relationships between gender and labor, global migration and ecological disaster, mounting nationalism, and domestic violence.
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2022
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, Multimedia, 2022
Alexandro Segade
Post-Living Ante-Action Theater
Performing Arts, Cultural Organizing
2012
Cultural Organizing, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, 2012
Ali Momeni
Center for Urban Intervention Research (CUIR)
Technology, Internet Art
2013
Internet Art, Technology, 2013
Ali Printz
2026 State of the Art Prize, West Virginia
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2026
Ecological Art, Installation, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2026
Alia Farid
Elsewhere
Working in film, sculpture, and textiles, Farid traces histories often marginalized or obscured by the discourse of the Global North. In her pieces, local practices and traditions are put to new ends, and the rhythms of everyday life acquire political significance and potency.
Visual Arts, Installation
2022
Installation, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2022
Alice Bucknell
Earth Engine
EARTH ENGINE is a video game using real-time climate data integration to explore the limits of climate prediction technologies through an inverted game mechanic where the planet is the player.
Technology, Data Visualization
2025
Data Visualization, Digital Media, Games, Technology, 2025
Alice Sheppard
Descent
Performing Arts, Dance
2019
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2019
Alice Yorke
America Again
Lightning Rod Special will create a performance in response to the United States Semiquincentennial. Set in a post-apocalyptic theme park, the piece unfolds through looping dioramas of the American Revolution and asks: Are we spiraling upward toward our democratic ideals, or sinking deeper into our founding sins?
Performing Arts, Theater
2026
Performing Arts, Theater, 2026
Alison Cornyn
360degrees.org
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Technology, Artistic Activism
2000
Artistic Activism, Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Art, Technology, 2000
Alison O'Daniel
The Tuba Thieves
The Tuba Thieves fictionalizes real events and lived experiences through a cinematic language that mirrors the experience of being hard of hearing: overlapping narratives, obscured visual framing, and captions that present a third narrative equal to image and sound.
Visual Arts, Moving Image
2019
Moving Image, Sculpture, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2019
Aliza Nisenbaum
Reading Circles/Weaving Dreams/Seeding Futures
Modes of Assembly is a series of painted portraits by Aliza Nisenbaum capturing workers from an industrial metal factory in Northern Mexico. The works serve as conduit to spend time witnessing and engaging this community.
Visual Arts, Painting & Printmaking
2024
Painting & Printmaking, Visual Arts, 2024
Allison Janae Hamilton
Celestine
In Celestine, Hamilton retrains her lens from the earth to the sky, imagining the rich landscapes that permeate her visual language in the vertical, extending not from sea to sea, but from soil to stars.
Visual Arts, Installation
2019
Installation, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2019
Allison Wiese
Toll
Visual Arts, Sculpture
2006
Sculpture, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2006
Almudena Carracedo
Before I Was
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2012
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2012
Amanda Kerdahi
Tankugbe Incubation Lab
Through Tankugbe Incubation Lab, eo Studio seeks to inspire an ecosystem of artists, researchers, designers, and fabricators who value models for coauthorship, equity, and shared making.
Technology, Augmented Reality
2023
Augmented Reality, Bio Art, Software, Technology, 2023
Amara Tabor-Smith
HouseFull
Performing Arts, Dance
2016
Dance, Performing Arts, 2016
Amaryllis R. Flowers
Kiara Daja Diamond and the 777 Satisfactions
Kiara Daja Diamond and the 777 Satisfactions is a surrealist graphic novel and animated TV series that tells the story of Kiara, a young ruler-to-be, who must master 777 “satisfactions.”
Visual Arts, Animation
2021
Animation, Graphic Novel, Moving Image, Visual Arts, 2021
Amber Bemak
Cosmic Moose and Grizzly Bears Ville
Peter Valentine, diagnosed schizophrenic and living unmedicated, fought MIT for 7 years while they demolished his neighborhood to develop University Park, claiming he couldn't leave because it was his electromagnetic laboratory.
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2025
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film, Moving Image, 2025
Amelia Kirby
Thousand Kites
Cultural Organizing, Social Practice
2006
Cultural Organizing, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2006
Amelia Rudolph
Crossing
Traversing the Sierra Nevada Range from West to East for three weeks, the performer/mountaineers of the artist’s dance troupe Project Bandaloop created site-specific dances along the crest of the Sierra.
Performing Arts, Dance
2000
Dance, Performing Arts, 2000
American Artist
Shaper of God
Shaper of God is an installation of sculpture and video work connecting the life and mind of Octavia E. Butler to the migration of Black Americans to California, the epicenter of the science fiction movement, and the rocket science industry.
Technology, Digital Media
2022
Digital Media, Sculpture, Technology, Visual Arts, 2022
Amie Siegel
Heavy Metal
Visual Arts, Experimental Film
2015
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Photography, Visual Arts, 2015
Amir ElSaffar
Ruins of the Encampment, a Maqam Opera in Arabic
Ruins of the Encampment will be a three-act opera in Arabic, based on the stories of the 7th century Arabian odes, known as Al-Mu‘allaqat, but set in present-day Middle East. The music will combine Middle Eastern maqam modal system with jazz improvisation and Western classical music, featuring native Arabic singers.
Music, Jazz
2026
Jazz, Music, Opera, Performing Arts, 2026
Amitis Motevalli
Golestan Revisited
Technology, Artistic Activism
2020
Artistic Activism, Data Visualization, Socially-Engaged Art, Technology, 2020
Amy Franceschini
Shoemaker's Dialogues
Visual Arts, Installation
2009
Installation, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2009
Amy O’Neal
mockumentary
Performing Arts, Dance
2006
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2006
Amy Smith
Hotel Pool
Performing Arts, Dance
2002
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2002
Amy Yao
Young Girl, Young Boy, Find Me...
Technology, Multimedia
2012
Multimedia, Technology, 2012
Anayansi Prado
Paraiso for sale
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2008
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2008