Awardee Index
Since its inception, the Creative Capital Award has funded more than 1,000 visionary artists working in the visual arts, performing arts, dance, theater, jazz, film, literature, technology, and multidisciplinary forms across the United States.
1062 Artists
1062 ArtistsLana Lesley
The Method Gun
Performing Arts, Theater
2006
Performing Arts, Theater, 2006
LAND
LAND
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2025
Ecological Art, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2025
Larissa FastHorse
Native Nation
Performing Arts, Social Practice
2019
Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Theater, 2019
Lars Jan
Roam
Performing Arts, Augmented Reality
2021
Augmented Reality, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2021
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Global Studies
Literary Arts, Poetry
2016
Literary Arts, Poetry, 2016
LaToya Ruby Frazier
A Monument for Braddock
Visual Arts, Public Art
2012
Public Art, Visual Arts, 2012
Laura Carton
Investor Relations
Technology, Data Visualization
2006
Data Visualization, Internet Art, Technology, 2006
Laura Doggett
Another Kind of Girl Collective
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Laura Parnes
Tour Without End
Visual Arts, Experimental Film
2016
Experimental Film, Installation, Moving Image, Visual Arts, 2016
Laura Poitras
The Oath
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2008
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2008
Laurel Lawson
The Choreodaemonic Platform
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2023
Lauren Kelley
Holiday Way
Animation, Moving Image
2015
Animation, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2015
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Surrogate
Performing Arts, Data Visualization
2019
Data Visualization, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Technology, 2019
lauren woods
A Dallas Drinking Fountain Project
Visual Arts, Installation
2008
Installation, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2008
Laurie Jo Reynolds
The Honey Bun Comedy Hour
Performing Arts, Comedy
2013
Comedy, Performing Arts, 2013
Laurie Sheck
cyborg futures: poems and essay poems
Literature, Literary Arts
2023
Literary Arts, Literature, Poetry, 2023
Leah Gilliam
Agenda for a Landscape
Technology, Digital Media
2000
Digital Media, Photography, Technology, Visual Arts, 2000
Leah Ra'chel Gipson
Staring at the Dark
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2024
Documentary Film, Film/Moving Image, Moving Image, Socially-Engaged Film, 2024
Ledoh
COLORMEAMERICA
Performing Arts, Dance
2006
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2006
Lee Anne Schmitt
So That I May Come Back
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2015
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2015
Lee Pivnik
The Living Room: A Symbiotic Home
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2025
Architecture & Design, Ecological Art, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2025
Legacy Russell
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us
Digital Media, Literary Arts
2021
Digital Media, Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, 2021
Lei Liang
Inheritance
Performing Arts, Opera
2016
Opera, Performing Arts, 2016
Leighton Pierce
Agency of Time
Technology, Installation
2008
Installation, Multimedia, Technology, Visual Arts, 2008
Leilehua Lanzilotti
Dance Suite from Liliʻu
Performing Arts, Opera
2025
Opera, Performing Arts, 2025
LEIMAY
Extinction Rituals
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Leslie McCleave
Road
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2001
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2001
Leslie Tai
How to Have an American Baby
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Lewis Klahr
Daylight Moon
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2000
Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2000
Libby King
Primer for a Failed Superpower
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2013
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Theater, 2013
Ligia Bouton
Inheritance
Performing Arts, Opera
2016
Opera, Performing Arts, 2016
Lily & Honglei
Shadow Play: Tales of Urbanization in China
Technology, Animation
2015
Animation, Augmented Reality, Moving Image, Technology, 2015
Lily Yang
Shadow Play: Tales of Urbanization in China
Technology, Animation
2015
Animation, Augmented Reality, Moving Image, Technology, 2015
Linda Parris-Bailey
Yankee Bajan
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2019
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2019
Lisa Bielawa
Chance Encounter
Performing Arts, Music Performance
2006
Music Performance, Performing Arts, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2006
Lisa D’Amour
How To Build A Forest
Performing Arts, Installation
2009
Installation, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Lisa Jevbratt
Zoomorph
Technology, Software
2009
Software, Technology, 2009
Lisa K. Bates
Untitled Black Spatial Imaginary Project
Cultural Organizing, Social Practice
Cultural Organizing, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art
Lisa Kron
Well
Performing Arts, Theater
2000
Performing Arts, Theater, 2000
Lisa Sigal
Home Court Crawl/Blights Out
Visual Arts, Painting & Printmaking
2012
Painting & Printmaking, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2012
Liz Cohen
BODYWORK
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2005
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2005
Liz Ferrer
Novelas de Niñas
Music, Multimedia Performance
2023
Multimedia Performance, Music, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Liz Glynn
Gol[den]
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2016
Architecture & Design, Installation, Visual Arts, 2016
LIZN'BOW
Novelas de Niñas
Music, Multimedia Performance
2023
Multimedia Performance, Music, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
locust
mockumentary
Performing Arts, Dance
2006
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2006
Loira Limbal
Dissonant Maroons: The Rhythm of Refusal
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2024
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film/Moving Image, Moving Image, Socially-Engaged Film, 2024
Lorelei Pepi
Docile Bodies
Visual Arts, Animation
2015
Animation, Installation, Moving Image, Visual Arts, 2015
Lori Felker
Patient
Film/Moving Image, Moving Image
2025
Film/Moving Image, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2025
Lori Lee
Carry On
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2005
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2005
Lorraine O’Grady
MBN — 30 Years Later
Performing Arts, Multimedia
2015
Multimedia, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2015