Awardee Index

Since 1999, Creative Capital has funded more than one-thousand visionary artists spanning visual arts, performing arts, literature, film, technology, and beyond, across all regions of the United States.

1118 Artists

1118 Artists

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

Lex Brown

[Project Creatine] (working title)

Performing Arts, Musical Theater

2026

Musical Theater, Opera, Performing Arts, Theater, 2026

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

Liss LaFleur

The Queer Birth Project

Visual Arts, Installation

2026

Installation, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Sound Art, Visual Arts, 2026

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

Liz Roberts

Love is the Drug: Women in Harm Reduction

Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film

2026

Documentary Film, Film/Moving Image, 2026

Liza Sylvestre

deaf*—Towards Cripistemological Captions

Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film

2026

Documentary Film, Film/Moving Image, 2026

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

Los Angeles Poverty Department

History of Incarceration

Performing Arts, Theater

2009

Performing Arts, Theater, 2009

Lotfy Nathan

The Fire

Artistic Activism, Documentary Film

2015

Artistic Activism, Documentary Film, Moving Image, Socially-Engaged Art, 2015

Lourdes Portillo

Looking at Ourselves (working title)

Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film

2024

Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film/Moving Image, Moving Image, Socially-Engaged Film, 2024

Luca Buvoli

The Non-Adventures of Not-a-Superhero

Animation, Moving Image

2006

Animation, Moving Image, 2006

Lucas Leyva

Untitled Cuban Monster Movie

Experimental Film, Moving Image

2015

Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2015

Lucia Sommer

REFUGIA-BAZ (Becoming Autonomous Zones)

Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art

2002

Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2002

luciana achugar

OTRO TEATRO

Performing Arts, Dance

2013

Dance, Performing Arts, 2013

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Leviathan

Documentary Film, Moving Image

2012

Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2012

Lucy Kim

Melanin Images Via Genetically Modified E. coli

Technology, Bio Art

2022

Bio Art, Photography, Technology, Visual Arts, 2022

Luke Fischbeck

News Body

Technology, Multimedia

2016

Multimedia, Public Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2016

Luke Savisky

M/x

Technology, Digital Media

2008

Digital Media, Public Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2008

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Women Art Revolution

Artistic Activism, Documentary Film

2008

Artistic Activism, Documentary Film, Moving Image, Socially-Engaged Art, 2008

Lynne Yamamoto

Resplendent

Visual Arts, Installation

2001

Installation, Visual Arts, 2001