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 ArtistsNorbert Shieh
Preserves
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2012
Documentary Film, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2012
Not An Alternative
The Natural History Museum Presents: The Supreme Court of Red Natural History
Artistic Activism, Cultural Organizing
2020
Artistic Activism, Cultural Organizing, Socially-Engaged Art, 2020
Nyugen Smith
See Me See We
Visual Arts, Sculpture
2022
Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2022
Okwui Okpokwasili
Poor People's TV Room
Performing Arts, Dance
2016
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2016
Olga Koumoundouros
A Philosophy of Time Travel
Visual Arts, Installation
2005
Installation, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2005
ONEOFUS
Sleeping Beauty: She Woke (Panto Project)
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2023
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Performance, Theater, 2023
Oscar Rene Cornejo
LAND
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2025
Ecological Art, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2025
Otabenga Jones & Associates
The People's Plate
Visual Arts, Cultural Organizing
2008
Cultural Organizing, Public Art, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2008
Pablo Helguera
The School of Panamerican Unrest
Visual Arts, Installation
2005
Installation, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2005
Pamela Miller
History of Incarceration
Performing Arts, Theater
2009
Performing Arts, Theater, 2009
Pamela Sneed
America is Ready
Literature, Literary Arts
2023
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Literature, 2023
Pamela Z
Voci (Voices)
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2002
Multimedia Performance, Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2002
Paola Prestini
Sensorium Ex
Music, Opera
2025
Music, Opera, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2025
Paola Segura Cornelio
Bal Trips
Visual Arts, Artistic Activism
2022
Artistic Activism, Installation, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2022
Papel Machete
On the Eve of Abolition
Performing Arts, Puppetry
2020
Performing Arts, Puppetry, Theater, 2020
Pat O’Neill
Drift, Wait, Obey
Visual Arts, Installation
2015
Installation, Photography, Visual Arts, 2015
Patrick Clancy
The Writing Machine
Technology, Installation
2000
Installation, Internet Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2000
Patty Chang
The Wandering Lake
Visual Arts, Multimedia
2012
Multimedia, Visual Arts, 2012
Paul Beatty
The Sellout
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2009
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, 2009
Paul Rucker
Rewind
Performing Arts, Multimedia
2012
Multimedia, Music Composition, Performing Arts, Technology, 2012
Paul S. Flores
We Have Iré
Performing Arts, Jazz
2019
Jazz, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Theater, 2019
Paul Shambroom
Meetings
Visual Arts, Photography
2001
Photography, Visual Arts, 2001
Paul Vanouse
Latent Figure Protocol
Technology, Installation
2006
Installation, Multimedia, Technology, Visual Arts, 2006
Paula Durette
Long Pink Coats and Harleys
Animation, Experimental Film
2005
Animation, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2005
Paula Gaetano Adi
Guanaquerx
Technology, Hardware
2023
Hardware, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Technology, Software, Technology, 2023
PearlDamour
How To Build A Forest
Performing Arts, Installation
2009
Installation, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Peggy Ahwesh
The Star Eaters
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2000
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2000
Peggy Diggs
Work Out
Visual Arts, Public Art
2005
Public Art, Visual Arts, 2005
Penny Lane
NUTS!
Animation, Documentary Film
2012
Animation, Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2012
People’s Kitchen Collective
EARTH SEED
Artistic Activism, Social Practice
2021
Artistic Activism, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2021
Percival Everett
Telephone
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2016
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, 2016
Peter Born
Poor People's TV Room
Performing Arts, Dance
2016
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2016
Peter Burr
Aria End
Technology, Games
2016
Games, Technology, 2016
Peter Sillen
I Am Secretly An Important Man
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2005
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2005
Philip Solomon
Psalm III: Night of the Meek
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2000
Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2000
Phillip Andrew Lewis
Synonym
Technology, Multimedia
2012
Multimedia, Technology, 2012
Pinar Yoldas
Dark Botany: the Dark Banana Plant and other Accelerated Photosynthesis Species
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2022
Architecture & Design, Ecological Art, Visual Arts, 2022
Pioneer Winter
Apollo
Performing Arts, Dance
2022
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2022
Pocha Peña
Dreamocracy in America
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2019
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Polly Apfelbaum
For the Love of Una Hale (Cards of Identity)
Visual Arts, Craft
2019
Craft, Installation, Visual Arts, 2019
Pope.L
The Black Factory
Visual Arts, Sculpture
2001
Sculpture, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2001
Portia Cobb
Yonges Island
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2000
Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2000
Postcommodity
Repellent Fence
Visual Arts, Installation
2012
Installation, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2012
Prema Murthy
Mythic Hybrid
Technology, Internet Art
2000
Internet Art, Multimedia, Technology, 2000
Prumsodun Ok
A Deepest Blue
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Queen GodIs
Make. Believe.
Performing Arts, Dance
2013
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2013
Quintan Ana Wikswo
problemkinder
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction
2013
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, Multimedia, 2013
Rachel Chavkin
Primer for a Failed Superpower
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2013
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Theater, 2013
Rachel Mayeri
Stories From the Genome: An Animated History of Reproduction
Animation, Documentary Film
2001
Animation, Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2001
Rachel Rossin
On the Poetics of "Wireless Fidelity" (WiFi)
Visual Arts, Public Art
2024
Public Art, Sculpture, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2024