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
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Fluke
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2006
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Theater, 2006
Rafael Sánchez
BALLOONS UMBRELLAS TURNTABLES
Performing Arts, Installation
2002
Installation, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2002
Raja Feather Kelly
WEDNESDAY
Performing Arts, Dance
2019
Dance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2019
Ralph Lemon
The Geography Trilogy/Part 3: Come Home Charley Patton
Performing Arts, Dance
2000
Dance, Performing Arts, 2000
Ramón Miranda Beltrán
Canibalia
Visual Arts, Painting & Printmaking
2022
Painting & Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2022
Ramona S. Diaz
And So It Begins
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2019
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2019
Randa Jarrar
Lunch at Guantanamo
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2020
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, 2020
Randall Horton
Radical Reversal
Performing Arts, Artistic Activism
2022
Artistic Activism, Music Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, 2022
Ranee Ramaswamy
The Liminal Museum
Performing Arts, Dance
2025
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2025
Rashaad Newsome
I Come As One, But I Stand As One Thousand
Music, Dance
2025
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Music, Performing Arts, 2025
Rashaun Mitchell
Open Machine
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2023
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener
Open Machine
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2023
Rasheedah Phillips
Time Zone Protocols: Confederate States
Technology, Multimedia
2022
Multimedia, Sound Art, Technology, 2022
Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana
Backside
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2022
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2022
Raven Chacon
Repellent Fence
Visual Arts, Installation
2012
Installation, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2012
Rebecca Solnit
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Data Visualization, Literary Arts
2009
Data Visualization, Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, 2009
Red Dive
Peripheral City
Technology, Multimedia Performance
2002
Multimedia Performance, Public Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2002
Redux
Callspace
Technology, Installation
2006
Installation, Sound Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2006
Reggie Watts
Transition
Performing Arts, Comedy
2009
Comedy, Performing Arts, Theater, 2009
Reid Davenport
I Didn’t See You There
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2021
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2021
Rennie Harris
Facing Mekka
Performing Arts, Dance
2000
Dance, Performing Arts, 2000
Reynold Reynolds
Burn
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2001
Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2001
Ricardo Dominguez
Anchors for Witnessing
Technology, Artistic Activism
2001
Artistic Activism, Internet Art, Socially-Engaged Art, Technology, 2001
Ricardo Rivera
Vacant America
Technology, Multimedia
2015
Multimedia, Public Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2015
Richard Maxwell
House
Performing Arts, Theater
2000
Performing Arts, Theater, 2000
Richard Move
MoveOpolis!
Performing Arts, Dance
2002
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2002
Richard Pell
Center For PostNatural History
Technology, Installation
2009
Installation, Multimedia, Technology, Visual Arts, 2009
Richard Sylvarnes
BIG EATER
Performing Arts, Dance
2009
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Rick Prelinger
No More Road Trips?
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2012
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2012
Ricki Vincent
A Night at Miss Mimi’s
Performing Arts, Puppetry
2006
Performing Arts, Puppetry, 2006
Robert Bahar
Before I Was
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2012
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2012
Robert Farid Karimi
The People's Cook Project
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art
2009
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2009
Robert Pruitt
The People's Plate
Visual Arts, Cultural Organizing
2008
Cultural Organizing, Public Art, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2008
Roberto Gutierrez Varea
BORDER TRIP[tych] / TRIP[tico] de la frontera
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2009
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Robin Frohardt
The Plastic Bag Store
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2016
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Puppetry, Visual Arts, 2016
Roddy Bogawa
I Was Born, But…
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2000
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2000
Rodney Evans
The Happy Sad and Day Dream
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2008
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2008
Rodney McMillian
A Philosophy of Time Travel
Visual Arts, Installation
2005
Installation, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2005
Rodrigo Reyes
Sansón and Me
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2020
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2020
Ron Athey
The Asclepeion
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2023
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Ronald Brown
Walking Out the Dark
Performing Arts, Dance
2002
Dance, Performing Arts, 2002
rootoftwo
Anyspace? Whatever.
Technology, Augmented Reality
2023
Augmented Reality, Hardware, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Technology, Technology, 2023
Rosalba Rolón
We Have Iré
Performing Arts, Jazz
2019
Jazz, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Theater, 2019
Roya Rastegar
Biopolitics of the Digital Camera
Visual Arts, Installation
2013
Installation, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2013
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
The Art of Luv
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2016
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2016
Ruben Ochoa
Freeway Extractions
Visual Arts, Photography
2005
Photography, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2005
Rude Mechs
The Method Gun
Performing Arts, Theater
2006
Performing Arts, Theater, 2006
Russell Craig
The Lost Tribe
Visual Arts, Painting & Printmaking
2024
Painting & Printmaking, Public Art, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2024
Ry Russo-Young
Nuclear Family
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2015
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2015
S. Leo Chiang
Parachute Kids
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2019
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2019