Explore Artists
Discover Creative Capital Awardees and State of the Art Prize artists by name, discipline, award year, or location.
1171 Artists
1171 ArtistsAndrea Carlson
Endless Sunshine
Andrea Carlson: Endless Sunshine, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, March 6–August 9, 2026. Photo: Izaiah Johnson.
Visual Arts, Painting & Printmaking
2024
Painting & Printmaking, Visual Arts, 2024
Andrew Simonet
Hotel Pool
Performing Arts, Dance
2002
Dance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2002
Andy Kropa
Memory Lane
Technology, Augmented Reality
2015
Augmented Reality, Software, Technology, 2015
Angel Nevarez
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
Visual Arts, Video Art
2009
Video Art, Visual Arts, 2009
Angela Reginato
Se La Ciudad (Be The City)
Visual Arts, Moving Image
2008
Moving Image, Narrative Film, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2008
Angela Washko
Mother, Player
Mother, Player is an experimental narrative video game featuring pregnancy and early parenthood stories from artists during the global pandemic. Set within a backdrop of the tense 2020 United States...
Technology, Digital Media
2020
Digital Media, Games, Technology, 2020
Angelo Madsen
OUT OF ME INTO YOU
This project documents the ecosystems the emerge as a result of symbiotic human-to-animal encounters. Shaped by fantasy, these alchemical exchanges are latent with erotic potential.
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2025
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2025
Anicka Yi
Tumbling Ecologies
Initiated by conceptual artist Anicka Yi, Tumbling Ecologies is a trilogy of books that discloses new ways of living and being through three kinds of life: algae, bacteria, and fungi.
Literature, Literary Arts
2023
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, Literature, 2023
Anita Chang
Tongues of Heaven
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2008
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2008
Ann Carlson
The Symphonic Body
Performing Arts, Dance
2016
Dance, Performing Arts, 2016
Ann Hamilton
mercy
Performing Arts, Music Performance
2000
Music Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2000
Anna Robins
2026 State of the Art Prize, South Dakota
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2026
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2026
Anna Sew Hoy
Psychic Body Grotto
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2015
Architecture & Design, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2015
Anna Tsouhlarakis
Indigenous Absurdities
...in an installation context to present moments of hilarity that highlight the complexity of Native individuals. Indigenous Absurdities premiered at MCA Denver on June 14, 2023 through September 10, 2023....
Installation, Moving Image
2021
Installation, Moving Image, Social Practice, 2021
Anne Finger
Wheeling in Berlin
Inspired by the 20th century dandy archetype, Anne Finger writes about her travels as a wheelchair–user in Wheeling in Berlin, a book of personal essays mapping disability upon the geography of the city.
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction
2021
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, 2021
Anne Patterson
Mercury Soul: An Electro-Acoustic Evening
Performing Arts, Installation
2006
Installation, Music Performance, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2006
Annie Han
Maryhill Double
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2005
Architecture & Design, Installation, Visual Arts, 2005
Anocha Suwichakornpong
FICTION
A docufiction film that follows the real-life victims and witnesses of Bangkok’s 2010 massacre as they give testimony in a fictional courtroom.
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2024
Documentary Film, Film, Moving Image, Narrative Film, Socially-Engaged Film, 2024
Antigone Trimis
BORDER TRIP[tych] / TRIP[tico] de la frontera
![BORDER TRIP[tych] / TRIP[tico] de la frontera](https://creative-capital.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Secos-Y-Mojados-05-scaled.jpg)
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2009
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Aparna Ramaswamy
The Liminal Museum
The Liminal Museum is an installation/performance that layers gender, family, lineage, and aging through the life story and collected mementos of the artists’ late mother/grandmother.
Performing Arts, Dance
2025
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2025
April Bojorquez
The Desertification Cookbook
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2016
Ecological Art, Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, Visual Arts, 2016
Ariel Stess
2026 State of the Art Prize, Illinois
Performing Arts, Theater
2026
Performing Arts, Theater, 2026
Artemio Rodriguez
Grafico Movil
Visual Arts, Craft
2005
Craft, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2005
Arthur Simms
Jamaica Pavilion
Visual Arts, Installation
2001
Installation, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2001
Arturo Vidich
Salt For A Dog
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2013
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, 2013
Ash Arder
2026 State of the Art Prize, Michigan
Visual Arts, Installation
2026
Installation, Photography, Sound Art, Visual Arts, 2026
Ash Fure
ANIMAL [the underground]
ANIMAL reimagines opera as sonic training ground: a visceral field of full-bodied sound that activates our animal capacity to sense.
Music, Opera
2025
Music, Opera, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2025
Ash Goh Hua
Confinement (坐月)
Jing returns to Singapore following the birth of her niece and in trying to be an aunt, is forced to confront the causes of her departure a decade prior—her family.
Film/Moving Image, Narrative Film
2025
Film, Narrative Film, 2025
Ashley Smith Steele
Peripheral City
Technology, Multimedia Performance
2002
Multimedia Performance, Public Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2002
Ashwini Ramaswamy
The Liminal Museum
The Liminal Museum is an installation/performance that layers gender, family, lineage, and aging through the life story and collected mementos of the artists’ late mother/grandmother.
Performing Arts, Dance
2025
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2025
Aspen Golann
2026 State of the Art Prize, New Hampshire
Visual Arts, Craft
2026
Craft, Sculpture, Social Practice, Visual Arts, 2026
Auriea Harvey
The Path
Technology, Digital Media
2006
Digital Media, Games, Technology, 2006
Austin Young
Endless Orchard
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2013
Ecological Art, Public Art, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2013
Avery Sharpe
I Knew You When
Avery Sharpe will compose and perform a 7 movement composition, that will incorporate melodies and musical ideas elicited from musicians/composers and people who were involved in music, that are now in stages of dementia. The composition will be performed by a chamber orchestra and jazz sextet.
Music, Jazz
2026
Jazz, Multimedia Performance, Music, Performing Arts, 2026
Avram Finkelstein
Corpus/Fluxus
“Corpus/Fluxus” is a series of experiments redefining the legibility of corporeal representation within a digital image culture as alternately mutable or fixed.
Visual Arts, Drawing & Illustration
2024
Drawing & Illustration, Installation, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2024
Ayumi Ishii
2026 State of the Art Prize, Rhode Island
Visual Arts, Photography
2026
Photography, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2026
Azza El Siddique
The Edifice of Tirhaga Pt. I
The Edifice of Tirhaga is a mobile mortuary temple combining ancient Egyptian and Nubian mummification rituals with the desire-principles of reality tv-show Pimp My Ride.
Visual Arts, Installation
2024
Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2024
B. Proud
2026 State of the Art Prize, Delaware
Visual Arts, Photography
2026
Photography, Visual Arts, 2026
Bahar Behbahani
Ispahan Flowers Only Once
Moving Image, Social Practice
2019
Moving Image, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Video Art, 2019
Bang Geul Han
Terre de Tendre
Immersive artwork utilizing VR video-game technologies, based on the 17th-century allegorical map Carte du Tendre.
Technology, Digital Media
2023
Digital Media, Games, Technology, Virtual Reality, 2023
Banker White
WeOwnTV
Technology, Digital Media
2008
Digital Media, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Technology, 2008
Barak Marshall
Symphony of Tin Cans
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2009
Musical Theater, Opera, Performing Arts, 2009
Barbara Hammer
Resisting Paradise
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2000
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2000
Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz
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
Basil Twist
Dogugaeshi
Performing Arts, Puppetry
2000
Performing Arts, Puppetry, 2000
Bayeté Ross Smith
Art of Justice
Art of Justice is a series of socially-engaging art installations and interventions at top tier law schools, law firms, and district attorneys’ offices that address contemporary social issues, including unconscious bias, economic justice, and political accountability.
Artistic Activism, Installation
2021
Artistic Activism, Installation, Socially-Engaged Art, 2021
Bayley Sweitzer
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
Beatrice Glow
Gilt/Guilt
Gilt/Guilt is a performance-installation imagined as a speculative auction whose hauntingly luxurious collectibles reveal cascading impacts of colonial violence and environmental extraction.
Visual Arts, Installation
2024
Installation, Performance Art, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2024
Beatriz da Costa
The Cost of Life
Technology, Bio Art
2009
Bio Art, Technology, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2009
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Oriana
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2015
Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2015