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 ArtistsTory Vazquez
Wrestling Ladies
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2002
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Theater, 2002
Tracie Morris
The East New York Project
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2000
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2000
Trajal Harrell
Legendary with a Twist
Performing Arts, Dance
2013
Dance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2013
Transcendence
Jaimeo Brown Transcendence
Music, Jazz
2023
Jazz, Multimedia Performance, Music, Performing Arts, 2023
Travis Wilkerson
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2015
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2015
Trey Lyford
Elephant Room
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2009
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Theater, 2009
Trimpin
The Gurs Zyklus
Performing Arts, Music Performance
2008
Music Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2008
TRINH T. Minh-ha
THE UNDYING DESERT
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2024
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film/Moving Image, Moving Image, 2024
Trisha Low
FATED
Literature, Literary Arts
2023
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry, 2023
Tshay
Tell Me When You Get Home.
Film/Moving Image, Animation
2025
Animation, Film/Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2025
Tuan Nguyen
TVC Communism
Technology, Experimental Film
2012
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Multimedia, Technology, 2012
Tyehimba Jess
Olio
Performing Arts, Literary Arts
2020
Literary Arts, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Poetry, 2020
Usama Alshaibi
Nice Bombs
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2005
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2005
Valerie Tevere
Memory of a Time Twice Lived
Visual Arts, Video Art
2009
Video Art, Visual Arts, 2009
Vanalyne Green
The Lord and the Pork Barrel
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2001
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2001
Véréna Paravel
Leviathan
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2012
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2012
Vernon Reid
American Reckoning
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2008
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2008
Vicky Funari
Maquilápolis
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2001
Documentary Film, Moving Image, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2001
Victor Cartagena
BORDER TRIP[tych] / TRIP[tico] de la frontera
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2009
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Victor Payan
Dreamocracy in America
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2019
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Vijay Iyer
In What Language?
Performing Arts, Jazz
2002
Jazz, Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2002
Vincent Johnson
A Philosophy of Time Travel
Visual Arts, Installation
2005
Installation, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2005
Violeta Luna
BORDER TRIP[tych] / TRIP[tico] de la frontera
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2009
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2009
Vishal Jugdeo
Hurl a Rock, Feel a Flame
Visual Arts, Installation
2025
Installation, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2025
Viva Ruiz
Thank God for Abortion Telenovela Pilot
Artistic Activism, Moving Image
2022
Artistic Activism, Moving Image, Narrative Film, Socially-Engaged Art, 2022
Waajeed
Beware of the Dandelions
Performing Arts, Installation
2013
Installation, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2013
Wafaa Bilal
In a Grain of Wheat: Cultivating Hybrid Futures in Ancient Seed DNA
Technology, Bio Art
2021
Bio Art, Sculpture, Technology, 2021
Wakka Wakka Productions
Made in China
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2013
Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Puppetry, 2013
Wally Cardona
The Set Up: Island Ghost Sleep Princess Time Story Show
Performing Arts, Dance
2013
Dance, Performing Arts, 2013
Wayne Hodge
Charleston
Visual Arts, Experimental Film
2008
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2008
Wendy Jacob
Squeeze Chair
Visual Arts, Sculpture
2000
Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2000
Wendy S. Walters
A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction
2020
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, 2020
Wes Hurley
Potato Dreams of America
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2019
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2019
Wesley Taylor
Beware of the Dandelions
Performing Arts, Installation
2013
Installation, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2013
Will Rawls
[siccer]
Performing Arts, Animation
2021
Animation, Dance, Performing Arts, 2021
william cordova
stand up next 2 a mountain
Visual Arts, Installation
2024
Installation, Sound Art, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2024
William D. Caballero
TheyDream
Animation, Documentary Film
2021
Animation, Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2021
Women
Connections
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2012
Architecture & Design, Visual Arts, 2012
Wu Tsang
A Day in the Life of Bliss
Performing Arts, Experimental Film
2015
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2015
Xandra Ibarra
Unsettled Agreements (or Political Constipation)
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2023
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2023
Xavier Cortada
The Underwater
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2022
Ecological Art, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2022
Xenobia Bailey
Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk
Visual Arts, Craft
2000
Craft, Installation, Visual Arts, 2000
Ximena Garnica
Extinction Rituals
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Yahdon Israel
Olio
Performing Arts, Literary Arts
2020
Literary Arts, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Poetry, 2020
Yance Ford
Strong Island
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2012
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2012
Yanira Castro
I came here to weep / Exorcism = Liberation
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2023
Yara Travieso
La Medea
Performing Arts, Dance Film
2016
Dance Film, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2016
Yasuko Yokoshi
Shuffle
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2002
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2002
Yosvany Terry
We Have Iré
Performing Arts, Jazz
2019
Jazz, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, Theater, 2019
Yotam Mann
Interactive Music
Performing Arts, Installation
2016
Installation, Music Performance, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2016