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Discover Creative Capital Awardees and State of the Art Prize artists by name, discipline, award year, or location.
1171 Artists
1171 ArtistsBebe Miller
Necessary Beauty
Performing Arts, Dance
2006
Dance, Performing Arts, 2006
Becca Blackwell
The Body Never Lies
Performance Art, Theater
2020
Performance Art, Theater, 2020
Beka Economopoulos
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
Ben Beres
Mini Mart City Park
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2008
Architecture & Design, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2008
Ben Marcus
The Flame Alphabet
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction
2009
Literary Arts, Literary Fiction, 2009
Ben Thorp Brown
Cura's Garden and The Arcadia Center
Cura’s Garden is a permanent installation by Ben Thorp Brown in the courtyard of a former 13th century monastery in Ghent, Belgium now run by Kunsthal Gent.
Performing Arts, Installation
2016
Installation, Performing Arts, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2016
Benjamin Akio Kimitch
Allegra
Director and choreographer Benjamin Akio Kimitch creates a personal work about postwar Japanese art, U.S. soft power, and Japanese American incarceration. The work takes the form of a fantasy Japanese American court dance, exploring the collision of global cultural movements which shaped Japanese American identity after World War II.
Performing Arts, Dance
2026
Dance, Performing Arts, 2026
Bently Spang
Techno Powwow
Performing Arts, Installation
2001
Installation, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, 2001
Bernadette Mayer
The Helens of Troy, New York
Visual Arts, Literary Arts
2009
Literary Arts, Photography, Poetry, Visual Arts, 2009
Betty Beaumont
Decompression
Technology, Internet Art
2000
Internet Art, Technology, 2000
Beverly McIver
The Liberation of Mammy
Visual Arts, Painting & Printmaking
2001
Painting & Printmaking, Visual Arts, 2001
Bill Brown
Mountain State
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2001
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2001
Bill Daniel
Sunset Scavenger
Visual Arts, Documentary Film
2005
Documentary Film, Installation, Moving Image, Visual Arts, 2005
Bill Morrison
Decasia
Performing Arts, Experimental Film
2001
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2001
Billy Gerard Frank
Poetics of Relation: The Open Boat
A 5-part film installation adapted from Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation. Using his writing to explore current-day migrant experiences in Africa and Europe.
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2024
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film, Moving Image, Socially-Engaged Film, 2024
Billy Luther
Grab
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2008
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2008
BL Shirelle
2026 State of the Art Prize, Pennsylvania
Music, Multimedia Performance
2026
Multimedia Performance, Music, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2026
Black Quantum Futurism
Time Zone Protocols: Confederate States
Time Zone Protocols: Confederate States highlights how Black people re-envision, rewrite, resist, and dismantle material realities of clock time.
Technology, Multimedia
2022
Multimedia, Sound Art, Technology, 2022
Bob Massey
The Nitrate Hymnal
Performing Arts, Music Composition
2002
Music Composition, Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2002
Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital
El Mundo es Niñas
Music, Multimedia Performance
2023
Multimedia Performance, Music, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Brad Butler
Direct Speech Acts
Artistic Activism, Experimental Film
2012
Artistic Activism, Experimental Film, Moving Image, Socially-Engaged Art, 2012
Brad Lichtenstein
American Reckoning
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2008
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2008
Brad Rose
2026 State of the Art Prize, Oklahoma
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2026
Ecological Art, Installation, Sound Art, Visual Arts, 2026
Braden King
HERE
Experimental Film, Moving Image
2005
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2005
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!
A My Dinner With Andre-style debate with compare-and-contrast performances delivered throughout, this work touches on how art relates to history and history relates to art, updating it through the artists' personal histories.
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2016
Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2016
Brandon Ballengée
Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf
Multimedia, Social Practice
2019
Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Brandon Kazen-Maddox
The American Sign Language (ASL) Dance Theatre Reimagining of Andrew Lippa's WILD PARTY
The American Sign Language Dance Theatre Project creates a world in which authentically-represented deaf and signing dancers embark on a musical, textural, and gestural journey through the seedy underbelly of the deaf community during the Prohibition era of the “Roaring ‘20s.”
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2022
Multimedia Performance, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2022
Brandon Meeks
2026 State of the Art Prize, Indiana
Performing Arts, Jazz
2026
Jazz, Performing Arts, 2026
Brea Baker
The Black Land Papers
Elders are gateways to remembering. With this initiative, Brea Baker will leverage the people most trusted by Black elders—their descendants—to create a new record of Black people’s relationship to land.
Literature, Literary Arts
2023
Literary Arts, Literary Nonfiction, Literature, 2023
Brent Green
Paulina Hollers
Animation, Moving Image
2005
Animation, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2005
Brent Michael Davids
Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People
Requiem for America tackles the genocidal founding of America, challenging music norms and sanitized historical rhetoric to give voice to America’s invisible people: American Indians.
Music, Performing Arts
2023
Music, Performing Arts, 2023
Brian Freeman
Here and There
Performing Arts, Theater
2000
Performing Arts, Theater, 2000
Brian Harnetty
Shawnee, Ohio
Performing Arts, Music Performance
2016
Music Performance, Performing Arts, Sound Art, Technology, 2016
Brian House
Macrophones
By making atmospheric infrasound audible with Macrophones, we can hear sounds of the climate crisis unfolding across the globe.
Technology, Augmented Reality
2023
Augmented Reality, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Technology, Sound Art, Technology, 2023
Brian Knep
Healing Pool
Technology, Installation
2006
Installation, Software, Technology, Visual Arts, 2006
Brian Pera
Woman's Picture
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2012
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2012
Brigit Johnson
Books Not Returned Library
Books Not Returned Library is a collection of handmade books in which each book tells a story of a missing or murdered Indigenous woman.
Visual Arts, Installation
2024
Installation, Public Art, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2024
Brittany Nelson
Alternative Process
Visual Arts, Photography
2015
Photography, Visual Arts, 2015
Brody Condon
3 Modifications
Technology, Digital Media
2006
Digital Media, Technology, 2006
brooke smiley
2026 State of the Art Prize, California
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2026
Ecological Art, Socially-Engaged Visual Art, Visual Arts, 2026
Bruce Chao
Sculpture In Trees
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2005
Ecological Art, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2005
Bruce Yonemoto
The End of the World at the Edge of the Earth
Visual Arts, Installation
2008
Installation, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2008
Brydie O'Connor
2026 State of the Art Prize, New York
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2026
Documentary Film, Film, 2026
Byron Au Yong
Stuck Elevator
Performing Arts, Musical Theater
2009
Musical Theater, Opera, Performing Arts, 2009
CAConrad
Resurrect Extinct Vibration
Resurrect Extinct Vibration is a (Soma)tic poetry ritual in nine maneuvers, including lying on the ground across the US to saturate their body with recordings of recently extinct animals and strategically placing index cards in public with email correspondences for each animal, to result in a total of 108 poems.
Literary Arts, Poetry
2019
Literary Arts, Poetry, 2019
Caitlin Berrigan
Xenolith
A speculative fiction that traces encounters with difference, contamination, and queer subjectivities through the material metaphor of the xenolith—a geological term for alien stone.
Technology, Augmented Reality
2023
Augmented Reality, Bio Art, Digital Media, Technology, 2023
caleb (kaleb) Duarte
Embassy of the Refugee
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2019
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2019
Cam Archer
1981
Cam Archer’s first feature-length documentary, 1981, examines and dissects the artist’s past and present narrative work, resulting in a film-essay on what it means to live with and without fiction, or with and without art.
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2012
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2012
Camae Ayewa
Time Zone Protocols: Confederate States
Time Zone Protocols: Confederate States highlights how Black people re-envision, rewrite, resist, and dismantle material realities of clock time.
Technology, Multimedia
2022
Multimedia, Sound Art, Technology, 2022
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Future Ancestral Technologies
Performing Arts, Experimental Film
2020
Experimental Film, Moving Image, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2020