Visual Arts

Creative Capital supports artists for the creation of bold, risk-taking, and genre-stretching projects—including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, architecture, technology, and multimedia forms. Artists we have awarded include: Jeffrey Gibson, Simone Leigh, Anicka Yi, Mickalene Thomas, Cory Arcangel, Chase Hall, Germane Barnes, Avram Finkelstein, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jesse Krimes, and more.

Featured Visual Arts

The Jerome Project

Titus Kaphar

The Jerome Project

The Jerome Project is an investigation into the criminal justice system through the lens of the common and traditionally African-American name, Jerome—the name of the artist’s father.
Avram Finkelstein exhibition at Smack Mellon

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.
Columnar Disorder

Germane Barnes

Columnar Disorder

Columnar Disorder uses architectural drawings and analyses to examine African diasporic contributions and legacies to architecture, creating a new column order that reimages American monuments to allow for alternative histories of site, space, and identity.
What’s Her Face

Simone Leigh

What’s Her Face

What's Her Face is an installation comprised of sculpture and video that uses gestures, ceremony and rituals associated with Simone Leigh's biography as a conceptual point of departure.
Backstage at the MET, The Quick Change Booth (Traviata.) Photo by Izzy Leung.

Aliza Nisenbaum

Modes of Assembly

Modes of Assembly is a series of painted portraits by Aliza Nisenbaum capturing workers from an industrial metal factory in Northern Mexico. The works serve as conduit to spend time witnessing and engaging this community.
Infinite Anomaly: Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Jeffrey Gibson

Infinite Anomaly: Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Infinite Anomaly is a series of oil and pigmented silicone paintings and works on paper. The series depicts an Arcadian and utopian ideal where nature exists, at least for a moment, free of human domination.
A child’s silhouette looks to the stars while the ghosts of men and women laugh, a blue dog starves, a jail deteriorates, and a bird cage door opens.

Jesse Krimes

Mass Incarceration Quilt Series

Using participatory art practices that traverse both prison bars and the urban and rural divide, the series represents the national scale of incarceration through an accumulation of individuated quilt squares and larger textiles.
Jen Liu, (Film still) I Am Cloud, 2024, 4K single-channel video, 15’00”, Edition of 5 + AP. Image courtesy of artist and Blindspot Gallery.

Jen Liu

Pink Slime Caesar Shift

Pink Slime Caesar Shift is a project that proposes to alter the genetic material of cow cells in order to carry secret messages of labor activism for female factory workers in South China.

Awardee Stories

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Visual Arts

How Ben Thorp Brown Transformed a Monastery Courtyard into an Otherworldly Garden

How Ben Thorp Brown Transformed a Monastery Courtyard into an Otherworldly Garden

Taking its name from the ancient Roman goddess Cura, the personification of care, Ben Thorp Brown’s Cura’s Garden is a permanent installation in the courtyard of a former 13th century monastery in Ghent, Belgium, now run by Kunsthal Gent.

Visual Arts

Anna Tsouhlarakis: Using Humor to Investigate Native American Identity

Anna Tsouhlarakis: Using Humor to Investigate Native American Identity

Sarcasm, wit, and humor have been an undercurrent of Tsouhlarakis’ practice for over 20 years, adding a sense of levity to the pressing topics she takes on.

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