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The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 36 grants to organizations from around the world. These projects include exhibitions, publications, digital initiatives, and other public presentations led by organizations based in cities such as Accra, Ghana; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Colombo, Sri Lanka; London, United Kingdom; New York, NY; St. Louis, MO; Toronto, Canada; and Chicago, IL, where the Graham Foundation is based. Together, these organizations support the work of architects, artists, designers, critics, curators, scholars, and others, to explore new possibilities for the field and engage practitioners and publics worldwide.
The new grantees join a worldwide network of organizations and individuals that the Graham Foundation has supported since its founding in 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 42 million US dollars in direct support to almost 5,000 projects.
Learn more about each project by clicking the links below to explore a dedicated project page on the Foundation’s website.
Exhibitions
a83 (New York, NY)
Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection
Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
Model Behavior
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Himali Singh Soin: Static Range
The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA)
Harpers Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter
Counterpublic (St. Louis, MO)
Counterpublic 2023
Disponible (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Making Architecture Available, 2022–23 Program
Floating Museum (Chicago, IL)
Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats
LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
Arquitectura Para Dioses (Architecture for Gods)
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (West Hollywood, CA)
Seeking Zohn
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip—Hop Architecture
Queens Museum (New York, NY)
Charisse Pearlina Weston: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.
Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL)
Echo, 10th Anniversary Ragdale Ring: Reconnecting to Our Roots
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
On the Ground
Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective
Film, video, and new media projects
The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
Seeing the Whole: Design for Climate, Biodiversity, and Justice in a Complex and Dynamic World
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (New York, NY)
New Angle: Voice
Society of Architectural Historians—Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group (Chicago, IL)
I Pity the Countries: Comparative Spatial Histories of Settler Colonialism, Race & Podcast
Public programs
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
2022 Design Matters Conference
Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Design Summit
Publications
African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana)
FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8
Bracket (Toronto, Canada)
Bracket [On Sharing]
California College of the Arts—Architecture Division (San Francisco, CA)
Reviewing Design Book Review
Concordia University Press (Montreal, Canada)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
The Experiment (New York, NY)
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
Faktur (University Park, PA)
Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issues No. 4 and 5
Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives
Goldsmiths College, London University—Centre for Research Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions
Manifest Institute of the Americas (New York, NY)
Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, Issues 4–5
MAS Context (Chicago, IL)
MAS Context 34: AIR
New York Review of Architecture (New York, NY)
New York Review of Architecture, 2022
Student-led publications
Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Paprika! Volume VIII
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
PLAT 12.0
Texas Tech University—College of Architecture (Lubbock, TX)
CROP 10: YIELD
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
POOL, Issue No. 08
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Fresh Meat Journal 14
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2023 grants to individuals: September 15, 2022
2023 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, 2022; due November 15, 2022
2023 grants to organizations: application available January 13, 2023; due February 25, 2023
For more information about the Graham Foundation’s grants, and to learn if your project is eligible for funding, visit grahamfoundation.org.
About the Graham Foundation
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. For updates on programming and grantees, join the Foundation's mailing list.
