ISLAA Fellowships 2026 call for proposals

ISLAA is pleased to announce its 2026 call for fellowships, offering two distinct opportunities to support research and scholarship in Latin American art.

The ISLAA Research Fellowship supports graduate students based in the United States, providing resources and a USD 2,500 stipend to advance their innovative projects. In parallel, the ISLAA Latin American Fellowship will support researchers from Latin America at various phases of their careers with stipends ranging from USD 5,000 to USD 10,000, enabling them to conduct research at ISLAA and engage directly with its collections, archives, and academic community.

This initiative invites scholars to undertake sustained, in-depth research within the ISLAA Archival Collections & Artist Files, which preserve and provide access to a wide array of primary source materials essential to the study of modern and contemporary Latin American art.

All fellowships last two to four weeks and will be carried out at ISLAA’s headquarters in New York City, located at 142 Franklin Street in TriBeCa, during the academic year from September 2026 to June 2027.  

Find out more about grant conditions and submission requirements on ISLAA’s website.

Submission deadline: May 15, 2026, 11:59pm EDT.

For questions about the fellowship programs, please email: applications@islaa.org.

About ISLAA
ISLAA advances scholarship and fosters public engagement with Latin American art through exhibitions, publications, lectures, and partnerships with universities and cultural institutions. These fellowships reflect ISLAA’s ongoing commitment to expanding scholarship, fostering dialogue, and promoting access to knowledge in modern and contemporary art and visual culture from Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas. They are designed to support projects that contribute to graduate theses, academic publications, and conference presentations.