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The Graham Foundation is honored to announce 45 new grants to organizations. Selected from more than 275 submissions, the funded projects include exhibitions, installations, publications, podcasts, films, student-led journals, international architecture events, and other public programs. The grantees range from major cultural institutions and independent nonprofit spaces to academic institutions, publishers, and community-based initiatives. Collectively, the projects advance new interdisciplinary ideas on architecture and design and engage publics around the world.
The new grants highlight work by established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, historians, scholars, writers, and others working with organizations worldwide in cities such as Boston, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Montreal, Nairobi, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle, St. Louis, Vienna, Zurich, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.
The 2026 grantees join an international network of individuals and organizations supported by the Graham Foundation over the past 70 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 46 million dollars in direct support to over 5,500 projects by individuals and organizations. Learn more about each of the new grants through the links below.
Exhibitions
A83 (New York, NY)
A83 Exhibition Program, 2026–27
Citygroup (New York, NY)
Citygroup Exhibition and Debate Program, 2027
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, NY)
Regenerative Futures: Landscape and Design
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (New York, NY)
Raimund Abraham: Earthquake of Silence
Counterpublic (St. Louis, MO)
Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Stories from Within: Home, Here and There
LIGA–Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
The Feathered Whale and Other Works by Enrique Murillo, Xalapa, Mexico
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA)
Women Dancing Down the Side of a Building
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (Los Angeles, CA)
Jody Pinto: B.I.G.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL)
MCA 60: Amanda Williams
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Tonika Lewis Johnson
National Building Arts Center (Sauget, IL)
Preservation Station 777
Ragdale (Lake Forest, IL)
Front of House (2026) and Stage Prop (2027), Ragdale Ring Design-Build Competition
Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
a serpentine, Serpentine Pavilion 2026 by LANZA atelier
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
Alia Farid: Elsewhere (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominicana)
Tamalpa Institute (San Rafael, CA)
The Artist Within Us All: The Halprins and their Circle of Influence
Van Alen Institute (New York, NY)
Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design
Film and New Media
KoozArch (Varese, Italy)
Space Between, Season Three
Wandering Eye Studios (Milford, MA)
Vanishing Point: An Architect’s Journey
Public Programs
The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
The Anne Rieselbach Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
Deem Journal (Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY)
Design for Dignity 04: A Convening of Possibilities
Lampo (Chicago, IL)
Lampo 2026 Concert Series at the Graham Foundation
MIT Press (Cambridge, MA)
Publication Award in Contemporary Architecture (PACA)
Space.City (Seattle, WA)
Latin Catalyst: CDMX Mexico Works
The World Around (New York, NY)
The World Around Summit 2027
Publications
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
CCA Oral Histories: You can sit and think, and you have what you have to do
Carnegie Mellon University—Remaking Cities Institute (Pittsburgh, PA)
Making Alive! Reworlding Cities: Decommodified · Regenerative · Pluriversal
Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago, IL)
SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change
The Cosmic House (London, United Kingdom)
Madelon Vriesendorp: Too Late to Die Young
ETH Zurich—Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) (Zurich, Switzerland)
Wait a Minute: How the History of the Earth Impinges on Architecture
LA ESCUELA___ (Brooklyn, NY)
LA ESCUELA___: The School as Practice and Place
mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Diane Simpson: Dressing Up
MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST (Frankfurt, Germany)
Michael Asher
National Academy of Design (New York, NY)
Architecture and the National Academy of Design: An Untold History
Pan-African Biennale (Nairobi, Kenya)
The Centre in Motion: Stories from the First Pan-African Biennale
PRAXIS (Boston, MA)
ANY Book: Reading Architecture of the 90s Through the Lens of ANY Magazine
Salmon Creek Arts (Albion, CA)
COMMUNAL
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella—School of Architecture and Urban Studies (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
The Wladimiro Acosta Archive: An Update on Climate Responsive Design
Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
New City Critics, 2026–27
Student-led Publications
Marywood University—School of Architecture (Dunmore, PA)
Anthracite Journal, Volume 1: Inheritance
Paprika! Magazine (New Haven, CT)
Paprika! Magazine, Volume XV
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
POOL, Issue No. 12
University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture (Gainesville, FL)
VORKURS XI: AFTERIMAGE
University of Oklahoma—Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture (Norman, OK)
Telesis, Volume IX: Pause and Volume X: React
Upcoming grant application deadlines
2027 grants to individuals: application due September 15, 2026 / 2027 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2026 / 2027 grants to organizations: application available January 15, 2027, due February 25, 2027.
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 our programming and grantees, join our mailing list.
