contemporary Grants
32 verified funding opportunities for contemporary artists.
New York City Artadia Award
Artadia Awards provide unrestricted financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists through a city based open ca…
San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award
Artadia Awards provide unrestricted financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists through a city based open ca…
21c Artadia Award
The 21c Artadia Award is a rotating partnership between Artadia and 21c Museum Hotels that annually provides one visual …
Boston Artadia Award
Artadia Awards provide unrestricted financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists through a city based open ca…
Atlanta Artadia Award
Artadia Awards provide unrestricted financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists through a city based open ca…
Houston Artadia Award
Artadia Awards provide unrestricted financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists through a city based open ca…
Grant for Artists
Pollock Krasner Foundation grants are unrestricted awards for professional visual artists. The foundation says artists u…
Lee Krasner Award
The Lee Krasner Award is a Pollock Krasner Foundation distinction for artists with distinguished careers and lifetime ar…
Pollock Prize for Creativity
The Pollock Prize for Creativity honors an outstanding artist whose work embodies high creative standards and demonstrat…
Reel Change Film Fund
Reel Change supports developing composers who are creating music for film through targeted grants and high impact mentor…
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
Anonymous Was A Woman is an unrestricted 25000 USD award for women artists over 40 at significant junctures in their liv…
Wagner Arts Fellowship
The Wagner Arts Fellowship supports mid career to established Greater Boston visual artists whose studio or public pract…
Los Angeles Artadia Award
Artadia Awards provide unrestricted financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists. The Los Angeles cycle is pa…
Chicago Artadia Award
Artadia Awards provide unrestricted financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists. The Chicago cycle is part o…
Foundation for Contemporary Arts — Emergency Grants
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for innovative and experimental artists. The pr…
Grants to Artists
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists are unrestricted awards selected through a confidential nomination pr…
Foundation for Contemporary Arts — Creative Research Grants
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Creative Research Grants fund artistic exploration and development for experimental art…
PEN/Bare Life Review Grants
PEN America and The Bare Life Review support literary works in progress by immigrant and refugee writers. The grant fund…
Artist Fellowships
NC Arts Council Artist Fellowships support artists in their development and the creation of new work. Fellowship recipie…
NYFA Fellowship
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is an unrestricted cash grant for artists living in New York State and Tribal Nations l…
Artistic Creation
Artistic Creation is a Canada Council for the Arts funding opportunity within Explore and Create. It supports Canadian a…
Creative Futures Fund 2025-2026
The Creative Futures Fund is a Creative Australia investment program for ambitious artistic works that reach new or dive…
Creative Futures Fund Development Investment
Creative Futures Fund Development Investment supports the creation and testing of new ideas and works that use Australia…
Yaddo Residency
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds. Residencies last from two we…
Artist in Residence
Headlands Center for the Arts awards fully sponsored residencies to local, national, and international artists each year…
Bogliasco Fellowship
The Bogliasco Center awards approximately 60 one month residential fellowships each year to exceptional artists and scho…
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
The DAAD Artists in Berlin Program is one of the worlds most respected artist in residence programmes for established ar…
Banff Artist in Residence - Summer 2026
Banff Artist in Residence Summer 2026 is a six week visual arts residency for artists at all career stages. The program …
Early Career Writers of Poetry 2026
This 12 day Banff Centre writing residency supports new writers of poetry, from not yet published writers to poets with …
Hide Tanning Residency 2026
Hide Tanning Residency 2026 is a three week Indigenous Arts thematic residency at Banff Centre. It combines practical sk…
Civitella Ranieri Fellowship
Civitella Ranieri is an international residency program for writers, composers, and visual artists working in a 15th cen…
Creative Capital Award
The Creative Capital Award is a national open call program for artists creating new work across visual arts, performing …