Awardee News

Jessica Vaughn, "Flat and Folded," 2021
Bethany Collins, "America: A Hymnal," 2017. Courtesy of the Artist and PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL. Photograph by Tim Johnson.
Gala Porras-Kim, "A terminal escape from the place that binds us" (detail), 2020
Eamon Ore-Giron, "Infinite Regress CXXV", 2020
  • John Bankston (2001 San Francisco) will be the Holt visiting artist at Stanford University this fall!
  • Sadie Barnette (2017 San Francisco) and Hank Willis Thomas (2007 San Francisco) in the group show “Off the Road”, from April 2 to September 21, 2021 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
  • Gala Porras-Kim (2017 Los Angeles) in “Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning”, the 13th Gwangju Biennale, from April 1 to May 9, 2021 at Gwangju, South Korea.
  • David Hartt (2012 Chicago) exhibition “A Colored Garden” on view through April 16 to November 15, 2021 at The Glass House, Connecticut
  • Eamon Ore-Giron (2001 San Francisco) in the group show “Close to you”, on view from April 3, 2021 at MASS Moca, Massachusetts.
  • Jessica Vaughn (2018 New York), exhibition “Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful” on view through May 9, 2020 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania.
  • Garrett Bradley  (2014 Prospect.3 New Orleans), Theaster Gates (2008 Chicago),  Kahlil Joseph (2017 Los Angeles) and Hank Willis Thomas (2007 San Francisco) in a group show “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” from February 17 to June 6, 2021 at the New Museum, New  York. 
  • Bethany Collins (2014 Atlanta, 2019 Chicago) exhibition “Bethany Collins: My destiny is in your hands,” now on view through May 9, 2021 at Montgomery Museum of Art.
  • Theaster Gates (2008  Chicago) exhibition “Theaster Gates: Breathing,” now on  view  through May 16, 2021 at Perez Art Museum Miami 
  • Theaster Gates (2008 Chicago) and Cauleen Smith (2015 Chicago) exhibition “Future Histories: Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith,” now on view  through May 23, 2021 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 
  • Dan Gunn (2013 EXPO Chicago) in a group show The Shallow Act of Seeing,” now on view  through May 16, 2021 at John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
  • David Hartt (2012 Chicago) in the exhibition “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” on view February  27 – May 31, 2021 at Museum of Modern Art. 
  • Sichong Xie (2021 Los Angeles) part of a group show “We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles,” now on view through Spring 2021 at USC Pacific Asia Museum.