Artadia Awards

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: we consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect our country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.

In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. six Awardees are featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, and seven Awardees in Prospect.6 New Orleans).

Beyond Artadia’s anchored program cities, we offer annual awards such as the roving Award with 21c Museum Hotels and the SEEN Award – a dedicated Award for women-identifying artists with ancillary programming.

Please note: The only way to apply to Artadia Awards is through Submittable. We do not accept materials via email or any other channel.

“The financial support offered by the award was crucial, but more than equal was the level of belief and support offered by the Artadia panel and staff.”

—Bethany Collins, 2014 Atlanta

“Artadia has been valuable to me as a flexible action and thought partner on my projects and has introduced me to amazing curators and artists.”

—Eric Gottesman, 2009 Boston
(with fellow Awardee Hank Willis Thomas)

“The Award has expanded my network of curators and artists. It allowed me to realize aesthetic ideas that would not have been possible.”

—Autumn Knight, 2015 Houston

“Artadia has provided tremendous financial and social support for my practice during a time when the art market is driven by relatively conservative trends.”

—Josh Faught, 2016 San Francisco Bay Area

“The Award has been so instrumental in allowing me to continue pursuing significant work.”

—EJ Hill, 2018 Los Angeles

“To be supported by Artadia is super important for people like me to get to the place where we have the capacity to make stuff that is directly representative of what we want to do and is only about that.”

—Terence Nance, 2018 New York City

THE ARTADIA PROCESS

1. OPEN CALL
The Artadia application is open for one month in each program city, is free to apply and open-call.

2. APPLICATION REVIEW
A jury of three curators assembled by Artadia, including one locally based curator, reviews all applications and determines a short list of six Finalists.

3. ROUND TWO STUDIO VISITS
A second jury, assembled by Artadia, made up of one juror from the application review and one new juror conducts virtual studio visits with each Finalist for 45 minutes.

4. AWARDEES IDENTIFIED
Following the studio visits, the second round jury will designate three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000*, as well as access to the Artadia Network. Awardees are determined based on the sole discretion of the jury. *The Marciano Artadia Award gives unrestricted funds of $25,000 to one artist in Los Angeles.

For their time and labor in the application process, Artadia provides honorariums to each Finalist ultimately not chosen as an Awardee.

Application Guidelines

Eligibility

Submittable Quick Guidelines

Media Files

Descriptions

Physical Submissions

Collaborations

Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc. Artadia does not fund filmmakers making films for distribution in cinematic venues, or those working in choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context.
Applicants must be currently living and working within the city’s eligible counties and resided there for at least two years prior to the application deadline.
Not currently be enrolled in an art-related degree program, nor be planning to attend an art-related degree program in the coming year.
Not be related to Artadia staff or directors in any way.
Have never received an award from Artadia or from The Art Council (Artadia’s former name) for or above the sum of $10,000. Please note that former finalists are eligible to apply.
If you are enrolled in a long-term artist residency program, please note you are only eligible to apply in the Award city where you permanently reside. Additionally, you must make yourself available to meet with jurors for a 45 minute virtual studio visit should you be chosen as a Finalist.
Unless applying as a collaborative, you must be the sole conceptual author of the artwork submitted in the application; if there are collaborators that share authorship of submitted work they must be clearly identified and credited.

You can either use an existing Submittable account or create a free one to submit an eligible application.
Please DOUBLE CHECK that you have successfully uploaded video or image samples. Applications without samples will not be considered.
Drafts can be saved and returned to, but must be successfully submitted in order to be considered. No drafts or unsubmitted applications will be considered.
All applicants will be notified by email regarding their application status via Submittable (both once the application has been submitted and once it’s been reviewed for the finalist stage.) Please be sure to enable notification emails from Submittable and check the email you used to sign up for your Submittable Account regularly.
If you’ve accidentally submitted the application and need to edit your submission, we can open the application for you to edit and resubmit. Please email info@artadia.org if this is the case. We will let you know once the application is open for editing. Simply sign into Submittable to edit. Be sure to resubmit or your application will not be accepted. Please note: we are unable to review application requests submitted within 48 hours of the application deadline.

If you have any further questions, please refer to Submittable’s Help Page.

We would recommend reaching out to the Submittable tech support team to assist with any tech issue with submissions (e.g. upload errors, retrieving passwords, etc.) if you cannot find the answer within the Help Center. Please note that we cannot make any exceptions to the deadline while you are waiting for assistance from the Submittable tech support team.

IMAGE FILES

You must submit eight images if submitting images as part of your application
All images must be formatted as .jpg files
File names may be numbered in order from 01 to 08 followed by _ (underscore), and the title of the work
The maximum file size for each image is 2 MB
Images should be in RGB colorspace (sRGB preferred)
File names must include the “.jpg” extension

TIME-BASED MEDIA FILES

Video submissions are limited to video art, animation, and performance documentation
If submitting a combination of images and video: submissions can only be up to 3 minutes total
If only submitting video or time-based work (no images): submit up to 6 minutes of material. We accept only direct uploads of video work, no links
Dance or choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context are not eligible
Feature-length commercial films and documentaries, music videos, and commercial music projects are not eligible
Please do not send documentation of sculpture or other works as video. If time-based media is not your primary medium, DO NOT use this option
If you choose to upload multiple videos within one file rather than one singular project, please provide timecode markers in your Image Details for each unique clip. For instance, “Video A” begins at 00:00, “Video B” begins at 02:30

Within your Image Details, please use practical terms to describe medium. Elaborate specific materials rather than listing “mixed media.”
Please be straightforward and clear, the more specific you are, the more a juror will be able to understand about your work.
Work Details: Title, year, medium, dimensions for images and/or video submitted
C.V.: An artist’s resume containing exhibition history and bibliography
Artist Statement: 200 words or less. Describe your work (medium, process, form, content, subject, themes, etc.)

Artadia does not accept physical application materials. Please do not send publications, promotional material or any other supporting documentation.

Collaboratives are welcome to apply within a single application.
One person from the collaborative should be listed as the contact person for that application.
In the address field, please enter “c/o contact name” before street address.
If you are both a member of a collective and an individual artist, you may only apply once per awards cycle.
All members of the collaborative must agree to apply for the Artadia Award and approve the use of all application materials.
All members of a collaborative team must reside in the corresponding city and meet all other eligibility requirements.

How To Apply

1. Determine your eligibility and create an account with Submittable

You can log in and out of the application as many times as you wish before the deadline.

*Please note: The only way to apply to Artadia Awards is through Submittable. We do not accept materials via email or any other channel.

2. Organize
your application materials

Media: option of digital images and/or time-based media

3. Applications will be reviewed by a jury panel

During the first-round review panel, images and videos are reviewed one at a time, in succession. Jurors select six finalists to receive virtual studio visits as part of the second round review, from which the three Awardees will be selected. You will be notified if chosen as one of six finalists moving on to the second round.

You can log in and out of the application as many times as you wish before the deadline.

*Please note: The only way to apply to Artadia Awards is through Submittable. We do not accept materials via email or any other channel.

Media: option of digital images and/or time-based media

During the first-round review panel, images and videos are reviewed one at a time, in succession. Jurors select six finalists to receive virtual studio visits as part of the second round review, from which the three Awardees will be selected. You will be notified if chosen as one of six finalists moving on to the second round.

Apply

ACTIVE AWARD CITIES

Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton Counties

Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk Counties

Cook County

Harris County

Los Angeles County

The five Boroughs: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island

Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties

Artadia chooses to fund artists in cities that demonstrate a commitment to contemporary art. These cities are notable for the active presence of local artists in the community, art institutions recognized for innovative contemporary programming, a commercial art market that offers artists opportunities to show their work locally and at art fairs, and exemplary schools that prepare artists through undergraduate and graduate programs.