Artadia, a non-profit grantmaking organization and nationwide community of visual artists, curators, and patrons, is thrilled to announce the 2026 Los Angeles Artadia Awardees: Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Coleman Collins, and Yoshie Sakai, the 2026 Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Awardee.

The 2026 Los Angeles Artadia Awards application was open to visual artists working in any visual media, at any stage in their career, who have been living and working within Los Angeles County for two consecutive years at minimum. We received 562 applications, with 57% of the applicants identifying as African, African American or Black, Multiracial, Arab, Arab American, Asian or Asian American, Latina/e/o/x, Middle Eastern, or North African; 50% as women, gender nonconforming, or nonbinary; and 51% as emerging artists. 

The Awards decision was reached after an extensive two-tiered jurying process. This year’s finalists for the Awards included Darol Olu Kae, Tidawhitney Lek, and Reynaldo Rivera, selected by Round 1 jurors Nina Bozicnik, Senior Curator, Henry Art Gallery; Ade Omotosho, Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art; Aurora Tang, Independent Curator / Program Officer, PST ART. 

All six finalists held virtual studio visits with Round 2 jurors Idurre Alonso, Head of Modern and Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute, and Aurora Tang, Independent Curator / Program Officer, PST ART, who served as our local juror present for both rounds. 

“It was an honor to serve as a juror of the Artadia Awards and to encounter an incredible array of artists working in Los Angeles across material, form, and lines of research,” shared Bozicnik. “While I was familiar with some of the artist applicants, many were new to me, sparking curiosity and an interest to follow the work that evolves from these artists in the future. This group of finalists includes six distinct artistic voices, each exhibiting a depth of engagement with their respective mediums that animates the incredible possibilities of what art can be and what it can envision for our collective humanity.”

“It was a pleasure serving as an Artadia juror, and an honor to play a role in the process of making unrestricted grants to artists engaging in rigorous and poignant work in Los Angeles, a city with such robust communities of artists, and a place I am fortunate to call home,” reflected Tang. 

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