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The Soros Arts Fellowship supports innovative mid-career artists and cultural producers advancing social change around the world. The fellowship provides artists with the resources to develop a large-scale project on their own terms in their own local contexts.
The Soros Arts Fellowship is a nomination-based award and does not currently receive unsolicited applications.
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Abdullah Alkafri
2020Abdullah Alkafri will work with artists and social actors to amplify unheard Syrian stories and champion new narratives about migration and the creativity of Syrians in exodus. -
Basel Abbas
2020Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme will examine how people bear witness to and narrate experiences of violence, loss, displacement, and forced migration through song and dance. -
Deborah Michele Carroll Anzinger
2020Deborah Anzinger will create community sculptures where personal histories, cultivation, and ecological records are shared within Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, a site of historic resistance and fugitivity. -
Meleko Mokgosi
2020Meleko Mokgosi will create an art series and digital archive to engage histories of Pan-Africanism in southern African photo novels and advocate for a re-conceptualization of Black consciousness. -
Nicholas Galanin
2020Nicholas Galanin will explore the relationship between migration and land from an Indigenous perspective, considering the environmental, social, and political consequences of climate change. -
Olu Oguibe
2020Olu Oguibe will address themes of flight and refuge, and recognize activists, sanctuary communities, public officials, and citizens for their hospitality towards strangers and refugees. -
Paloma McGregor
2020Paloma McGregor will develop a series of public performances, interventions, and engagements in spaces deemed “abandoned” or in danger of cultural erasure in Christiansted, St. Croix. -
Rachèle Magloire
2020Rachèle Magloire will organize Haitian and Dominican artists in exploring the border area, cultural commonalities between the two nations, and the often competing visions for the island held by its inhabitants. -
Ruanne Abou-Rahme
2020Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas will examine how people bear witness to and narrate experiences of violence, loss, displacement, and forced migration through song and dance. -
Tiago Sant'Ana
2020Tiago Sant'Ana will explore the sugar cane trade and its intersection with forced migration and colonial violence in Brazil, drawing links between historical sugar production and inequalities today. -
Alex Rivera
2019Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera will produce and tour a theatrical version of their film The Infiltrators, a documentary thriller that tells the true story of a group of young immigrants who intentionally got themselves detained. -
Amanda Abi Khalil
2019Amanda Abi Khalil will organize a curatorial project on the theme of hospitality and the complex histories of migrations—voluntary and forced—between the Arab world and Brazil. -
Bouchra Khalili
2019Bouchra Khalili will work on a video installation that takes as its starting point a forgotten part of the struggle for equal rights for immigrants in France. -
Cristina Ibarra
2019Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera will produce and tour a theatrical version of their film The Infiltrators, a documentary thriller that tells the true story of a group of young immigrants who intentionally got themselves detained. -
Firelei Báez
2019Firelei Báez will create a series of paintings, sculptures, and architectural objects engaging with the story of Marie Louise Coidavid, the first Queen of Haiti, and her exile. -
Guadalupe Maravilla
2019Guadalupe Maravilla will organize a series of healing workshops, mental health resources, and performance classes for young Central American and Latinx immigrants in New York to help heal traumas of migration. -
Kaneza Schaal
2019Kaneza Schaal will stage a theatre production in Kigali, Rwanda, centered on stories of internal displacement and organize performance workshops throughout the country for youth living in housing for refugees and internally displaced people. -
Nontsikelelo Mutiti
2019Nontsikelelo Mutiti will explore African hair braiding practices as subject and as a metaphor for the braiding together of multiple streams of content through field work, archiving, design, and publishing. -
Regina José Galindo
2019Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, Guatemala) will collaborate with deportees in Guatemala to create platforms that tell their stories, provide mental health resources, and create avenues for social and economic empowerment in the country. -
Tania El Khoury
2019Tania El Khoury will create a site-specific interactive installation along Lebanon’s northern border with Syria (Akkar) that explores the militarization of natural borders, relationships across rivers, and the daily practices of border resistance. -
Tinashe Mushakavanhu
2019Tinashe Mushakavanhu will explore African hair braiding practices as subject and as a metaphor for the braiding together of multiple streams of content through field work, archiving, design, and publishing. -
Alina Serban
2018Alina Serban is producing a revised version of her play The Great Shame, the first play solely focused on the history of Roma slavery. -
Faustin Linyekula
2018Faustin Linyekula will collaborate with 30 artists in Kisangani on Lubunga Files, a four-part film portraying citizen perspectives on life in Lubunga, Democratic Republic of Congo. -
Guy Regis Jr.
2018Guy Regis Jr.’s For a City of Poetry project will use the streets of Port-au-Prince to shift public opinion around the multiple forms of violence against youth which exist within these spaces. -
Hassan Darsi
2018Hassan Darsi will work with residents of the Beni Aïssi village to create an agro-ecological village for his The Place Remember project.
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Bilia Bah
2023Bilia Bah will produce a collaborative and participatory theater production to launch public dialogue around climate change, urbanization, and the impacts of unregulated water drilling across Conakry, Guinea. -
Cannupa Hanska Luger
2023Cannupa Hanska Luger will publish a work centering Indigenous knowledge and survival practices related to land, climate, and the environment—and asserting how Indigenous technologies are critical to sustaining humanity worldwide. -
Carolina Caycedo
2023Carolina Caycedo will bring together ancestral and embodied approaches to the natural world as alternatives to the global climate crisis. -
Chemi Rosado-Seijo
2023Chemi Rosado-Seijo will work with residents of El Cerro, Puerto Rico to transform the community into a “Green Barriada,” a self-sustaining and environmentally resilient community. -
Dalton Paula
2023Dalton Paula will organize an arts and education project that supports Afro-Brazilian artists through artistic residencies and training. -
Deborah Jack
2023Deborah Jack will link cultural memory preservation in St. Maarten with climate justice through an archive of oral histories. -
Fehras Publishing Practices: Kenan Darwich
2023As part of Fehras Publishing Practices, Kenan Darwich will create a multi-format project that aims to reclaim forgotten collective memory in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region. -
Fehras Publishing Practices: Sami Rustom
2023As part of Fehras Publishing Practices, Sami Rustom will create a multiformat project that aims to reclaim forgotten collective memory in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region. -
Ixchel Tonāntzin Xōchitlzihuatl
2023Ixchel Tonāntzin Xōchitlzihuatl will organize a multi-tribal art and land rematriation project in the Ecuadorian Amazon. -
Jordan Weber
2023Jordan Weber will organize a regenerative ecologies project in East Detroit that will revitalize a square acre of forest. -
Martha Atienza
2023Martha Atienza will organize collaborative artworks and actions with fisherfolk and farmer communities on Bantayan Island and its group of islets in the Philippines. -
Molemo Moiloa
2023Molemo Moiloa will produce a series of art and community engaged works under the framework of the “house of ungovernability,” an informal center for sharing and co-developing tactics for sustaining in times of uncertainty. -
Mónica de Miranda
2023Mónica de Miranda will work with African migrant communities in Lisbon to document stories of migration and land ecologies, bringing together artists, activists, and ecologists to reimagine more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable public spaces. -
Nida Sinnokrot
2023Nida Sinnokrot will produce a series of collaborative and site-specific sculptures that uplift indigenous practices and reclaim cultural memory. -
Omar Berrada
2023Omar Berrada will examine anti-Black racism in North Africa and propose poetic re-articulations of Moroccan identity, reclaiming marginalized narratives and invoking histories of pan-African solidarity. -
Rijin Sahakian
2023Through images and text, Rijin Sahakian will trace the legacies of war-making on the physical, cultural, and psychic landscapes between Iraq and America, centering the Iraqi experience. -
Yto Barrada
2023Yto Barrada will expand botanical literacy to disseminate radical ways of making and thinking with a collaborative, multidisciplinary, transgenerational, and educational textile project in Tangier, Morocco.