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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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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. -
Khalid Albaih
2018Khalid Albaih will create a universally accessible app which artists can use to make connections outside the traditional art market. -
Laila Hida
2018Laila Hida will collaborate with artists and activists to engage local communities to create new spaces for collective social interaction, community empowerment, and the reactivation of forgotten public spaces in Marrakech. -
Laurie Jo Reynolds
2018Laurie Jo Reynolds will organize a campaign to oppose conviction-based registries, housing restrictions, and exclusion zones, which destabilize families and often lead to unemployment, incarceration, and homelessness. -
Nana Oforiatta-Ayim
2018Nana Oforiatta-Ayim will create a series of 10 films exploring the cultural and historical kaleidoscope of each region in Ghana.
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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. -
Sari Dennise
2023Sari Dennise will organize a collective, multidisciplinary and archival project with communities in the Basin of the Valley of Mexico. -
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.