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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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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. -
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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